Entries from April 2009

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Free Write for Final

What if anything is inherently better than real interaction than virtual interaction?
One, out of many differences I’ve noticed with virtual interaction is missing emotional components with communication. It’s hard when you communicate solely through email, instant messaging, texting, etc. to get an accurate depiction of the tone used by the other person. For example, if [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Csikzentmihalvi & Perry VIDEO THOUGHTS

1. What is happiness and where will we find it in the future? Will we find happiness in the real world or will we have to rely on virtual aspects of technology, such as video games, to create our happiness for us?
2. Is that gamer serious? He actually scares me in where the next generartion [...]

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

HAPPY LIGHTS

I meant to post this awhile ago after a conversation in the after-hours of our class about how it was gross and nasty outside and had been for the past week and people were saying they were going tanning to get some vitamin D in their system and fight the seasonal drag some people get. [...]

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Survivialism Remix as of date

Here’s what I’ve got —>
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and I’d like to note after working with these music files, I no longer hate GB.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

MASHup reDO – GOT IT ON YOUTUBE

Just got this up on youtube… again, it’s pretty simple as I thought we would be doing something in class with it tonight, but it is A BIG improvement (I feel) from the first attempt.
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My newest mashup is on the scratch. I’m trying to simplify as I think I just had [...]

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Final Project Idea

I think it would be interesting if we were given some sort of quote,  article, a short story, or something to read and  our reaction to the reading would be shown through some sort of digital art form that we have worked with this semester. I think this would give people  a variety of different [...]

Friday, April 17th, 2009

WIP MashUP

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Friday, April 17th, 2009

this.film.is.not.yet.rated.

REFLECTION
Overall, this was very interesting to watch. I’ve never really thought about how a film is actually rated, so I learned a lot from this movie. The whole movie was kind of humorous because you have two sides: the directors who are submitting their films into the rating board, then the raters who are reviewing [...]

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

GT FB Message

Subject: Thoughts on Girl Talk and Recap
Hey Folks,
A lot of good points have been raised so far, and we would like to take a moment to reflect upon the events of the last 36 hours. We want to back Chris up on what he’s said thus far on the Facebook event, and shed a little [...]

Monday, April 13th, 2009

mashup as of now

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