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Problem: This past weekend, the UN reported the 7 billionth person was born on earth. In about 200 years, we went from having 1 billion people on our planet to 7 billion. You might think that space is a problem, but you would be wrong. We have plenty of space, especially since the current human migration trend is toward super dense cities. The greater issue with so many people living on this planet is resources and demands on them. South Asia, South America, and Africa are all enjoying varying degrees of growth. This need for resources puts disastrous pressure on the environment and availability of water and food.

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I have been working with video and animation at my job and on my own for the past four years, so it came as a surprise how difficult it was to come up with a project for Video and the Open Web. It stems from how limited my understanding of what video is; something that someone exports into a “final” product and is transportable but not mutable. In the past, I felt that programs like Nuke and After Effects were the keys to unleashing media and playing with their content.  Online communities like YouTube came one step closer to what the web does so well: improvisation and sharing. However, both seemed similar to other forms of media creation, where the last exported file tends to be the last stop of the media and bringing new life to it is available to the few who have the expensive  tools and the knowledge.

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I am brushing up on my web coding and good gracious did it have some serious holes in it. That is what happens when you learn web design on your own. Lynda.com all day.

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I am brushing up on my web coding and good gracious did it have some serious holes in it. That is what happens when you learn web design on your own. Lynda.com all day.

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