Category: Network Media

January 21, 2014

Essays.

I was reading through the reading from Paul Graham about the “The Age of the Essay” the other day, and I found it a rather enlightening piece. Wasn’t the best article that was crafted I suppose, but Paul Graham managed to pick out underlying evidence of what we students of the 21st century have cave into the whole system of structures. In turn requiring us to follow these structures and produce a “well written and structure” essay in school.

I’ve always wondered what exactly makes a good essay? I googled this down and the first link that came about on my page was from a page of the Monash University Website on what makes a good essay…

1. Introduction
2.Arguement
3.Claims and Evidence
4.The issue
5.Summarizing ideas
6.Critiqing ideas
7.Returning to the issue
8.Another example of the critique
9. Restating the argument
10. Conclusion

From what I’ve learnt from going to Lorna Whiston when I was at the the age of 6, having speech and drama classes, reading lots of books, attending plays like “Midsummers Night Dream” at the Fort canning, appreciating art/culture my entire life, and having the opportunity to study pure literature back in school, writing argumentative pieces in high school, being in debates, there was always a structure in everything that we did. Paul Graham talked about how we “shouldn’t be doing as you’re told”, ” writing is made to seem boring and pointless”. Well in my opinion, this is how the world works, i guess the whole idea of having to write whatever we want whether is it rhetorically or in facts, will somehow result in a social discourse if we do not to do as we’re told.

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Who can say or write what to whom in what situations? Who has access to the various forms or genres of discourse or to the means of its reproduction? Who am I to think out loudly? Is it true that the less powerful people are, the less they have access to various forms of text or talk? From what I came across from a reading that i found from the net by Teun A. Van Dijk who wrote about the Structures of discourse and structure of power, he said ” Ultimately, the powerless have literally “nothing to say,”, nobody to talk to , or must remain silent when more powerful people are speaking…” Again, who is Teun A. Van Dijk for me to trust his words on that, what makes him reliable? Just because he’s a graduate of communication from the university of amsterdam and who has probably gone through 4-5 years of legid writing to even come up with such analysis, we are slightly inclined to think that whatever he wrote is somehow evident and true, since it’s published and it popped out when i was searching for “Social discourse in writing” To me, what matters is the content.

In my opinion, I think that having structure in essays provides a really great help in the flow in ideas. One may lead to the other, and yes it certainly helps reading so much easier. Come on, if you’re just writing for yourself, and you’re thinking out loud without structures that has been taught and ingrained in us since young.. how do you explain authors writing their own books. PLOT, INTRO, CLIMAX, blah blah blah. It’s the same thing all over again. I’m not saying that without structures we can’t write a good essay. I’m just saying that we are dependent on having structures in our essay that it’s just something that it has been ingrained in us, it makes it impossible for us to sway away from it. And with good content and ideas, it sure makes it effortless for trying to bring your message across.

Sure, I agree with Paul Graham about writing for yourself and thinking out loud. But I have my insecurities too. Don’t you? I had struggles on my first few posts in Network Media, because Elliot said we could write about anything related to the subject. But “Anything” to me wasn’t specific enough, i found myself rambling in my blog posts, and yeah, once in awhile, linking them to my academic readings. Throughout the past few weeks, I was really stressed out. I was just wondering whether I was on “track”, whether my blog posts actually met the REQUIREMENTS of 1. engaging the reader 2. engaging the ideas raised … blah blah blah. (check the blog assessment requirements if you have not done so haha) But it was when, elliot came to me on Monday and gave me feedback that gave me the assurance. And yes, I can finally say that I’m on the right track.

To me, a good essay puts me in a state of trance, it’s good content that resonates with me, it’s through experiences, exposure and alot of practice that helps you whip up a good essay. Good articles just makes me go “woah woah woah” ~ (left with no words to describe how I feel haha) Anyway, Here’s one of my favourite posts written from Thought Catalog : A Memo To The Next Person Who Loves Me. The one article that made me go “woah woah woah” – stabs. I wish I could write like this.

xx.

