An Experience with a Twist

I have done my collaborative work with someone I never knew from the internet. It is quite exciting to do this project. I searched for photos on Flickr.com without really knowing what I wanted to create. Then suddenly, one photo appealed to me and I had a sudden burst of idea of what I would do.

The picture was pretty relaxing and very inspiring to look at that I remembered one of the songs we sing at church, Lead Me Lord. So the quest for acquiring it began.

I sent a flickr message to the owner of the photo and well, I received a positive response.

Now I met a new friend online. The owner of the photo, Vearl Brown, was really generous to have considered my request. I was really happy then. There were some little dilemmas such as how the photo will be sent to me and in what size but it was easily managed.

Being inspired by the song I remembered, I used a line from it and put it in my project.

I'm no expert in photo editing, but I really liked my work because the experience was really different. Not only did I get to do a project done, I was able to meet a new friend, too! Now that's a different kind of twist. :)

Thanks to Vearl Brown for the raw photo.

Lyrics from the song Lead Me Lord by Gary Valenciano.

the end..or so we thought

by: Kem Gascon

I am totally amazed at all the wonders the internet has to offer. After watching Virtual Revolution, a documentary from BBC, i was encouraged (ok, so we we're told) to try visiting some of the websites mentioned there that we haven't encountered before. Most of the sites were familiar but never in my entire cyber-life have I visited those for the reason that I was clueless on what they were about.

Some, like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Google, I know a lot about because I use these sites. I have accounts in all of them anyway. But there were also some which sounded familiar but I never visited such as WikiLeaks. There was also a website I never encountered before (it made me feel quite internet illiterate) which is PayPal.

I visited both WikiLeaks and PayPal because these were the ones which caught my interest (and somehow my memory). It's really amazing that the internet has given everyone everywhere the ability to pay from one place to another however far from each other point A and point B may be. That was almost an impossible thing to do without getting your feet off the ground ages ago. But now, it all rests in your fingertips. One click, you're paid! If we were in the ages when witchcraft was against the laws, this feat would have beenconsidered one...probably someone who uses PayPal would be accused of witchcraft. Crazy, yes, but it's really something "magical" and we can't deny it.

WikiLeaks is another splendid website. It provides many (confidential?) information and promotes press freedom! It is very useful if we want to know a lot of things that the government does not want to show. Transparency of the information of public interest, I believe, is significant to a nation.

The internet has opened a lot of avenues for us, whether we are a big company or a simple citizen, to be able to access and disseminate information. We can never really tell how to stop the internet from growing even more powerful and influential. I believe we still couldn't predict the end of this technology. We never know, tomorrow might have a new surprise for us in the cyberworld.