Website

...here is my progressing website...

Web Plans

The Mandrake

I went to the performance of "The Mandrake" last Thursday night, and while apparently they were having technical problems with the lights it was pretty visually interesting. The set was full of bright and vibrant colors as if you were at a carnival or in a circus tent, and they had this overlapping theme of the mask. I think the concept of the mask had its negative and positive aspects. The masks made it easy to vary the actors ages and stage personalities. But at the same time the masks covered up the actors expressions, and with a straight forward plot line, like the one found in "The Mandrake", it is the actors visual expressions and gesturing that make the play visually interesting. Especially because it seemed like they were going for a simplicity in the set common to the plays preformed in Niccolo Machiavelli's time. While I think there were ways the director could have made the play a little more visually interesting, the play did bring together a slap-stick comedy full of laughs and good humored smiles.

Homework...

Word list:

Resort
Machu Picchu
Tourist
relaxation
tropics
pool
flashy colors
lavish environment
large
populated
bright lights
commercial
plastic
fake
fun
hassel free
active

web site...

first site

Web sites...

Here are the web sites I found.

I was thinking I might turn this Machu Picchu site into a Machu Picchu tourist resort site. So rather then having all the old Incan ruins there would be a large resort on top of them kind of poking fun at this whole idea of resort travel packages and how it really takes away from the true travel experiencing. I was thinking about using Machu Picchu since its in such a remote location and putting something like a tourist resort in there, especially on the site, would really take away from the true nature of the setting.

Here is an other Machu Picchu site.

...and here is an other one, but this one I don't really like as much.

These web sites are tourism sites for Argentina and Peru... I was really looking for one on Bolivia, but I couldn't find any good ones. So I though I might take one of these and model a site for Bolivia off of one of them.

Here's a resort website for reference...

Internet History Reading and Oil Standard

I have a hard time at associating the Oil Standard project as a form of actual web art. I guess I see art as more of a creative creation process, and while the Oil Standards project is a creative and interesting way of spreading this information about oil it doesn't really play into this idea of demonstrating a creative process unique to the artist and their creations. Art also tends to create a unique experience for the viewer, the Oil Standards project only seems to be a creative way of spreading already existing information. But I'll admit that is pretty cool in the way it transforms all the different prices on the web and then links us to different articles on the use of oil and the oil industry.

This project fits into the Sterling reading because it plays right into this idea of the anarchy of the Internet. In this situation an individual is using the Internet to bring awareness to this idea of oil consumption and how oil is being used in the world today by playing on off of the prices already floating around online. I'm pretty sure the people that originally placed those prices online had no idea that they would one day be used to make a statement about the oil industry.