Phase 1: Define Yourself Through Your Activities

As a guideline, Identify up to three (3) topics of interest that you see as emerging from your own day-to-day activities in the physical or digital world. The primary consideration for these topics of interest is that the activities you’re focusing on must be ones that you feel define (or at least contribute) to your interests and identity, i.e. how you feel others perceive you.

This process of consideration of “self” and “other” therefore requires a key concept in this course: self-reflection. Select the best activity that you feel can be at least indirectly situated in a virtual environment. For example, if you’re heavily into physical sports, are there aspects of these activities that may take place in a virtual environment, e.g. video games, discussion forums, etc. Some identity-defining activities may take place entirely in the virtual world, others may have both physical and virtual components. Briefly describe your topics of interest and selected activity in a draft document or write up At the end of this process you will select one of these topics as the theme for your Blog.(see Phase 3).

Write your Name and Blog Site here:

Ricky Cheung

1. MMOG (Online games)

2. Anime (Animation)

3. Import Scene (Modifying imported brand cars)

Blog link: http://global-mu-online.blogspot.com/

Lorne Mcintosh

1. Hiking / Outdoors

2. Project / Work Log (*)

3. Political Commentary

I've decided on #2. It's up, and can be viewed at:

http://blog.lorneswork.com/

Tanya Lisle

1. Writing

2. Fiction

3. Nanowrimo

Still Dreaming - A NanoWriMo blog

Alias: Shea Koshan

Krishna Patel

1. Crocheting

2. Belief in God

3. Typography

My blog can be viewed at http://krishna-individual.blogspot.com

Enoch Deer

1. Escalation of violence/ubiquitous ratings in movies

My Blog can be viewed at http://reelcritics.blogspot.com/

Sheng(Raymond) Wang

1.How does hybrid power (energy) for vehicles influence our life?

My Blog can be viewed at

http://shengraywang.spaces.live.com/blog/

Yu-Peng(Peter) Yu

My blog is going to be talking about manga, feel free to pop by and leave a comment any time, dont need to sign up

My alias is PTB5 and my Blog can be viewed at http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ptb5

any question email to YYU@sfu.ca

P.S. - can people please watch what they do, because I know at least 2-3 other's post were just deleted including mine.

Chen Che (Danny) Yang

Current game environment - console war

My alias in blog is Yangtsur, and here is the link -> http://yangtsur.blogspot.com/

PS: Enoch, can you please tell me why you delete my post and what took you so long ? over 30 mins

PS2: This will be my last time posting in Wiki

Ying-Chuan (Jacey) Wang

My blog will be mainly discussing anything about music,

you can visit my blog at http://www.wretch.cc/blog/jaceywa

Woojin Cho

1. issues between North and South Korea

As I was born in South Korea, there is always an issue amongst the two sides. Although they are split by a DMZ, there is a constant involvement two contunries and other major nations. I want to represent my thoughts and point of view from my exposure of the culture.

2. kendo (body, mind, spirit)

At the moment, I am involved in a kendo club outside of school. It is a japanese fencing the involves bamboo sticks with armor to place on. I gain intrest for couple of years and there is a fact that you always get better, no matter the age. I just found that interesting how person cannot reach perfection but you can get close to it by practicing body, mind, spirit.

3. technology can help our lives (what? how? why?)

As a technological junky, I have use many technologies and found some useful items that help our lives. I just wanted to show was the technologies are so special and what makes it important to our lives. If not, say what aspect is missing from it as to fulfill the requirements.

Blog: http://www.woojincho.com/wordpress

Gabrielle Carson

1. Being a cashier at Superstore and encounters with troublesome customers

2. Food and Health

3. Game Design Project Log

Blog: http://gabcorp.blogspot.com

Todd Baylis

1. Mash-ups and remixes (Tarantino, Danger Mouse)

2. The phoniness of that Magic Dude on A&E (mindfreak)

3. The future of major record labels with the rise of DIY home recording

Blog: http://deathtorecordlabels.blogspot.com/

John Owen

1. Open Source Creative

Open source creative process, documenting and communicating my approach to:

Illustration

Web Design

Print Design

Interactive

Motion

Use the blog to facilitate discussion between designers about their

creative process.

Global Goal: To make the creative process fully visible to those who wish to

practice it in an effort to push the boundaries of my work and incorporate

ideas from others.

2. My Daughter, Kyla.

Blog about my daughter and her development, she is now two and is teaching/giving me insights on a weekly basis.

