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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Cyber Fears
This video contains footage from many of the recent technologies that are emerging. Starting with the Macintosh first commercial, then first ever recording of a computer programmed to sing in the late 1940's... we see how technology has integrated, took over, and possibly extinguish us...
Friday, May 6, 2011
Film Noir
Sunset Blvd. is a film that accurately depicts the film noir era. Aside from the obvious stylistic choice of being black and white, the personalities depicted by Gills and Desmond really bring out the dark, grittiness of the film noir genre. The hard boiled detective, the use of German expressionism through action and emotion, and the femme fatal are the core elements that make this film what it is. And though these types of films that dominated the 50-50's in Hollywood, elements of the film noir style still remain prevalent today.
The Dark Knight, and even its prequel Batman Begins, shows the tail of a darkened superhero, who swears vengeance on criminality due to the slaying of his parents when he was a child. Though unlike film noir style, the series provides the entire story on how Batman became such a hardened unforgiven individual towards crime, it does provide the alpha male detective who lurks in the shadows spying on the bad guys. The Dark Knight though brings an even more film noir quality to it with the introduction of the Joker. It can be argued that the Joker himself is a very German expressionist character. He lives in his own realm of distortion, and disillusionment, a sort of altered reality run by chaos and anarchy. In a sense the mindset of the Joker, which from the start of the film to the end of the film we are made wonder what is going to happen next, and where will the cycle of mayhem end. This can be compared to Sunset Blvd. in how we are in the mind of Gills and we follow him in this downward spiral as he (and we as an audience) are sunk deeper and deeper into a situation that in the end we know he cannot get out of.
The Dark Knight, and even its prequel Batman Begins, shows the tail of a darkened superhero, who swears vengeance on criminality due to the slaying of his parents when he was a child. Though unlike film noir style, the series provides the entire story on how Batman became such a hardened unforgiven individual towards crime, it does provide the alpha male detective who lurks in the shadows spying on the bad guys. The Dark Knight though brings an even more film noir quality to it with the introduction of the Joker. It can be argued that the Joker himself is a very German expressionist character. He lives in his own realm of distortion, and disillusionment, a sort of altered reality run by chaos and anarchy. In a sense the mindset of the Joker, which from the start of the film to the end of the film we are made wonder what is going to happen next, and where will the cycle of mayhem end. This can be compared to Sunset Blvd. in how we are in the mind of Gills and we follow him in this downward spiral as he (and we as an audience) are sunk deeper and deeper into a situation that in the end we know he cannot get out of.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Mashup
This is a mashup of actual soldiers at war, at play, to the theme of Soulja Boy's "Superman" song... the effects is.. I dont know you tell me..
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Meme 1
I decided to base all my meme's off the hit movie series Robocop... it came to me while I was watching the hit movie series Robocop
Friday, March 4, 2011
Drinking Out of Cups!!!! My Original Favorite Meme
So apparently, rumor has it a man was locked in a closet while on acid... and this happened
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Medium is the Message
I believe that this Mcluhan's Medium is the message is a dictum that only has become more relevant as time and technology evolves and progresses. This is expressed when Mcluhan states:
This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
With the technological advances in telecommunications, virtual gaming, and sciences, the fact that technology has become an "extension of ourselves" is more relevant than ever. We see it in our dependency in "smart phones," how we organize our very lives on touch screens. Video games have evolved to a point where ones body can be digitally transferred into the screen for game play. And medicine and technology are capable of keeping people alive and healthy defying what other would be their natural demise. We have created technology that we not only depend on, but physically live with thus further emphasizing the words of Mcluhan in the sense that technology is an extension of our self.
This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
With the technological advances in telecommunications, virtual gaming, and sciences, the fact that technology has become an "extension of ourselves" is more relevant than ever. We see it in our dependency in "smart phones," how we organize our very lives on touch screens. Video games have evolved to a point where ones body can be digitally transferred into the screen for game play. And medicine and technology are capable of keeping people alive and healthy defying what other would be their natural demise. We have created technology that we not only depend on, but physically live with thus further emphasizing the words of Mcluhan in the sense that technology is an extension of our self.
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