January 19, 2014

Consistently Inconsistent

My twenties have been chaotic and disorganized and unexpected – like a lot of people. Sometimes I feel like all I’m doing is fighting through one uncertainty after another; one thing after another. I feel like I’m constantly running a race, or maybe swimming and trying to keep my head above water. I feel like I’m taking steps forward and having to take those same steps backwards. Every day, I feel like I’m fighting. Coming from a course that does everything from Advertising, Photography, Video Making, Graphic Design, Communications and most of all Illustration and now to professional communications where I’m doing public relations and now journalism… I feel like a mess.

Growing up, I’ve always loved drawing, it keeps my mind off things, and now drawing has become part of my career, I haven’t been paying much attention to it. I have filed an album on my facebook that’s titled : Wasted illustrations (no pun intended) but, yeah, those are illustrations that I have done that doesn’t serve any purpose. I’ve always envied designer friends who always found the motivation to continue what they really love doing, for me, procrastination got the better of me. (Picture below is the perfect epitome of what happens to me all the time)

I’m a fan of make believe! So today, I’ve decided to come up with an interview with myself to get to know myself better as an illustrator. Maybe one day, I’ll get somewhere and someone would actually want to interview me.

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How did you first get into illustration?
I’ve always wanted to be just like my brother, he’s a really talented painter and artist. When I was young, my mom would take him to art classes and I’ve always wondered why my mom didn’t let me take up art classes. I got jealous and wanted to prove to my brother that I could be better than him. I started from doodling and I never stopped from there. Got myself into a design course and improved from there!

How would you best describe your style of illustration?
Sketchy, random, sarcastic, melodramatic, to be honest, I can’t draw realistic legs for nuts.

Please take us through your design process, where do you start?
I don’t exactly have a design process, but I get my inspiration from everywhere. I like taking walks and observing people. Lots of ideas show up, usually I’ll go for the first one, but I’ll like to make sure I have others to back me up in case it fails. Most of the time it doesn’t 🙂

What tools do you use for your work?
Pen, sketchbook, brown paper, recycled papers, pencils, my bamboo pad.

When illustrating, do you sometimes get blocked for ideas? If so, how do you overcome that?
Yes, I do most of the time. I search through the net. Sometimes, I’ll leave everything for awhile and head out for a beer. Usually alcohol and a night of partying does the trick.

What would be your ultimate goal as an illustrator?
I want to be recognised. I want my work to inspire and resonate with people. Hopefully, I can sell my illustrations will be good enough to be able to be sold or exhibited.

What style of music do you listen to when you work?
John Mayer puts me into a really mellow mood where I’m calm and composed to draw, most of the time, it’s Tegan and Sara that gets me on the go.

What websites would you recommend doing?
Check out my friend Kristal Melson.

Any advice for aspiring illustrators? (Note to self)
Be yourself. Stop whining. Start drawing. Nobody said it would be easy. Never stop learning and improving. Be passionate. Be persistent. Go out on the streets and create your own style and be authentic.

January 19, 2014

Symposium 3 – The future is hypertext

7 things I’ve learnt from Wednesday’s symposium :

1. Knowledge and technology go hand in hand in assisting educational systems

Right now, schools use technology primarily as a tool for developing students’ computer and Internet skills. This is important, but technology proficiency is simply the point of entry to the digital world—and it is only a small sliver of the far-reaching utility of technology as a powerful enabling tool for a full range of essential knowledge and skills. The assumption that education already is using technology widely is unfounded. Despite federal, state and local investment in technology and Internet connectivity, most schools still use technology sparingly, rather than as a critical component of all educational operations. To a wireless nation, which relies on technology for ordinary tasks and extraordinary achievements, it is shocking and inconceivable—but true—that technology is marginalized in the complex and vital affairs of education.

2. Yes we are dependent on technology to simplify our lives, but there’s a likelihood to complicate things as well.

Take the iphone as an example. Apple has introduced icloud – a system where it stores all your information including pictures, videos, music and apps into a “cloud” where it makes sharing easier and transferring information to your other apple devices. I’m a sucker for apple products, I’ve basically have everything in the chart below which makes things confusing. I like how icloud does all the backing up for you, but i find it rather annoying when icloud syncs everything from my ipad to my iphone. Thus eating up all my memory space, leaving me no space for my music. Each time I sync my phone into my macbook pro, the same thing happens all the time. I find myself constantly going back and forth from my ipad and my iphone deleting the apps. Icloud, I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

3. There’s no sense of urgency in the computer field, there is also a community of people who do not enjoy such a field.

I fall under the latter, sometimes it’s best to stay away from technology for awhile.
I found this interesting article in The New York Times – Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain. It talks about how a primitive trip that came with a goal : to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects can change our views on how technologies have affected us in coming out with new ideas. Everybody should go read this, it’s really a good read!!!

