The Vector’s project I chose was the Memory issue. This issue focuses on the idea of both memory and history recalling events and peaches from past United States Presidents like Ronald Reagan or George Bush. These vectors highlight political, social, and political stakes with a dose of daily life mixed in. Vectors encourages a form of old media and new media i order to highlight the particular topic at hand. The project I chose was Gidgets On the Couch. In this project, Peter Lunenfeld, coincidentally a professor at UCLA, explores the interior and exterior of the digital world.
The idea of southern California and Surfing, is bound by this wanting for geographical location the vectors within this project rely on background how we can come to a conclusion based on our memories and that of history. We start with evaluating Gidget who played a character by Susan Kohner. Gidget was a surfer in Malibu and an all American-Southern California girl. Kohler’s father was a screenwriter and wrote the story about his daughter. It was a world in which men predominantly ruled the sport, and were aggressive athletes. The presence of Gidget brought a new found sexuality to the sport. It is a story of real feminist power. It follows the idea of the photo-feminist woman.
Navigating the site was quite simple, however it took me a while to realize that this project was in fact a video not a map layout project. Additionally, i was unaware that readers could comment their own input on the particular project so that it could be shared with others. This site is very simple, but accomplishes the goal of examining the project thoroughly. However, since this project was a fun loving approach to the idea of Gidget I do not believe the theme and background for the site correlate with the original idea. If I were designing the site, I would have included an interactive map of surf locations Gidget used. Additionally, I would have liked to see more images of Kohner.
I do believe that this project was successful, because while the site lacks the substance of moving image, the video illustrating the project by Lunenfeld perfectly demonstrates to Vector was the project is and how it accomplishes the idea of history accompanied by memory.