
jueves, 20 de mayo de 2010
Meta Blog Post

miércoles, 19 de mayo de 2010
Final Blog Post

jueves, 13 de mayo de 2010
Rationale ProjectB
The final project came and the rules are very clear, there are two kinds of final projects, from which I chose the geo-narrative story.
The reason why I chose this project because I find interesting being able to tell a story and to complete the context through the mapping tool "Google Earth", I had written some stories befo
re, but never considered the whole idea of designing the environment in which takes place.
Google Earth is one great tool that every day I discover new features, the creation of custom maps is useful for the fact that has streets and some mapping interesting content making the browsing experience more complete and easily.
The moment of brainstorming had come to my he
ad, and now the question is… on that subject would begin to write? My always effective method to begin brainstorming is to take any book, put on the table, begin to turn the pages slowly coming to rest on some random page pointing somewhere, so you get different words which can then be written on a sheet, with those we can begin to formulate ideas around them, the words that came out this time are: bank, calendar, and mask.
The time has come to unite the ideas, it sounds like a story of men with masks, banks and agendas ... the decision was taken.
The story I wrote about an ordinary man like us who live in the city of Canberra, but all is not normal in your life because it has a secret side that not many people know ... a secret is a super hero, but not the typical story that we're used to American films, is a clerk wearing a Mexican wrestling mask, he has no super powers as usual in these stories, is just a citizen who is tired of all the injustices that have lived in their city, so he decided to a
ct and begin to fight against crime.
The city of Canberra is small and quiet so a fictional super hero story sounds a little bit interesting in times where it sounds pretty distant from any common situation.
The story has a bit of what we all know is the normal formula of the action stories, has a bad dude, a good mate and a society that is manipulated by the media. The reason I decided to include the media in my story is to show the great influence that can have on the decision of the people.
During the photo shoot which was taken in the Belconnen area, were used various scenarios that served as references to history, always taking care of the relationship between history-map to which we are referring, most were taken in areas surrounding the university Canberra.
The images were edited in Photoshop to adjust size, and edit the colours, finding the best ways in which visually fit the story, I also decided to modify a little lighting on the pictures to make them more interesting.
To store the images used Flickr which is a yahoo

tool because it gives me all I need of storage facilities, as easy as with one click I can get a URL with which I can easily link on my google map.
Flickr is a website that presents as diverse as positive tools, also has its limitations particularly for those like me who do not have a premium account.
Now with photos stored on the Internet it was time to start joining my story connecting the content previously added to the maps with images and history in general.
Final Project Link
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=es&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113752219511818910705.0004859a99d641f101658&ll=-35.264123,149.119492&spn=0.168754,0.363579&z=12
Flickr link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10709237@N04/sets/72157623925565633/detail/
I hope you guys enjoy it.
Alejandro Gatica
martes, 11 de mayo de 2010
My Ideas for the final project

domingo, 2 de mayo de 2010
Week 12
The tutorials have finished is time to work on the final project B, I began to create my geo narrative story, is gonna be very interesting.

One more day for Ricardo
Ricardo is an ordinary man, gets up early every day, takes a bath, makes his breakfast, goes out to pick up his newspaper, drinks his tea and go
es to work.
He works as a content editor in the local news channel. His job day consist in arrive exactly twenty-five seconds before 10:00 am which is the time limit. He walks to his office approximately in fifty-three seconds; he greets his secretary Jessica, prepares a coffee and enters to his office.
sábado, 24 de abril de 2010
Week 11 Datavisualization

viernes, 16 de abril de 2010
Week 10 Multiplicity
Our idea is based off the same sort of concept that amazon offers. Keeping in mind this idea is most likely possible in the future.
Idea – Online, multiplicity, collective intelligence.
Extensive online 20 page personality report, based on the report it cr

eates an application for smart phones, apple product etc that categorises all your interests, sort of like a personal tag cloud. It connects with all major stores, grocery, clothing even car dealerships (assuming that these major companies have geo-tagged products – so the application can direct to you to certain items in the store based on your personal preference). It also takes your bank balance, and weekly income into consideration. It’s function is, when entering the store, e.g. Clothing store, you can go to a rack of t-shirts, tag the shirt and it comes up with other suggestions of other clothing in the store, sort of like when you get a book from amazon, it comes up with suggestions based on your previous purchases. Based on your income, it will also suggest items that you will like as well as within your price range.
The TACK is free thanks to multiple sponsors who pay money to advertise their business, if you usually get hungry at a certain time, it comes up with suggestions based on your regular food choices e.g. 1pm - 2 dollar slushies at Maccy D’s.
Cheers,
Alex.