4.The way in which you remember something, evokes a certain stimuli that brings about a memory or a thought.

We remember experiences and events which are not happening now, so memory differs from perception. We remember events which really happened, so memory is unlike pure imagination. Yet, in practice, there can be close interactions between remembering, perceiving, and imagining. But technology does it for us, with the use of hypertexts, you can’t escape them. If you’re thinking of getting a dress from a fashion site, but you dont have the money to get it right now, but you click it anyway just to check the dress out. The computer remembers it for you, 2 mnths later, if you’re still intending to get it, the dress that you clicked the last time, will somehow appear in your search history. Sometimes it even appears on your facebook newsfeed. It’s scary, but… it helps!!

5. The different types of behaviour portrayed online and offline
I often use this as an excuse to be anti social.
Like what i said in my previous post, users tend to exaggerate their personas because they have much more time to revise and calculate the content they present than in spontaneous face-to-face interactions. Majority of us have the tendancy to alter our the way we act to suit different settings, what more can you say about being offline?

6. Twitter
“News feed” is important because Twitter has clearly changed the way news is gathered, disseminated and consumed. Social media has transformed newsrooms, speeding up newsgathering and enabling recourse to wider ranges of sources and material. The corollary of the ubiquity of Twitter is that journalist’s roles have changed significantly. Twitter never sleeps and neither does the modern journalist, who is scanning updates 24/7, posting and retweeting.

7.Knowledge exist beyond yourself
We can do SO much research on the World Wide Web, but experiences, thus far are the best learning experiences. Our response to situations, and events in our lives are all shaped by our experiences. Your thought process, our mind set, attitude, aspirations, expectations, and social behaviour are all altered or shaped by our experiences. We are nothing but a mind over matter that is a product of our experiences under specific circumstances in our lives. This is why I love travelling!!!

Check out Venessa’s blog post on information load aka DATA SMOG.

January 18, 2014

Tumblr

We are visual beings. We live in a visual world. Our perceptions of the world, the information we absorb and the signals we send, are overwhelmingly visual in nature. We think and dream in pictures and symbolic images. We replay and re-create life visually in our heads. Even when we read, we transform the words into mental pictures. But what happens to traditional blogging? As a journalist student, I find it a struggle. Lately, I’ve been having writer’s block and I’ve been shamelessly turning to Tumblr to seek for inspiration to write. I find myself going back to Tumblr every single day just to seek some sort of comfort to make up for the loss words that my mind can’t seem to apprehend.

In the past few years, I feel that social networking has started to overshadow traditional blogging. With the emergence of Tumblr, WordPress, Pinterest, Blogger, Livejournal and other websites have provided platforms for writers to express their thoughts (even when their moleskin is full), a place for advertising, a place to provide a running narrative of our incessant selfies, a place where we can share our ideas with the world, sometimes building a movement, connect with like-minded individuals etc… Tumblr has created such a phenomenon effect on us in the bloggersphere and has successfully managed to “seize my play on words and expression” in a way I feel like I can conform to but… that’s just pure laziness if you’re a journalist.

Tumblr – the easier way to blog . But one thing for sure, writing a blog post to me takes time, energy, inspiration and grammar skills. The cycle of sharing of ideas and thoughts, has in many forms, outgrown blogging, or evolved beyond the concept of blogging.

Pictures like these are seen aplenty on the Tumblr platform, where users get to utilized such formats like these to distill their favourite moments in life, whether it is a tv show or an image of a night sky, narration is then added in the form of overlying text. Needless to say photos are of great practical and emotional value: as a record of our daily events, an art of freezing a moment in time, a memory of the past. They are fragmented, they alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at other than just typing them out in descriptive words. An image posted up online is something that is fragmented, rather than simplified, collective rather than it being singular, it could mean anything. Well, in tumblr, the amount of images put up online, constitutes to a “grammer of scene”, no need for words, just plain reblogging of music/videos/ images with overlaying text over. But, then again what happens to the essence of journalism?

