Similarly, I experienced my first ‘lectorial’ today – RMIT’s valiant attempt at integrating Newspeak into modern society. It honestly seemed to lean towards being a lecture more than a tutorial and I hope that isn’t so much the case in future ones, it did get to the point where if it weren’t for a camera shutter sound effect on a nearby phone somewhat awkwardly sounding mid-lecture I could very well have descended into a deep slumber.

In studying the reading regarding the cognitive modes of Hyper and Deep attention published by N. Katherine Hayles I was reminded of my typically erratic and distracted approach to study and made the decision to commit to more regular general reading in attempt to introduce more deep attention into my study habits. As I thought of this however I realised all of the mediums of media that I frequently and naturally do commit deep attention to – listening to music, reading into/watching material of particular interest across the internet, editing/producing audio and film, realising that these are each a result of commitment to routine and that I’m willing to deeply attend to them as I would consider them hobbies.

So the crux of it all is that I’ll hopefully condition myself to include more reading into my routine and be able to effectively and quickly read through material without taking regular banana/music/pointless-persistent-pacing-to-avoid-responsibilities breaks.

This marks my debut into blogging territory. Admittedly I dwelt on the layout and colour schemes for far too long before settling on themes not far from the default but you know, I’m serious about first impressions. That being said, I can’t say I’m a fan of how restrictive WordPress is in its layout options, I guess more than anything that just comes down to me not knowing how to operate the thing well enough but I’m gonna go ahead and blame WordPress.

We were introduced to our first project brief – a lo-fi media self-portrait – along with a couple of examples that frankly seemed pretty pretentious and unsubstantial to me. But maybe that’s the point, still trying to work it all out to be honest. Being a messily eclectic person anything I do will probably turn out extremely cluttered and just full of junk, but hey, maybe that runs with the lo-fi theme of it all. Hopefully I can put something together that I don’t lose sweat over and don’t regret later on down the line (it wouldn’t be the first time).

With all that being said, looking forward to what’s in store for the rest of the term! Keen to make some cool things.