As Ty Segall’s ‘Manipulator’ draws ever closer, the more tastes I get, the harder it becomes to wait. Susie Thumb follows the release of the excellent ‘Feel’ 7″, and the equally as excellent B-Side, ‘The Fakir’. Enjoy

Ty Segall – Susie Thumb

This weeks reading really reinforced the notion within me of the “awareness” we must have as writers posting to the most public outlet that exists (the WORLD WIDE web). The awareness that we must have for issues on copyright, legality, maintaining an acceptable professional image, as well as the awareness of the fact that our writing is out there with millions of other pieces of work, and where we fit within the grand scale of things. To be honest, I’m not the most adamant blogger, nor do I feel that if somebody were wanting to get to know me they could find out too much about me just by reading this blog, but then again, that’s why I’m trying. Adrian’s words throughout the symposiums stay very poignant in my mind whenever I start to second guess why I’m even trying to maintain a blog (who reads this? what is the point?), whenever he says that the media industry is in a state of flux, and that the Internet is the way of the future. I know this to be true, even though I really sort of wish it wasn’t, so therefore I will persist, try and find my online market, my niché, my little part of this world wide web in which I can feel safe and secure.

This week we began learning html coding, something I never thought I would ever attempt in my life. If you, like me and terrified of the prospect of basically learning another language, give this website a browse, may be able to help simplify things for you at home.

Another top tip from your boy :S

Simple HTML Guide

Connan Mockasin – I Wanna Roll With You

Photo by Adela Loconte

“40 Years from now (if the human species survives), their will be hundreds of thousands of file servers – machines storing and dishing out materials. And there will be hundreds of millions of simultaneous users, able to read from billions of stored documents, with trillions of links among them…”

Theodore Nelson’s ‘Literary Machines’ is probably one of my favorite readings I have been assigned in university so far. Written in the 80s in non-sequential order, Nelson hypothesizes on an endless stream of data made up of hypertext, that he believes will revolutionize communication as he knew it. He was of course alluding to the Internet, however, given the context, it’s amazing how accurate his visions were. The reason I think I was so interested in this reading is that, as crazy as it sounds, it reminded me of William Burroughs’, ‘Naked Lunch’. Written in the 50s, by a junkie beat writer, this piece too is written in non-sequential order, and is basically just a collection of memories from all over the globe at different points within Burroughs’ life. As Adrian mentioned in the symposium, the Internet has no first page, and no last, and I suppose the same may be said about both of these written works. Whilst Nelson’s piece offers a very sobering, researched theory, Burroughs also hypothesizes on the state of technological advances, from an earlier, less sober perspective, stating; “The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”

This is a blog I quite like, run by a man called Tim Koh. Tim Koh is musician based in Los Angeles, and performs with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. This blog consists of songs that he enjoys. Quite an interesting blog to look through to gain insight into some fairly obscure, catchy tunes.

http://lamaraba.blogspot.com.au/

For anyone out there interested in getting audio mastered, but like me have only negative figures in their bank account, well here’s your dream come true. The ‘MixGenius’ over at landr.com has created a website for musicians (and anyone else interested in mastering sound) that allows you to master your tracks (to mp3) for free! If you’re a total audiophile and can’t bare the thought of mastering to mp3 you can subscribe and pay to master to wav, but for me mp3 will do just fine.

Just thought it was a great idea for an online resource and that you all should know, enjoy!

https://www.landr.com/

This is my friend Izzy’s blog, she’s done such a great job at decorating it, go Izzy, I could learn a thing or two…

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/isabelle-hellyer/

I am extremely glad to read in Adrien Miles’ piece on blogs as an educational tool that “successful blogging is not something that happens in one class, or even one week”, as here I am, nearly a week into knowing I had control over this web page, and I’m still pretty unclear on the whole blogging process, ie. what’s appropriate, and what’s required. So far I have grasped a few handy hints on copyright, and what may get me into legal trouble, thanks to my good friends at artslaw (see underneath for link), however I’m yet to really clarify what is going to set my blog aside from the rest, in a professional sense. Oh well, no matter how long it takes me to wrap my head around it, at least I won’t be getting myself into any legal trouble.

http://www.artslaw.com.au/info-sheets/info-sheet/legal-issues-for-bloggers/

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