Curation update week 3

I want to first say that this is probably the greatest project I have ever done in my entire high school career. I feel like I can realy get down on details that I would normally just overlook and try and just get the passing grade.

I really feel like I need more videos about actual people using this equipment I am talking about. Hearing examples from real life users would make my curation a much more successful one in the sense that it will give the viewers a much better understanding that I cannot provide. I also want to start making the camera talk into much simpler talk that can be understood by even new comers who wish to learn about cameras and information about what to get and why.

The information I currently have has made great ground work for the future posts I plan to make. I feel it has been a long process that is simple, but still demanding. Every time I post about something new I feel like I have not accomplished something small, but just made my overall project a whole lot better.

The only thing that really is truely difficult about doing something like this, is that I have almost no hands on experience with a lot of the equipment that I am talking about or describing to others in my posts. Hopefully, I can find a way to make sure that the message gets across, correctly.

Curation Update week 2

I feel that I have been really enjoying this project. In not many classes can you really learn about something that interests you specifically. My camera research has been going well and I have learned more than I had planned or even thought I would need to.

I decided to use Tumblr and there is a slight learning curve to it. Although it has many features to it as blogger  does so I quickly was able to fiddle around learn to make posts and blogs about my curation. YouTube has been a great help to me and finding more cameras as well as personal interest into several things I can only read about.

A lot of the stuff I talk about is based off of research, personal opinion, and a small amount of hands on experience. I have very little hands on experience with these cameras, especially the more expensive ones.

Curation Update 1

I have started to do a lot, and I mean a lot, of research on cameras for my topic. It turns out that there are so many different things that I do not know about cameras that I always feel like taking any career path in film has to be the most expensive choice in the world. An average Joe who wants to start a film career will most likely go with some kind of DSLR. Digital cameras that can take high quality photos and video. Anything else lower would not be worth your time or money.
Now I have had to really research everything to understand to anything far superior in technology. Camera's like Red, and Photron are so expensive and rare in their types that it takes some serious work and dedication to wanting to own one of them. Mostly movie studios would own one of these to help film high budget films. as the research expands and continues so does my knowledge of the topic I so dearly love.

iMedia: Internet Piracy

The Pirate Bay is wildly known as the easiest way to download, upload, and access any media based product in existence. Go ahead its free and millions use it so why should you not? Oh that's right it is illegal, but who is going to stop it? Congress tried passing two bills in 2011 in order to prevent internet piracy, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA, (Protect IP Act). Both failed, with major support from heavy user based websites like Google and Wikipedia. It is crazy how fast support on the internet can be reached.

The movie we watched during class, Exit Through The Gift Shop, gave me a brief look into how the world can change its opinion about something relatively quickly. I know how internet piracy can seem like a dangerous concept and whether thinking you might get caught by the police or getting as virus from an unfriendly, not trusted user. It is unlikely to happen if you can understand what you are doing, but the idea behind piracy is not to, just get movies, TV-shows, song, and video games for free, it is to show support for these things and to archive the lost but most famous of these.

The internet is an open database that have no end and should never be limited to protect rich production studios and actors who can afford to multiple houses in different states or even countries. Although, piracy has become much more easy than before the internet it is still a small grouping off people who understand it and use it. With so much media everywhere at every moment in time it became too difficult for the small community to keep up and expand at the same time.

Metacognition: Mash Up

It was an interesting experience which I did not completely understand until I actually finished it. It seemed to be a very odd project and I actually still am not a 100% as to what I had to do and what I accomplished in showing what I did. I get that it was to be telling a story, and the story I chose was about solitude. I felt that solitude was a major component to the book and was what he talked about the most in comparison to everything else. I also tried to put some lines about love because I feel he also always had those combined together. I chose to add a picture of my favorite character from Game of Thrones.

Best of Today: Project Build

Today February 22nd in class we began our new projects based off the reading we had in class called Cathedral and the movie we spent time watching in class about Frank Gehry. My team was selected to design a homeless shelter for a small town. We decided to be creative with it, while still making it seem like a homeless shelter.

I liked this project a lot because it made my group and I work together as a team instead of just individually, like in the mindbooks, where we would be creative on our own. We had a plan from the beginning to make it simple, but still a friendly looking place for people to enjoy and feel comfortable with being there. We all agreed upon this, and that really opened my eyes to something I have been trying to figure out for quite some time now. I have been recently trying to write my own scripts for several videos I plan to make, to show future employers, friends, families, and complete strangers on the internet. I realized that a lot of time these script writers, directors, and producers I idolize do not work a lone on these projects. Although they may have these titles that show they are in charge and undoubtedly they have control over a lot that happens they still work with other people. In the Frank Gehry film it was mentioned how the ideas were not just his, but collective. Frank had partners too, and although they were not the front man they were still a participant in the group.

I have a full understanding that I can no longer just sit on the sidelines while the world is passing me by. I have to find things to inspire me and to help me create amazing works of art.

Blogging Around

In Malcolm Engel's blog he talked about how his band Zaramela and the Nike commercial we watched in class. He compared them based off the postmodernism and modernism details that we had learned about during class. He tried to see how his songs that he made can be described by these methods. He describes how his music style is constantly changing and the band brings many different view points.

I next read the blog by Alyson Krueger, like Malcolm's she talked about a band although she is not part of the band she is a big fan. The band she is talking about is Walking off the Earth and the song and video she is talking about is called Red Hands. She spent two hours watching it and because she feels it relates to modernism in a way that it is primitive and chaotic.

iMedia: The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is a hit TV show on AMC. The show is about a man name Rick Grimes, a former police officer, who wakes up from a coma after a serious incident when chasing a criminal only to find that all the people of the town have been turned in to zombies or "Walkers" as they are called on the show. Now living in a world filled with a constant threat of survival he has to find his family and figure out a way to keep them safe.

With the return of season 3 on February 10th, Rick and the others are faced with some a very new form of postmodernism. With the whole world in anarchy people are not trusting each other knowing they are only out for themselves. They each you use there own experiences to teach and help the group. Recently a infant have been added to the group, with the loss of it's mother, the infant is still able to live with the group and is has many of it's mothers characteristic. The truth gets very fuzzy for the group and they still do not understand anymore about the infection or the walkers than that it will try to kill the people. Imagine a new way of living straight from scratch. Now imagine having to fight as well. It was the beginning of the end for these people and although it is just a television show the decisions they make are serious and critical whether objective or subjective.

Connection: Changing the Status Quo for TV

In class we have been talking about how major figures in the past have changed the status quo. We talked about how to change the status quo and the effects that took place when people had tried to. 

Modern TV has challenged the status quo of how we view it. The line between what is okay to show and not okay to show has slowly disappeared and been almost erased. Countries like the UK, Germany, and many European countries have almost no restrictions on TV. 

The U.S.A. has some of the strictest television in the world. With shows like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and even Keeping up with the Kardashian's producers have created a clear divide between good and bad TV. I love ABC, NBC, FOX, FX, Comedy Central, USA, and AMC. These channels show the correct change in movement for television and the best way to intellect people through television.