Week 7 Lecture and Expansion

As I said before, I was sick for a few weeks and missed out on the Week 6 and 7 lecture. Thus I am limited in what I can talk about, Even more so as there is no lecture information on Learning@griffith. But the lecture was about Freeware, thus I shall talk about my experiences with Freeware.

Freeware can be very handy, and to me it is. Free software, it's great!
Some of this freeware I use weekly, other is when I get around to it.

For example. Last FM (Wikipedia article here) records all the music I listen to and puts it into a nice little graph and charts and stuff. See http://www.last.fm/user/ZEXK or click here to see my profile on that site, this is more of a plug in however. But it is free. As is this TuneUp add-on/plug in for iTunes I just downloaded. That one is hard to use however.

I'll just quickly use that great plug-in and then website, to post the music I've been listening to the last week. I just discovered NeverShoutNever! ahahah, Sooo good!


CLICK HERE FOR THE LAST.FM WEBSITE.

Then there is ComicRack and ComicBookLover. Those freeware programs read my digital comic books for me, the .cbz files. Although the latter is a free trial that has limited use. The first one I used when I had a windows computer and was freeware, not a free trail, and no restrictions. So ComicRack is one useful Freeware application, and is described as 'The iTunes for Comics'.
A picture of ComicRack in action:


COMICRACK WEBSITE HERE.

Then there is VLC Media Player(Wikipedia article here), that little Traffic Cone that helps me soooo much. My annoying iTunes, quicktime and RealMedia player can't play those great '.avi' files. And this can. So I am going to choose this freeware program to talk about, not because it is new to me, but because it is so amazingly good! I would have so much trouble without it, and what's even more, it's portable!!!!!
VLC Thumbnail:


Plus, it can play DVD's from all regions! No more having to check the right region, i watch DVD's on my computer anyway, my TV is rather small, so screen size doesn't bother me there. So that's great!

Even better, my great analysis of Nick and Norah from weeks ago that I posted in this blog(see it here), was all possible because of VLC. It let me take screen shots which I feel greatly improved my analysis.
Picture from my analysis:


So there we have it. I think everyone should use this program, and I am so happy that I heard about it about a year ago. It revolutionized the way I watch TV and DVD's. Sigh, how great it is!
ahahah. I'm really into this whole VLC thing. VLC 4TW! ahaha
Picture of VLC in action! Watching one of the Ice Age movies:



PS. Posted below is a song by NeverShoutNever!. This is a song I have recently found.
It's called JaneDoe, it's a love song without being one of those lame sappy love songs. It starts about 28seconds in... I know you can make a video start a certain amount into a video but I forgot ahaha.

Week 6. Extra Work.

Here is some extra work as I was rather intrigued by that persona website, and I realised that it had comedic potential.

So, using the persona website, (located here), I wanted to search something humorous. I ended up with some 'Adult' results. So read something else if you don't think you can handle it.

In class, I searched 'Porn Man' to mildly humorous results. But later it came across me, so I searched, for humor value, 'Free Porn'. But this was more than me wanting to laugh, my essay relates to porn, and thus this was a valuable exercise. It actually taught me some stuff... I also signed up for a Flickr account to make it easier to upload images. Clicking on the photos will send you to the photo on Flickr.
End result:


NOW.... I'll show photos of the humorous results I received.
Starting with my favorite:

I love the fact that there's spelling and punctuation errors in this. As well as the last sentence.


People have done studies on this? Also, i think the final word of 'combined', makes it sound rather dramatic ahahha.

But this next one cracks me up. SOOOO Much.


Let's speed these up....

Great response by the porn industry:


Interesting viewpoint:


Insightful:


Honesty:


Then some truthful, if not outdated, truth. (Truthful truth? Yup. you bet.)


Dramatic nonsense:


Truth?


Nerd jokes anyone?


And I guess I'll finish up with one last thing:


Well there it is. Some extra work for you. Rather nice of me.... Hope this has cheered you up a bit. Personally, I thought it was rather hilarious.

Zie out!

Week 6. Google Map, Persona and Sketchcast.

Uploaded here.
Done with my nickname. CLICK ON IT to make it larger and readable. This wasn't very big at all. I saw some other people's and they had heaps of different categories. My birth name came up with no results however, how odd.


My little sketchcast. I sorta just drew some trees, a possum thingy, and an hunter hunting the possum. I don't eat meat very frequently but I thought it fit in better. Funny thing is that when I was doing the first tree's leaves, I got distracted talking to the tutor, so i just drew a trunk under it (i went to the left heaps), I think I covered it up rather well ahahahaha :).



And my little Google map.
This map I labbelled the places that I have been to, sometimes It was a bit harder because of I went on road trips with my family before I new better. But I've to UK, Australia, New Zealand and France. I've been to some other countries, but not outside the airport. So I don't count that :).

View Places I've Been too. in a larger map

Lecture 6

Unfortunetly, I was sick for a few weeks and missed out on the lectures in week 6 and 7. Thus I am limited in what I can talk about, but I will briefly rehash what is on Learning@Griffith, and then EXPAND ON THE LECTURE and talk about a certain YouTube videos that people create that use Professional content that has been produce, and remix them to create more content.

Back in the old days, consumers would 'take', by viewing movies and television and give nothing back.
But lets skip here.... because it started to change, 'The Internet' changed everything.

People would give back, produce there own content, but more importantly, change content that already existed.

