Little People With Big Dreams

Browsing William Gibson’s Twitter feed for my Cine-Roman project, I came across a picture he tweeted in April regarding the falling of the cherry blossoms. In the post he talks of memory and snow as a marker of a season ending. In Japanese culture the cherry blossom tree is a symbol of renewal and through my project I wanted to…

Individual Interview: Joel, ‘The Nature Guy’ Aggregated Stories: How Sensational! Maybe Not? (Aggregation Post #1) The Digital Games (Aggregation Post #2) Classmate Interview Story: The Over-Seers of Overseas Stories

The Over-Seers of Overseas Stories

With a growing age of Global Communications, our ability to connect, share and learn about other cultures all comes down to our ability to travel across seas and countries to arrive at destinations otherwise foreign in a physical sense, anyone can google the Forbidden City in China but seeing it for yourself and having the opportunity to report on your experiences first hand is something else.…

Aggregated News Post #1-Sensationalism

Satire of Media Sensationalism/Bias https://ageofex.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/what-did-i-just-read/ Sensationalism, simply put it is any topical news that highlights or accentuates a story to attract the audience’s attention. Journalism is reporting a story, providing factual evidence where necessary and abiding by a certain ethics. It is a tricky debate, because publications need to generate…

Student Profile-Joel

Joel carving up the waves at Caves Beach in Huskisson. “Getting out, seeking adventure and getting in touch with nature is my escape.  I have no doubt that it always will be.” To many of us the ocean is just a vast body of water, a blue expanse of foreign creatures and unpredictable conditions. But for 18 year old University student, Joel Nicholson, the ocean will always be his Nirvana (and not…

CLUEDO

    In 1944 a middle aged musician by the name of Anthony E. Pratt applied for exclusive rights to the invention of his murder/mystery game, the game itself was not launched until 1949 due to post-war shortages. This game would eventually become known as Cluedo. Originally intended to pass the time in bomb shelters, is now a common family game for ages 8+.

What I have learnt of the…

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

For many people the internet is just a means of communication, research or leisure. Thinking about who owns the internet or the media in general often results in a big complex web of corporate cross-overs and billionaire fat cats. Media Ownership and Regulation in Australia article states that Australia specifically has quite a concentrated media ownership in terms of Print, TV and Radio in…

Haley’s time in Paris during the 2015 Terror Attacks.

Song: Fly Before You Fall by Cynthia Erivo, Beyond the Lights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Testing your general knowledge on Australia. When faced with some of these questions myself I had to pause for a moment so I took it to some university students to see how they fared.

To start off with this project I began thinking about the basics of authority and I came across Max Weber, who spoke of traditional authority and it made me think how it has influenced our society today in politics, world relations and essentially the way we view authority itself. My work starts off a bit more upbeat and has a…