3. My Family

My family lives all over the world, this blog would be used for my family to communicate with, there is an opportunity here for multiple family members posting on the same blog. This could also be a study on family communication/organization using web based technologies.

My current blog is @ http://opensourcecreative.blogspot.com/

This will soon be moved to http://www.johnowen.com/blog

Ava M. Famili

1. New and innovative technologies.

2. Places to go in Vancouver (ie. restaurants, clubs, lounges, museums, shows, etc.)

3. World issues - talk about issues that concern people; it can be anything from issues regarding science/nature to events in the middle east.

I am still conflicted between number 2 and 3. As of now I am blogging on places to go in Vancouver.

My current blog is @ http://avafamili.blogspot.com/

Katie Holmes

1. Blog about my drawings and artwork

2. Blog about interesting technology

3. Blog about interesting design and artwork I find on the internet.

I decided to blog about things I like. Things on the internet that I find interesting or inspiring. It will be mostly drawings, design pieces, interesting videos or something similar. I will also probably be posting a bit of my own work so Its a combination of my 1 and 3 ideas.

http://katiemholmes.blogspot.com

Ada Fu

My 3 topics...

1) Food blog -The girl with the Pink Plaid apron

Description: Best restaurants, new restaurants or new television shows.(Top Chef)

Blog: http://pinkapron.blogspot.com/

2) Interracial dating issues- Hard boiled egg

Description: Stereotype of Interracial dating

Blog: http://hardboiledeggdating.blogspot.com/

3) Racism-Stop the hate

Description: Asian women point of view of the western culture

Blog: http://racismstopthehate.blogspot.com/

I am still deciding which blog I should go with. I’ll update the Artcamp Wiki once I’ve decided.

Okay~I've decided, it's goning to be #2

Akash Murgai

1. Design: The process, the language, and the ideology behind communicating ideas for the real world.

In this area, I would like to take the opportunity to expand on some of the processes, decisions, languages, and ideologies being considered within the realm of problem solving for the end user. Design, itself, is centred around the thought of both content and form -- and more specifically, the underlying structure to what is being said/delivered/used. I will use this context to expand on global design issues that are emerging each and every day.

2. Photography: The idea of Social Networking through a virtual plane.

In this area, I would like to expand on the amalgamation of sharing experiences through pictures and an online community. Pictures have become quite essential in our everyday lives as a way of storytelling and expressing ones emotions through a narrative -- and it is this process that is emerging through the use of online social networks (such as Flickr.com) and being centric to the user's identity (be it in the form of virtual or physical representation). My hopes of venturing into this realm is to uncover some of the fundamental underlying structures in place that secure or rectify ones identity through the use of photographs.

3. Typography: Construction or Deconstruction

In this area, I would like to highlight the use of typography in my every day life and occurances, through the implicit function of signage and way finding. Among global design issues, there lies a paradigm for the way things are interpreted and in many cases, the way in which things are represented. I will use this context to expand on issues not only local but also global that reflect on the construction and deconstruction of typographic relevance.

My blog can be found here: http://www.deccadesigns.com/blog

May Tanaka

my interests:

1. retro tokyo

2. international marriage

3. prospective japanese canadian

my blog: http://blog.livedoor.jp/retrophilia_tokyo/

my alias: may or takako

Reg Lee Miranda

Interests > Topics

1. Burning the Fat: A losing battle... unless you're super rich.

This subject deals with overweight people desparately trying to lose weight, only to find out they are fighting a losing battle. Topics of interest include the failure of diets, the need for an expensive lifestyle change, and north american food culture as a barrier.

2. Religion: Fact or Fiction?

Those that believe in nothing? Those that have complete faith in something? Who is right? Which group is "correct"? This subject will especially touch on those who are taught to believe in something from birth, without asking the question "why"?

3. The New Dork: Gaming and Technology

I like technology, I like video games, and my idea of a fun friday night involves upgrading my computer. Am I a dork? Probably, right? But....... perhaps not.

Alias: Reg

Blog: http://www.reglee.blogspot.com

Tony Tsai

Sharing and personal comments on interesting tv spots from around the world. Stunning visuals, stimulating audio, funny, emotional, whatever. Slanting toward the production and visual effects of commercials. Anti adbusters?

http://adposter.blogspot.com/

alias: poster

？？Andy Huang？？

1. Random Internet Finding

2. Personal Rants

3. Others

飛べる人間

Alias: ちいさな

Andrew Wong

1. Video gaming

2. Anime/Manga

3. Random things

http://school.chiisana.net/kengai

Alias: ケンガイ