Intro to Multimedia

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Blog Posting #13

1- Renee - http://rarenaynay.tumblr.com

Nicole - http://nkasp1.tumblr.com/

Kat - http://500miles-there-and-back.tumblr.com/

2- These three blogs were my favorites each for a different reason. Kat’s content was consistently interesting and fun. There was a great balance of funny and insightful posts that kept my attention. Renee’s blog had a great layout that was very aesthetically pleasing. She also had a great title for her blog. Nicole’s blog postings really caught my attention. She made great points and really identified the concept of each article. Nicole’s posts helped me to understand points that I didn’t immediately understand upon reading. 

3- Blogging is a valuable form of multimedia. It allows someone to express their thoughts and ideas through text and images both their own and borrowed. Blogs are customizable and can be arranged in a manner that accentuates the content. A blogger can really tie together a theme in their posts with additional content and their blog theme to create a powerful message on their blog. 

 4- Multimedia is a very important aspect of modern life. We interact with multimedia on a daily basis with social media, like tumblr, and many use it in their profession. Photoshop is an important tool in the marketing and media services industries and is used to create the images we see on a daily basis. Multimedia and technology work hand in hand to create the content we see and to innovate how its created. Without technology, multimedia might not exist, at least not in the capacity that it does now, and the content involved would be radically different. 

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Blog Posting #12

1- “24/7 announces a time without time, a time extracted from any material or identifiable demarcations, a time without sequence or recurrence. In its peremptory reductiveness, it celebrates a hallucination of presence, of an unalterable permanence composed of incessant, frictionless operations. It belongs to the aftermath of a common life made into the object of technics.”

Crary is writing that saying 24/7 does not specific a certain time but rather a broad idea. The idea of this term creates an infinite  number of options outside of specific time constraints. 

2- Crary says that the visual experience in the age of digital is a crowded, hectic rush of visual concepts and content. It is different for each person based on their media intake and the moment in their life in which they take it in. In short, each person has a different visual experience based on their habits but each person regardless is ambushed by content.

3- I would have to agree with Kelly more due to the fact that the point of view of the piece, while outlining the downside of technology, embraced the idea that there is indeed a benefit within all the bad. Moreover, Kelly’s outlook on it seemed to be less pessimistic than Craray’s and took into account the the upsides.

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[brianmac-kenzie-blog]

business email glossary

thanks in advance: get this done by the time i press "send"

thanks for your interest: why'd you have to bring this up

would you be so kind: fucking do it

best: i have never physically met you

all best: this conversation is over

all my best: i wish you would die

happy to help: this is the easiest thing in my inbox

i hope this helps: i've done all i'm willing to do

i did a bit of research: i googled it, because you're too lazy to

sorry to chase: answer my email

so sorry to chase: answer my FUCKING email

i am really sorry for being a pest but: i am LIVID that you are ignoring me

please contact my colleague: this isn't my problem

i'm copying in my colleague: this isn't my problem and i am thrilled about it

i'll check and get back to you: i might forget to

i'll let you know when i hear anything: i will forget to

can you check back with me in a week?: i'm hoping you will forget to

per our earlier conversation: i just yelled at you on the phone

great to chat just now: you just yelled at me on the phone

thanks!: i'm not mad at you

thanks!!: please don't be mad at me

thanks!!!: i'm crying at my desk

please advise: this might be your fault

kindly advise: this is entirely your fault

mind if i swing by?: i'm already in the elevator

can you confirm for me: you told me before and i deleted the email

sorry if that was unclear: i think you're an idiot

let me know if you need anything else: please never contact me again

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And the award for best use of that deer GIF ever goes to…

[quecono]

Me as a lawyer

BUT, your honor, I googled it twice 

[peachfrogs]

life imitates art 

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when a friend does something nice for you for no reason

[nidoqueen]

[saintcelestine]

Out of context gifs from old children’s tv shows really are the best. 

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And my personal favorite

[betaruga]

HOW IS THAT LAST ONE EVEN REAL

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I’M GOING TO CRY

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Blog Posting #10

1- Internet art describes art that is distributed through the internet. Post-internet art describes art created as a commentary of the internet’s effective on society and culture.

2- The two are similar in that they are both art and both relate to the internet. They differ in that internet art is a term used to describe how pieces of art are distributed while the post-internet art is art about the internet. 

3- https://mitsn437.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/aram-bartholl-map-2006-2013/

These pieces show how people rely on internet map services to get them places. The pieces place map markers in locations in the same manner as the map services. This piece of post-internet art symbolizes the shift from the use traditional paper maps to satellite, internet maps. 

4- Internet art tends to focus on more modern topics, especially post-internet art, which focuses on the effect of the internet on society. It tends to be simpler than physical art and less intricate. Internet definitely has a place in our society, both in galleries and museums  and in the streets. Modern art has come to include street art and can make parts of neighborhoods art installations. I am comfortable with digital art and physical art being equally important because as our technology improves, new art forms can develop and become more intricate. This is important to embrace because society and technology are always changing. 

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Blog Posting #8

1- I play console games casually with friends but not very often. I found the article to be absurd. No one should receive death threats for games, no matter how seriously people take them. They are games and shouldn’t be taken that seriously. The youtube video is interesting. Anita raises a valid point and it is justified in many cases. That said I don’t believe that all game developers design games with this in mind. In some cases they may use it for a storyline and it may be intentional to some developers, but as a whole I don’t believe this intentional. 

2- One way that technology has influenced digital technology is with music. In recent years the move from analog to digital music has been rapid. Record players gave way to C.Ds and C.Ds have given way to streaming. This has also occurred in the recording world. Tape machines have given way to Digital Audio Workstations and digital boards. Technology has changed the way we listen and record music entirely. 

3- Social media tends to be loaded with gender-related conversation be it a text post or a shared image. Many people use social media to express their opinion on the topic and I have noticed a few debates over social media.

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Blog Posting #7

1- The general consensus is that Flash is becoming obsolete but still has some value in that HTML-5 is still developing. Flash has long been the predominant program but in recent years, people have started to abandon it, most notably Apple who have begun making products that do not support Flash.

2-  Flash is hard to archive because it uses a binary format that is hard to be analyzed by web crawlers and text-editors. The format also creates URLs from itself which are ultimately invisible and therefore useless. 

3- These articles make me wonder how long the programs we are using will truly be useful and how long what we create with them now will actually be useable and how long they will last. 

4- One example of technology being replaced with newer, supposedly better technology is the record player. In and of itself a replacement for old technology it was ultimately replaced by several forms of new technology from C.D to digital media players. In the record player’s case however, audiophiles are reviving the technology under claims that it sounds far better than digital. 

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STEP BUILDER

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What you see before you die