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Depth of perception is a way to think about how deep you can see into a social space, which is intimately connected with how comfortable you are in that space and how familiar it is.
Outside view. For example, think about seeing a restaurant from the outside. Perhaps diners are visible and maybe a menu. An online equivalent would be the things you can see on a site from a search engine, or without having an account.
Collective view. On first entry to a restaurant the organization may seem chaotic. You don’t know the system. On the web, you might have an account but you are still unfamiliar with the potential connections and activities it offers.
Selective view. Your familiarity with the space increases over time. You introduce filters to view the things that matter to you. You gravitate toward certain people or topics. You learn what things you like on the menu, what that restaurant is good at.
Light contributor. You become a return user. You start to invest – comments, rating. You start to get to know the people in the restaurant. Faces become familiar over time.
Heavy contributor. Everybody knows your name. You are a regular. You are creating content. You start bringing new people to the restaurant.
This Saturday afternoon I paddled around on Okmulgee Creek for a couple hours. Normally, the water level is too low to cover much distance, but the flooded state of the Deep Fork River has backed up many small creeks in the area.
At Perspectives Middle Academy, students and staff celebrate academic and social emotional learning achievement through the A Disciplined Life Celebration of Light event.
More than 50 students were recognized on February 6, 2014. They were honored for their commitment to live A Disciplined Life, which helps students develop positive self-perception, healthy relationships, and the tools for productivity.
Photo Credit: David Terry
iPhone 4 with stick-on magnetic macro lens
Apps:
Cross Process
Manga Me
Iris Photo Suite
Mill Colour
Infinicam (Frame)
The appeal of any candidate is based on a "gut reaction, unarticulated, non-analytical, a product of the particular chemistry between the voter and the image of the candidate", argued Richard Nixon's speechwriter Raymond Price.
"[It's] not what's there that counts, it's what's projected." And that projection, he continued, "depends more on the medium and its use than it does on the candidate himself".
"Letters from My Future Self"
Starting a paper cut-n-paste project. Just for fun, for art, but not for serious..
"In a 2001 study published by Nature, Frank S. Werblin, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, and doctoral student Boton Roska, M.D., showed that the optic nerve carries ten to twelve output channels, each of which carries only minimal information about a given scene.”
“Although we have the illusion of receiving high-resolution images from our eyes, what the optic nerve actually sends to the brain is just outlines and clues about points of interest in our visual field. We then essentially hallucinate the world from the cortical memories that interpret a series of extremely low resolution movies that arrive in parallel channels." Then there's this.
-The Singularity Is Near, by Ray Kurzweil pp.186
With these last pictures of Shanghai, I invite you to think about your perception of communist China, some 30 years after the death of Mao Zedong.
Top left: the university block where the Communist Party of the Peoples Republic was founded no hosts ... a STARBUCK'S COFFEE HOUSE.
Top right: Communism's ideologic corner stone (as far as I know) is the vision of a classless society. This poster in today's Shanghai advertised THE RICHGATE, KINGING the Shanghai Buildings!
Bottom Left: The front statues represent the some ideals of Communist China. A young healthy men and woman, modestly dressed with their bicycles. In the middle, a young modern Shanghaiese with her mp3 player, T-shirt and skirt and behind, the symbol of individualism, of power, of consumerism of freedom: A PORSCHE CONVERTIBLE!
Of course I know that this is not representative of all China - indeed rural China is far from here, but still, this perhaps was the biggest surprise for me when visiting China last year.
With these pictures, my virtual return to China comes to an end. Thanks for your patience and curiousity, feedback and comments. All much appreciated. And what's next?
i thought i was being sneaky....on the sly....pointed and shot all around this amazing character, trying to catch him unaware....but in the end
You see a lot of these purpose-built keyboards at the Flea. You know...keyboards that make a lot more sense to you if you could see the isobaric therapy chamber that they were designed to be plugged into.
It's a standard XT/AT keyboard, with a membrane surface and an 8-way cursor cluster. My guess is CAD/CAM or some sort of controller for a CNC rig.
Perception Sport - our current choice for kayaks. Light (only 35 lbs) and two of them fit on top of my Mini.
A room installation which reflects to infinity in all directions - taken during Flickr meet at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane - even freakier in large version
Today I visited Landscapes without memory in Foam Amsterdam. An exhibition with virtual landscapes, which took us, two geographers, into questions like 'where is this / where could this be / how could this landscape be categorised'. Worth visiting.
Browsing through recent photos I found this one, which could be seen as a landscape / map.
(It's just a bucket of old paint)
(best viewed big)