The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet (

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In the article ‘The Web is long dead. Long live the internet’ an interesting issue is bought to attention. The article opens with the description of daily activities conducted by a netizen. It is stated that a user will tend to spend more time on internet based applications such as Facebook, Skype, Twitter on their smartphones or Ipads than using a web browser. “It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it’s a world Google can’t crawl, one where HTML doesn’t rule,” writes Chris Anderson. This statement implies that businesses will be affected due to this issue. Companies such as Google will experience an exponential decay in their profits due to this paradigm shift in today’s digital world. Towards the end of the article the author writes that “center of gravity of all media — is moving to a post-HTML environment” which once again reiterates that there is a possibility that sucha transition will take place in the future.

Citation: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/

I am interested in capturing the invisible and the unseen. Duane Michael, a surrealistic photographer has definitely inspired me. His photographs are conceptually significant especially the series ’Alice’s Mirror.' In this particular sequence Duane uses photographic reflection to compose an impossible set of photographs.
The series consists of six images. The first photo portrays a small couch and spectacles. The next two photos ‘zoom out’ and viewers realize that what they saw previously was a mere reflection. Photos three and four are also reflections that were captured within the palm of a person, who finally destroys the mirror shattering every piece of imagery that was previously reflected. It can be implied that the artist is questioning the importance of en existing artwork. This made me ponder if an artwork would still retain after it has been meddled with or destroyed. I believe that the artist feels that an artwork which has been ruined is incorrigible like the broken pieces of the mirror. Even if the pieces are stuck back together the image formed would be incongruous to the original piece. Duane Michael’s work is exciting to me because he expresses his ideas through unexpected and unique photographs. His work definitely inspires me to take risks and think beyond the expected.

I love photography, reading and painting