Saturday, September 06, 2003

hello~~~~what's up??????? am... i don't know what i link up to the blog in this time.....
everyone who are reaslly sensitive in sounds, i recommend one of new technology of the audio system....^^
which name is " iaudio" which is like mp3, really small size and ultimated sounds provided...
we are get used to hold mini audio things like walkman,cdp. now we've got fresh and good up grade model for handing audio which are MD, MP3,,,,, mp3 which is very easy to use and save many musics in inside if the machine downloading from computer..
also, has many function and show screen writing, pictures such as


and also, give you guys this web page~~~~^^
http://eng.iaudio.com/

am!!!! ond of mp3 model showing
small isn't it?????????????????????????????????????????????
okidoki......you have greate time with music sounds all the time.,..,,,,,,,,,
posted by Anonymous at 10:19 PM

I found that PS2 is quite famous in New Zealand rather than online game but many Korean play online game rather than PS2 or XBOX whatever. In 2000, most of the top ten successful companies’ CEO were the owners of the online game company. There are a lot of things attractive to users such as listing of their ranking, upgrading their characters and playing in the virtual world. Unfortunately, there was a big battle between two groups to get better items in the specific place for six hours. The name of the game was ‘lineage 2’. Around 300 gamers were there. Nobody hurt and nobody was killed in real. However, there was issue before that in the real world people committed outrage to other people to take another’s game items. Some people even sell and buy the game item in the real world. What I want to say is playing a game is not just making a fun. The virtual world makes an influence on the real world in some aspects and the gamers become more serious as it becomes a part of real world.
posted by Anonymous at 10:15 PM

Born from animation, cinema pushed animation to its periphery, only in the end to become one particular case of animation. The special effects that differs from the "normal" filmmaking involved human intervention into machine-recorded footage and which were therefore delegated to cinema's periphery throughout its history, which become the norm of digital filmmaking. In digital filmmaking shot footage is no longer the final point, it is merely raw material to be manipulated on a computer, where the real construction of a scene will take place. Traditional on-set filming for Stars Wars: Episode 1---The Phantom Menace (Lucas, 1999) was done in just sixty-five days. The postproduction, however, stretched over two years, since 95% of the film was constructed on a computer. For a computer, a film is an abstract arrangement of colors changing in time, rather than something structured by “ shot”, “narrative,” “actors,” and so on.
posted by Anonymous at 9:35 PM

Hey all. Hope holidays are going well. Este es blog numero tres. 4 to follow soonish.

I have some latebreaking news, more latebreaking as I haven't had the chance to blog. Fran's mentioning of Burger King makes this a little more relevant, and our last lecture was also on the network society.

On Monday afternoon(2nd September) Burger King Queen St was subjected to a sizeable Flashmob. The Flashmob invited people to register interest via email through the site .

Those interested were told to meet in Aotea Square at 12:45 and find a man wearing a yellow raincoat with a bullseye painted on the back. Once they found him, they were to greet him by saying 'Good Afternoon Monty{Monty Python reference?} while simulataneously tapping their nose. Instructions from 'Monty' were soon to follow: "Stand in front of the till and avoid eye contact with the staff. Frown at the menu...but dont order anything. At 12:50 we should all be present. Start mooing like a cow. All diferent kinds of moos. Continue to look as if you're ordering though."

Meanwhile all the staff are frantically preparing food in anticipation of peoples orders. According to the herald they had 100 buns underway,as well as 10 chickens, eight baskets of fries and 4 trays of meat patties before they realised that no-one was actually ordering.

At 12:51 they were instructed to "smile at staff and give them a huge round of applause" then at 12:52 "leave quickly and return to the matrix and your normal life."

Through the decentralised network nature of the internet, people were able to organise this protest against the King of Burgers via txt message & email. This is the first reported flashmob in Auckland if not New Zealand, perhaps a sign of things to come. Its interesting to see that we live in an age where technology enables protest of this nature to take shape in our own backyard. I'd only eat McD's or any other fast food if stranded on a desert island with nothing else, & even then I'd question my morals. Why didnt they choose ol McD's as opposed to hungry jacks/BK?

