There’s something very Jennifer Government about the way universities can sign up multiple students with the same last name attached to their RL first name. Jenny Fielding gives me the creeps, but probably only because of that book.
I received an issue of JPG Magazine this weekend, and it made me want to take photos again. There are three themes open now, and in an effort to encourage myself to take more photos I’ve submitted to all three. Getting the photos published is determined by popular vote, so please (feel free to) visit and cast a nod if you enjoy my work:
Breakthrough, revolution:
Beauty redefined:
Entropy, things fall apart:
That all of the photos I submitted were taken while outside of Juneau also encouraged me to order a new lens that takes better low-light photos. And in response to that, I’ve gathered up a bunch of equipment to sell. Dominoes. Magazine = art submission = art evalutaion = equipment upgrade = clearing space.
I’m noticing people eating a lot in tv shows. Not sitting around a table having a meal, but eating while doing other things. Talking, working, walking, waiting, driving. I’m also noticing it mostly with women, but I’m not sure if that’s the shows I’m watching, social training to notice women eating or not eating, or that the writers/directors are intentionally focusing on women eating. From there I’m wondering if it’s a good thing, promoting healthy eating and images of women eating to counter eating disorders, or just a reflection of a national eating habit bordering on disorder itself.
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here. I was on vacation for a couple weeks, but that doesn’t excuse the two month lapse. I did post a paper in December, but am now reworking parts of it so it’s down for the moment.
Things that have been progressing: I’ve signed on as the associate editor for an APA newsletter. Started on my last two classes for the PhD requirements. I’m excited. Decided to sell the house and move to the Lower 48 for a reintroduction to the outside world. I’ll probably take this summer off from classes to fascilitate the move. And to make sure I get another burst of enthusiasm before diving into my dissertation. Before then I need to finish up the comprehensives.
but ... back to work. someone’s got to pay for all this education.
I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries and am about to delve into reailty TV (on DVD) for a project. Last night my parents were over, and we started up An Inconvenient Truth. It was boring.
I’m not the typical television watching, in her 20s, lack of attention audience. I watch a lot of documentaries, but I read even more and listen to audio casts of lectures. It was boring.
Not only that, it was disappointing. In a documentary on global warming and increased levels of CO2 that are due to the human race ... who decided to start with Al Gore IN A CAR!?
Or living through the screen, as it may be.
A couple days ago I saw an ad at Blockbuster for their enhanced membership, the tag line was Experience More. I chuckled half to myself at the idea that sitting in front of a television set watching others act out a story was experience as opposed to the world going on outside that small rental store’s doors.
Tonight I heard on the radio that grocery stores are unveiling shopping carts with built in movies to keep kids entertained. There was a psychologist interviewed who said the increasing number of children who are either amused or bored dependent upon screens being present (waiting room tv sets, personal DVDs, minivan movies, etc) is taking away from parent child interaction and the kids aren’t learning things from the parents they should be learning.
An article in the Boston Globe yesterday about changes in marketing techniques due to changes in media reminded me once again of product endorsement in textbooks. I was not able to find any articles or research on that when I looked last, it might be time to search again. It’s pretty common knowledge that the products in major motion pictures were sold those spots, it’s even been the target of comedy in movies. However, in this world obsessed with protecting the child—why is no one concerned with the statistics textbook that talks about Camel cigarettes in its word problems?
Filmmaker Magazine has an article about how MySpace is changing independent film marketing. The potential is so great—but I just can’t get over the horror that is myspace. If the users are truly “overwhelmingly young, hip and media-savvy” WHY ARE THEY USING SUCH AN UGLY SITE? All politics of ownership aside ... where are the aesthetics? Not to mention usability. Though most of my issues are the broken pages due to enormous photos and the constant pummeling by other people’s music. Any site that loads music without letting the viewer choose to play it ... just shouldn’t be.
connecting a mac to two networks
after days of not being able to have my iMac connected to both a wireless internet connection and my local router with the printer and hard drive the answer has finally come to me, and so I share with the online world ...
the brilliant tech that I spoke to last (in a line of three) pointed me to Network Port Configurations in system preferences > network > show. simply drag airport above built-in ethernet. voila. all works well in the land of computers.
A mischievous sprite imagined to cause the inexplicable problems in the real and virtual machinery of technology.
Journey Home: a chronicle of our journey to and within Braddock, PA
Fremlin Vision: a collection of photography
