Destroy TV Directors Cut Now Available
Ceedubs (in red t-shirt) looks out from the virtual gallery and through the screen, while Destroy, housed in the real version of the virtual kitchen cabinet at center, looks on, and the real CW (not pictured) looks in from outside. Confused? Good.
Electric Sheep Christian Westbrook reports that he has now posted a downloadable series of the adventures of Destroy Television in the virtual world of Second Life. (Downloadable series of enormous files, that is.) Destroy, of course, is the multiuser avatar who lifelogs her every virtual moment on Flickr. But because she’s taking a screenshot every five seconds, ceedubs has been able to cut these all together into a very cool series of short films. The films are taken from the ten days in which Destroy was on display at the Fuse Gallery in New York City, and includes the 683MB monster I’m downloading at the moment — downloading because I want to see how much of our wedding Destroy managed to capture. It sounds all good fun and games, but there’s a serious side to it as well: consider what Destroy’s up to in the context of things like Justin.tv and Ustream. The original plan (not sure if it’s still the plan) was to embed clickable information into Destroy’s home movies, using a service like Click.tv, which seems to be dark at the moment, but which lets you embed links and comments at any point in a video clip, displays them as an overlay on the clip, and lets you click directly to that point. Imagine that kind of digitized information overlaid on your own lifestream, complete with whatever other information was embedded in the environment around you. Second Life constitutes an excellent testbed for that kind of service. Useful? Not at the moment, but it will be.
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Hi Mark, an interesting post.
I am always struck by the contrast of lifelogging and internet privacy issues. Certainly in life-logging an individual is exercising their own discretion about what they publicaly disclose, but in the extreme, complete lifelogging seems to be the antithesis of internet privacy, enabling social engineering and other types of privacy issues: if anyone can know everything about me - what I look like, where I went, what I ate, who I met, what I bought, what my political leaning is, how active I am online, who my friends and family are, etc - it seems the only thing left private may be a password and perhaps a credit card number (though we have seen these go missing too).
I am curious to see some discussion around the intersection of lifelogging and internet privacy for it seems, to me at least, that this line will get quite blurry.
I enjoy reading your blog - cheers!
p.s. are there any honeymoon pictures in the Destroy film or is that private? ;)
I like the choice of picture, the moment Destroy and I became friends with your good lady wife :-)
Well it seems like a good time to test the bandwidth cap on my service provider.
Downloading now.