Who Am Eye?
How does one even begin to entertain an answer. If you ask Google and enter my name as a search query, a series of things will emerge. LinkedIn has a strong relationship with Google and her mystical, everchanging algorithms and was the first site to crawl upon the screen.
The first time I read about this project, weeks ago I began "stalking" myself on Google to see who and what would appear. I uncovered things I had joined 7 years ago, and it was bizarre yet interesting to see who I projected myself to be at the time. I went along, searching in a linear fashion, and copied the URLs that pertained to me. The 2nd link that is relevant is a blog I composed for my Viral Marketing class last Spring, "Another Brick in the Wall". Please view images above.
I continued stumbling and as we sometimes do in life, had to move backwards in order to go forward. Next, Google unearthed at my command, a wiki I created for my Business class:
http://sites.google.com/site/yaelwiki1/Home
The next link I had utterly forgotten about. Junior year, my roommate HeeYoung asked me to write a music biography for her. She needed one for her class ASAP and being "fresh" to the states from Korea her English was a bit rusty. I had no experience in the field, but I did my best and little did I think it would emerge as one of the top Google ranks when you enter my name as a search query. Here's the link:
www.ourstage.com/profile/heeyoungkang
I was curious as to what else Google would dig up and present about "Me".
This Linear Search did not satisfy my algorithmic hunger. No no, not in the least.
I sat down and proposed some tentative "self-portraits" with my girlfriend and she suggested I make a tree. Perfect, I thought. It called to mind the nodes within a tree and I thought to myself of the sheer presence and wisdom a tree represented to me. My favorite Sufi poet once said "Let the Beauty you Love Be what you Do. There are a million ways to kiss the ground".
I thought, there is no "Self" capital S and surely Google cannot tell me or anyone else who I am. It can provide me mere fragments and limbs of a greater, vaster thing of which we are ALL connected to. I thought to myself of the parallels of trees and search. And how I have sought comfort and life within and without trees. Climbing trees, hugging trees, inhaling and exhaling with them. How exquisite! I decided to continue with my journey, and view it more from the perspective of a tree within a tree within a tree. Meaning, we each are our own tree. Who I am WHO EYE AM and how I perceive myself the world and how that world perceives me is everchanging! Nothing stagnant. A tree breathes life. Each breath, another heartbeat, another expression of self. The essence might stay the same but on we go.
In honor of that, here is a shot of the infamous and beloved Elephant Tree on Purchase College Campus after the administration thought it was a good idea to go ahead and cut off her limbs. Her precious limbs. Her essence, however remains beautifully in tact. Here she is, in all her glory.
Having been at Purchase College for six years I have had many conversations and precious moments beneath this lovely site and hold it close to my heart. As such, I feel the E.T. is engrained in a part of "who eye am".
I shall continue to guide you more linearly as to what came up on Google, before I get into the heart of what sparked my inspiration. Rather than directing me to my Twitter home page, Google selected a tweet randomly and linked to it specifically. Why? I don't know.
How trivial, how silly. I suppose I am to integrate this "tweet" as an essential part of me-ness.
Fantastic. Moving forward, my Friendster account that I have not used since 2004 came to haunt me and kick me in the toosh. I have full intentions of deleting it after I complete this project because it is totally unnecessary to my existence and as the reading we did on Gilgamesh there is no need to allow to live on immortally and does not speak of me or who I am.
But then again, how much do these social networks speak to who we are, or rather how we project ourselves and wish to be perceived. Let's get the show on the road, here's "Me" my freshman year of college. Yikes.
Moving on to page 3 of Google findings of "Me". A link to Purchase grads from last May comes up and my name is right there, along hundreds of other Purchasers. Following that, is a link to my imeem account. Blah blah blah. So how much does Google really know? I was just reading an article in Forbes magazine about how Google apps will soon be merging with desktops and than they will have ALL our juice, all the nitty gritty details and larger limbs of what make us up. A search results for my name then emerged on facebook, as viewed below.
I am the second one, in blue hue :)
Than a link to a site that claimed to know me offered the public all my details and credit reports and criminal history so on and so forth for a price. Creepy. That's the age we live in.
