For my web project, I'm going to parody typical teen websites, such as facebook and myspace. I think it's funny how much "truth and honesty" people put on these things, and I'm going to exploit that. It'll look like my homepage, with friend updates and the like. Depending on the time, I'll write fictional notes and backgrounds to some of the characters, and have an inbox with these things. I'll have a picture folder, which will probably end up being the same as my facebook one, just because I already have those on hand.
I'll need to come up with a parody-esque title, but that'll come during development. I think that exploring the more "embarrassing" aspects of life will be the primary focus--I once took all the responses to Obama's victory and published it as a note. Quite a few people apologized to me personally, not realizing that I was just making fun of them and their beliefs. This sort of thing will serve as the base of my project, and I'll build up from there.
Also, I still can't upload my flash project. Still working on it though.
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Re: flash project-- you will have to upload it as a movie file (export it from Flash as an mov), then you can upload it to the blog.
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I think this is a very interesting idea. I suggest you re-visit the Janet Cardiff piece we looked at in class to get some ideas about the content (in terms of the references or the parodies). In the example of the Obama comments, there was a lot of 'stuff' flying around the Internet at the time; bringing it all together creates some kind of commentary (whether good or bad). Give us lots of layers to look at (example: figuring out how people are related to/feel about you from comments or status updates), to build our idea of who that person is or how they are projecting themselves (versus how other people react to them).
I like the name "Face Spaces" but I am excited to see what you come up with!