Love your honesty Rob, loud & proud.

Arvid, I totally agree with you on the broadband issue. Theres a whole bunch of not only manga but film festival films that even Videon doesnt have but which are available off the net. If this is the only way in which media can be seen, then why should media consumers feel bad about downloading it if they have the ability to.


Jess, havnt seen the film but heard its pretty out there in a good way. I'm pretty sure its Al Pacino instead of Robert De Niro playing the movie director though.

Heres a pic of the flashmob(fingers crossed)


posted by Anonymous at 8:40 PM

hi,guys:) How's your holiday going? Hope everybody can enjoy themselves.The most thing i did within these two weeks is that search the internet, no matter what purpose of using it:look for the materials for my assignment or chat with my friends in China,etc.Today,when i was using the internet to do shopping online at home,suddenly i raised a kind of feeling:fear.I do not konw whether i should trust internet to do the things like this way.In modern society,is the internet is really helpful or harmful? Has the internet given criminals a better chance of getting away with crimes?Can people violate our privacy over the internet? I searched some websites and the statistics show that it is not safe to make purchases over the internet.

With the increase of online shopping,it has made it easier for criminals to commit crimes.These online businesses are taking personal information off customers,and the customers do not even know they are taking this information.Once your personal information is taken over the internet,it is available to criminals who know how to find this information.

The harsh reality of the internet is that it has harmed society in a way.The internet has allowed criminals to do whatever they want over the internet.We gave crooks a better opportunity to defraud people and get away with their crimes.The internet has allowed criminals to take innocent and non-expecting consumers through fake transactions.People have to realize that when making purchases over the internet,they must take every precausion possible.This will help them avoid being scammed.Before doing business online,look for a posted privacy policy,this will decrease the chances of someone taking personal information.This is a web site that gives advice on what to look for in internet frauds.http://www.scambusters.com

Hope it can help:)

posted by Anonymous at 7:46 PM

so i slacked off alittle on the blog circuit but this one will make amends and bring me up to 4... i think. This is mostly gonna be in response to an over whelming problem that seems to affect most users. that computers are incredibly tempormental and increasingly annoying even with the radical "advancements" that are being made. People are starting to worry that one day computers will be doing all the jobs and make people increasingly obsolete. i think jess refered to the technology not having emotional and physical needs. i don't think im alone here but my computer suffers from deep set emotional problems in that some mornings the thing just don't feel like fuckin working. cause it can't fix itself there will always be a need for humans to sort them out, even with having a good hang over now and again. if there's gonna be anything that the machine will take over in its gonna be war based and then that'll go wrong and we all be fucked anyway. so thats my pessimistic out view on the world of technology but at least being a pessimist you're never disapointed, and more often then not pleasantly surprised.
laters...
posted by Anonymous at 7:17 PM

Okay, so this is my first entry for a wee while. Having troubles with the net at home you see...

This entry to some is probably going to seem quite mundane, but it has just accured to me the relevance it has on society today. One of my mates' ex-girlfriends has a broadband connection to the internet, which he took great pleasure in using while they were going out. Now that they've broken up, they have stayed mates and I wonder how much influence the broadband connection has in the matter of them staying friends. My mate has an obsession with Japanese Manga/Anime movies and T.V series and uses his x's net connection to download them. At the mo, on my desk is a CD he burned with episodes 1- 6 of Trigun (A series about a dude called Vash the Stampeed wanted for six million double dollars). Its a fucking cool programme as well. Its pretty violent, humerous, and beautifully animated. But there is little to no chance of seeing the show on NZ t.v, unless you were to go to Video slEzy and pay 8 bucks to rent it on DVD.

