NAIJA ALERT

THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE SHORT AND SWEET...MY POINT IS:

I AM DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR A TICKET TO NAIJA FOR XMAS...IF YOU HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE LET ME KNOW. TIX ARE GOING FOR $2K ONLINE....HELLZZZ POOR SAFAYA CANNOT AFFORD THAT O. I DEY MANAGE.

ANY WEBSITE/TRAVEL AGENT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE WELCOME...THANKS!

HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT WEEK!

One World..Many Voices

I don't know how many of you have stumbled upon the time capsule thing that yahoo is putting together. If you already know...Please act surprised and don't make me feel bad. THANK YOU! I think this is a excellent idea and future generations will be thankful for it.

So what is this thing SA is so excited about? Its an electronic anthropology project put together by yahoo to teach future generations what the world was like in 2006. Its great that people are communicable with ways of preserving history but the fabulous thing about it is that anyone from all over the world can participate. What are you going to do about it?

This is an excerpt from Jonathan Harris, The Time Capsule Artist:

The aesthetic of the Time Capsule is that of a ball of thread, spinning like a globe, its shifting surface entirely composed of words and pictures submitted by people around the world. The thread ball concept relates to threads of memory and threads of time, where threads are taken to be any continuous and self-consistent narrative strand. When the Time Capsule opens, it displays the 100 most recent contributions, which form the spinning globe. The ten themes orbit the globe in a pinwheel pattern. At any moment, any individual tile can be clicked, causing the globe to fall away and the selected tile to expand, revealing detailed information about the tile and the person who created it. Using a search interface, viewers can specify the population they wish to see, exploring such demographics as “men in their20ss from New York City”, and “Iraqi women who submitted drawings in response to the question: What do you love?”. There are an infinite number of ways to slice the data, and each resulting slice then becomes its own thread, which can be browsed independently, tile by tile, like a filmstrip.The contribution process is designed to be simple and universal, using minimal gestures to create words and drawings, and to upload files. Though translated into ten languages, there are very few textual instructions anywhere in the piece, so the experience is necessarily one of exploration and discovery. A clock counts down constantly in the bottom left corner, approaching the moment the Time Capsule wclose.The presiding message of the Time Capsule is: “One World. Many Voices.” The piece attempts simultaneously to express the differences between individuals, and to illustrate the shared ground between people of all ages, races, backgrounds and cultures.- Jonathan HarrisNew York City, September 27, 2006

Well I hope you all are even half-excited I am about this. Lets make history..contributepiece peice today! You'll be glad you did.
Here's the Link..I Hope..hope it works

http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php


SA