Slow day at the office. I basically spent my morning surfing the world wide web while listening to 94.9 and pretending that i was being useful. So far i have gone around the office taking pictures of everyone on what does EHDD mean to them and opened up a new google account and imported all my mails to this account... i hope no one at work reads this. I was super late this morning to work also. woke up at 7:48, 48 minutes later than when i was suppose. Didnt even get a chance to shower and just left the house to catch the bus which was 10 minutes late. I had to make up some WHITE lie to my supervisor about some Bart hold up. she bought it. I will be going to the shop in a bit to do some more work thats pretty much unnecessary, but on Friday i get to go to the Exploratorium for FREE and meet the consultants there to discuss moving the tactile dome to the new location. im excited, but i wish i didn't have work on Friday. and next week apparently i have a design review, which means i will have to present my ideas of this CA wall to two people. yay mini review.... i hope i dont suck. i should go before i start to look too suspicious for writing an essay on the internet
today in my language and power class we started talking about Foucault's critic of the American prison system that began in Philadelphia. He believed that the observation nature of the penitentiary led to information gathering and surveillance of people. While the intent of the observation tower was to better understand the prisoners so they could be re-educated more effectively, this information could also be considered an invasion of privacy. This practice reminds me of the google commercial during the superbowl. While most people applauded its originality and "awhh" factor, it's also kinda frightening to think how much your searches can reveal your life. Google has admitted that it keeps a record of all the searches and their corresponding IP address, but it says that this information is currently used to improve their search result. However, there are rumors that google has granted access to federal government to these search results in convicting terrorists. If you really think about what you type into the little google search bar, the information is probably a lot more revealing and indicative. I dont really know where im going with my theory, but i guess its just scary to think about how much we are willing to reveal about ourselves to the internet unconsciously...
this is a new installation for the london heathrow airport called CLOUD by troika, its pretty funky. i like how it changes between sad, dark cloud to a party disco ball but i think it would be more poetic and less robotic if the shape weren't so flat and symmetric.