It seems that the beauty of the net, p2p and broadband connections is that it has the ability to break down cultural barriers. You can get stuff from other countries (like Trigun, and other examples) that would be hard to find here, and its all free of charge (bar service providers etc..). This can pose a question, is world wide culture going to become more intergrated, universal with the rise of more advanced communications and online services? Or is it merely the ONLINE WORLD (not the literal physical one in which we live) whos culture is more universal?


posted by Anonymous at 6:18 PM

Wow, I 'was' a blog user!
I knew the word 'blog' means Web + Login (oh by the way the word 'blog' is registed as an 'word' in oxford dictionary)
but I though blog is just for this blogger.com but I found an article from newspaper that realizes I 'am' a blog user.
It said the blog user in Korea is now became more than 10 millions... for example,
http://ftvms.cyworld.com is FTVMS site of Korean Students in Auckland university... but I never knew it was kind of a
blog system..

Well, thatt's it for now I gotta go work~ :)
posted by Anonymous at 3:44 PM

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Friday, September 05, 2003

There are three major game makers in the world mainly Nintendo, XBOX and PS2. Now we have one more that is Phantom from the USA. It has the latest graphic card and intel CPU so the company insists that it has much better performance than any others. It is now a bit expensive. Unfortunately, phantom has not come out to market yet. Let’s have a look at what is the next evolution of the game machine on the web. The interesting thing this new game machine can do is that gamers can download the game from the online. This function is totally different from present game machines like ps2 and XBOX. This machine is made by parts of personal computers so game software companies are able to develop their technology for this machine.
posted by Anonymous at 4:49 PM

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Thursday, September 04, 2003

hey there,
I have just been sitting down reading this blog thing for way longer than I want to be on the internet, I remember why I stopped aimlessly surfing the net when I was 16 I find that time just gets sucked into a no where in other words you can waste a lot of time, another waste of time I have to mention is something someone just mentioned a couple of blogs ago about the text competition that is in progress on channel two, can someone actually tell me in all honesty that they believe they may win somthing off that, i mean apart from a burger king number 1 meal. Maybe its just cause these kind of comps have'nt been around for long and im finding the transition from ring in comp (where you have the satisfaction that you have left your name and address safely on that answer machine) not that I ever did that either, anyway if you didnt fill out that vodafone form when you first got your phone then dont enter! but thats pretty obvious but I find it hard to believe that after you send that message you have a chance, people may forget that when they filled in that form they were still living at home or some random flat 2 years ago, (and doesnt that bother you that by a simple text message someone can find out where we live) anyway I guess I just find that as a student I need all that credit I can get on my phone, therefore in order to last me a month on a $20 phone card comps that cost 99 cents is not in my budget, I mean thats 5 texts just about!!!!
posted by Anonymous at 3:14 AM

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Wednesday, September 03, 2003

How's everybody's holiday!?
wu~~been having so much fun since last Friday. I see many people have been working very hard during the break~~ keep up lo!
Now it's time back to my 3rd entry.

I want to talk about hacker this time.
Many PC have been affected by virus in last couple of weeks, and I keep receiving many virus via the e-mails.
It's all thanks to these hackers..
But we have only looked their bad sides..
In cyberspace, there are many bad hackers who break into other people's PC or steal confidential stuff.
in the other hands, there are also "good" hackers who are against big companies, and they believe free open sources...
without them, we can't enjoy these free software, and they always try to develop new software that against these expensive software developed by the big companies...

It's very hard to say all the hackers are bad for each individual. Hackers kind of form their own cyber culture around these days.
Some hackers do the damage to our computers, and some hackers crack the software for us..
Now we can still enjoy these "good" hackers while we are consumers... I don't think we will enjoy any of these hackers once
you own a company.
posted by Anonymous at 5:47 AM

some beautiful images! Have a cup of tea and enjoy your holiday


















posted by Anonymous at 1:26 AM

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Tuesday, September 02, 2003

Hi, all. How is holiday going! My friend told me one website which is the world’s smallest website. Here is the link!guimp.com It is small, but it seems to me that there is no rich content inside. I didn’t look at this website carefully:) just for fun!