That sums up part I.
How does one even begin to entertain an answer. If you ask Google and enter my name as a search query, a series of things will emerge. LinkedIn has a strong relationship with Google and her mystical, everchanging algorithms and was the first site to crawl upon the screen.
The first time I read about this project, weeks ago I began "stalking" myself on Google to see who and what would appear. I uncovered things I had joined 7 years ago, and it was bizarre yet interesting to see who I projected myself to be at the time. I went along, searching in a linear fashion, and copied the URLs that pertained to me. The 2nd link that is relevant is a blog I composed for my Viral Marketing class last Spring, "Another Brick in the Wall". Please view images above.
I continued stumbling and as we sometimes do in life, had to move backwards in order to go forward. Next, Google unearthed at my command, a wiki I created for my Business class:
http://sites.google.com/site/yaelwiki1/Home
The next link I had utterly forgotten about. Junior year, my roommate HeeYoung asked me to write a music biography for her. She needed one for her class ASAP and being "fresh" to the states from Korea her English was a bit rusty. I had no experience in the field, but I did my best and little did I think it would emerge as one of the top Google ranks when you enter my name as a search query. Here's the link:
www.ourstage.com/profile/heeyoungkangI was curious as to what else Google would dig up and present about "Me".
This Linear Search did not satisfy my algorithmic hunger. No no, not in the least.
I sat down and proposed some tentative "self-portraits" with my girlfriend and she suggested I make a tree. Perfect, I thought. It called to mind the nodes within a tree and I thought to myself of the sheer presence and wisdom a tree represented to me. My favorite Sufi poet once said "Let the Beauty you Love Be what you Do. There are a million ways to kiss the ground".
I thought, there is no "Self" capital S and surely Google cannot tell me or anyone else who I am. It can provide me mere fragments and limbs of a greater, vaster thing of which we are ALL connected to. I thought to myself of the parallels of trees and search. And how I have sought comfort and life within and without trees. Climbing trees, hugging trees, inhaling and exhaling with them. How exquisite! I decided to continue with my journey, and view it more from the perspective of a tree within a tree within a tree. Meaning, we each are our own tree. Who I am WHO EYE AM and how I perceive myself the world and how that world perceives me is everchanging! Nothing stagnant. A tree breathes life. Each breath, another heartbeat, another expression of self. The essence might stay the same but on we go.
In honor of that, here is a shot of the infamous and beloved Elephant Tree on Purchase College Campus after the administration thought it was a good idea to go ahead and cut off her limbs. Her precious limbs. Her essence, however remains beautifully in tact. Here she is, in all her glory.
Having been at Purchase College for six years I have had many conversations and precious moments beneath this lovely site and hold it close to my heart. As such, I feel the E.T. is engrained in a part of "who eye am".I shall continue to guide you more linearly as to what came up on Google, before I get into the heart of what sparked my inspiration. Rather than directing me to my Twitter home page, Google selected a tweet randomly and linked to it specifically. Why? I don't know.
How trivial, how silly. I suppose I am to integrate this "tweet" as an essential part of me-ness.Fantastic. Moving forward, my Friendster account that I have not used since 2004 came to haunt me and kick me in the toosh. I have full intentions of deleting it after I complete this project because it is totally unnecessary to my existence and as the reading we did on Gilgamesh there is no need to allow to live on immortally and does not speak of me or who I am.
But then again, how much do these social networks speak to who we are, or rather how we project ourselves and wish to be perceived. Let's get the show on the road, here's "Me" my freshman year of college. Yikes.
Moving on to page 3 of Google findings of "Me". A link to Purchase grads from last May comes up and my name is right there, along hundreds of other Purchasers. Following that, is a link to my imeem account. Blah blah blah. So how much does Google really know? I was just reading an article in Forbes magazine about how Google apps will soon be merging with desktops and than they will have ALL our juice, all the nitty gritty details and larger limbs of what make us up. A search results for my name then emerged on facebook, as viewed below.
I am the second one, in blue hue :)
Than a link to a site that claimed to know me offered the public all my details and credit reports and criminal history so on and so forth for a price. Creepy. That's the age we live in.
That sums up part I.
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