#journal 13

Who: Higgs When: Writing year unknown Where: Unknown

Dear Diary. Today I nuked Middle Knot City. Wiped it clean off the map. Didn't carry the bomb myself of course. Fragile did the honours— delivered my mercy to the people like a good little porter. I'm sure she's surprised, but she shouldn't be. Death and destruction are part and parcel of the human condition, and bringing people together only exacerbates that. Be careful what you wish for, eh?

It's like when our ancestors came from the old world to the new and brought their old world diseases with them. Natives had no immunity, and over half died in the blink of an eye. Bam. And we've only come up with better, more effective ways of killing ever since. The network's just another means of hastening the end. This was always logical conclusion of our efforts, mine and Fragile's. Maybe that's why I partnered up with her. Because in my heart of hearts, I knew it was building to this.

Journal 13 Worried about Ray [The Hoosiers]

It started with Artemis babysitting me. Forgive the allegory but that’s kind of what it was. She made commentary which nearly pulled me out of my shift. I started by shifting to another world where I was a cisgender male. They didn't have mirrors there. He held his chest when I came through excited that "his soul" had "come home" and he ripped his shirt open to show people. This was short lived however as I aimed to visit that lovecraftian reality from before. I kept intercepting visions of me being underwater in front of Cthulhu. 

Next reality I visited I was in the hair salon. This was a reality where I detransitioned. A long time ago when I was skiso I called the cops on my mother thinking she was trying to kill me, in this reality they shot her so I was living with my grandmother mimi who was alive and not passed as in this reality. I was also 17 in this reality rather than 23. You know how I mentioned in realities when you shift theirs patterns? My age often being set back to 17 is one of them. One of these patterns I often run into. Anyways my hair was done then the reality fastforwaded to prom where I was with Jamie and we were still friends. In this reality I went by my birth name yuck. 

Between these shifts I felt my bed moving back and forth despite me being still and an orange fuzzy monster came through and sat next to me. Azatheriah. My familiar warned me that he was hostile. He told me we were “friends” in alternate realities. And I asked him to leave. He's still with me as I write this. I asked him again to leave and that's where I end this. Goodnight.

Olive Brimstone

2:00 AM

Digital aesthetic is a very interesting term to me.  Before I began researching what it meant, my first thoughts revolved around using technology and computer programs to create art.  I thought of graphic design and using various programs to create things like logos.  As technology improves and becomes more widely accessible, I can only imagine that the way art is created will become more revolutionized.  I think we will see change in the way art is made, and I also believe that we will see resistance to this.  Tom Dixon says that we are “seeing a new industrial digital revolution around us.”  At the Milan furniture fair a few years ago, designers were not necessarily the stars, but rather the technology used to create their designs.  Robots and various machines were used to fabricate chairs; computerized metal presses stamped out lamps and prototyping machines were spitting out a multitude of products that ranged from coffee machine to food.  This was shocking to me.  In the past, when this technology didn’t exist, we didn’t see product like this, but I believe that there have always been, and will always be people who will continue to revolutionize design.  This is something I learned from one of the first books we read in class. Often, we see designers expand and build upon old methods of design; this is a way to improve the field. Although this technology hasn’t always existed, I think that there has always been something that was revolutionary to design.  This revolutionary thing only changes when the new, unknown thing comes around.  In this case, it’s the advanced technology. This was an interesting topic to research because I think it’s controversial.  Like all things in life, I think humans have a difficulty with change. Why change something when we know there is a method that works?  I think this is a concept that shows you there are always new and exiting things around the corner, but it’s often up to the designer to decide whether they are a fan of it or not.  Personally, the thought of machines and technology taking over even more aspects of human life is frightening to me.

 Sources:

http://www.artdigitalmagazine.com/?p=3216