So, today in class, we were asked, as a litte cultural exercise, to do a mapping of our whereabouts. The bigger the circle, there more time you spend there.
What a bummer.
I kinda just looked at mine and thought something like “goddamn my life sucks”..
see for yourself:
Yep… my only whereabouts are: Home “hjem”, The University “ITU” and the grocery store “Netto”. Then occasionaly øvelokale “band practice”.
And unfortunately the much to rare concerts that I’ve been .. well, not attending..
I even added my boyfriend (Lars – the square’ish boxes) to make it look bigger..
Horrible..
Shows that I’m a dedicated student though… But on the other hand, I would also like to have a life…
Posted February 9th, 2010. Add a comment
Currently, my blog is waiting to be rated by the exams office. So in the meantime I can’t post anything. I will however make this one post explaining why nothing new is going on.
So, we were asked to do 3 posts, which is why there are 3 posts in danish on the blog, explaining our process of making our blogs. That means explaning our thoughts behind the design, the content and so on.
I must say that I am content with how it looks, in terms of my own current abilities, however I have aleady decided that I want to change the design once again. That won’t happen until I have my grade though.
The new design will be of a much more presentational form. I want to show of my work at the ITU in a more audience-oriented way. It will also look a tad more professional than this one! I will be using the Picture Perfect theme, and moderating that.
In the end I have only one thing to say. Just because nothing is going on here right now, doesn’t mean that I’m not working.
The new look will be up and running late january, and by then I plan on having lot’s of new content ready for print.
http://www.vectorkid.com/tutorials.html
Posted November 27th, 2009. Add a comment
In 1979, the two computer scientists at Duke, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis invented Usenet. Usenet was a distributed messaging system that enabled messages to be passed among computers worldwide cheaply. They were all announcementy or informational. But in 1994 the lawyer firm Canter & Siegel posted a commercial message – advertising its services. This caused many angry responses, however soon others copied them… SPAM was born. (My wording. From: Lessig, Lawrence. 2009. “RE revived” in Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. The Penguin Press, New York: p. 57-80.)
I see some similarities with the Myspace Music section. All “everybody leaves Myspace and now uses Facebook” aside, Myspace used to have a pretty cool Music section. It enabled small indie bands to get their music heard along side of the really big and well established bands. However now all bands in the entire world has a Myspace, and they are all able to “SPAM” us with requests to listen to their music through requesting our friendship. That being regardless of our profile stating “I like rock and pop” and “I don’t like hip hop” we still get numerous friendship requests from hip hop acts. That is annoying.
Every time I log on to Myspace (which is perhaps 3 times a week) I have between 3 and 14 requests waiting for me. That is just overload. Very rarely do I even check out the music (and I am the type of person who goes looking for new music), sometimes I pass judgement bassed on the photo and band name, whether this is worth my time or not. Most of the time i simply regard the requests as SPAM and deny all.
Not that all the bands are SPAM, I wouldn’t say that, I wouldn’t say that at all. Some of them turn out to be quite alright. Some of them turn out to be amazingly interesting, and those are the ones you return to, sometimes. Some of them turn out to be complete crap and then you hurry and press the backspace button.
It is just that when so many acts are demanding our attention it becomes a source of overload. It becomes SPAM.
Posted November 15th, 2009. Add a comment
