I used PhotoShop to show my interpretation of Paul Klee's quote 'A Line Is A Dot That Went For A Walk'.
The image is visually appealing with the text and the picture to support it. It is fun for the viewer as they can guess the missing words of the quote with the images instead.
It is widely assumed that the Internet
is a global information resource. This is not true. For many people in the
poorest parts of the world, the Internet is both technically and
psychologically inaccessible through lack of infrastructure, money, and the requisite
forms of textual and computer literacy.
The Internet has enabled entirely new forms of social interaction,
activities, and organizing, thanks to its basic features such as widespread
usability and access. Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter
and MySpace have created new ways to socialize and interact.
Users of these sites are able to add a
wide variety of information to pages, to pursue common interests, and to
connect with others. From this, I have noticed that technology has come a long
way.
Mobile Phones are
another form of Technology.
The mobile phone forms the bridge
between large distributed information repositories and local people, places,
and things.
The article was based on a project
called the StoryBank.
It has tackled some issues by using
the fast-growing infrastructure of mobile telephony to support an alternative
form of information sharing in pictures and sound.
Hence, in the project they avoided the
cost and bandwidth limitations of MMS by supporting Bluetooth P2P sharing between
phones and Bluetooth/cable connectivity to a digital library repository in the
village ICT Centre.
I came across a Blog from 2011 about
Mobile Phones. It showed one way that they can be used in a poor part of the
world.
It was about helping unbanked people
in Africa.
•Using
mobile phones gives them an opportunity for low cost banking.
•It brings convenience of banking anytime and anywhere using the
mobile phones as a means of authentication for basic financial services.
Because of price sensitivity and the
community orientation of life in developing communities, phones and other technologies
will continue to be shared resources rather than personal ones for some time to
come.
From researching this topic, I noticed
how far we still have to go in making technology more accessible and culturally
appropriate in other parts of the world.
I define rubbish as worthless and unwanted material that is then thrown out.
The reason why I chose matches is that once they have been lit, you can't use them again. They are of no use and need to be discarded.
I chose match sticks as they were an easy medium to work with, thus making the alphabet letter formation an achievable task. Being that this material is not pliable, I had to consider and work with a straight line. Therefore, my overall outcome is one of an angular style.
