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…

Read more Prewriting Versus Writing: Is There a Boundary?

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…

Read more simlish – lily allen video

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…

Read more Lecture liveblog 9-25-07

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,…

Read more Stepping off the Timeline

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…

Read more from chaos to order

Series of Bioharzard / Evil Resident are always a popular RPG video game based on Sony Play station device for more than ten years. Recently I play the Biohazard IV on Nintendo’s Wii device, and there are something I found when I went through the end. First, the video can not break the limit of…

Read more Reflection-In-Action

Last week’s lecture series regarding the process of prewriting was certainly helpful and welcomed, but it also created new questions.  Few can debate the overall value pre-writing incurs on a finish product, but does this process work universally for all individuals?  Are specific methods (outlines, free writing, and making sticky notes) more suitable for certain…

Read more Think, Write, Revise

The readings so far in this course have generated so many questions in my mind having to do with the relationship between media and tools and intelligence and creativity. For instance… According to Buxton, “Both sketching and design emerged in the late medieval period, and this was not accident.” Did a rise in creativity follow…

Read more creativity and the design of tools, and more tools, and more tools…