“Since the advent of the Internet – more recently compounded by blogging – everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger- monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn’t make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.”
-Lynda Resnick

What I feel is that Tumblr provides a good platform for conversations, it’s a time saver for people, it streamlines more information on a certain topic. It’s much more participatory, whereas a traditional blogpost written is mostly designed to be consumed. (Even though there’s a comment tab) Stories are somehow built organically in Tumblr thanks to the rebloggers. What do you think?

This caught my attention whilst reading Bolter’s definition of Soft and Hard structures of writing. Tumblr is a great example of what Bolter describes as “Soft structures”.

January 16, 2014

Hypertext

In the reading of Nelson, Theodor Holm. Literary Machines, Nelson discusses on the subject of hypertext. How hypertext is unrestricted by sequence, how it has assisted us in creating new forms of writing which better reflects the structure of what we are writing about, how readers are given a chosen pathway through links and tabs via the internet. It creates a framework of reunification, to organize us in the right way, to clarify and simplify our computer and working lives with massive overload of information, creating new heights and growth in literature, the understanding of our civilization, art and science through the use of hypertext.

I must say humanity has come a really long way. We are constantly immersed and dependent in technological advancements that promote non stop communication and instant gratifications in the society that we are living in today. Whilst we are adopting media technologies in a way to remediate our lifestyles that we live in, one media grows out of another, creating an entangled vine. None exists or even makes sense without those that came before. With that, there is this hunger to fufill our apparent insatiable desire for immediacy. I’ve got a love hate relationship in relation to hypertext. I’ll use our academic references and the use of blackboard for example. I quote Nelson in this, he says

” Computers should bring simplification rather than complication to our lives, they should handle the minutiae the snobbery details of our day to day existence.”

Gone were the days where we’ve been spoon fed with tons and tons of PAPER notes in school, and as they years passed, institutions have caught up with the technological age, where everything else, from lessons, to power points, to our academic notes are all set to be put up on the web. Sadly, the majority of us have to keep up and be subservient to e-learning and accustomed to having our notes read through a screen. Indeed it provides easier access to information, but I still think jotting down notes with a pen and paper helps us to understand and take in information better. I prefer my notes printed out and have them highlighted instead! Who’s with me!

Talk about emails. Sending emails has eliminated a lot of face-to-face social communication. While I feel that there is absolutely nothing wrong in this when one is pressed for time or when there are problems of distance but nowadays we have got so used to e-mail that it has made us lazy. Positive social interaction is very often being superseded by communication through e-mail when there is no need for this. Quite often, when we ask somebody to meet about something, we get the standard reply: “Send me an email about it”.

The point I am trying to make is that we are becoming technological robots, eliminating the traditional forms of human communication and substituting them by mechanical ones instead.

We become complicit in our own plot, in this case, the use of computers to assimilate information, the invention of the google glass, sending emails, the invention of technologies like the ipad, they gives us an 360 authentic emotional experience. Is the obsession of immediacy in today’s world, a result of hiding from a superficiality or a void, in our “real” lives? Do they help to simplify or complicate our lives instead? We have to ask ourselves important questions: “Have we become slaves of modern technology?”; “Are we slowly abandoning a lot of what makes us human?”; “Have we come to the point where we prefer impersonal forms of communication to personal ones?”; “Are we changing human life into a robotic one?” New technology are presented as pruding to old ones, but it’s just something we can’t take for granted.

January 14, 2014

Symposium 2

I participated in the symposium on Monday and totally agree on what the others had to say about design fiction. I guess we all came up with a conclusion that design fiction sets up conditions for experimenting and prototyping of possible features in design practice and research for the future. Elliot raised a question during the discussion comparing the difference between design fiction and design scientific research. Can one co exist and function together when coming up with methods to restructure this world that we live in? While design fiction is known to be a creative practice, is it constructive and practical enough for the use of design fiction in interpreting scientific research and experiments?

