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Justin Maller
Dita Von Tease
Ombres Et Diamants
Freelance illustrator and art director Justin Maller creates surreal works of art, merging both realistic and fantastic aspects of images. Maller’s works trick the mind and eye into believing that such things can really exist in the physical world and that his work has merely captured a moment in real time. His usage of subtle yet profound aspects in Dita Von Tease and Skye Harbor only further accentuate the realism he begins to portray, yet his obvious manipulation in Ombres Et Diamants stands out amongst his other works but is still unified with them in their practicality.
Shawdow Chen
Sacrifice
Thunder of Fall
Summer Tune
China-born Shadow Chen incorporates surrealism and reality in a much different style than that of Maller. Chen uses much more illustration techniques and organic forms for the dreamlike environments of her pieces. Chen's innovative techniques have fueled her to create her own clothing line as well as win awards in furniture design. But her mastery of the digital medium is her most obvious talent of all.
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Foursquare seems like a really cool and fun idea, though I don't really ever see myself partaking in it, or at least actually keeping up with it if I did. It seems like it would take the spontaneity and pleasant surprise out of just running into friends, that's a part of life.
Another part of life is parenting and childhood. I personally see those two things experiencing drastic, negative changes if serious surveillance technology were to be involved. A part of life is sneaking around and doing things you're not supposed to and dealing with the guilt of lying to your parents. Sometimes they find out, sometimes they don't, but either way is a learning experience.
I think there's a difference in using it in children who are incredibly young and incapable of knowing the dangers of the outside world yet. If a four year old walks away from Mom and a stranger offers them some sort of comfort, their innocent little minds can't help but trust this person with nothing less than their life. But as a child grows older, they learn that there are those that they can't trust and that there are some parts of the world that are extremely dangerous. It's when they are aware of such things that parents should cease surveillance of their children (had they started) and begin letting the child go into the world more and more over time.
I would only agree to implanting a microchip that gave me constant biofeedback in my child if my child had some sort of chronic syndrome or disease that is hard to detect when life threatening symptoms are occurring. I no doubt see the benefits, but the benefits take out the experience of parenthood. I can picture some parents getting lazy and using the chip as an excuse not to comfort their children when they have a simple stomach ache. Ideal parents would comfort regardless, but that's now when things like that are more a convenient luxury, but as the technology becomes more normal, parents would get more lazy and dependent upon that.
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Although I do believe that the human experience has changed, I personally don’t believe that we depend on technology to define ourselves or our identity. I think that such things such as myspace, facebook, email are all merely extensions of our identities. They allow more opportunities to express the identities that we’ve already developed within ourselves and give more and more people exposure to them.
But I also think that there is a significant amount of people that use such virtual technologies to falsely represent themselves, which doesn’t illustrate their true identities. Forums give people more and more incentive to make them look good rather than present a genuine representation of themselves because so many people can be exposed.
I think I would definitely still be me if I had never been exposed to a computer. It surely made access to learning a lot more convenient so it’s completely possible that it would’ve taken me longer to become the person I am, but I believe I eventually would’ve gotten to the same point. I don’t believe a person would have to have a computer to define themselves as a good person, a musician, an artist, or a scientist. Technologies have allowed us to get what we wanted, but it is ourselves that decides what we want and drives us to do it. Technology is only a means of achieving our goals.
Yes, the human experience is undeniably changing. Everything is practically instantaneous; just one click away. This has given most people the chance to learn even more than just what they learn in the classroom. It has allowed for more and more multicultural involvement, collaboration, and unity. The World Wide Web has irrefutably connected the globe. Satellites have allowed us to converse with one another through the convenience of text messaging. The internet has given us more contact with the outside world and allowed for more companies to display and advertise their products in an extensive variety of ways. Technology has also changed and extended the arts. If it wasn’t for technology, we wouldn’t have anything like techno music or computer graphics.
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With additional contributions by Keishla and Joe
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