Ok, now look at this website. raku-gaki.com/If you like aesthetic stuff, this is good choice. But it is not serious art:). This website is designed by Japanese. Don’t worry it is an English language website! The images, colour and music of this website are great. different image with different backgroud music. I can understand meanings of some images that the designer wants to show people, but some of them i can not understand. It’s really not a common website!
Have fun!


posted by Anonymous at 2:22 AM

-photo description ->this is while actors are on break. The costume tells the audience the story was set 300 years in the past, but one actor plays with mobile phone. One who sit on the floor is one of the main actor.

power of cyber community....
Cyber community is really powerful in Korea.
The word, Netizen is equally as meaningful as a citizen.
For eample..befor I give you examples, I have to tell tou about television stations in Korea.
There are 5 mainstream TV station, SBS(private) KBS one, KBS two(public) MBC(private) and EBS(public), and conutless cable stations.
Each station make thier own progrmmes and compete each other..Of 5 station EBS has the lowest demographic audiences because they make only educational progrmmes.
Anyway...recently MBC produced mini series drama called Da-mo. It means a policewomen few hunred years back.
The programme was really sensational. It was television drama but used many film making skills(due to this drama demand of the LCD television increased alot). Many people call this Da-mo syndrome.
My poin here is end of the drama is alredy decided. All three main characters will die(one woman and two men).
One cyber community now making movement to change this end.(seem so pointless to me but after I addicted to this progrmme I am one of them)
Well..people from this cyber community feel really pitty for the woman(actually the main hero) so the community tries to save a woman's life and many people write petition(4000 at this stage) so programme makers can make reference to the ending of the programme. Well..now the programme makers are in dilemma. Nobody knows the ending, even the producers.

This is not the first time. Many cyber community of such and such programme changef the ending of what they wanted.
Well..what do you think? I think due to the cyber communities tlelvision audience is not passive any more.
They are not just reciever...through internet, they participate the programme making
posted by Anonymous at 2:09 AM

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Monday, September 01, 2003

Donkey porn aside, hypertext does indeed bring to question traditional concepts of authorship. Consider two new texts: Shape by Sugababes feat. Sting and Rise and Fall by Craig David feat. Sting.

Both of these texts have their textual space constructed by a common historic musical text Shape of my Heart by Sting. In the absence of this historic text neither of the new texts would exist. These are not the first texts to sample SOMH - to the damnedest of my knowledge the first was The Message by Nas.

The sting in this discussion though (hah, yes) is that hypertext effaces history. No text has an origin, only an existence. The timeline for a text is effaced, and space a becomes better metaphor.
No Sting, then Nas, then Sugababes and David in a series of texts.
Just Sting, Nas, Sugababes and David in a flow or canon of texts.

Consider also that Sting didn't even play the guitar hook (Dominic Miller did) sampled by each of the subsequent texts let alone produce the track.Nas didn't produce the sampled backing beat (Poke & Tone did), and that Sugababes and Craig David seldom write they material they perform and authorship has as much chance of having ownership claimed over it as the Sugababes CD in my room.

"It's mine, It's mine, It's Mine"
Nas feat. Pete Rock - The World is Yours (note Scarface reference)
- Dan
posted by Anonymous at 8:21 PM

Ahem... Well, onto more mundane matters, I promised to post essay questions by today on the class website. What I didn't account for was that our web server would curl up and die. So, whilst we can 'blog' (as this is hosted outside the University), I can't post anything up to other parts of the site due to circumstances b.m.c. Hopefully this will be rectified in the next day or two. (I know how desperate you all are to get stuck in to the essay :-] ).
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 8:00 PM

There is a lecture coming up on 'cybersex'. This is an issue which is very close to my heart and which I believe I am amply qualified to discuss. Ever since I first gained access to the Internet via my parents’ computer in about '98 I have been viewing pornographic websites and have consequently seen online smut evolve into the glorious and varied beast that it is today (keep in mind that word ‘beast’). Porn has become a large part of my life - so much so that I even hesitate when asking for a cream pie at the bakery. Some of you will be saying "Crikey, this guy's a dirty f*cker." Well, I am. But so are a LOT of people, I am just comfortable talking about it.

