Once I got the hang of using Flash, I really enjoyed it. I liked messing about trying to create short animations of sheep jumping over fences, but nothing too daring and complicated. It was a steep learning curve that I wanted to climb.
With the slideshow, I found it difficult getting to grips with the actions for buttons and it took me a while to solve problems. I was over the moon when it eventually worked the way I wanted it too.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
I think that Secondlife is an interesting idea and at the time of creation, could have been appealing as something to cure bordem. But as more and more of these sites appear, the sadder I think it becomes. People are loosing touch with socialising the proper way, by meeting new people face to face. And are spending too much time online and not out in the real world.
The story about two people meeting on Secondlife, getting married, and then getting a divorce because one caught the other having virtual sex with someone else on Secondlife makes me cringe. That’s a ludicrous level for it to reach and i’m embarrassed for the people involved. Virtual worlds are useful for people who are shy and find it difficult to socialise with people in person. But virtual worlds should only be seen as an alternative, not a replacement to the real world.
I enjoyed this workshop because it made me realise what I forgot about Photoshop. I’ve had experience with it before, and found these workshops very easy. When I got home, I downloaded the trial version of CS4 and spent ages messing about with it.
I made the banner in this blog in photoshop using different coloured blocks and a blur and lens effect.
I like making images from scratch rather than editing photos to make them look better.
When I walk down the street, I sometimes think “How weird would it be if I was living in The Truman Show!” We all know the film, where Jim Carey spends his whole life in a small town, but finally works out that it’s actually a TV show. He’s the main character, and everyone he lives around are actors.
I don’t worry about being tracked in the real world at all and understand the need for CCTV cameras. I just get along with my business as everyone else would.
Sometimes I get concerned about the trail I leave on the internet by uploading personal photos. But I am not all that bothered about people seeing them. I keep my profile on private so only friends have access to my info and even then, I have a very small amount of info about myself on there.
My friend just received a call from his friend who was in Bolton. He said that he was trying to park his car in a multi-storey car park and had to go all the way up to the 9th floor. On his was up there he passed the obvious bottom floor dedicated to staff, and then the 1st floor specifically for disabled people. Then he reached the second floor, a women’s only floor.
For years, feminists have moaned about discrimination towards women. But it seems like the tables are turning, and these feminists are now turning sexist themselves. In my life time I have only ever seen one advert on TV that doesn’t treat women equally, the Yorkie chocolate bars – “It’s not for girls!”. Yet in the past month I’ve seen adverts with things saying “So easy, a man can do it” about some sort of oven cleaner. The all female panel on Loose Women giving men constant jip about everything and anything.
But do things really need to be stepped up to womans only parking levels. It’s turning into the 50’s! What’s next, black only parking levels?
I use the internet everyday, whether it involves using Facebook to communicate with friends, or keep myself up to date with world issues around the world. It sounds sad when I say I spend way too much time on the internet, but I feel privileged to have it when it really comes in handy. You can learn anything with the internet.
I’m amazed that the idea for the internet came around in 1945. Even though the Memex was just a photo-electrical mechanism which could make and follow links between documents using the equivalent of what we would know as a memory stick. It was very primitive but the idea of reducing somethings size to be moved about was there. But that’s the only thing that interests me about the internets history, where it started. I find myself getting bored, seeing mugshots of bad early nineties haircuts and big lensed glasses while clicking through the W3C website.
Who is this man?
The internet has completely changed the music industry.
Live music has become very important for musicians to make a profit. CD and download sales have plummeted by sixteen percent in a year and there have been 196.9 million less album sales since the year 2000 (including CD and download forms) according to Neilsen SoundScan. And an increasing number of people download music for free, which is illegal…
All musicians should embrace live music as a necessity of making money through writing music. Songkick is a great way to get people to gigs more. It’s not the easiest way of getting tickets at short notice, but makes it easy to find whats happening in your local scene.
I don’t know anyone that still listens to music from a CD apart from in cars or at parties. The internet is the easiest way to access music. It’s quick, easy and relatively cheap if your paying for it. To me, the music industry is dead because of the internet, until there are more barriers on people using P2P programs to obtain music for free.
I’ve recently discovered a really cool program called Spotify. It looks similar to iTunes, and works similar to iTunes, but doesn’t involve downloading or paying for any music. It streams whatever music you want to hear off the internet which gets rid of the hassle of waiting for files to download and frees up space on your hard drive for other things.
Every morning I wake up and look out my window to grey skies, no sun, and occasional frost. I have to wrap up warm and face walking a mile and a bit to university through these treacherous conditions. I strive to make it to uni through the wind, rain, fog and snow of the tundra that is Coventry. I live out of town in a privately rented house and so I have to pay for utility bills. Which means shelling out a lot of money on ridiculous gas prices in the current economic crisis. I’m sat here watching it snow outside my window, and my toes are freezing.
Students only get about 2 months of nice, warm weather while studying at the end of the year. So why isn’t the university year mainly over summer? Most people go on holiday to a warm country anyway, so why not do that over winter. It’s scientifically proven that cold weather can cause depression. Students would be so much happier and willing to study in brighter weather. There would be no need to stay in warm beds when the weather is just as warm outside. Days are longer, and warmer and people are happy.
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