Let's break this down.
Three Big Screens of life
Cinema
TV
PC

and the Small Screens of life
Personal Media Players (MP3 players, iPod's)
Mobile phones/Smartphones (HTC touch, iPhone etc.)

But you read heaps of lecture summaries. So I'm going to do some extraish work.

PEOPLE ON YOUTUBE ANNOY ME.......

People take professional produced content and remix it for their own reasons, more specifically, love stories. People make love videos for couples from their favorite TV show.

IE..... 7th Heaven? Gilmore Girls? people make horrible videos about two characters from a show they love, mash up scenes, and put it to love music. This is one thing i really really hate about youtube.
Sometimes they create things that well..... Odd.
Example.... Seth and Ryan from 'The OC', in a video entitled 'Forbiden Romance'

The editor took things that Seth said to his girl Summer in the show 'I Love you, and I think you love me too' and made it seem as if Seth was saying them to Ryan.

The editor also got footage of two guys kissing, with the same hair colour as Seth and Ryan, and subtly cut it inbetween the scenes, to make it as if these two characters had a serious sexual relationship with eachother.

This whole video is rather bold....

But there are much worse ones.....
The dopecore and awesome Peter Petrelli from the first season of Heroes.
Someone made a mash-up of clips from the show, and put them to the song 'Sex Bomb'


Now some people are really sexually attracted to this guy....

And these two examples are good examples of how consumer, is now mashing up and using footage and are effectively producing stuff. All because of the internet.
Personally, I hate these videos.

But in the same vein of these videos, they are two I do like. 30 Rock one, mainly just because I love the song ahahha, and then theres a Seinfeld quote one.

Lecture 5

This was a small little lecture. Although I think that's just because my business subjects have lectures that go for like 2 hours. Where as this one is merely 50minutes. I'll just mention it briefly, I only just realised that you(teacher/tutor/marker of this blog) must be reading heaps of summaries of the same lecture, so it must get rather boring, may as well not bore you too much then.

Dot com crash, women was worth 18 mil at one point, then down heappps like like 5mil, then back up all in one years span. rather interesting. Then there was all the Bill Gates Google talk with AOL now fallen, as has yahoo, it's been with Bill Gates and their trying to take on Google.

Meh.... I've gotten to the point where I'm so over summarising lectures.... I mean, you must be reading heaps and heaps of these. I just want to try and be interesting, why can't they just be a class/subject/course, where assignments are graded on humour value. Now that would be something I would want to do.

I'm also sick of doing labels in posts..... I think i'm mostly gonna stop that now.

Short Films

First up, I picked this one. 'Fuckphonic' for the interesting idea, cool animation, and well, great sound to the whole film.

I just think it is so cool, plus I can't help but wonder what I would do all day, if things I touched played sounds like in the film. Well.... I can... I would be touching things all day and making some sweet beats. I'd be a full awesome DJ... I'd call myself Beat-Hoven.
Ahahaha, Yup. That's me. So mainly I just picked that film for the originality, and sheer awesomeness of it.

This second one is Art of the Saber.

This film has great, and amazing fan saber work. And although some of the rotoscoping lacks in some parts, the martial arts is amazing. Plus the story is interesting. The monologue at the start is taken from a real letter sent home by a soldier. Worked a little to make it fit into the movie, but not much, and vastly improves this cool film.

Third up. I was going to do The Story of Bubble Boy, but I noticed someone else posted that. I really love that film, original, with a great message and just overall beauty. However. I'll do this short little one anyway. I really love animation, and to me, this short films shows not only the beauty in animation, but just how amazing animation truly is. It also has a good strong character, and no dialogue, which is just awesome. The sound effects are also great!

It's short so i'll put in another.

You can't say that they aren't great little internet-delivered short films. They have the whole equilibrium, disturbance and all the other things generally needed for a story. So yeah :)


Lastly, I've added the first episode from my web series. A short comedic web series.


Hope you liked it!

HiStory of Me. - Lecture 4

So I'm going to be clever.
Instead of rephrasing years, and years of film and rehashing the timeline.
I'll just link you.
Click Here.(down the bottom right of the box - should work....)
Now that was mildly difficult to do - I used a file upload program to do it.
But here are the main points:
1895: Birth of Cinema
1897: First permanent movie theaters.
1903: First Narrative Film
1905: First Nickelodeons
1906: First Full Length Feature.
1912: First Serial, birth of the Cliffhanger
1913: Birth of 'Studio System'
1914: First Movie Star: Charlie Chaplin
1921: Dream Street: Considered first feature film to use sound.
1923: Animation first feature, Hollywood Sign built
1927: The Jazz Singer: Birth of 'the talkies'
1929: First 100% natural colour film, and first Academy Awards.
1937: Snow White: First full-length colour animation film.
1939: TV!
Lets skip some years here, to 1951:
1951: 3D!!!!
and again
1960: Phsyco!
and again - gotta keep things interesting :) animation is a go-go!
1986: Luxio Jr. - First Fully Computer generated film. (short)
1988: First mix of animation and live action
1995: First feature length computer generated film.

now I'm going to separate myself from the timeline. Because I think this is funny. In 1997, on the timeline we have the introduction of DVD's, and the film TROOPS. However, not on this timeline, is Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time, worldwide and domestically. Yet not on the list? Humorous.

2006: YouTube.

or the short version:
1895: Birth of Cinema
1997: Titanic
2006: YouTube
2009: :)