Yes its blank. I'm not big the "arty" thing. Kinda coz im lazy and kinda coz you could throw me in front of a truck and the headless corps left behind would still look better then anything i can do.
But we've gotta try.
This week i was playing around on paint (something i'm used to) and only just learnt how to resize pictures so i wasn't looking at an over sized pimple on my screen.
i figure i better show you what i'm currently capable of. Now i know you probably loved the blank space before but my paint abilities are growing.
Before: A lovelyflowery little piecefrom our old buddies atphotobucket.
After: The pretty little picture after i went paint on its ass, or according to normal peopleintroverted the colours.
Its amazing right?
So to try something i decided i'd check out this "GIMP" thing again. Now i know most people are all "OMG how can you not do that yet you sped?!"
Well i cant, in fact in an earlier post i mentioned my hatred for this photoshop wannabee file i downloaded for that tute but there is no way im forking out a trillion dollars for the real deal when im gunnafail on that too.
Before: This is Max. He is quite possibly the most amazing dog in the entire world. No exaggeration.
After: I call this Max: The Trilogy.
After: This work of art is Max in black & white. & 4 coloured stones.
How did i make these Mona Lisa types?
Come in close kiddies & i'll tell you the secret.
Max: The Trilogy was my first attempt. I found the little "marching ants" (i think thats what Jules called it) and dotted my way around the stones. Then i changed the colourhue to create thecolour i wanted. Deciding this was still to blah i marched by little ants all around maxxy boy & ended up with three of the little dears. In the original picture there is a ball in the background which i no longer wanted so i copied a grass square and pasted it over the ball. then i smudged in the edges to make it look more "realistic". then i got a bit "smudgy crazy"
I then wanted to make the background grey scale but there was no way i was gunna ant march that so i started a new.
Bring in Max in black & white. & 4 coloured stones. I changed the entire photos colouring turning itgrey(no idea how i managed that) then we brought back the ants & got them stoned. Changed thehue again & here we are.
By now my bomb of a computer was having trouble breathing so we decided to call it a day.
Hopefully though i managed to show my"artistic abilities"or at least my ability to bluff my way around GIMP!
So this lecture, Freaking weird. Why do I feel the conspiracy theory feel getting stronger?
A little confused I took a look at the lecture notes. Bad idea. There is more written in there then we can have in our essay. Totally totally totally confusing.
So for the good of man kind & my sanity. Were gunna go Jenny Craig on its ass & slim it down. 300 words in only 30mins How do we do it?!
Definitions
CyberPolitics: the politics of the internet that exists predominantly on the internet. Cyberpolitics stretches from the powerplays around the actual structure and functions of the internet that are decided by the Internet Society and ICANN through to the political activities that occur on forums, between bloggers and even in games.
eDemocracy: the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning on the internet and the government's use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people's use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.
Democracy: In The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama stated liberal democracy is 'the end point of mankind's ideological evolution [and] the final form of human government'.
So I got all motivated again & started reading the notes & I just got scared.
There's some chitty-chat about Gaps in the mass media. Not sure if I was understand it right but I think they were saying media portrays one side (their side) of a story and the public just has to drink it in. Theorist are gunning for new communication technology to create new ways in which the areana of deliberation, or the public sphere and push a better appreciation of the power of the audience.
Were going for all the little soap opera loving bird-documentary filming, skateboard stunt riding media watching people and everyoneeeeeee else to get a say, to have their opinion, no matter how crazy, heard, coz that's what democracy is, talking about something you don't know, just coz you can. Kinda like me right now =D
This blog is making me feel all Law and Order like. Just like the dodgy lawyers getting off the obviously guilty crims were gunna talk about Free Speech and Censorship.
My favourite line
" Is free speech a basic right? In Australia we don't have the constitutional right to free speech - that's an Americanism."
I'm glad someone else can tell the difference between Australia and America. We have lamingtons, they have apple pie. They have Green Day, Kanye (thank god he's not ours) and the Jonas Brothers. We have Guy Sebastian, the Wiggles and Bert Newton (they can have him though).
Anyway, it annoys me when little teeny bopper who watch way to much CI channel start prattling off about their right to free speech.
NO! go sit in your corner and do the mash potato like a good boy.
Moving on, pretty much we just check out the complications with free speech on the internet and how hard it might be to monitor and police. The amount of crap on there, you gotta feel sorry for the sucker who has to decide what is and isn't allowed. Then there's the whole copyright thing, like people getting charged millions for downloading one song while scientist are developing programs to get around watermarks (codes embedded in the digital-music files that can be used to block copies.) lets get on the same page people.