Design fiction and design research share with engineering a fundamental interest in focusing on the world as it could be, on the imagination and realization of possible futures, as well of the disclosure of new worlds. Whilst coming up with a creative idea is imperative, there is an importance of improvisation and experimentation during the research practice. It implies that design could be used as a productive approach to conceptualize scientific research itself as a design practice, while on the other hand, design scientific research has it hard facts on explaining the world as it is.

To me everything just feels so similar. It’s hard to tell which comes first? All I can make out of this is that Design can’t function without science, but science can function without design. Design fiction and thinking is relatively imperative for us, especially in the advertising/design/media field. There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You’d think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need the realist to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.

Check out Marley’s post on how she related travel to design fiction!

January 14, 2014

Howard Rheingold

My group was given a subject to research on for our future post on Niki. We were told to research on Howard Rheingold and our group managed to come out with really interesting facts about him. A critic, writer, and teacher. He specializes in the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities. I stumbled upon a video on Youtube, and thought it’ll be nice to share it with you guys.

In this video, Howard Rheingold joined Mamie Rheingold in a conversation about his latest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. While we are living in a society with an overload of too much information, he believes that knowing how to make use of the online tools is essential to our personal success in the 21st century. How can digital media empower us rather than being just passive receivers? In this book – Net Smart that he talks about in the video, he shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully

“If we believe that or fear that our use of social medium is making us shallow, why not teach people how to swim and explore the deep end of the pool.” – Howard Steingold

Prior to my latest post about online personas, I found an academic reference (Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies) that Howard Steingold wrote about that I found was relevant to the topic discussed.

In this piece, he shares with us about his sense of what kind of place cyberspace is, makes it hard to tell whether the person you are communicating with shares the same model of the system within you are communicating. To him virtual communities are very much like communities in some ways, deceptively so to those who assume that people communicate via words on a screen are in some way aberrant in their communication skills and human needs. To those who assume that people who communicate via words on a screen necessarily share the SAME LEVEL OF COMMITMENT to each other in real life as more of traditional communities.

January 14, 2014

Online Personas – My blonde hair makes me look stupid

Online personas are they real? Just because facebook/ twitter and these other social platforms encourages people to use their actual identities doesn’t mean they are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life? Are they just putting up a façade that people want to put up to portray a side of them that they want people to see? ( for instance, posting up pictures of party pictures only on your facebook account, so to speak when someone who doesn’t know you, or a complete stranger who looks up on your facebook, the first thing that comes into their mind would be that she/he is a party animal.) Other factors of where you come from, what you do other than partying often gets omitted. And often, party animals are often associated with the stereotype of being an alcoholic, just plain fun, never serious, probably most people who know how to party do not know to get grounded and study, all they do is party drink and have fun. (Speaking from experience)

A conversation that I had with a guy friend of mine is a fine example of what I meant of how online personas that you built in the cyberspace, are often assumed to be the real you.

“ What was your GPA in Year 3 after you graduated” –him
“ 3.6/4?” – me
“WHAT !?!?!” – him
“I’m surprised, your blonde hair makes you look really stupid and you party so much… Then why didn’t you apply to a local university in Singapore?”

“ I didn’t want to be stuck in Singapore, studying the same thing for 4 years, I guess as a creative student I needed more exposure, and experience of the outside world. I saw Melbourne as my escape plan and a room for more creativity to flow. And btw, I do care about my studies. You ass. I guess people have their own ways of managing stress and studying. I party to relieve stress” -ME

Often facebook and other social media platforms are awesome playgrounds for all of us. The intention varies from group projects, connecting with people, showcasing of portfolios, a collective of images, memories videos and status … etc. We are often plagued by all these that we seem to have lost the true value of what it takes to actually get to know someone. I find it rather sad, while being online, users tend to exaggerate their personas because they have much more time to revise and calculate the content they present than in spontaneous face-to-face interactions. We never know until we see it for ourselves. Design portfolios are a really good example. Take for instance, a designer who is really talented and produce amazing work, uploads his work on facebook. People who dont’ know him/her would probably think he’s a cool due, a hipster, talented, somewhat fashionable, and popular. (stereotypes) but, in actual fact… he’s a really shy guy.

