The World is Drawing One Picture

Assignment: At least one post that relates, refers to or deals with a medium other than writing or photography (i.e. film, sculpture, etc.). Push the medium to its limit here. How does the form of a blog allow you to do something you couldn't have done on paper?

DrawBall.com
The most prevelent, and yet probably the least thought about medium of the internet is the website. Everyone thinks of the hosted on Youtube, but who ever thinks about how interesting the concept of Youtube as a whole, about how it is set up to showcase the videos it holds, the fact that it allows for comments, staticstics on video populatiry, or any of its other features. Next time you look at your favorite websites, think about them as a whole, and how much thought and effort had gone into it's look and function.

The website I would like to present to my readers is Drawball.com. The first thing you see is a large ball with what looks like scribbles all over it, and a few words. By clicking on this ball, it zooms in closer, to reveal that what looked like scribbles before are actually pictures. This ball is a giant, ever evolving and changing ball, consisting of drawings by countless thousands of people. This takes collaboration to a whole new level. Particularly any of the larger drawings, such as the Xenu.net collection, which is obviously drawn by hundreds of people (view the playback feature.) This would be possible off of the internet, but so much harder to orcistrate that it would never happen, and certainly not constantly evolve like the drawball does.