trees are people too

Brainstorming for this weeks task, i am going to try more to look at these tasks in the context of the final manifesto, my manifesto on the future of time based media.

To look at the future of time based media, I am going to have to also consider where it came from. The past of not just time based media, but all media. How time based media is rendering other media obsolete.

This weeks media discussion is on squares. Two things immediately popped into my head – frames and books. Frames within a book? Books within a frame? How on earth can I make these two inanimate things interesting? Books are particularly interesting to me in terms of media because of the argument that they are becoming obsolete and due to their position as a static media, the opposite of dynamic like video or audio, and certainly not time based (at least not in the way we are considering it).

But there are so many ‘square’ things around!! Perhaps I am being to restrictive in my thinking. Did you know that ‘square’ has not less than 37 definitions in the dictionary?? I need to start thinking a bit more outside the square, I think. (Oh the irony).

Perhaps I shall still begin with books. I do love them so, obsolete or not.