Like what was discussed in the previous class, we were told to come up with a blog and write blog posts that reflects your online persona. Honestly, I had trouble coming up with my own persona, It got me thinking : What kind of online persona would I want to portray and what would make things interesting? Do I rant about my interest and hope that my readers would have similar interests as well? How do you actually get readers? What keeps them coming back for more? Do my blog posts have to be funny to get them entertained or should I just be subjected and tied down to linking academic references within my blog posts? Oh, the drama. (Sometimes, I think too much for my own good) It’s so hard to come up with something these days >:(

January 14, 2014

What Tinder taught me about dating.

Today in class, Elliot mentioned about a social network app called Tinder that enables users to select “like” or “nope” to other users profiles. As the profile contains limited information, Tinder is well known for allowing users to judge other users based on appearance. If two users select “like” for one another, the match is made known to both users. At this point, users gain access to a message system exclusively through the app, allowing users to converse without sharing any extra personal information. I’ve always thought that this app is somewhat controversial.

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What I found out from Wiki was that due to the differences between the advertised purposed of the app (matching making and networking) and the intentions of most users, there has been somewhat of a controversy surrounding the real intent of the app. What started out as an experiment with friends, (a friend of mine told me it was fun laughing at people’s faces and told me to download the app), got me thinking about what has this app has got to say about dating in general. Having to file people away base on your attractiveness level, making a split second decision based on minimal facts? Is this app more of an intent to promote the idea of hooking up instead, since it provides users with a “hot” or “not” model. What happens to people who meet through tinder? Are they looking for a substantial relationship or just merely meeting people who are just down to f*** or just have “fun”? It is also seen as breaking the traditional courtship and dating models!!! I’m never a fan of dating applications and I would never want to succumb to such applications no matter how lonely singlehood can be, but here are some lesssons tinder has taught me about dating, ( in that brief moment, where I was forced to download the app to laugh at “ugly” people)

(Trust me, this was the exact reaction when I saw a person that fell under the “NOT” category) HAHAHAHAHA

1. Dating apps like Tinder are so sketchy.
Yes, it pulls info from your Facebook to create your profile, and then pulls up ‘matches’ that meet your age/sex/location criteria. But still, users can still choose and pick on images that they would like others to see. (spell d0DgY)

2. Are online personas always real?
Most of the time people who communicate through these apps via words on a screen would ASSUME that they the other match would somehow share the same level of commitment in real life just because of a word in the interest criteria that says : love partying, girls, fun. Duh. It’s typical & sounds rather shallow.

3. Sad but true, you never get a second chance on first impressions.
You’re either HOT or NOT. (really really, sad truth about life, SIGH)

4. If the main photo is a picture of 2 guys, the actual one would always be the less cuter one.

5. Nah, I’m never meeting my future boyfriend in an app.

6. While some of us would spend our time chilling at a cafe or the grass patch observing people (people watching), every now and then, an attractive person walks by and some how or another you’ve always wished you had plucked up the courage to say hi. Well, we now have an app for it. Hot OR not, it’s your choice. As for me, I’ll rather keep it to myself and let fate decide …

January 11, 2014

It tells worlds rather than stories

In the readings, Sterling defines design fiction as “the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change… It means you’re thinking very seriously about potential objects and services and trying to get people to concentrate on those – rather than entire worlds or political trends or geopolitical strategies. It’s not a kind of fiction. It’s a kind of design. It tells worlds rather than stories (Sterling, 2009)”

To common beliefs, design fiction is usually described according to a basic rule of fiction, the imaginary, sometimes the impossible, and lashing out the “what if” scenario. It challenges the possible futures of what we humans could end up with or be challenged by in the future. What if people lose the ability to give birth? What if having sexual intimacy with a partner was done by connecting the ends of both tails? ( haha, avatar) What if there was a zombie apocalypse, and you’re the only one left in the world to find a cure for it? Do these examples ring a bell to popular movies like, Afterearth, Children of Men, Avatar and World War Z? These movies raises the question of how what if scenarios set up conditions for experimenting of possible futures, what if our world was like a movie film. (Think we’ll all be dead by now, I doubt we’re ready for anything, even though we’ve anticipated such possibilities) But then again, that’s what makes life and design fiction interesting. We anticipate, we imagine the impossible and make it work.

Hahahaha, I must say, It’s stupid. It’s funny. But it actually makes sense. (Unless we actually grow a tail)