Steve Roods Website

What I thought on Steve Roods website...

First of all, I'm interested in Steve Rood's interactive segment of his website. One interactive mini game I enjoyed was the wireframe game, the fact that you can control the limbs of this body by dragging it from the joints was really fascinating. Because this game seems like a play on how the real human body is able to move, the game is sort of like an anatomy guide (like Da Vinci's anatomy drawings). Hoogerbruugge revealed ideas to do with consumerism, personally I feel the game shows a man that is programmed to think about products, and because he is in professional attire, the stereotype we see is that this man works in advertisement. Steve Rood must have certain ideas about advertisement, judging by the greyscale in this game, he may have negative feelings towards it. The last game I'd like to talk about is yugop, this game at first seemed very dull, but with an accidental click of the mouse and things started to get interesting. At first, it's half the page covered in black, the mouse seems to act as a push and pull tool while the black side of the canvas acts like water. Then when you click the mouse, there're more colors with more wave-like effects. I'm really interested in the first round of playing this game, I was uncertain that anything would change, but the fact that when you interact a little more, the game becomes a little more layered.

The second thing...

The second segment that caught my attention was the Influences. From what I know, Steve majors in two fields in the art wold, that is photography and design. Although he excels in his fields, he makes reference to his influences in not only art, but influences in his entire life. He quoted in his lecture that "Everyone is an influence". Which explained why his influence segment was a list of names rapidly scrolling and building up as there were more lines of names added.