In a film about time travel, spontaneous surprises seem inevitable, yet, I’m you, dickhead became foreseeable. Juxtaposing Blaise Pascal’s comment ‘man’s greatness lies in his power with thought’ with a Jeff Goldblum quote from Jurassic Park about ethics, the film debated ethics with modern humour, allowing the audience a portal to laught at one self through the mode of travel depicted on screen. Anthony Gooley’s character of a simplistic male, whose desire to travel back in time is guided by sex desire and reform, misses the mark and leaves the narrative with an empty space filled with the timewarp’s ‘double’ repetition. Th

the film provoked a modern intepretation about time travel, demonstrating

the film incorporated modern humour and truths in

quote vs. stupidity…. modern idea of self allows us to laugh at oneself BECAUSE we oppose institutions

• In a narrative about time travel, spontaneous surprises seem the most foreseeable variable. However, this script wasn’t surprising or challenging in its execution
• All elements surrounding the narrative are of high quality, including the actors, mis-en-scene and supporting actors, however the narrative itself is derived from originality
• The simplicity of the protagonist attempts to create a modern interpretation of time travel, and demonstrate aspects of modern society that play out within our reality. Such as our desire and lack of romance regarding sex, and overly realistic reaction to our under hyped futures. However, by portraying such simplicity within the male narrative, the film under sells itself through its attempted simplicity.
• ‘This isn’t about music Richard, its about tits’ – ‘jesus christ, mums a babe’ – please no
• Humour was lost on m
• Film elements were impressive

I woke up late this morning – as usual. I had no clean clothes and the fridge was next to bare. Traffic heaved unbearably through the city scape, achieving fleeting moments of exuberant movement before collapsing once again onto itself like an insufferable dying bug. At work I went to my desk and there was a note to go and see the boss. I waited outsider her offie for a while before she called me in. I couldn’t figure out why she wanted to see me. I went inside and sat down.

She handed me an envelope with manicured claws. The artificial pink tips of her fingers laughing mockingly at the exposed rawness of my own. Whilst telling me that my services were longer needed, I imagined her in her turbulent teen years, understanding that her current conviction was at fault to an education who encouraged her to talk as oppose to listen. In her conclusion, she stated that I was then ‘free’ to go, in an attempt to deceive my recent unemployment as liberation rather then defeat.

I got my belongings from my desk and left. The drive home was quick. I am now unemployed.

Industrial Media is the media which we grew up with, and is the way media ‘thinks about itself’. The term industrial refers to the fact that media is capital attentive. Most pronounced within the broadcast era, media was fuelled not by content but by producer/platform. Thus, industrial media made spectrum and access scares due to the expensive nature of ‘prime time’ and audience rating. This collective of ‘prime time’ also makes the culture shallow and generic as the industry and media has to attempt to relate to the millions of different people commodified into a singular audience.

However, with post industrial media (or Media 2.0) the availabilities of niche markets have expanded media whilst simultaneously decreasing capital.

Man, Woman. Black, White. Good, Bad. Clean, Dirty. 

This sort of theoretical work critiques such binaries, saying that they’re socially interlinked. Binaries are always negated on negotiations and privileges. There is a moralising and a split, however ultimately such splits do not exist as everything is on a spectrum (gender, ethnicity, etc). Biologically there is no female, vs. male, when there are cases of both.

Ever since there has been humans there has been technology. Even though we’re taught that technology is seperate and even soon to be dominating tool, seperate to man.

Adrian today discussed today how binaries do not conflict as they are dependant on one another to exist. Thus, this makes binary opposites not seperate but magnetic.

I’m wondering if its okay to post parts of my essay on my blog or whether that is copyright issue?

Today Ben has informed our group that he went to the park and recorded multiple sounds that were present at the time of the recording.

Now that we’ve gained footage we need to compile it into a one minute soundscape. However, the question of whether or not a narrative is needed has appeared and its confusing my idea of what this studio aims to mean. By attaching a narrative or audio of some sort, on top of the recorded sounds (whether the script be teleological or abstract), I feel like it makes the soundscape inherit a correlationist view.

By having ‘us’ describe elements of the nature, we’re attaching human interpretation to the micro-politics of the natural world. How do we really know if the water from the sprinkler is feeding the grass with nutrients, or if theres a huge monster underneath that is absorbing it all? Surely, it would be better not to attach human voice but instead attempt to edit sounds provided in a way that shows a connection to one another (perhaps through sound editing techniques of fade etc).

Or maybe we just incorporate speech in little pieces throughout the piece, instead of for the duration of the minute? But, I’m wary though by doing that as it might be interpreted as lack of script = a lack of effort.

Me dunno.

BY NEXT WEEK I WILL HAVE DONE

• More then half of my soundscape essay + planned essay structure
• Completed my soundscape
• Start reading after Bogot and write up notes on similar and conflicting points
• Watch Adaptation and write a blog post about teleology… And get really stuck into what that means
• 10 blogs!

The phrase of social relativism is very new to me, however its concept has been surrounding my approach to academia for years. Even in my most recent Introduction to Pop Culture class were the discussion surrounding semiotics and its different types of codes, the conceptualisation of discourse and all its abstractions were discussed heavily in order to obtain the truth to the advertisement’s presented. This approach seems fitting, studying analytically the process of media through social sciences that stress the “structures within the temple of human cultural production” (pg 13).

However it is just interesting how by reading Alien Phenomenolgy I can see the limitations of this way of studying, due to its posthumanist view.

Alien Phenomenolgy

Adrian’s sharing of class member’s blogs have actually been really comforting to read, as I relate to a lot of the confusion discussed. After reading Nora’s recent blog ‘Keeping Up’ on A Meaningful Ramble about her struggles to keep up with the reading, I have now obtained a sense of ease knowing that I am not the only one who is feeling overwhelmed.

In areas of philosophy and ontology there are so many terms thrown around which I have no idea the meaning too. This means I am constantly disturbing the rhythm of my readings to search definitions and ideas. This makes the reading take more time then expected, and before I know its I’ve spent half an hour only read half of a page.

However, when ever I get a notification regarding another students blog I always take the time to read their thoughts as they usually correlate to my own questions about the course.