Shy guy. Grid art.

Grid art made from Legos.

Dada manifesto

Dada is a deconstruct from art. It is so unique because it questions the whole idea and theme behind classic art. Anything can be art.

Video games and bullying

Call of duty calls to children. Video games are fun. Anyone who has ever battled the goombas or played Wii tennis has felt the exertion of video game competition. But are these video games becoming too violent? Are American children being brainwashed to believe that shotguns are normal and grenades are cool? Probably a little. 

There is always a crazy person that screws everything up for everyone else. Video games are a media medium. They are rated, controlled, and hopefully supervised by parents. T here is no difference from the horror and gore on the television or  movies and video games.  The respinsibility resides with the parents as to what a child is exposed to. Therefore, if a child is susceptible to being bullied or actually bullying, a good parent is meant to notice and control the atmosphere.

Gameplay is intense. I have personally been put off by foul mouthed players over the internet. However, their pointed remarks of my emminent demise only reminded me that I was playing a game.  Those susceptible to bullying online are probably bullied elsewhere. Exposure to both video games and innapropriate movies can desensitise anyone.  The ability to control exposure is the most important thing.

Adobe in 1985, John Warnock

Adobe's relationship with Apple made the Macintosh computer valuable.  Mac was able to pair with Adobe to create a visual editing and printing process which altered the paths of graphic designers, photographers, video editors, and other media professions for years to come.

With Adobe's editing process and it's ability to print exactly what was on the screen, Apple was finally able to make progress in their fight against Big Blue.

Why is apple called apple and when did Steve Jobs come back to Apple?

Google! Steve's own nemesis gave me a very quick answer to why Apple is called Apple. On Apple's news website, OSXDaily.com, Paul Horowitz explains the name origin.  Steve Jobs was inspired by his experience working in California in apple orchards when he was younger. He described the word as "fun, spirited, and not intimidating."  He also ties the symbol of the Apple with Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity in his first apple logo.

Steve Jobs, after dabbling in Disney and Pixar animation, returned to his rightful position with Apple in  1996. With his promotion, he ousted unnecessary branches and developed what we know today as the most influential computer company of our generation. 

Raymond Kurzweil

The future, as described by this innovative mind, will be a synthesis of human power with technological progress. He believes that technology does not evolve linearly, it evolves exponentially.

His explorations include nanotechnology in medicine, artificial intelligence, and brain scanning technology. For example, he believes that the ideas from the minority report are not too far-fetched.
Hopefully, some of his ideas come true.  He predicts that by 2050, nanobots will greatly extend the human lifespan.

Old time Radio

Terror From Outer Space

Old time radio is an incredible media. The use of imagination while listening is impossible to resist. "Its as if someone is making me think about it." The narration from this broadcast was incredibly graphic.  The idea that this was all done live is incredible. The sci-fi of old time radio is filled with ideas of alien encounters. 

The news of old time radio is also important.  Broadcasts done live sound very similar to the war or the worlds broadcasts.  They have to speak a lot because they are responsible for everything that the listener imagines. 

FlipBook

War Of the worlds. Part 2.

Luckily, I was motivated to listen to war of the worlds on my own.  Its easy to listen while doing something else and adapt to how listeners might have felt. I "tuned in" on a dark, stormy, empty night at my house. The thunder emphasized the horror of the almost real news cast.  The skill and purity of the reader's voice hypnotized and almost frightened me. It is easy to see the techniques used to lure the audience into the story.  As a matter of fact, if the disclaimer wasn't read aloud in the beginning, perhaps more hysteria would have ensued. This seemed like a real news cast to many, and a convincingly frightening one for me.

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds, when read aloud on the radio by Orson Welles, created mass hysteria for listeners.  Why? The masses knew that stories were read aloud all the time.  They knew that the radio was used for entertainment.

The main reason for the mass hysteria was the skill and the emotion wrought out only by the radio medium in 1938. The talent of Orson Welles depicts, so realistically, how one would actually react to a martian invasion. By listening to the actual broadcast, it's easy to see why people reacted so dramatically when this was the only immediate mass medium available.  The sound effects draw the listener into a new reality.  

When the movie was created and re-created, it was still impossible to instill the same fear that struck broadcast listeners in 1938.

Earthquake

My parents were a little too young to remember Earthquake when it came out in Theatres.  My father knows that he was at one of the showings in 1974 but does not remember being effected much by it.

What my whole family remembers, however, is the ride that was inspired by the movie at Universal Studios in Orlando.  When I first went on that ride, the idea of an unstable earth and cracking cement was terrifying. I was very young though.  Hopefully, this gave me a good idea of how it felt to be at the movie with such innovative audio equipment.  

Images from the brain

In an interesting article from Berkley, scientists have delved into the idea of visual reconstruction from the brain.  Unlike the Minority Report, science suggests that someday images will be pulled and reconstructed from brain pulses.  We have already been able to put images into the mind of a coma patient, but what will we be able to do next?  

Scientist are starting with miming and mimicking brain wave patterns from active brains and re-creating these pulses in test patients.  Eventually, a memory will be just like data.  Downloaded and uploaded for the public to view.

Walter/wendy carlos

Walter/Wendy Carlos knew how to turn heads. The first head turner was "switched on Bach"  the second was the controversial switch of sex and sexuality.  The incredible rendering of Bach on the Moog Synthesizer gave the antiques a new and revered feeling.  Some would argue that the synthesized versions of these compositions smeared the intentions of the original composer.  However, those who know better would explain how this new synthesized world, with utmost respect for Bach, gave a new and even more interesting twist on the old classics. 

Technicolor/ Sound in Film

Technicolor was revolutionary. Color was something that was sought after in film for years. Technicolor was founded by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott. The innovation for this technology involved filming the same scene with one camera and three different rolls of film. Each roll of film was tinted either red, blue, or green. The combination of these strips of film resulted in incredible, vibrant colors. Technicolor was the monopoly of color film from 1922 to 1952. 

Sound was also an important part in film. Now, the challenge was more apparent for actors to be able to actually act. It had become unnecessary to exaggerate acting because sound filled in the gaps. Now film was more realistic than ever. Not only was film accompanied by music, but it also contained sound effects and synced vocals.