Designated Area for Student Work
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Info I310 Video HW 1: 1 Second Experience
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hot and Cold Media
http://youtu.be/NVGI6mhfJyA
Hot Media -Non Explicit
Cold Media
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Hot & Cold
This is not actually "adult content", merely the victim of an ongoing YouTube clique war:
Cold:
From the TEL-T 430 class
Resistance from Mark Sniadecki on Vimeo.
Hot and Cold (Music and Lyrics Combined)
Lyrics:
Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
Oh, please, say to me
You'll let me be your man
and please, say to me
You'll let me hold your hand
Now let me hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
And when I touch you i feel happy, inside
It's such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide
Yeah you, got that something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
And when I touch you I feel happy, inside
It's such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide
Yeah you, got that something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your ha-a-a-a-a-a-and
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Cold:
Lyrics:
came back to doubt yourself but broke in two
they find it punctual with idle tooth
I'll find something to shake by the roots
I crawl along the ceilings in your room
the cold is spinning thread
to answer you
I need something made of freewill
am I waiting now, does my waiting howl
I bring an avalanche of toltec bones
contaminated cravings if you choose to
play something that aches for a spill
leave out the meat for that contact high
inhale the vapors
and let the hangman smile
for that something to shake by the roots
aim I waiting now, does my waiting howl
bring me the tame
witness germinates in the child
the word of mouth stutters
blink at the lonely dice
don't know
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Sources:
The Beatles Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHFUKZ-IXE&feature=related
The Beatles Lyrics: http://artists.letssingit.com/the-beatles-lyrics-i-want-to-hold-your-hand-cm3blgf
The Mars Volta Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHsKrk3rJQ
The Mars Volta Lyrics: http://artists.letssingit.com/the-mars-volta-lyrics-wax-simulacra-99t7glg
Monday, January 16, 2012
My Introduction to a High-Tech World
Hyperlink Self (Assignment One)
Technology prevails in almost every part of my life. Work, school, and my personal life are aided and sometimes even dictated by technology. My laptop and phone keep me connected to friends, peers, and coworkers. The internet provides and endless font of information that is used to complete homework assignments and to supplement current knowledge. My laptop is probably my most prized possession for just this reason. I love the internet for its ability to keep me entertained. From sites that provide video streaming to those dedicated to making me laugh there's always something to captivate my interest. My laptop and the internet also act to keep me connected to friends and relatives around the world. Finally, technology plays a part in my finding and buying of goods. Things I would otherwise never be able to find or acquire sit at my fingertips all thanks to technology. Attempting to be free of technological influence is near impossible, at least for me.
My Life Hyperlinked
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hyperlinked - identity by association
Technology, a door that opens onto many places, faces, and information. Honesty, lies, and invention. A wellspring of fascination and frustration. An ugly mirror, peering all the way down, the asinine and mediocre making an awful sound. Life breathed into inanimate veins, no more physical barriers, no more time and space. We will make it perfect (perfect, perfect,) and it will make us blind. Alone, enveloped, room to breathe and write and be unique.
hyperlinked self
Technology alters the way we communicate by making communication easier but less personal. For example, the evolution of long distance conversations seems to have almost gone backwards; hand-written letters to phone calls to text messages.But this is not the case all of the time. Skype allows people to video chat face-to-face. Technology has made our ability to send messages instantaneous in almost real-time. The speed of sending information has increased as technology has enhanced. Now it takes moments and even then we are impatient for a reply.
My Day with Technology
My normal day starts with the sound of my daughter crying. This is heard through my baby monitor, so my day begins with the use of technology. I then go and make her a bottle, using a microwave to warm it, and then feed her. While feeding her, I am usually on my smartphone either checking email or reading some of my rss feeds. I put her down and I usually go back to sleep. My alarm clock will go off, and my day continues. I will then eat and get ready for work or school. I drive to where I am going and once there, will be on a computer. I will text and talk to my wife , while also play games and read my feeds using my cellphone. After school , I will drive home and play with my daughter.
Info I310 Hw1: "My Media-driven Life In Medias Res" or "How I was Social Networked, News Feeded, and Video Shared into Submission"
Due to my abstinence from television as a means of entertainment/communication of ideas, I will capitalize this essay around computer usage, discussing details of each component of computer media I use and how it functions within my own life. In order to discuss the impacts, we now revisit several questions Marshall McLuhan devised to communicate the “Laws of Media”. First, what does the medium enhance? Second, what would it reverse? Third, what does it obsolesce/close off? Lastly, what would it allow people to retrieve? In order to answer these questions, I must now break computer systems down into their media components. Such components include e-mail, news feeds, social networks (Twitter), video sharing sites (Youtube, Vimeo and their ilk), and also personal files like word documents, video games, and personal journals that only exist on the hard drive. Internet-based technologies such as the e-mail, social networks and video sharing sites have several effects on the way I would perceive and interact with the environment, which are (1) they would enhance me by raising awareness of events in far-away portions of the world that I otherwise would never have found about (such as the 9/11 attacks in New York City), (2) they would enable me to retrieve (for example) documents such as my family history that otherwise would have been difficult or impossible to recover, (3) they would obsolesce means such as television, radio, and newspapers because of the ability to retrieve information at any time or place, and (4) they would reverse the security/privacy that I would have had without the interfaces of such technologies, if not careful (sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc are infamous for this!). Media located on the hard disk, however, affect my activities in very similar, but not identical fashions. While the stuff located on that private sector of my digital systems may be similar in that they would raise my awareness of concepts or events, they at the same time would oftentimes reflect my own consciousness, instead of that pertaining to any higher authority outside the realm of my hard drive. Also, there exists some degree of risk that privacy and security could be reversed, via the usage of tracking software, spyware, Trojan horses, or viruses by outside entities, however, on the hard disk, such problems are easier to control for via the usage of such mechanisms as encryption, password protections, User Access Control (thank you, Microsoft, for this wonderful [*snickering*] innovation…) and even hidden folders with randomly generated names that I myself created. In short, even if I were to attempt to ignore the influences the media would have on the perceptions of life I would have, they still exist in full force, for they are a part of my daily life in almost every regard.