For the benefit of FTVMS203 and myself I have been conducting exhaustive solo research into Internet porn. This often involves lonely late nights at the keyboard, eyes red and sore - this is MY crusade. Many people will question the value of porn research and claim loftily that porn is the domain of a depraved underclass, that it is a bloated malignant barnacle affixed to the swelling underbelly of the vessel of public discourse, that it is a pestilent bog of rotting stench located in obscure, feared and oft skirted latitudes of society. Wrong! Porn is the glue that holds our communities together. OK it’s not, but follow me if you will, as I dive headlong into that pestilent bog.

I had better wrap this up, but I will continue in later posts. However, before I do, allow me to share an anecdote:

I have always considered myself to be a pretty fun guy, so when I browse the ‘net I always try to have fun. This quest for fun, however, took a sinister and unexpected turn recently when I tried to get more specific in my online fun hunt. I am so keen on fun that you might say I am ‘hardcore’. Anyway, I decided to focus my fun hunt on a sentimental fondness for my younger days (I spent some of my youth on a farm), therefore my search ran thus: “Hardcore+Barnyard+Fun”. What I found was a shocking yet stimulating world of man-beast relations. When I entered this world I joined the growing numbers of those who are transcending taxonomic boundaries. I will not pollute the innocent minds of my fellow class members with details of what I saw on these websites. All I will say is that if I ever have a wife, she will not own a horse.


P.S Big up the Warriors, absolutely dangerous. Keep on rinsin' boys.
posted by Anonymous at 7:05 PM

Speaking of virtual bands and the 80's, remeber the California Raisins?
Started off as an advertising gimmick and soon exploded into chart success with an album of Motown covers and their own animated series. The guy who produced them would later sign the highly animated gimmick group N.W.A. I wouldn't be too quick to call them raisins though :o)
I heard it through the grape vine.
- Dan
posted by Anonymous at 4:35 AM

Living in a digital world, we do give up some of our privacy but i dont think that we'll reach the point where we'll be ready go give it all up. Although there are websites that let u look at what's going on in people's daily lives, most people would rather watch these people than be watched themselves. Plus people welcome devices that let them keep their privacy while using certain technologies. On AIM (instant messenger), you can block someone so that they can't see that you're online. Caller ID lets you see who's calling and you can decide if you want to pick up the phone or not. You can even block calls. In the US you could put your name on a certain list which would prohibit telemarketers from calling your number.
posted by Anonymous at 12:31 AM

I was just reading the blogs...and i noticed your comment kathleen, im not sure if i get it...are you saying i dont make valid comments? or are you saying that i've infringed on others valid comments? or are you just affirming my valid points?
I dunno, just seeking some clarification...
By the way, i think that there is that 'certain' element to chat rooms, whereby you can express yourself through the typed word, after all, it is impossible to say nothing with the written word. Its quite refreshing, but you have to understand the tone in a room...my philosophy is to just chill, take nothing seriously etc...I just wish there was a way to have a class chat room, i can set one up in xtramsn, but the room disappears whenever there is no-one in it, so thats next to useless. If anyone wants to chat, then i say just use msn messenger to instant message...feel free to msg me, im pretty liberal to strangers feelin chatty, but then i'm used to chat rooms.
Cherios
Matt
posted by Matt at 12:00 AM

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Sunday, August 31, 2003

Alamein - here's how you post images. First, try and give your image a unusual file name (if it's called "image.jpg" it may overwrite another image already uploaded by someone else). Then use the 'upload file' button to do just that. (On my browser it shows up as a paperclip above the window you type your posts into.) Let's say that your image is called "myphoto.jpg" (tres unusual, I know)... here's what you write into your post (except with pointy brackets instead of curly ones):

{img src="http://ftvms203.blogspot.com/myphoto.jpg"}

Hey presto (hopefully)...

If the image is a tad on the large side, you can easily resize it, e.g.

{img src="http://ftvms203.blogspot.com/myphoto.jpg" width="200"}

would make it 200 pixels wide. Hope that works for you...

By the way, as some of you know (ahem) you can link directly to an image from another website rather than uploading it to the blog. But this tends not only to break copyright law but also to seriously piss off the hosting webmaster because they are effectively paying for ("stolen") bandwidth every time anyone visits this blog. Please refrain from doing this as I'm sure it's just a matter of time before I get a nasty email (if not a bill) about this. Merci beaucoup.

