Heroes of the Imagination

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u3101357 - Justin Greenaway

Networked Media Production - 2013

Assessment 1: ‘Blog – Meta post’

Rationale-

The goal of Assessment 2’s brief was creation and development of a blog that brings together a wide range of other networked media, with the aim of connecting to the online culture of others with similar interests and attracting a real audience to the blog. The blogs subject matter was to be of my choosing and the only major technical constraint of its development was that it had to be updated regularly and hosted by Tumblr.

After an initial conceptual phase where I experimented with different subject matter, I eventually arrived at the idea of posting words, images and videos of any people who I find to be creatively inspiring. So heroesoftheimagination.tumblr.com was born. Following some experimentation with different themes, I eventually settled on Mathew Buchanon’s ‘Vertigo’, which was inspired by the work of Saul Bass, Art Goodman and Dave Nagata, with the custom ‘hitchcock’ typeface provided by Matt Terich. The theme was provided for free under Creative Commons ‘Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike’ license model. I did my best to cater the text formatting of each post to look its best with this theme applied to it.

Top three posts-

I decided to select a series of posts that give the viewer a taste of the various types of content they’re likely to find throughout the rest of my blog:

‘What civilization is…’

http://heroesoftheimagination.tumblr.com/post/46149077347/what-civilization-is#notes

‘I, pet goat II’

http://heroesoftheimagination.tumblr.com/post/46800050963/i-pet-goat-ii-a-story-about-the-fire-at-the

‘Alone in the Zone’

http://heroesoftheimagination.tumblr.com/post/47083164936/alone-in-the-zone-two-years-since-the

Blog Statistics, courtesy of Tumblr and Google Analytics-

Unique visitors: 65

Tumblr followers: 44

Average visit duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

Most popular content (by author)-

Author Tumblr ‘Notes’

Alan Watts :25

Albert Einstein: 2

Banksy: 7

Bruce Lee: 15

Charles Manson: 3

Charlie Brooker: 6

Christopher Hitchens: 12

Carl Sagan: 2

Doug Stanhope: 18

Eddie Pepitone: 3

George Carlin: 31

Henry Rollins: 10

Jim Morrison: 7

Joe Rogan: 29

Joseph Campbell: 8

Louis C.K.: 7

Marc Maron: 4

Massive Attack: 3

MF Doom: 2

Mitch Hedberg: 2

Muhammad Ali: 4

Nina Simone: 2

Otis Redding: 4

Peter Joseph: 4

Ralph Bakshi: 5

Ratatat: 2

Robert Anton Wilson: 8

Saul Williams: 5

Slavoj Žižek: 2

Stephen Fry: 3

Sun Ra: 3

Terence Mckenna: 28

The Beatles: 6

Tyler The Creator: 7

References-

Mathew Buchanon’s ‘Vertigo’ Tumblr blog theme

http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/39733076/vertigo-theme-for-tumblr

Creative Commons ‘Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike’ license model

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Google Analytics

www.google.com.au/analytics/‎

Tumblr

www.tumblr.com

#heroesoftheimagination #Meta-post

What we

"...are trying to do... is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind, not accept things as they are, nor revolt against them. Revolt doesn't answer a thing. You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently.

That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything. And to understand is to transform what is."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Jiddu Krishnamurti #heroesoftheimagination

'Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross on Language'

#Stephen Fry #Jonathan Ross #heroesoftheimagination

'Louis C.K. honours George Carlin'

#Louis C.K.#George Carlin #heroesoftheimagination

What Jung says

“...is that you should play your role, knowing that it’s not you. It’s a quite different point of view. This requires individuation, separating your ego, your image of yourself, from the social role. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t play the role; it simply means that no matter what you choose to do in life, whether it’s to cop out or to cop in, you are playing a role, and don’t take it too damned seriously. The persona is merely the mask you’re wearing for this game.”

~Joseph Campbell

#Joseph Campbell #heroesoftheimagination

Do not pray

"...for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

~Bruce Lee

#Bruce Lee #heroesoftheimagination

'The Dillinger Escape Plan - 'One Of Us Is The Killer' (album preview)'

#The Dillinger Escape Plan #One Of Us Is The Killer #heroesoftheimagination

I like it when

"...a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic."

~George Carlin

#George Carlin #heroesoftheimagination

'Charlie Brooker on The Wire'

#Charlie Brooker #The Wire #heroesoftheimagination

'Snoop Dogg - Neva Have 2 Worry'

#Snoop Dogg #Neva Have 2 Worry #Ego Trippin'#heroesoftheimagination

'Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?'

#Sir Ken Robinson #Ken Robinson #TED #heroesoftheimagination

‘Alan Watts Teaches Meditation - Controlling the Mind’

#Alan Watts #heroesoftheimagination

'Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty'

#Aesop Rock #Zero Dark Thirty #Skelethon #heroesoftheimagination

We can classify

“...education into two main categories: passive education relying primarily on memory, and active education relying on intelligent understanding and discovery. Our real problem is, what is the goal of education? Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds capable of discovery from the preschool age on through life?”

~Jean Piaget

#Jean Piaget #heroesoftheimagination

Impossible is

“...just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

~Muhammad Ali

#Muhammad Ali #heroesoftheimagination

The meeting of two

"...personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

~Carl Jung

#Carl Jung #heroesoftheimagination

'Queens of the Stone Age - I Appear Missing'

#Queens of the Stone Age #I Appear Missing #Calling All Comas #heroesoftheimagination

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