After all the umming and ahhing about what online community I would like to further involve myself in, I finally decided to fully engage in the music community – even more specifically the Melbourne music scene. This making the most sense as my blog so far has focused on this interest of mine, as demonstrated through […]
Over the weekend I attended my sixth Groovin’ The Moo in Bendigo, and as always it didn’t disappoint! Great bands, silky dance moves, lots of laughs and expensive alcohol – standard procedure by now. So rather than bang-on about my day, through a play-by-play, I’ll provide a list of my favourite songs from the day, […]
Seriously, not even the Hogwarts sorting hat could decide what community or ‘house’ to put me in. For the up and coming, second assessment of Networked Media, we are to immerse and involve ourself in an online community of our choosing. However for the life of me I cannot decide. So far the options are: […]
Hey, here’s an idea. Every now and then (because let’s be real, keeping a schedule is hard) I’ll go through my ‘recently played’ playlist on iTunes, pick a few tracks and then chuck them up here for anyone to take a listen. I’d rather post like this, instead of a formal album or artist/band of the week, […]
Networked Media // Week Seven Reading Facebook, as we all know by now, is a place where individual people (500,00,00 to be approximate) go to tell/show their life story. This allowing for the supreme social media site to fall in the middle of this contemporary, online aesthetic spectrum, between narrative and flow. The structure of Facebook allows […]
A special day of the year that celebrates vinyl, and the independent record store. Today, I did this by heading to Heartland Records in North Melbourne. Known for their ‘expansive range of genre spanning new release and deep back catalogue titles’ – which I can vouch for, this place is seriously packed with amazing music from […]
Global Village works as an extension of our own every day made possible through the advancements of the internet. Marshall McLuhan predicted the ideological global village – “one world connected by an electronic nervous system, making it part of popular culture.” The internet allows the opportunity for people who wish to become apart of communities […]
In the past, myself and blogging have been in a love-hate relationship. I enjoyed being able to express my ideas, opinions and interests on an online domain, available for all to potentially see – but also groaned and grizzled at the thought of its tediousness and up-keep. This ‘Sad Sally’ mostly occurring when being prodded and […]
Last night I finally got to see one of my favourite Melbourne bands, City Calm Down, at the all typical Melbourne venue, The Corner in Richmond. It was a sold out shot, and it was an absolute rippa. Starting the night feeling a but woozy from an on-coming fever that day, I thought it’d be […]
Networked Media // Week Five Reading The week five reading is a continuation from Landow (2006), in which I think truly helped to consolidate my understanding of hypertext/hypermedia. Alright, so time for some more talk on hypertext. What I found most interesting in the reading was the mentioning of how ‘electronic linking’ has had an affect […]