Limin - as administrator, I can go back and edit or delete any previous posts using the "manage posts" button. I'm pretty sure you should also be able to do this for your own posts as an ordinary blog member. Let me know if you have trouble.

Rhobi - whaddya mean, they won't know who LP is?! I was actually more interested in sparking off a discussion about the highs and lows of the Madness discography, but I suppose you're gonna tell me I've misjudged my audience there, too ;-)

Finally, if anyone can tell me why the 'signatures' at the bottom of the most recent posts have changed format, I'd be grateful. My fondness for the blog as a form of communication is getting a bit obscured by the irritations and idiosyncracies I'm discovering in respect of Blogger.com. Has anyone used another outfit?


posted by Technoculture and New Media at 7:06 PM

trying the picture again

posted by Anonymous at 6:03 PM

Hongkong phooey.bmp

I had two wuzzles when I was little Butterbear and Hoppo, but I have always been the retro 80's fan of not just cartoons, but Television remember Alf, or even music - go Kenny Loggins( refer Footloose). If you too want a flashback to the 80's try this welcome back to the 80's . Who said you couldn't go back in time.

What I did want to talk about in this blog ( Late as it is - was suppose to be last weeks) is the virtual community in cyberspace, and what part it plays in today's society. In "The Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold, he talks about in his first chapter how he fist got involved was by logging on into a Parents chat room and asking how to get a tick from his child's head. It was 11pm at night and most doctors are not available, and he got an answer straight away. In the years that followed it became a network of friends supporting, caring for one another as they are parents. This made me think of the websites Luke gave us of still born babies and the photos making them look normal. Only people who go through that experience could understand and talking to someone no matter what time the day, can be completely therapeutic. Rhingold goes on to talk about the idea of the Third Place ( and no not Playstation 2).
This refers to how we have a place to work and a place to live, but the third place is where we gather to chat, which previously has been in cafe's or perhaps the beauty parlour, or the pub. The point is we now can gather in chat rooms conversing with people who face we may not know, but it works. For some you can express more effectively when you write, when public speaking makes your stomach to flip flops or you are in a situation where you don't have time to think about what you are going to say - Cyberspace becomes then a source of solace, a community where you can relax, be yourself, and have generally good thought out conversation - and maybe make some valid points- eh Matt!!!!
I myself have yet to have the courage to enter a chat room, but hey if I can stand infront of a group of people and speak, is not the risk lower in a chat room, and maybe you will get more benefit than you realise.

Have an awesome holiday people!

posted by Anonymous at 5:39 PM

Hi all – great Blog.

Luke

How many of your students do you think have any idea who Leslie Philips is? You will have to give some demonstrations of the correct way to say ‘hello’ ‘ding dong’ and of course ‘left hand down a bit’

Rhobi Munanka

The stuff offered on the hackers home page may be legal but its hard to think of many uses for this equipment that is legal or ethical – copying or altering credit and smart cards, spying on others. This in my opinion is cracking rather than hacking.


Arvid Longly-Kay

Zone alarm is a great program. Although Zone Alarm Pro will ask you to pay after a week, the standard version is free. It can be downloaded here. If you are accessing the net from a Microsoft operating system you are most unwise to do so without a firewall. All Microsoft systems win 95 98 2000 millennium XP leave ports open. This is how worms, viruses and malicious hackers can enter your system. Zone Alarm will block these ports and give you control over what enters or leaves your computer. If you were running XP and got infected with the blaster worm – it came into your computer through port 135 – no-one running Zone Alarm got infected. If you want to know just how secure your computer is and how much information about yourself you are making available when you surf , go to this site and scroll down to shieldsUp. Another good program to have is Ad-aware – this gets rid of spy ware that tracks your movements on the net and reports them back to a central database. Spyware can slow your computer down and also take over part of your processing power and make it available to someone else. If you think that this doesn’t apply to you – try it and see. Better safe than sorry.

