In 2010 I started my youtube channel and gained a following of subscribers over the years. Since 2016 I stopped making videos and deleted all content, in May 2018, my count of subscribers was 36114. I chose the salp chain to visualise the worldwide subscribers of YouTube because they are individuals, with no personal connection to me compared to those of my Facebook or Instagram. I do not subscribe or link back to them in any way. The Subscribers link to my channel, and is therefore a one sided connection. The Salp chain is a reflection of the online community that still exists.
They are a static colony.
Salps are barrel-shaped, free-swimming organisms enclosed in a tunic, with openings at each end that pump water through their gelatinous bodies. They move and feed at the same time very efficiently. Chained salps grow into long strings that live in social harmony. Communicating via electrical signals, they synchronize their swimming and move swiftly through sea currents. Salps can live alone or in communities, they reproduce asexually. (Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, 2016). They go through a singular stage in their life cycle before joining together with each other as a chain. Each salp is an individual just like us.
Like the other mosaics, in Generation Pelagia, it is made up of images of profiles/channels linked to my cybercircle; in this case those who are subscribed to my YouTube Channel. Due to the Google take over of Youtube, a lot of the icons have now become letters within coloured circles, for each profile. Only 1000 images were harvested, as the subscribers list can only be organised by "most recent" therefore this is not a true representation of visual identities compared to the Pyrsome and Siphonophore mosaics.
They are a static colony.
Salps are barrel-shaped, free-swimming organisms enclosed in a tunic, with openings at each end that pump water through their gelatinous bodies. They move and feed at the same time very efficiently. Chained salps grow into long strings that live in social harmony. Communicating via electrical signals, they synchronize their swimming and move swiftly through sea currents. Salps can live alone or in communities, they reproduce asexually. (Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, 2016). They go through a singular stage in their life cycle before joining together with each other as a chain. Each salp is an individual just like us.
Like the other mosaics, in Generation Pelagia, it is made up of images of profiles/channels linked to my cybercircle; in this case those who are subscribed to my YouTube Channel. Due to the Google take over of Youtube, a lot of the icons have now become letters within coloured circles, for each profile. Only 1000 images were harvested, as the subscribers list can only be organised by "most recent" therefore this is not a true representation of visual identities compared to the Pyrsome and Siphonophore mosaics.