'This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons? We explore... We seek after knowledge?'
Hackers; regard computer systems not as corporate property but as part the common wealth and do not believe it is wrong to break into systems to look around and understand. This I understand, not that it will stop me from ranting.
The main hackers we hear about are the baddies, the ones hacking into bank accounts and stealing secrets from the pentagon. But apparently there are two other types of hackers, recreational and educational. People who love it just for the sake of it. History lessons, hackers come from the decedents of cheap-skates, those who's pocket money got a bit tight but they needed to do the morning after what-the-hell-did-i-do-last-night-call so they hacked the phones. The 60's rolled around hackers poked up their pretty little heads and started hacking at universities to play games.
Hackers are like hippies. Pro people power, anti everything else, they just like to care and share, share stuff that's no always offered to them.
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.
"Cyberpunk developed as a reaction against the over-blown and predominantly safe stories 'space opera' such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy and George Lucas's Star Wars"
Gotta love the nerds. They are taking over the world. And trying to make it sound cool by adding the word punk to it. UH NO.
This lecture was about politics in new communication technology. I think it was kina looking at the impact technology has had on politics and vice versa. Both are pretty influential topics and its only natural that they would affect each other. Obama can now address the entire world through youtube, he uses twitter and was caught on voice recording calling Kanye an asshole. Think about it without technology how would all the gossip of the world be created or passed around. Naked photos of "Pauline Hanson" leaked onto the internet, the equipment used to DNA test Bill Clinton & "That Dress".
See how could we have seen that riveting riveting piece of work without technology. How sad our lives could be...
The stop the Canadian Harp Seal SLAUGHTER petition. Look at them, there so cute! Who'd want to kill them? The Canadians act all nice with there mounties and 'ay's but noooooo. Bad Canada Bad.
I found this on petition spot along with others wanting to stop animal slaughter, supporting fallen superstars and bringing back ya mumma jokes.
Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
Major news site? How about ifood.tv
sounds pretty major to me.
Their blog is one of the worlds little miracles. Buddha Shaped Pears
it was amazing.
What is Barack Obama up to today?
Today Mr President is tweeting his way into the American hearts with his d&ms this was added onto twitter about 5hrs ago;
" you & your friends can help pass health reform on your lunch break: http://bit.ly/RZN59 #hc09 "
Isn't it refreshing when the big guy can take time out of his day to chat to the peeps?
Wonder where gods blog is?
Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Local: Ron Clarke
Call him, you know you should, he misses you.
State:
Anna Bligh
Featured here with her nearest & dearest Bettie.
Federal:
K- RUDD
Now isn't he a fair shake of the sauce bottle =D RAWR!
& this image because if someone was to off Kruddy "this" would be in charge.
Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
Now i'm pretty sure ol' Clarke has never spoken in parliament, i think this partly because were the gold coast & i doubt he really cares & because when i searched the Queensland Legislative Assembly they were less help.
He was mention on a few pieces of paper butttt no one should i have to read that, i wont put you though that.
But heres the link if you need to prove your man hood.
Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
Also, couldn't find, but his website says he pretty passionate aboutKoalas!!!! What do i think? Good on ya Ronnie, someone should care about preserving our native wildlife. without koalas what would we have? No other country has dwarf bears. One of a kind Ron, one of a kind,
What is clean feed?
The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.
Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home."
Our heartfelt definition comes from us today No Clean Feed.
So i had a look at what's gunna be censored -
The filtering will target legal as well as illegal material.
The clean feed will censor material that is "harmful and inappropriate" for children.
Now i get that it cost a lot of money and that it'll slow down internet. but to be quiet honest the only people who need instantaneous internet are the perves looking at all this bad stuff. I guess it kinda depends though, like if it makes the internet like snail slow & only stops kiddies from watching normal porn then its probably not worth it. But if doing this can help stop child porn & abuse & those sad videos of puppys getting killed than more power to them. However i doubt that to be the case & even if it is it'll take 2 miniutes before someone can get around it & it'll all be up & running super man fast again.
Imagine in a few years we'll be wondering how we ever managed to type instead of having mini computers implanted in our brains with direct feed to our crusty eye sockets.
Once again, all over the shop. Its reasoning often confuses me but any who.
I'm thinking today was about software.
Like Microsoft, Abode Photoshop blah blah blah.
We checked out open & closed sourced software.
Defined by our lovely online super brain wikipedia
Open Sourced Software: is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code.
Closed Sourced Software : is a term for software whose license does not allow for the release or distribution of the software's source code. Generally, it means only the binaries of a computer program are distributed and the license provides no access to the program's source code.
