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Garage band music & iMovie videos are also on scratch incase they don’t come through on here… youtube was weird with the remixes I tried to put up… so check the scratch too!

Personal Reflection (150ish word version requested)
After going through my entire blog & looking at my work throughout the semester, overall I feel I took this course head-on as a challenge. I wanted to learn about different digital art programs & I really feel I accomplished that. I feeI challenged myself in terms of the work though [...]

AAAAAHhhhh it’s done!! I’m VERY happy with how this project turned out. At first when I was posed with the two videos and the final question: what if anything is better about real interaction vs. virtual interaction, I had a lot of ideas about different aspects. 1. there is the communication aspect 2. there is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

spring concert – or I mean rave – 2009
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personally, i had a great time at this concert & was kind of shocked the next day to hear about all the issues. but it makes sense why i missed the chaos: i got there at 9:30 so got right in the door [...]

Points that came across from this presentation:

this isn’t pirating other people’s work, it’s taking their work and redesigning it to make it your own
copyright laws need to be re-looked at in regards to the internet
how internet is affecting the next generation’s creativity levels both positively and negatively
points out that our laws are dated, and are [...]

I really enjoyed listening to the mash-up artists in this film. After hearing many versions of mash-ups and remixes, I’ve always wondered how the producers of these songs get away with using someone-else’s copyrighted music without getting sued for pirating their work. This obviously came up in the movie and the producers each said something along the [...]