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#49 Give it a rest Courtney

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Pedestrain.tv posted a humorous article on Courtney Love’s attempt to decode the MH370 missing plane. The article read:

“I’m no expert but” is usually how every logically-sound and highly-persuasive argument begins, so it’s good to see noted aviation enthusiast and search and rescue coordinator Courtney Lovefollowing the correct procedures and prefacing the submission of her artfully illustrated evidence into the whereabouts of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 correctly.
I’m no expert but, no.

 

 

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Hole is done, Courtney is no longer relevant. Just stop Courtney.

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/music/no-expert-courtney-love-thinks-she-has-found-missi/fa78ca64-5695-439d-b0e0-d258ceb3c84d.htm

#48

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So Mick Jagger’s partner L’Wren Scott had died postponing the rest of the dates of The Rolling Stones Australian and New Zealand tour. Sad news for Mick and the family of L’Wren Scott, I was moved by his touching words on the bands’ website:

I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way.
We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves.

She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me.

I have been touched by the tributes that people have paid to her, and also the personal messages of support that I have received.

I will never forget her,
Mick

 

 

 

 

#33 Response to Reading

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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)

#18 Hypertext (response to reading)

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Landow’s extract was about ‘Hypertext’, so to completely understand what exactly hypertext was to avoid confusion I did the obvious thing, by googling the definition:

hy·per·text

/ˈhīpərˌtekst/

Noun
  1. A software system that links topics on the screen to related information and graphics.
  2. A document presented on a computer in this way.

Then I thought a way to go about the reading, would be to consider and answer the questions posted on the Networked Media page:

  • How does hypertext relate to storytelling in different media formats?
It relates to different media formats in the ways that, storytelling through text can be miscommunicated, this being that in audio and visual there is tone and it is suggestive in the way that it is clearly expressed to the viewers along with images to reinforce these ideas, whereas script has to be detailed in order to fully describe the meaning. This being said, the less descriptive, the more the person reading has to think about, it is more vague and someone may not completely ‘get’ what it is all about. I think I’ve confused myself.
  • Is the work we publish online only validated once it is viewed/consumed by others?
Is it? I don’t think it is, well validated  in the sense that it is out there for anyone to see in the world, but not in the sense that it is legitimate, but I guess that was a given. Just because people see it does not mean that it is valid, and there isn’t a complete way to tell who has seen our work either? Although we do write as if someone else will read it, there may not be anyone who does just that.
  • Do you think the digitalisation of literary texts and the use of the E-reader will eventually replace the physical book completely?

Unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit it, I feel that this is something that is highly likely. However, the minority (like myself) that actually like to read books in their paperback presentation would seemingly be against this technological change. Even my grandparents own an E-reader and are constantly downloading new books to read, which I find strange as it is the younger generation that are welcoming this change more opposed to the older generation. I really hope physical books will stay the same. I don’t even want to imagine people reading Charles Dickens digitally.

Landow, George. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. (extracts, PDF)

#16 Writing Space (response to reading)

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In this reading, Bolter talks about how writing is a technology, in which the “skills required is to learn to read and write”. It was interesting when Bolter started discussing the significance of being literate and the ability to produce, say a story, both aurally and visually. Visually in the sense that people can see it written down, but also associated through imagination in their heads and aurally through spoken words. The whole idea that we always are in this “writing space” even though we are not necessarily writing all the time, made me think about what this meant. I think that this means that when we arent writing ourselves, we are listening, seeing and thinking with perhaps other peoples work, that we deconstruct to understand through structure and technique.

The whole idea that writing was a “techne”, I thought was pretty thought-provoking, especially the part about Plato and how “techie” was used as a way to describe something of the arts. I like that writing is seen as an art, but I don’t think that it is all art, like medical writing for example that would bore me stiff, I think that seeing writing as an art is more subjective, because not all of it is creative.

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale (N.J.): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991. Print. (extract, PDF)

 

#14 As We May Think (response to reading)

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When I began this reading, I started off very reluctant to finish it, procrastinating with cleaning my apartment and every time I would sit down at my desk to begin reading the same sentence over and over again I just got frustrated.

Although this morning I feel like I have made a good effort, in fact I even enjoyed this reading. Perhaps I am still sick?

Anyway, the reading talked about science and the modern world we live in today (well generally, and that’s what I think anyway) I thought it was interesting how it talked about people who worked in specialist scientific areas were losing the means to continue working in their areas in order to create new products, that could potentially help mankind. These devices and inventions that scientists have  created that have benefits and have “extended man’s physical powers” however has created these specialised industries and skills that people need to acquire in order to improve or progress in society.

Do I agree that science and new technological inventions will create progress that is beneficial in society?

Personally I am quite skeptical, I mean I do agree that inventions, such as the internet and computers in general have changed the world. Not necessarily for the better, but it has created this incredible way to communicate and store information. It also has the ability to be just as destructive as it is beneficial. I was reluctant to get Facebook and the only reason I did was to keep in contact with friends and family back in New Zealand. Otherwise I see no real use for it (including other social media), except more time wasted online when I could be doing something physically proactive. More time today is spent in front of a computer (well at least for me) and I do feel guilty, unproductive and well increasingly undeveloped apposed to the internet supposedly created to develop society.

Do I believe that “specialisation becomes increasingly necessary for progress” in general? Yes. Yes I do.

Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic July 1945. The Atlantic. Web. 19 July 2013. (PDF)