Inside Outside Big Small
Ian has a long post using de Certeau to think about his own location, which in de Certeau’s terms becomes a shift from place (home, nation, etc) to time (of talking, language, family as event). This in...
View ArticleGetting Wet
Ok, bad puns (aka ‘Dad jokes’) only get you so far, so Zoe, dipping a toe into the Barthes, finds my notes from a previous year. Gotta admire the enterprise. In unrelated news Sunniva actually makes a...
View ArticleScreens, and Screens
Georgina picks up my comment in one class about going full screen for a web vid when being shown in class. Movies that are shot as Big Screen Movies should be watched on Big Screens. Web content should...
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Let’s be frank. Sometimes, surprisingly often actually, I read things in your blogs that fire off great ideas. Glenda has one here. I didn’t make or have a connection in my mind in the lecture about...
View ArticleConnecting
Madeleine imagines a grappling hook as an image of making connections, in her K-film, between her writing and the readings, and between theory and practice. Lupita is getting a headache trying to find...
View ArticleReviewing the Work
So, we are busy reviewing the first sketch Korsakow films. Carla has some notes and warns about “crappy Final Cut effects” because I don’t like them. No, but do you? Erin writes hers up too, thinking...
View ArticleThe Performative
Erin has more notes around Barthes, work and text. Zoe ends up with J.L. Austin and speech act theory. Wind that back a bit. Austin looks at performative speech acts, things that do at the same time as...
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Dear Adrian
via the Email: Just wondering with the Essay component of the group assessment, (it’s a little brief in the outline) obviously we will be directly drawing from research/work/information of the author...
View ArticleCollage and the Bricoleur
Jeffrey has some review notes about the Shields’ reading (so not sure why entitled “from work to text”). The numbered quotes are not a hierarchy but just a way to make a list a list. Some lists are...
View ArticleChicken? Egg?
Scott asks whether a blog is to provide evidence of learning or a way to learn? What's the point of one without the other? Continue reading →
View ArticleScary, Exciting? Banal, Innovative?
Glasses that record. What sort of documentary does this become (do we all turn into Ross McElwee?). If you record and saved and that was semi public. What sorts of things would then be made?
View ArticleClearing the Air
Thomas is critical of a comment I made a bit ago about something he wrote. Apologies! The intent was supposed to be playful, not critical, I was hoping to feign surprise that theory might connect to...
View ArticleThere is Reflection, and then there’s Critical Reflection
This is something most of us should probably read. And think about. Finally, if you all haven’t realised how much the world is different to only a few years ago look at what Sunniva did, and what...
View ArticleFinding
Remember, the to do category (right menu) will list all the posts to do with assessments. Continue reading →
View ArticleRecent Korsakow problems
A couple of technical problems that I’ve seen this week in relation to Korsakow. One was a project that was not exporting, the other was a project where videos and thumbnails didn’t appear where they...
View ArticleExperience Economy
Have added a few references to things about the experience economy into dropmark . Continue reading →
View ArticleEdgy?
Had a good question after the lecture which was “what if I don’t want to be edgy?”. I like a question like that as it helps clarifies things quickly. Edgy isn’t really the heart of the subject, so its...
View ArticleTribeca Film Festival and Vine
http://mashable.com/2013/03/20/tribeca-film-vine-competition/ . Major New York festival. Continue reading →
View ArticleRobert de Niro on Vine
Tribeca festival has a vine comp, and you can’t help wondering whether this is Vine paying for comment?
View ArticleBroken
My laptop screen has pretty much died which means I’m sans computer. Kinda makes it hard to do most of the day to day stuff that this subject relies on. Most of it is in the cloud, so it is more a case...
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