What this means to me is that the things in the world are labeled and named after what their uses are. Weinberger uses the example of a hammer, it can be described by its uses, the way it feels when you touch it, and the sounds it makes. Essentially we describe these things by the way we interact with them in our lives.
This relates to the third code in the sense that everything can be described by it's uses differently by its implicit meaning to each individual use. Take a photo for example, several people can be described differently by different people. This describes the way people tag objects for organization in the third order perfectly.
Monster- Kanye West, This is what I picture in my head. The image is organized in a hierarchy of color that this particular song gives me as well as a base reference image.
Your use of a photo as an example is something I never would have thought of. The example goes one step further by noting that a photo does not only have certain meanings to individuals, but can also be described by people in various ways.
ReplyDeleteVery cool image! I love that song, and you did a great job with your use of color/imagery to express meanings in that particular song.
I really liked your explanation of connecting colors to emotions you feel in songs. I started to come to that conclusion in my post but you pretty much took it to the next level. I was kinda visualizing Lightroom's Histogram as you were explaining your concept.
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Let's see if I can explain this: I was visualizing a song on a graph with the x axis being the length in time of a song, and the y axis being the amount of emotion. And then throughout the song it would graph the percentages of maybe four different emotions all felt in the song using colors. This would kinda look like the Lightroom histogram. Then potentially after this data was recorded, it could store the amounts of percentages of emotions, so in searching for a particular type of music you are in the mood for without knowing what song will fulfill that want, you can look up those emotions and find the correct song that embodies all those feelings. Anyway, that was my thought process while you were explaining, so if I looked glazed over, this is why. Altogether, your concept of colors representing emotions is really awesome!
You've got it partially right, that is, that "this relates to the third code in the sense that everything can be described by it's uses differently by its implicit meaning to each individual use." It's about use, but it's also about knowledge and meaning. How does one know what a thing is? How does one decide, when looking for information on Valentine's Day flowers in Pullman, what to search for? Why? What terms/concepts make sense to you and what makes sense to the machine? What's the connection and/or disconnection between these?
ReplyDeleteYou're on the right track, just elaborate it out a bit.
Also, cool example. It was totally not what I was thinking of when I assigned the prompt, but your angle on was really creative and helped prompt a great in-class discussion about what 'counts' as metadata. Kudos. Thanks.
I like your example picture very much. The hierarchy of color is an interesting way to imply meaning for the image.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a short strait to the point post, which i like. good job.