& for those who aren’t huge wiki fans From Science in Africa (keeping it multicultural here)
Closed source software (i.e. Microsoft Windows and Office) is developed by a single person or company. This software is normally copyright or patented and is legally protected as intellectual property. The owner of the software distributes the software directly or via vendors to you the end user. You cannot legally give it away, copy it or modify it in any way unless you have a special licence or permission to do so.
Open Source software is almost the opposite (i.e. Redhat Linux, Open Office) and is free to use and distribute provided that certain conditions are met.
Pretty much stealing software OR downloading free homebrand style software.
Websites like http://www.portableapps.com/ have trillions of different portable applications (no they didn't go all fall out boy & randomly name their website) that are free to download and use. There funding comes from donations made online by consumers, and probably someone's sugar daddy
Examples of these apps are; Eraser Portable - Erase anything/ everything off the hard drive Open Office - Like Microsoft but free. GIMP Portable - Imaged editor packaged as a potable app Blender - Small scale animations
Now for some reason, that escapes me at the moment, in my notes I have written;
Dog breading essay lost = homeless= crack whore = one leg = inspirational story = shot.
I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that even when you think you've deleted something off your computer (accidently like an essay or on purpose like porn) there are different software programs that can help you get them back, good if you need your essay. Not so much if your wife finds you midget albinos porn fetish.
Also in the notes we have Sourceforge- software making community. I'm picturing a miniature fairy like land of people making software while singing & eating there dinner around a camp fire on a computer screen. Its probably not like that but hey a girl can dream right? Actually its “your location to download and develop free open source software” It could still be magical though =[
And to end our note taking.
All computers have viruses. People just don't care. Inspirational no?
Just realised, theres no pictures in here, it looks sad.
So im adding this just for fun =D
And one at the start, that you probably saw and thought i was crazy.
www.portableapps.com has pretty much anything your little heart could yearn for in the portable application world.
Stuck all alone on a train, need to revitalize the mind? Put down the red bull kiddies,
we've got free portable guitar hero!
Granted its not calledguitar hero but Frets on Fire Portable is a popular guitar game packaged as a portableapp. Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, Portable hard drive or a CD and on your computer.
Not big on music playing?
Wanna chat in bird form?
Pidgin Portable is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC. You can also easily add portable encryption plugins for secure, encrypted messaging.
To cool for talking pidgins ay?
Need a little chat time with your old buddy God but your left your bible at choir practice?
No Problem, BPBible Portable is the BPBible Bible study tool packaged as a portable app, so you can take your Bibles with you on your iPod, USB flash drive, portable hard drive, etc. It has all the same great features as BPBible including support Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, Gospel harmonies and more.
So we gotta pick an app to try out.
I decided to be all practical like and used the GIMP Portable. GIMP Portable is the
popular GIMP for Windowimage editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your images with youand do your editing on the go.
Now their mascot is quite scary and could be seen as a deterrent for using this product (i mean, look at those pointy little ears, they could totally take off someone's face)
Overall the experience was shit. it was way to goddam complicated. i wanted to put a monkeys face on a persons body. shouldn't be that complicated right? WRONG!
Now im not the most photoshop typed advanced but having the ability to pick up the picture and move it shouldnt be nonexistant, or hidden like a chastiy belts key.
So my portable apps experience was less then desirable buttttt im sure more uncomplicated apps would be better. Just try it yourself, geeze dont be so lazy.
We consume & produce. Are you confused? We eat & we pee. Lovely isn’t it?
Im thinking that this class wasn’t teaching us about our bladder functions so we’ll move along & we end up at… traditional & new media. (OMG – technology type ideas in a technology class – no way!)
Very Spiritually they’ve broken it into a few smaller, bite sized pieces:-
The ‘big’ screens of life.
