{"id":437,"date":"2017-11-09T01:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T08:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh.tarasampson.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-11-09T01:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T08:31:42","slug":"digital-surrealism-visualizing-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/digital-surrealism-visualizing-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Surrealism: Visualizing My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading Kevin Ferguson&#8217;s methods and analysis of the work he has done with different films, I kept having a recurring thought of &#8220;what if I used this same method to analyze my life in some way?&#8221; Maybe my life planning and decision-making class has me in too much of a &#8220;reflect on my life&#8221; mood&#8230;or I could be onto something.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought about putting all of my home movies and videos of me throughout my life through the same program as Ferguson and getting a beautiful picture. Even if I didn&#8217;t have any huge epiphanies about my life, I think it could still make a cool desktop background. I also thought of doing the same thing with just the pictures of me throughout my life. It would be a large project to go through all of them and put them on the computer, but I think the results would be very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>This made me think: would my life sum look more like <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, just me in the center surrounded by darkness or would it look more like <em>Frozen<\/em>, where I am always with a friend or companion and we share the spotlight?<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"shrinkToFit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/11\/1\/000276\/resources\/images\/figure11.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/11\/1\/000276\/resources\/images\/figure11.jpg\" width=\"412\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/11\/1\/000276\/resources\/images\/figure15.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/11\/1\/000276\/resources\/images\/figure15.jpg\" width=\"566\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Frozen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m reading too deeply into this, but it really made me think. What do I want my life sum to look like and how does it look right now? In the end, I hope that the sum of my life is full of bright colors with so many different shapes of people and different adventures that you can&#8217;t even make any of the blobs out. What do you hope your life sum looks like?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/11\/1\/000276\/000276.html\">http:\/\/www.digitalhumanities.org\/dhq\/vol\/11\/1\/000276\/000276.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading Kevin Ferguson&rsquo;s methods and analysis of the work he has done with different films, I kept having a recurring thought of &ldquo;what if I used this same method to analyze my life in some way?&rdquo; Maybe my life planning and decision-making class has me in too much of a &ldquo;reflect on my life&rdquo; mood&hellip;or I could be onto something. At first, I thought about putting all of my home movies and videos of me throughout my life through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dh.tarasampson.com\/uncategorized\/digital-surrealism-visualizing-my-life\/\"> Read More<span>  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aQyB-73","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}