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Visualizing Ourselves... With Crowd Sourced Data Response

Visualizing Ourselves... With Crowd Sourced Data was a fun TedTalk. Aaron Koblin is an interesting fellow because he asks people for data that he can use to create art. He created project called Flight Pattern, which showed all the different flight patterns across the United States, it also had all the different airports in each state. Koblin likes using data to create art because it use a collaborative art in crowd sourcing. Having just learned about creative crowd sourcing in class, I liked that Koblin chooses to collaborate with other people on a global scale. There are many different ways to create art and involving others to play a part in the creative process allows the art to become very different. For instance, in Koblin's project, Johnny Cash Project, had different people draw on each frame as they went by. Seeing each frame pass by, we can see each person's interpretation of Johnny Cash. Another one had each user submit Koblin a drawing of a sheep facing to the left. Afterwords we saw what each sheep looked like. This showed that each person's sheep was different from all the others. I think Koblin just likes to see how different each person likes to interpret things. He wants to illustrate how people see the world and how different they are from each other. If I were to create a picture of a dog, it would be different from someone else like my brother. Koblin's ways of crowd sourcing looks like fun and I want to do some creative crowd sourcing because I don't know what I could get. I like having that mystery of what this person might draw or say and then getting it sounds exciting. Having a bunch of people contribute to a large artistic piece is a thing I want to see more of.

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