OK so my disclaimer here is that I was just not in the liveblog zone today. It takes a certain amount of cognitive function to both absorb and get what’s happening on the computer at the same time, and discussion is especially hard for me. Jeff, Marty, Mike or whoever has editing powers, please do…
Jeff- I really loved your presentation… and I have a few questions. Or, rather, some themes from your talk that I was hoping you might elaborate on. Obviously, I don’t expect you to answer all these…but maybe you could comment on one or two 🙂 AMM >What are the defining characteristics of AMM? What is…
icanhascheezburger There is the link to the site I mentioned and here is the article in the WSJ I have actually gone back through from the beginning (click start at first) and looked at every single one. The self-refferential material and in-jokes are all over the place, but I think almost anyone can read 3-4…
I am engaging in this class. 🙂 Even though I am not used to write my idea.. what I want in this class is that I am trying to apply my understandings of some theme/context into my writing, based on this lecture Prof. Jeff gave us rather than mention directly the theories. It is more useful for me. (sometime more…
Watching the G4 game channel on TV today, I came across a good (and hilarious) example of Machinima with the generative strategy of fusing gameplay with other cultural forms, in this case a comment on mainstream society. The short video was titled “Master Chief: True Hollywood Story,” and demonstrated Master Chief’s inability to cope with…
Here is an excellent question from Jimmy about the writing process buried in some comments, and I am just reproducing my answer here (slightly edited) so people don’t overlook it. Just curious…when you write, do you make a clear distinction between pre-writing and writing? Do you say, “ok, i’m done with prewriting..let’s start writing.” I…
Just as a quick post: I was looking up machinima and animutation on the ‘tubes’ and i came across this influx web site that had an interesting little post about Lily Allen’s video produced in the Sims environment… nothing too new -but- she actually reworked her song into the “Simlish” language used in the Sims…
Jeff has been reading the blog, and he loves what is happening because it helps him to know what we know as well as what we don’t know and it’s apparent that we know phenomenology but we “don’t know dick” about structuralism. He also noticed that we are mostly posting later in the week, he…
I thought it was interesting that Jeff brought up layers and time lines in class today. I’m by no means an expert with Flash or Photoshop, but I use both of them both personally and at work. Recently, I’ve started using a new program called Adobe Flex. Its the same general (ish) idea as Flash,…
As Adam and others have observed, last weeks classes on pre-writing interestingly revealed the similarity between the process of design and the process of writing. This is a really great insight for me, and I am surprised that I haven’t contemplated it before. I recall my early frustrations struggling with the design process. I’ve always…
Interaction Culture 