The images below show objects made out of guns in an attempt to protest against guns and war;
This week we are working on making a taster of our project so we can visualize how it will eventually look and how it is going to work. We are hoping to use the motion path in final cut pro to direct the animations. This weekend, we are finishing the rest of the shots so that all the footage will be filmed and ready for editing. During the workshop this week, we constructed the replica doom health bar, we also began animating the graphics from each game. The next couple of weeks are going to be very busy but hopefully we will stay on target and not fall behind. This week I have been reading the following books which I'm finding very interesting and can see Wiener's theory of Cybernetics and the idea of feedback being integrated and recognizable within the everyday;
-Marshall, M. (1967) The medium is the massage. Penguin group: London.
What I found particularly interesting is the idea that the electricity circuit is an extension of the central nervous system. 
- Harkin,J. (2009) Cyburbia: The dangerous idea that's changing how we live and who we are. Little, Brown: UK.
I particularly found interesting the power struggle between technology and humans;
' ... most previous social theorists, include Wiener and Brand, saw technology and media as tools to be used by humans for their own purposes, McLuhan preferred to think of them as having become so much a part of ourselves that it was difficult to know who was in control. 'We shape our tools' said McLuhan 'and thereafter they shape us'... we are no longer masters of our media technology but slaves'.
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