Greatness

I thought our class lecture on Wednesday was so interesting because it was all about how we can be a part of something great! Especially when we were talking about launching the camera into space, or the virtual choir. I found another man, Elia Locardi, who decided to do a great project on his own as well in which he found something he wanted to do, and he did it. Check out that link to see the amazing photography he is able to do. He has gotten into the more professional side of it, but it he had to start somewhere. Just like we all have to start somewhere.

This video is the one that we watched in class, it is "Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir --'Lux Aurumque'". Eric Whitacre is a professional musician, but most, if not all of the participants, are amateur singers/musicians. They sing well, but on their own but they are still simply singing in their basement. But when they had someone to guide them and put them all together, they were able to create something truly great.

I think that there are two ways we can be a part of "creating something great", and they actually form around each other. First, we are amateur singers sitting in our basement, and we decide to take a shot on something. We don't know if it will actually work out or lead to anything special, but we do it anyway. And maybe, just maybe, it will be a great experience. It may even become something great, like this virtual choir. All of these people created something great under the direction of Eric Whitacre who encouraged them to try it. But then you take it a step farther and try to create something on your own without as much direction, which is what Melody Myers did when she decided to do each of the parts of the music herself. Then it will evolve into trying to create something new, and you keep practicing and trying, and eventually you actually become the Eric Whitacre or Elia Locardi.

What you create doesn't have to be something in the digital world, but I am just focusing on those for the sake of the digital culture ideas we are studying this semester. I think that this is what we are going for in this class. We are trying to be a part of something great, and maybe even one day we will be able to create something great and help others to be a part of something great too. Eventually, if more and more people decide that they want to be great, our physical and virtual worlds will be filled with greatness.