Cinema (Shared publicly) Who doesn’t like the movies? Whether you’re going there to try and get lucky in the back row or to throw popcorn at annoying younger people it’s always a good day when the cinema is involved. Popcorn, frozen coke, malteasers, now at Robina they even have an ice-cream bar. It really is a joyous, stomach ache causing time. Speaking of Robina Cinemas if you haven’t been there lately you really need to check it out. Not only are the normal cinemas bigger and louder and soul consuming then before but they have “Gold Class” for the fancies and slap your face off with the sound and burn your eyes with the light, elephant sized VMAX. Oh and 3D when regular space invasion just isn’t good enough. But seriously it is good & if your already pissed at the astronomically high movie prices, then you’ll be pleased to know Robina is no better, however to go from regular cinema to VMAX which has more room is only $2 and Gold Class really isn’t that big of a leap up either. Once upon a time cinemas weren’t so fancy-smanchy. They were for the average Joe, people went to get the news, (I know a world without Ange&Brad how did they live?) but even then it was a shared expierence for everyone to get together & throw popcorn at the idiot on their mobile (or horse)
TV (Shared privately) back in the day television was a shared family experience. I remember my father rambling on about “when I was a kid” & saying that when his dad came home from work they would all sit down in front of the tube & after waiting ages for the god dam thing to turn on, they’d watch the news & eventually watch t.v shows. But prior to that all the kids would stand out the front of t.v stores watching it through the window before getting chased away by angry store owners with brooms, or flying monkeys. Now days t.v has become a lot less family orientated, majority of homes have at least one box set, many have two or three. For some reason I have eight in my house of five. Because there is such a range on t.v, especially if you have pay t.v people can go watch whatever they want on any telly and aren’t forced to sit through another replay of the 1984 grand final or watch zebras have sex. It really is a wonderful thing.
This my friends is the first ever Australia t.v show to be shown in colour, Aunty Jack. It really is quite marvolous how they have done it. & you are lucky enough to be able to view it in colour, many of the t.v’s of the time were still in black & white so the whole colour thing was lost on them.
PC (Shared privately or personal use) Watching movies, t.v shows, music videos, porn, on the computer has become a way of life for many. People download such things and watch them on the computer/laptop instead of having to burn them to proper DVD disks, then find a DVD player then watch the “movies, t.v shows, music videos, porn,” there. Some people don’t like watching there shows in such open environments (PORN) so prefer the privacy of the computer. Others, like me a just lazy. Or like the portability of laptops. Because they aren’t really that big & because computers really aren’t moved (computers not laptops, calm down) they can become a solo activity (Porn again).
The ‘small’ screens of life
Personal Media Ipods are really taking over the world. There are many imitations out there but it really is the one & only. There accessibility to everything movies, t.v shows, music videos, porn, makes them a must have in the hands of all teeny-boppers and adults alike. There is a certain comfort in knowing that no matter where you are, what you’re doing or who you’re with you can always listen to Britney Spears and watch another J-Lo flop. =D
Mobile & Smart Phones One day they will have arms & legs and scary little faces & rule the human race. But for now they are just the shiz. Bring together all of lifes good stuff, movies, t.v shows, music videos, porn and the internet as well as the abilty to actually talk to people (yes phones can actually do that still) they really are a must have. By using 3G networks people can get up to date news & information, access to social networking sites and any other web-related endeavour mobile phones can keep you in touch with more then just your contacts.
The great thing about phones is they also produce… cameras, which can produce stills or videos, bad, bad videos. Conviently we’ve linked to our next section Peeing, or
Producing
Fan films & Fad edits Yes people do have this much time, but you gotta admire them, the fan-spin offs are often better then the original, or are that bad they are freaking hilarious. If you’re still confused I’ll explain. Fan films & edits are when fans (No way!) make their own versions of their favourite movies or t.v shows & their scripts. Take a look at fanfilms.net or The Trailer Mash, which as it sounds mashes up trailers (Uh-hu!)
Or here with 280 Days Later –
Mobile Production Information Seen a school-yard fight on the news lately? Some drag racing? Notice they look like they were shot in a snow storm by a woodpecker? Its all coz of our buddies, News Junkies, they broadcast their finds on websites like ireport hoping they will get picked up by t.v news programs. By producing this “stuff” they are generating their own little bit of consumption =D
Entertainment Like I said, movie phone movies are… crap. But for some reason there is a demand for it, so people produce this… crap & others consumer. A tasteless circle but a circle nevertheless. Actually there have been festivals for “Cell-Phone-Movies” over the last five years, naturally they haven’t taken off in leaps and bounds, but imagine if they had, that dog you filmed taking a dump could win you an award....
Omg theres nothing there you say? That is because ireport & blogger decided they didn't want to accept my ireport. I and the other people working on it, Catherine O'sullivan and Maryanne Herrygers, have tried to upload it to our blog and ireport several times with no success. We thought it was finally up but have now realised, the day it is due, that it has not loaded anywhere.
So i figure until it decides to pull its head in and accept Windows Movie Maker files were gunna have to do this old school & use your imagination.
Now the ireport was called Attack of the Phones Part 2. Following on from Attack of the Phonesthis report takes us to the latest crime scene where a phone was caught on security camera attacking a woman then fleeing the scene with an unknown human accomplice.
The video was filmed in many many takes because we couldn't stop laughing.