Suzanne Casey

Credit card transactions over the net should only be done with sites that display a security policy and offer encrypted transactions. Online banking is secure as long as you don’t keep passwords on your computer.


Katherine Jariel

If you want to experiment with sound get some programs from here. Play with them to your hearts content. No one will tell you to keep your hands off.


posted by Anonymous at 7:20 AM

Digital compositing, making together different images within one short. a short may consist of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of images layers. These images may all have different origins---film shot on location(live plates), computer-generated sets or virtual actors, digital matte paintings, archival footage, and so on.. Following the success of Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, most Hollywood films began to utilize digital compositing to create a least some of their shots. Digital compositing does represent a qualitatively new step in the history of visual simulation because it allows the creation of moving images of nonexistent worlds. Computer generated characters can move within real landscapes; conversely, real actors can move and act within synthetic environments. In these stunning shots of the launching of the Titanic, the entire ship is in view. The constant presence of passengers on the Titanic's decks brings home the immediacy of the tragedy, as well as the realism of the ship sequences. For this shot, Digital Domain composited photography of the 1/20 scale miniature ship, along with numerous greenscreen-shot extras, and digital matte paintings to depict the Southampton dock. Although this kind of close scrutiny somewhat reveals the true nature of the passengers, it also sheds some light onto the massive amounts of painting and rotoscoping necessary to place the CG people behind the miniature railings. Within the natural scale of their shots, the digital passengers never disclose their real origins in any of the shots of TITANIC, due to their fine tracking and compositing.
posted by Anonymous at 4:53 AM

Oh yeah, congrats to 80's pop guru Matt.
A bevy of shmallows awaits you: be sure to share ; )

Film students: note that Chris Marker's La Jetee (1962) is the most realistic time-travel movie, probably the best short film in existence too. Any detractors?
Check it out in plush VHS format in the AV Library.

Heel Up, Wheel Up, Hear Me Come Back Rewind
- Dan
posted by Anonymous at 4:36 AM

Grimmer you punk, GNN was going to be my post! (heh)
strictly on account of they employ hip-hop aesthetics in the production of their newsvideo. They've also got this righteous spoken word joint with Slam Poetry champ Taalaam Acey over Dead Prez beats.

Anywho, me and 3-D rocked on up to Auckland Art Gallery on Friday night to watch the premier of the new documentary Ngatahi: Know the Links produced and directed by Dean 'Te Kupu' Hapeta of Upper Hutt Posse. Damn it was good. Armed with a camera and a cause Te Kupu to documents the struggle of indigenous and colonised people the world over. Travelling throughout Australia, Cuba, Jamaica, Columbia, France, Hawaii and the US - Te Kupu discovers a universality in opressed peoples' struggle for self-determination. On the filmic side the documentary did very well, styled only by its lack of stylisation - no voice-over, do dramatic recreation, no sets - just real people in their own real place, fighting a very, very real struggle.

Without exception, the communities Te Kupu visited expresse their discontent with oppression in a similar cultural form: Rhyme and Percussion. Rap. About this time I'd like to quote Wen Wang's point from his latest blog about Street B-Ball videos online - and underground media networks in general. Digital technologies represent a democratization of media production and distribution, it's the whole pro-sumer thing. Ngatahi was shot entirely on DV and is being distributed independently on DVD, avoiding a mass of barriers usually involved in film distribution.

It's also interesting to note that this form of media production meets practice in quite similar 'underground' cultures: Hip-Hop, Street B-Ball and most notably Skateboarding. They all share a common aesthetic of reconfiguration or repurposing of urban space, and I think there's something more that they share with each other too... something about prestige culture and pro-sumption. But that's more a cultural theory than technocultre thing I guess. If anyone in the class is really keen on Skateboarding and the video magazine genre especially I'd really like to know more.

- Dan
posted by Anonymous at 4:33 AM

Still on the topic of Hackers from last week, i got thinking about all the dangers of buying things online. With the increased ease and promotion to buy things online more and more people are doing so (not to mention that things are cheaper to buy online eg airfares). This means that more and more people are putting details such as their credit card number into websites that they dont even know the security behind. It is easy enough for anyone to get hold of your email address (hence the amount of junk mail hotmail users get) so it cant be too much harder to get hold of credit card and other personal details if you know what you are doing. Also with the amount of people using internet banking these days so many peoples bank account details could be possibly be available to hackers. Its kind of scary to think of and not something that most people really think too much about when booking their latest holiday online.

