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this week, we decide to add one new feature which is “Easter Egg”, the purpose
is to display some special dream orbs that tell some stories of history or
historical person, so users can explore and be inspired by the dreams of historical
content. Also we have some target users who
appreciate artwork may use Dreamer as a portal to explore artwork in an
atypical context. This group of users will likely want to see more information
about the artwork. It is expected that the content provided within the
application will have artistic value to this group of users.
We found some art work from Trove which is called “dreamtime”. In
Australian Aboriginal art, a Dreaming is a totemistic design or artwork, which
can be owned by a tribal group or individual.
A Dreaming is a story owned by different tribes and their members
that explains the creation of life, people and animals. A Dreaming story (e.g.
Kangaroo Dreaming, or Shark Dreaming, or Honey Ant Dreaming) is passed on
protectively as it is owned and is a form of intellectual property. In the
modern context, an Aborigine cannot relate, or paint someone else's dreaming or
creation story without prior permission of the Dreaming's owner. Someone's
dreaming story must be respected, as the individual holds the knowledge to that
Dreaming story. Certain behavioural constraints are associated with dreaming
ownership; for instance, if a Dreaming is painted without authorisation, such
action can meet with accusations of "stealing" someone else's
Dreaming. Dreaming represents many Aboriginal concepts of "time out of
time,” or "everywhen,” when the land was inhabited by ancestral figures,
often of heroic proportions or with supernatural abilities. The term "Dreaming" is based on the
root of the term altjira (alcheringa) used by the Aranda people, although it
has since been pointed out that the rendition is based on a mistranslation.
Anthropologist William Edward Hanley Stanner introduced the derived term of
"Dreamtime" in the 1970s.
Dreamtime is commonly used as a term for the animist creation
narrative of indigenous Australians for a personal, or group, creation and for
what may be understood as the "timeless time" of formative creation
and perpetual creating. In addition, the term applies to places and localities
on indigenous Australian traditional land (and throughout nontraditional
Australia) where the uncreated creation spirits and totemic ancestors, or genii
loci, reside. In Dreamtime an individual's entire ancestry exists as one,
culminating in the idea that all worldly knowledge is accumulated through one's
ancestors. Dreamtime laid down the patterns of life for the Aboriginal people. [1][2]
In order to add more extra orbs for exploration, we decide to add
some dreamtime story with images to the database and generate seven static orbs
to the front end. Because seven orbs are not very large extend in database, so
we just download the images and stories [3] , then add the data into database ,
also give them ID from 1 to 7, then in the back end, we know the first seven
orbs are the “dreamtime” orbs, then we can change the front end to make these
orbs different from other orbs which created by users.
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| Seven "dreamtime" orbs |
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