The DALL·E reminds me of the topic Jaye introduced last semester, about AI data biases, so I added a new path about this topic and connected it with the related impact to other aspects.
I also tried to use Midjourney to test the data biases but found the developers may have fixed the problem and intentionally set the rule to prevent racist, sexist and other stereotypes.
Prompt: a man sitting in a prison cell
Prompt: a photo of an angry man
Today I tried to google more about the usage scenario f AI-generated art can keep creating the system map.
For my daily practice, I decided to create illustrations/infographics on my topic, “How email affects climate change”. Each day, I plan to create an illustration of all the junk email I receive for that day, and organize the information to see what patterns/conclusions are formed. For Day 1, I drew an envelope of each junk mail I received for the day and color coordinated from each sender to see a high-level overview of which company sends the most emails in one day:
For Assignment #2, I initially began with “Homelessness in NYC” but after a few days, decided to change to another topic. I wanted to do a topic on technology and its effects on climate change. I wanted to narrow down the topic to something specific, and also seemingly harmless, so that the audience will be motivated to change their habits for a larger cause.
Topic: How junk email contributes to climate change
Stakeholders: Email users, businesses who send junk email, companies that host email servers, earth’s climate, humans on earth
Critical Analysis: How does ignoring subscription/junk emails has a carbon footprint
Form/Affordances: A possible form I am considering is a website that demonstrates the impact of people’s personal junk mail.
Intended experience/outcome: The goal is to motivate people to look through their emails and unsubscribe to emails they frequently ignore.
Day 5:
Avalokitesvara figure from Thailand Buddhism:
In Thailand, figure of Avalokitesvara are usually thousand hands and thousand eyes. They also looks colourful than other countries’ Avalokitesvara. Below is my Thai Avalokitesvara figure’s montage.
Having trouble keeping the file size for the back of the postcard under the 1MB limit, for some reason. It reads “Dear Mom, I felt the warm sun on my face today and tried to remember to savor it – I know I’ll back on it with envy.”
Today’s odor is hairy crab (big sluice crab, 大闸蟹). But the odor in my mind is not the crab itself. Hairy crabs are usually steamed. The taste is delicious, but the smell is not obvious. The odor comes more from green onion, ginger, or yellow wine drunk with it.
So maybe even the same food has different smell memories in different cultures?
They are simply steamed and served with ginger tea or yellow wine.
