TayThink --- Real Drifting <--> Net Drifting

Echo to my pervious Blog~

Guest Speaker --- Mark Amerika ("Time Magazine 100 Innovator"!), he believe we can enjoy the art not only at museum or gallery, we can also make use of Internet as a platform. In fact, alot of art were hook on web, like David CrawFord Stop Motion Studioes(SMS), ... etc. He also believe drifting is a kind of process for creating artpiece. It is a good way to collect source material, and I also believe lock at the room can't help to invent the new stuff, interact and insprie by others or envirnoment is the way for innovation. e.g. How Aristotle prove the earth is spherical? and how Newton found the gravity force? They all found the answer during the outdoor activity.

In this workshop, I never imagine I "drifit" on the street --- Nathan Road (one of the most busy road at Hong Kong.) for a half hour. Although, I and my classmate just spend such little time on the street, we snap about 150 pix totally within a few decade meter. It's amazing. Although, drifting provide you are kind of free, but for creating an artpeice, we should set some rules for your drifting to limit your scope, otherswise it will be too broad, right? We set 3 themes of our drifting this times,
1. Anything on the street 2. Anything on the rail (balustrade) 3. Any light Source (view the album)

After that, all groups (total 3 groups) contribute all material that we got. we pick anyone we like to create the artpiece. Another issue is raised about against about Intelligent Property (IP). Do you share our work on internet and others used it as his works with citation then they need to pay for you because of IP owner, but who should be the IP owner? The People inside the pix, or the pix taker, or the venue owner? ... It is an open end question, but at least we can think that IP is really affect the innovation that is totally different to its original intention.


Finally, we creat an digital artpiece by Flash, and the theme is about materialism. Although, the time is short and our execution part is not good enough but at least we can enjoy to creat an art not an application by convert & combine all different idea. And when you look at the stuff you snap is used by our groups is really a kind of pride, hehehe~~


Let's found some time to drift together, :D
Start from 2006 ...