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My tumblr: http://fuckyeahanimalshapedfood.tumblr.com/

Intro

Tumblr Blog Statement

This blog is a collection of images of adorable, animal shaped food. You don't normally see food decorated that way. Most of the time, most foods, especially baked goods, are decorated abstractly or are representational of organic forms such as flowers and plants. Generally, common food decorations appear rather banal and generic in appearance. Foods decorated as animals, especially in a simplified or cute way is not as common as the average way of decorating foods. These types of animal food forms are not normally seen in the baked goods section at a Jewel, Dominick or even at gourmet cupcake bakeries such as Sprinkles, More and Crumbs.

Animal shaped food requires a different type of taste level. Animal shaped sweets may not look quite as sophisticated as the sweets seen in gourmet bakeries or other food restaurants, but they do appeal to those enjoy animals and cute things in general. Cute food, like the ones on my blog inspire other people and generally makes them happy, at least that is the reaction I get whenever I stumble upon something completely adorable.

In essence, animal shaped food is awesome and requires little to no artistic to make. I hope this blog inspires others to appreciate this type of food aesthetic or encourages them to try to produce their own adorable, delectable noms.

After the Flood Response

After The Flood 
James Gleick

(B) write about how Wikipedia is both similar to, and different from, traditional print-based libraries.

Similarities: they contain a collection of various information of different subjects

differences: 

wikepedia: faster, on screen info, info is summarized

libraries: slower when it comes to searching for information, physical information rather than on screen, the information is denser than what you would find on wiki if you were to research a certain topic

Undoing Property

I didn't really understand the article that much or much of what I've read, but as far as the topic goes, I don't really have much interest in cloud or have any interest in how far this cloud technology goes.

Even though I have an iPhone, I never use iCloud. I don't know any one else who uses it so I guess there's no need for me to use it. I guess I didn't I still even don't know how cloud works or what it does exactly, and I probably won't learn it until I need it.

And now I'm confused. Was the 'cloud' technology the author was referring to related to torrenting?

What is the Social in Social Media?

I didn't really understand the text at the beginning of this article. It was all very confusing and I was waiting until it got to the point... which I'm still unsure of what the point of the article was until I continued reading towards the end, and the article ended with the words, "That's the social today."

All I understood from that was, the social in social media is all about making connections with other people and I felt that the article did not really need all the extraneous information written from the top to the middle of the page. I guess it did explain some history behind social media and how it started, (which was not of my interest) but then it was also riddled with some jargon I was not familiar with that I had to google. Although it did pick up near the end especially when they discussed this:

"What’s happening?” Everything, even the tiniest info spark provided by the online public, is (potentially) relevant, ready to be earmarked as viral and trending, destined to be data-mined and, once stored, ready to be combined with other details. These devices of capture are totally indifferent to the content of what people say—who cares about your views? That’s network relativism: in the end it’s all just data, their data, ready to be mined, recombined, and flogged off. "

I think its interesting that social media has made reduced the 'importance' of our opinions to meaningless data... maybe not so meaningless but data that is used, mainly for the profit and benefit of growing businesses. The whole concept of data mining also reminds of my boyfriend who is an IT major and is going to be working with data mining and gathering data from social media sites. It makes me wonder if graphic designers could design this data and all this information?? 

Also this quote was mentioned:
"Keen warns that we will end up in an anti-social future, characterized by the “loneliness of the isolated man in the connected crowd.”¹⁶

I disagree with this. I don't believe that the future will become anti social. I feel that people have probably become more connected because of social media.

Print and Pixel by Nancy Levinson / Response

Print and Pixel article

I don't really understand the point of this article. I feel like the topic is similar with past articles we've had to read which relates to 'the future of publishing' or what the "future of publishing entails'.

This article also follows a similar format to those past articles we've had to read for class. What I mean by format is that is that some of the articles give an introducing to the value of books and reading, then somewhere in the middle, the articles refer to or giving a short history lesson of what publishing was like in the past, and then it summarizes or explains currently trending or available publishing methods Then the articles conclude with what publishing would be like in the future (which involves some sort of open ended statement, theory and what if's? situations).

Overall, my main immediate response was that this was dry read, and it felt somewhat similar in content to past articles I've had read in the past.

While reading this, I also felt bad for this author:

"More than a century earlier, in 1851, Herman Melville published Moby-Dick — which appears on the top-ten lists of Steven Holl and Tod Williams/Billie Tsien — to mixed reviews and weak sales. The poor reception devastated the 32-year-old author, and by the time he took a humdrum job as a customs inspector in New York City, a decade and a half later, his writing career was wrecked; when he died, in 1891, the New York Times obituary described him as "an absolutely forgotten man."  Not until the Melville revival of the 1920s would the author's magnum opus be rediscovered. "

It is very unfortunate that his book was poorly received and ultimately ended his writing career. I felt bad for him. I've never actually finished reading Moby Dick myself, but I remember trying a long time ago and getting bored.

I also can't imagine "from news to periodicals to books" being a non profit enterprise in the future.