It begins with me, the news lady reporting on the recent phone attack. Then we flick to the security camera footage where Catherine, the victim, is seen talking on her phone while walking up the stairwell and out of the camera range. The camera on the next level shows her lying "dead" in the stairwell with her phone sitting above her. We then see the accomplice, affectionately referred to as Cat Lady, played by Maryanne, picking up the phone and fleeing the scene. Then we go back to news lady who notices that her cameraman/ assistant/ person standing next to her is the accomplice from the security footage. Maryanne deflects the accusations the camera drops and then t.v static plays. Then the credits roll.
To edit this film we had to crop scenes and make sure they all flowed together. For the security camera footage we added the old film effect and the black and white effect to make it look like it was from a security camera. There was noise when filming those scenes so we muted the audio and added the scary music from Jaws to give it a better mood.
We added tv static to the end of the report to show the camera had be dropped and to imply something was happening with cat lady & her killer phone. Finally we added the Jaws music over the credits to give it a final punch.
i know your probably pft, yeah right but it did happen. Jules, our tutor saw it in class and if need be we can email it to whoever is marking. Also our failed attempts at uploading it are on ireport under the newsuploader1@gmail.com.
HOLD THE PHONE!
don't fear, we've done it, the world of irepots is back to normal.
Oh & use your imagination with the static: shhhhhhhhhshhhhshshshsh part =D
I actually am, coz I just realised I have a format on my laptop that allows me to write blogs & publish them in Microsoft so I don't have to upload images & blah blah blah.
Back to the point – week 5 lecture, really not sure what it's about to be quite honest with you.
I'm thinking its looking all conspiracy theory like at how the internet is overrun by crap & its clogging the system. The lecturer – Jason Nelson – kinda reminds me of one of someone who would know where Michael Jackson and Elvis are, or he thinks he does... but in a good way.
Sidetracked again, so he showed us different websites full of totally random, yet oddly addictive stuff.
And explained it in order, so I'll copy.
Boom Boom Pow!
The Dot Com Boom.
When the internet was the be all and end all, the best thing since sliced bread, the bees knees, the.. you get the idea.
By looking at the wayback machine (sounds cool right?) we got to see how websites used to look. You'd type in a url – i.e myspace – and the wayback machine will show you how the web paged looked in certain years & how its evolved. (H-Ref 1)
Random "fun" games started popping up everywhere.
Wanna look after an ugly wanna be pokemon - DONE
Wanna design a dress for Barbie - DONE
Wanna watch people draw pictures- DONE
this magnificant work of art was created on Sketchcast. i know, there are no words right?
Some people think I'm bonkers.
The Dot Com Crash.
What goes up must come down, and the internet did, hard. It crashed and burned and smouldered for ages before having an angry mob stomp it out so they could tear it apart and eat its insides. Yes it got pretty bad for old internetty and who's to blame? Humans, naturally.
People pretty much went bonkers over the internet, trying to sell everything possible on it. Why not sell pet products (dog food) across the world for cheap cheap cheap, oh but then add on the shipping fees and the two week waiting period, sure Fido can wait that long...
What's yours is mine & what mine is mine.
The rise of the monopolies – no not little irons, buses and men in top hats taking over the world. I'm thinking it meant that some big companies decided to be top shiz and squash all the little fellas. Tragic.
This conveniently kinda links us on to social networking sites, in a if you tilt your head to the side and squint kinda way. Social networking sites, bet you're thinking Myspace, Facebook, Twitter? WRONG!
All those ones you thought had gone & died long long ago – bebo, hi5- there still alive (they will never die) and out there along with many other random ones – CafeMom , for mothers with 1,250,000 users, Ravelry, for knitting and crochet, 331,000 users and vampirefreaks – a gothic and industrial subculture, 1,931,049 users. (H-Ref 2)
Social networking is all well & good for stalking people… and that's pretty much it. Back in the day it was fun now it's all 14 year olds doing topless shots and annoying people doing stupid quizzes – no one cares which care bear you were in a previous life or what day you'll have your baby while being killed by a toaster.
We then looked at other websites full of useful thing (shakes head) and creative spaces and visualization of net traffic speeds.
So i checked out the Persona thingy like a good little chicken.
For those of you not in the loop. it basically tells you about every other person online with your name. *Awww moment*
Now i dunno whether to be proud or insulted but there was no digital traces of me. =[
It was super. No it actually was pretty cool. =D
I saw a UFO and nobody believed me.
We had to make our own google map about whatever took our fancy. My fancy? UFO's. Why? Coz I can.
After: I call this Max: The Trilogy.
After: This work of art is Max in black & white. & 4 coloured stones.
