Notes for GIST Wednesday, April 20

course evaluations

Lady Gaga album cover for “Born this Way”
- resemblance to “Tron: Legacy” light cycle (motorcycle)
- PhreNic: hot woman and motorcycle, not necessarily empowering. you ride motorcycles!
- Apocalipsis: looks dirty.
- J.Yoo: it/she will need maintenance someday

sign-up for performances

info about final portfolio

comments from MIT student about “Teknolust” postings
- he compared colors of Ruby, Olive, and Mareen to RGB colors, representing connection to digital world

 entanglement.gopherwoodstudios.com

As I was looking up information for the film "Adaptation," as is per usual on any wikipedia search, I started to follow links that would feed me potentially interesting, though not particularly useful information. When I clicked on the link for orchids, I was somewhat surprised to find that Darwin, in his later years, had done research on the cross-pollination of orchids, featured in his book, "Fertilisation of Orchids," from 1862. While I do think it is interesting that a prevalent theme of the film revolves around orchids, I do not think it is a coincidence that they were featured in the movie, and that Darwin, who even makes a sort of 'cameo' appearance, studied them.

Class Notes
-       Ordinary language

o    Bidirectional function

-       Efficiency of technological conversations

o    We don’t need ambiguous languages

-       Efficiency & ambiguity?