Category Archives: NEW MEDIA

For any of you few who may have the interest in New Media and have been following my enthusiastic postings on the course, I suppose I could share the final project, which was based upon what we’ve learned and applying … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jeez, I hate it when a fun thing becomes a serious natured chore.  Although in truth I’ve taken all I’ve learned quite seriously.  Learning something new can be exciting and the fun is in discovery and application.  Even technicalities like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well goodness, that was not a happy post below, now was it?  It does make one wonder what one dreams upon the couch.  What program was I watching, what commercial left its mark; or was I merely setting the stage … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My previous post on Weblogs caught Sallie’s eye, a long-time blogger and super writer who understands what I meant by that little bit of nostalgia over that "perfect" post, as well as the eye of Steve (or the raw nerve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While my own thoughts for my final New Media paper are formulating into a cohesive mass, another student orally presented the gist of his own.  It was fascinating in that it tied in almost all current forms of media perhaps … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A shower thought this morning; not born of black pre-dawn cigarette and coffee in a cold garage.  And yet, not a happy one; a worry for the future of the written word. Some of my best writing has long since … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another very interesting point made in New Media today was the possible necessity to squelch the individual artistic ego in favor of recognition of talent and acknowledgement of one’s own strong and weak points within a group effort. Very important, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another class geared towards understanding the demands of new media as a collaborative effort, from user to multiple specialized producers.  I well understand the need for user input, and experts within the works skilled in their areas which would theoretically … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s something I would like to do; play with rainbows, rearrange their hue of banded symmetry–add a color maybe two, and tile them across nature’s original desktop sky. Someday someone will; because of Bill. And leave the leaves on green … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the first statements that grabbed my attention in  "Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics" (I’ve linked here with his website (http://www.scottmccloud.com/)–follow links there to this particular book) was this: Definition:  Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Though I wanted the post about New Media to be more specific and analytical, it came out as a flow of words and since this is a weblog, not a term paper, I left it that way. It did kind … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Picked this Color Chart  (http://smgct.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/color_text_chart.jpg) up off the internet to illustrate in some small way the manner in which the mind is trained, or genetically wired perhaps into an order of sorting what we see. Oddly, while I fell into … Continue reading →

New Media methods catch a glimpse, a snatch of tune, a piece of time.  The time and all within it are the past.  The past becomes embedded in the future, never lost, it is present in the spaces of reality. … Continue reading → Continue reading →