I really like this work of Kates. Although the task was to explore circles, I like how the work to me is equally about colours and textures. It is also nicely timed with a steady rhythm. I see the potential for this video to fit into a series of works.
I went round to a friends new house last week. They had added their favourite quotes on the wall so I started thinking about what I would have on my wall, or where I would even source these quotes from (Instagram, of course).
Here are my two favourites from the reading and why:
‘Comedy is hard’ – I was planning my year 12 english strategies for perhaps my least favourite three hours of my life thus far. I picked the creative route. Perhaps the best advice I was given by my tall, stern, Irish teacher was “You’re not funny. Don’t try and write funny stories”. This was directed at the whole class, not just me but definitely drummed it into me – comedy is hard.
‘Every character is important’ – I agree. Ernt Lubitsch films reiterate the importance of secondary characters. They paint the film with extra colours and tones. I hope my work credits all characters.
NO WALLFLOWERS
NO INTROVERTS
NO ‘NICE GUYS’
It’s easy in this course to relate it to what you watched on TV.
I’ve been watching a new Netflix series “Orange is the New Black”.
Basically a show that follows the lives of women in prison. There is no room for wallflowers, introverts or nice guys.
Despite never being in a prison myself the show delivers what one would imagine. The women are not pretty and their are definitely no ‘nice guys’. Each character
Piper, the protagonist is a white, upper-class woman, with a soap business that gets caught up in drugs and lands herself in prison.
In the lecture I thought, ‘surely a show could have a wallflower in it. That could make for interesting TV.”
Piper is advised to stay towards the edges.
However that is what makes this show interesting. The times when Piper the quiet, blonde female bursts. When the nice lady becomes angry, when the introvert becomes and extrovert, when she although often unintentionally draws full attention to herself.
That makes it a great story.
My desires.
I suppose there is the stock-standard written answer for this.
“I want to grow as a young filmmaker, to get more skills and learn to work to strict deadline.”
naturally, I would assume everyone completing a media degree would want those things. However, my desire for Film-TV1 is to get through the semester without going bananas. Is that morbid?
I hope this post does not sound sarcastic. I genuinely want to make work I am proud of and I very much enjoy studying film and TV. However I am also very realistic. Logistically, this subject will be very difficult. Robin already affirmed this in our first tute. I suppose my goal is quite simple; the stress of the task is a test in itself and I hope to be able to rise above, to sacrifice when necessary…
…and to grow as a young filmmaker.
I was advised to watch this video from a close friend.
The only other Louis Theroux documentary I’d seen was on pedophiles, so I knew it would be pretty heavy stuff.
This documentary was close to what I consider the perfect representation of autism.
Autism is difficult to describe because two people that have it can have completely different characterists. Introverts and extroverts, the silents and the loud, the placid and the violent; autism is all encompassing.
I think thats why this documentary is so good. Sure, there is a central character however there are several other subplots, that are perhaps equally as resonant.
It’s so relatable, as a disorder. Frustration, anger, anxiety are all things we have felt, yet they feel them perhaps more extremely and more frequently.
When I was about 16 I wrote a blog.
I really don’t like looking back. Of course I love a bit of reminiscing, nostalgia being one of my favourite experiences. I’ve had a very privileged life, I’ve done lots of travel and I have some beautiful friends. However, regardless there is always a cringe factor involved when delving into your past. Whether you look at your hair, your clothes, your interests or your behaviours. Even remembering a mindset or opinion that I have an opposite view of now.
Now this cringe does not even simply occur when looking at my 16 year old self. This occurs when I even look at myself a year ago. Everyone says your teenage years are when you change, when you “discover yourself”. But that period has never stopped for me. I look back to a year ago and I value completely different things, and these values are still changing and will continue to change I’m sure.
If life is anything like the HBO series Girls, then we continue to grow, learn and change well into our 20’s and 30’s.
I suppose this is why I struggle with my blog. Its all about honesty which I have done my best to do, however it concretes this evidence of your once. I suppose a blog is the modern version of daggy photo where you are sporting board shorts to the knee, a visor, a low ponytail and puppy fat.
When I read the first two of Steve Dietz dreams I must admit I did not like them at all. They were;
1. The dream of Symbiosis
2. The Dream of Emergence
Basically, both are based around idea of increased power in the brain by combining it with technology. Maybe I’m one of those paranoid old people that thinks technology is ruining our brains but I think of all that might be lost if we combined the two. Would we loose creativity? Would we loose an appreciation of the simple things in life? And perhaps by increasing all this brain power we are putting too much emphasis on intelligence and not enough on what I think is more important human characteristics; kindness, humility, giving?
Of course I agree with the later principles he mentions; like a connectedness to the world in order to achieve world peace, but we currently have the ability to talk to and connect with people all over the world. That doesn’t mean that we are any closer to achieving a peaceful world.
Perhaps technology is not the solution.
Many many symposiums ago Adrian read out a girls blog that said, she didn’t like the subject Networked Media and that she was going to visit one of those people that help you transfer or get credits or whatever. I still don’t really know how university works.
That blog resonated with me because I was at exactly the same point in my “university experience”. Just like when a sitcom deals with an issue that you had that day. The subject felt uncomfortable too me. All I thought was “This is just not for me”.
Whats interesting though is the blog entry turns. She decided to persist and realised that she just needed to change her style of learning.
It was like when a relevant sitcom wraps up all moral and life affirming. You feel like “YEAH IF RACHEL CAN DO IT SO CAN I!”
I have booked a meeting with a careers coordinator next Wednesday. I don’t really know what to say, however I have zoned into the biggest issue I have not only with this subject but with this degree.
Who am I helping?
I work with disabled kids as I have mentioned in other blogs.
Just recently I was spat on by a 5 year old with down syndrome. This lead to my face breaking out into school sores. I was on antibiotics and steroids for weeks and stayed inside for days. But I wasn’t angry because despite all the discomfort I knew I was helping someone to read, write and speak.
My job is more about communication than this subject. I know I will be fought on this issue (ie. its a different form of communication rah rah rahhhh). However it is the rawest and purest engagement in communication and I hope everyone gets to experience it.
I am a massive fan of the sports brand Lululemon. There clothes are such good quality however super expensive. My friend took me to their outlet store this weekend in Rupert St, Collingwood. Also there’s a real life brothel in that street how weird!
Anyway the store was really nice and I got some funky bright sports clothes for really cheap. The women were really nice. They knew my name and there was lemonade and cut up fruit and popcorn so I got a snack. Also there was a game to guess how many shorts in the box so I hope I win.
It was so clean and organised with lots of sizes (which is unusual for a lot of the outlet stores in the Collingwood area).
If you like sport and you like clothes, you’ll like this outlet.
