So those last few images I just posted for for the "draw and interphase" project... I was rather satisfied with them at first. I like the idea of earpones as interphases, because they're really some sort of gateway between worlds. The plugged and unplugged. I'm not sure how to explain it, but maybe through this anecdote it'll be more clear. My friend was telling me one time how she deliberately puts on her earphones on the metro at night, so that no one bothers her, or starts talking to her. That she said this made me think about just how embedded this weird unspoken rule is, in mostly everyone's minds.... Like how, the instant you put on your phones and delve into your music, you might as well be dead to the world, though you instantly open up your own little realm. Well, it's like that for me anyway. I'm really sensitive to music, and it really affects my mood. When I get it just right, sometimes my entire morning commute feels like a music video...just because I've covered my ears with a device that immensely changes my perception of the world, just by blocking out one of my senses. You sort of get tunnel vision when your earphones are on... and most people take it as a given that you're no available for conversation, or any other form of interaction, when they're on. It's ironic that way... by wearing earphones, you interphase/interact with technology, the net, but cut off all other interactions in doing so. Anyway.

In class though, Joey pointed out the fact that nearly everyone in class, myself included, had drawn something digital for an interphase... when really, an interphase can be anything, even a potato peeler. In retrospect, though I greatly enjoy the idea of earphones as an interphase, I think I should have thought a little more deeply about it, and tried something more "original", though really, there's not right or wrong answer. In fact, I can't really think of anything that isn't an interphase... I wonder if such a thing exists.