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#36 Square 01
2014
#35 Weekly Haiku: Unlecture
Network unlecture
Much better than others
What else can I say
#34 Blogging
The word itself is super funny so I googled it and it is the combo of web log (thanks wikipedia, you’ve always had my back) But I just find it weird that most people have blogs these days, more personal ones than work/school related and I reckon it’s this kind of self obsessed thing mixed in with new technology and the availability. I reckon it’s caused stereotypes i.e. hipsters, fangirls, emos, artists and one teaspoon teenie boppers. Stupid.
I guess it does provide this free way to promote yourself and your work, but I don’t know, nothing really seems genuine and I kind of feel like nothing is really original anymore. Once you put out something, it is out for the world to grab and I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t want someone copying it and claiming it’s theirs?
Meh
#33 Response to Reading
The Database as Symbolic Form
So this reading talked about the new media and the databases that are included within it.
I don’t really want to talk about it. I kind of read it with about half the effort I put in to sleeping when I am over tired. Whoops.
Therefore it went through one ear and out the other. I think it has something to do with words like ‘database’ and other technical terms that I tend to avoid.
But in the words of Miley “it’s my [blog] I can say what I want to”
sidenote: readings should be shorter.
Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form”. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Vesna, Victoria, ed. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. Print. 39-60. (PDF)
#32 Weekly Haiku: My Thoughts Exactly
#31 Rich Rule (Response to reading)
The reading:
So the “rich get richer” through the web, the same way that Hollywood does with actors as the demand increases.
What interested me though was that the “majority of information collected by humanity lands online” and with is continuously increasing the amount of information “node by node” similar to the group of actors in hollywood which grew from a small number back in the silent film era days when there were barely any actors, whereas now we have more than enough, it grew similar to a singular node on the web, that built up one by one, building up the profit with the expansion.
I guess with more actors, meant more films to make which meant more people watched them which meant more money being made. Yeah.
Cool story bro.
Barabási, Albert-László. “Rich Get Richer”. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. New York, NY: A plume book, 2003. Print. (PDF)
#30 Favourite 80s Movies- Better Off Dead (Savage Steve Holland, 1985)
Written and directed by Savage Steve Holland starring John Cusack, a recurring prince of 80s films (Say Anything, The Sure Thing etc.) This film is very funny and weird.
There is this weird mix of french, cartoons, skiing, explosions, odd little brothers and an underdog that makes this film what it is, which is awesome!
I love John Cusack, that is no secret which might be why I am a tad biased about this film but I do recommend it as it is a classic.
#29 80/20 rule- Response to reading
I read this as a very confused student that failed physics, maths and didn’t even attempt economics in high school which meant I had the concentration of a two year-old whilst constantly asking myself what this reading had to do with anything.
What I got was the 80/20 rule = Murphy’s law of management “80 percent of profits are produced by 20 percent of the employees”
I guess I agree, I mean 80% of the clothes in my wardrobe have only come 20% out of my wallet (thanks mum).
Relative, I’m not sure, the rest of the reading felt a tad overwhelming and well I read it before I went to sleep last night so my tired eyes really did not do this reading justice.
Barabási, Albert-László. “The 80/20 Rule”. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. New York, NY: A plume book, 2003. Print. (PDF)