In this week’s reading, Howard Gardner talks about how, people as consumers, as readers, as thinkers, as creators, how they’ll be able to adapt and survive the upcoming era’s – especially in the digital landscape, and what they must do for them to do so. As a trained psychologist, and with a background in cognitive science […]
Continue reading →We need to de-alienate time: reconnect clock time to its sources and recognise its created machine character. As such, concern with the multiple time dimensions of our lives is no more than theoretical, academic exercise; rather, it is a strategy for living. –Barbara Adam, Timewatch: The social analysis of time This week’s reading focuses on two […]
Continue reading →If somebody’s thinking, ‘How can I be really good?’, people are going to come to you. Cal Newport’s article focuses on the idea that being good at what you do, or what you’re passionate about, is not determined by your passion for it – instead it’s fuel by the obsession of always wanting to be better, […]
Continue reading →Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas’ reading for this week, The Informal Media Economy, talks about how there are a shortage of jobs in the media industry. “Labour is an increasingly prominent concern for media research.” According to Toby Miller, “there would be no culture, no media, without labour. Labour is central to humanity, but largely absent from […]
Continue reading →The saying “the kids are the future generation” is somewhat true. It it is especially true in the case of the digital era, where technology is at its peak. The millennial generation (those who are born between 1980-2000, a.k.a the youth of today) are the biggest consumers of digital product and media content in this […]
Continue reading →First week back at Uni, and I can already feel the stress mounting up. In this week’s first class, I was introduced to what will be the outcome for Media 6. In a nutshell, it encompasses industry-based networking, plus a whole lot of career stuff and assessments. You can say the pressure’s on. But let’s […]
Continue reading →Kickstarting off the last semester for the year (finally!), the Media 6 class is introduced to Klaus Schawg’s reading of the ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution. All new developments and technologies have one key feature in common; they leverage the pervasive power of digitization and information technology. Klaus begins his reading with this sentence, which talks […]
Continue reading →I’ve finally finished my final project for On the Frame. But I must say something first before anyone tells me that they don’t get it or asks me what it was about. My project is an experimental video that focuses on the aspect of movement within the frame, and of the frame. The video contains […]
Continue reading →So to continue on to my project update, today me and my mate Daniel went to the walk bridge and the train station to shoot some more footage. I got him to do tricks for me where the ball is either moving, or up in the air. I got a fairly good amount of shots in, […]
Continue reading →Now that I have decided on what my final project would be and what it will be focusing on, I started shooting footages in the city, in the soccer pitch, and walk bridge. #City – The shots that I took in the city are hand-held and not from a still camera as I was not […]
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