Category Archives: Digressions

QUICK DIGRESSION POST1: Noticing Media (music)

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Digression in relation to Avant-Garde Web resource Ubu: i now feel the sun

A quick comment. This year i’ve started to actually appreciate Australian media more and more. The more i actually ‘NOTICE’ the media, the more i see how saturated we are by American influence. Recently i’ve been stumbling upon Australian music groups from the 70’s and 80’s (such as ‘Tully’ and ‘Flash and the Pan’) that are quite ‘underground’ (for someone whos grown up in a completely different era) and really quite interesting. You only hear John Farnham-eque songs on the radio but you never hear these for obvious reasons. While these are more ‘new wave’ they are actually kind of enlightening in their originality compared to music these days. Im not the type of person who says “i wish i lived in the _____”, and i do love current music, but its just the simplicity and progressive qualities of some of these songs from the early 70’s to mid 80’s that and so ‘original’.

Im going to explore Australian Media under a tagging system

TACA – My new media Acronym

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In the search for creating more relevant posts i looked back at the Assessment 1 feedback rubric.
The project 2 brief asked for a video with

1) Awareness of editing practices (creative and meaning-making)

2) Texture (diversity of media materials)

3) Creativity (demonstrated poetic/playful/ abstract representation of self)

4) Ability to notice, reflect and learn from the creative process

While i scored pretty well in this section i feel like there could be a more systematic way of demonstrating why the project could be considered in the ‘excellent’ rating (while not sounding cocky or egotistical)

I have framed the acronym TACA,  Texture, Awareness, Creativity and Ability to notice.
In future posts i will use ‘TACA’ in the heading, place it in the category of ‘Digression’, and link it to the original brief submission.