Wednesday, January 24, 2007

mapping

With the invention of airplanes, people can go to most big cities in the world within 24 hours. Sometimes I hear people asking, “How long does it take to fly there?” I think this question is interesting because they are asking the amounts of traveling time instead of geographical space when they want to know how far places are. Thus, I think “time” might be an alternative measurement of physical distance.

Based on the idea, I created a “map” starting from my homeland, Taiwan. As each hour goes, it shows the cities I can go to within that amount of time. For example, Hong Kong is about one hour flight, Seoul two hours, and Argentina 24 hours. This map starts with the white background representing 0 to 12 hours, and the black one 13 to 24 hours.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

沒有知識的一天

這次報告要寫的是後九一一的影響。

我跟老師說
如果恐怖份子主要攻擊的對象是第一世界國家
那你的命題是不是很從自己(美國人)出發?(就像好是身處第三世界的我可以隔岸觀火那樣)

老師惱怒,
說你是不是應該要去充實一下自己的知識?

我也惱怒起來,
中東問題明明就是跟你們自己的決策有很大關係,
再加上你們媒體配合妖魔化中東人,
弄的大家看到中東人就害怕,到底是誰要反省?

好啦,我就是沒有知識。<----重點