One last thing i will add for this weeks blog is a website - www.virtualnpc.co.nz. - my flat mates and I have a competition going of who will end the NPC season with the most points. Basically what you do is put in your pics each week for which team will win and the margin they will win by for each of the NPC games in all 3 divisions. Its a bit of fun, especially if you have a group of extremely competitive friends. Thats all for this week folks, enjoy the holidays.
posted by Anonymous at 4:31 AM

Well after a huge endeavour to finally get in the blog site...i think my frustration will deminish and i'll feel more at ease. For me it is a mission to just check my email account. So having to do a blog once a week i find takes a huge effort. I've been totally consumed in my two assignments that i feel lucky to even have the time to do this one post.
I think the most exciting experience i've had recently with the media is the competition running on television two where you text in selected words to the number '2244' in hope to win instant prizes or go into the major draw to win a ford focus...etc...etc...etc...Even though there is a low possibility of me actually winning, it still doesn't put me off participating. It's like your part of a huge network with people but you never actually have one on one contact. To me it is just a bit of harmless fun...and if i win that's great but if i don't well i guess i wasted 50cents on each text..oh well.
One more thing i have no idea of how to make images appear in our posts...so i'd really appreciate if someone could just quickly do a step by step guide of how, that would be great. i feel as if my posts drag with no pause for break or even a sense of style, entertainment or colour.
So to everyone enjoy your holiday and try not to study too hard, lol
posted by Anonymous at 3:31 AM

Hey how's your weekend going. I just want to talk something about internet culture because in these days we have known more about new media, mos about the internet. In my mind, the internet culture appears with internet's being and using. Internet is a new system, or it can be called a new "planet" which composed with internet equipment, computer and people. In general ,they are called "internet worm". They culture that created by these people is the real internet culture which about expressing their emotion and feeling, the life philosophy and talking the problems about the network society. So the internet culture should be based the resoures, things and problems in internet but not out of internet. The people's ideology, aesthetics theory, the creational ways and the technology's development decide new internet's coming. What is more, different regions have distinct internet culture.
posted by Anonymous at 3:27 AM

It's time for organisations to do better on their systems, in orders to protect customers information to be accessed by intruders. The information can easily be misuse by those individuals, for example bank account and credit card information can be used by somebody else to purchase goods, which is what we dont want. Some web sites gives slight information on hacking and phreaking Click Here to see type of services offered, it looks like only dealing with legal and not illegal stuff.
posted by Anonymous at 1:34 AM

hi,guys, Are u interested in web camera?^_^ For me,I like it.As an overseas student,I cannot see my patents or friends everyday,not like the local students.However,I have a web camera which i can ulitilise it to communicate or see them whenever i want to see:) It is very convenient!!!

Cameras are ubiquitous today,and,from a technology perspective,the revolution is just beginning.Video cameras are becoming smaller and cheaper while the Internet is enabling unlimited live webcasting.Web camera usage has grown from one in 1991 to hundreds in the mid-1990s to hundreds of thousands today.

Too many, this is good news.Public webcams enable remote users to see what they would otherwise need to visit,and enpower local subjects to have a voice and a face to the outside world.Private webcams enpower friends and family to see each other remotely and to check up on the safety of their homes and their loved ones.^_^

But there is a dark side.While hidden cameras are clearly an invasion of privacy,visible public cameras can be as well.A camera placed in a legally valid site can peer into otherwise private spaces.Their connections to the Internet enable arbitrary numbers of users to watch anonymously.Beside that,Camera's surveillance creates many internet crimes.So due to this kind of situation,as the webcam users,how can we evaluate its functions? Can we say the pros outweigh the cons,or vise versa? I'm so sorry, I cannot make up my mind at this moment:)

posted by Anonymous at 1:13 AM

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