My involvement In Crowdsourcing

1)I did the "Dear Photograph" activity.To the right is the picture I took of what i was to send in. This was one of my favorite memories because it was my junior year in high school and it demonstrated our "spirit day" as well. We had an assembly which i helped put on so i got to miss the whole day of class. The girl to the right is my friend, Amber. She had an awesome personality and her jokes kept me awake on my sleepy days at school. I really miss those days. This project really only allowed me to cherish every moment because you rarely or dont get to experience it again at all.

2)I did the "Learning to Love You More" Assignment. The assignment was to recreate or draw a picture of whatever a friend wanted using a magazine. The friend must point out of their desires in the magazine and from there, I must cut them out, and paste them to a colored sheet of paper. After that I was to scan it and send it in. Above she wanted long hair so i cut a picture of a woman with long hair. Next she pointed out the plaided jacket (red) that she thought would fit her. Then, pizza was her favorite food so she pointed that out in the magazine as soon as she saw it. She's in shape and likes to ride bikes, so when she seen it, it instantly grabbed her attention. The last thing was the couble at the lower left which, to her, symbolized love. I enjoyed making this project because each item that we came across had so much meaning and personality behind it. The use of color paper
only made it bolder.

3)The last thing I did was Sarah's "My Amazing Butt" project. I wore black shorts to symbolize my color and how my mom always called me "Black Butt". She still calls me that now and I really embraced that concept. When doing this project, I noticed that others added humor to theirs, and that it didnt have to be all serious. I liked doing this project and it made me laugh a little instead of being so serious. I loved her idea.

Participative Systems Reading

1)Can we generalize the term "participation" when dealing with art because I noticed that they are giving many aspects other than the definition itself? I would rather think of participative media as a vague definition.
2) Since the terms collaboration and and interaction are very paired with participation throughout the reading, I'm wondering if there is any clear difference between the three. In the beginning the author states that these three terms are not good unless there are purpose, creativity, and other things behind it.

YouTube Mix Project

Initially, I wanted to do my project on expression through dancing,  but there werent many videos that I've recorded with dances. Instead I made it about "Expression" through many different forms. It can be done through art, dancing, facial movement, speech, etc. There were videos that I absolutely fell in love with such as the laughing babies and the drill team performance. Others made me laugh such as the news reporters throwing tantrums and our previous project where we had to remake a video. Instead of using another dance video I had recorded, I used another previous project we did which was the animation because I felt that it expressed where I wanted to be later on in life (island trees, forests, hills, butterflies, and excluding the death of the butterfly, flood, and thunderstorm. Other than that, I felt that all of these videos displayed my concept pretty well and i changed my background to red roses, but it got lost when I sent it to Clent so the background on the digital media site is pretty boring. I created the drill team video, the jeremy blake video, and the animation the video. he laughing babies and angry news reporters video are from YouTube.

http://www.unr.edu/art/digital_media/projects-2012/Fantasia_Bolden.html

Manovich Reading

1) How can one steer away from confusing the old media with the new media if the listed characteristics aren't so visible in certain forms of artwork?
2) How can one stray from the "norm" that Fredrick describes as a place where people share an ideal image, when creating new media?