Thursday, November 15, 2007

Vignettes


I sit and gawk concealed among the carefree families and friends.


Here I watch her destroy my memories where she had got into my mind and stole the thoughts I held dear to my heart.


Holding hands with a man I was still deeply in love with, she strolled at midday along the edge of the harbor before a romantic sunset dinner.


Before dark, when the terraces are lit up, they share an intimate moment.




Thursday, November 8, 2007

Is everything we see real in reality??

I really didn’t understand it, I tried my best to but I ended up with some few words.

In this article Char Davies is talking about virtual reality and basically how we can feel and see things which aren’t really real in reality. It explores consciousness and perception of the kind of place of something new that we are actually creating it now. It is a dream but where we are conscious so we control what is going on.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Script Outline

Defining the message:

During the oil crisis in 1973, OPEC no longer shipped petroleum to those nations that supported Israel. People stood in big lines waiting for gas. We don’t want that again! If Hugo Chavez the president of Venezuela keeps saying he will cut off all the supplies to the United States, then sooner or later we will end up having the same crisis that we had 34 years ago.

How propaganda is used:

I used demagogue. I showed a part where Hugo curses Bush to bring anger. I also manipulated some of the pictures and made them look a lot worse than they really are, I

Section 1: A daily show

One of Hugo Chavez daily shows

Voiceover: “Spanish” translated into English, To say it in my bad English... You are a donkey! Mr. Danger. You are a donkey Mr. Danger.

Section 2: Channel 4 News

A broad cast show.

Voiceover: He’s described as Washington’s Latin nightmare, as singing South American president of the war with the United States. But Hugo Chavez of Venezuela remains despite Washington’s decision yesterday to impose an arms embargo against this country.

Section 3: The Message

Still images in slideshow format (images scaled to the left and from the center, cross and dissolve, and cross fade, some text on one picture, Are you ready to wait in line for gas again?).

Voiceover: And says he will cut off all supplies to the United States if more dangers are imposed. But he says he is protecting himself against US aggressions and says he might join forces with Tiran in that planned undemingly US dollar by selling their oil in euros.

Section 4: Encouraging

Last part of the Hugo’s daily talk show

Voiceover: “Spanish” translated into English, if you ever come up with the crazy idea of invading Venezuela, I’ll be waiting for you in this savannah, Mr. Danger.
“English” Come in here Mr. Danger. Come in here.
Section 5: The end

One picture format (with text written on it, danger donkey vs. demagogue).

Venezuela

Thursday, October 18, 2007

My Sound Scape

Is Venezuelas agression towards the United States a threat?


Venezuela has been hostile against the United States of America for a while because of false allegations that the United States army had been in involved in his captivation and an attempted assassination of the President Hugo Chavez. Venezuela’s hate towards the US makes America a possible target especially with the amount of missile and fire arms. They have a strong air force and army. Their aggressive behavior with the United States only puts us in the hot seat as a target. With their ongoing relations with our enemies in Cuba it only makes us more vulnerable for possible attacks. Cuba too has missile sites and is in bad relations with the United States because of our isolation of them. To add to this, Venezuela, our number one oil supplier, has raised the oil prices, making it more difficult for us to negotiate with them and forcing other OPEC countries to raise their prices as well. Today Venezuela is vulnerable, tomorrow who knows who will join the new axis of evil to fight against the United States. It is important for the United States to seek its own interests for the people, and today, as has been stated, it is proven that Venezuela is a major threat to the United States and whether we act today as a super power country or tomorrow after Chavez has attacked, Venezuela will always be a threat as long as the leader is in power.

Can technology invade ones privacy?

From what I understood of the reading is that the dynamic book can be a channel for everyone’s creativity, it lets people all over the world to share and express their feelings and imagination through it. At the beginning I was asking my self, can a person control this dynamic book? I mean what if he or she thought of something and didn’t want to share it with anyone else but themselves, would it automatically send their thoughts to other people? “Imagine having your own self-contained knowledge manipulator in ..” Do we want to imagine that?
But then when I started reading more and more, I realized what this dynamic book can actually look like. Its not just about thoughts and feelings, its about your own memory, everything you have saved in you stored just in one small device. But at the end, its just too DYNAMIC to be true.