i love flickr.

i fancy myself as something of a terrible amature photographer, and i often look to flickr for some inspiration, or something to make me envious. this photo set is one of the latter.

danske takes some amazing photos, but the defaced set of polaroids is amazing. the color, focus and harsh black texta across the image are so poignant of the feelings (felt?) by so many 20 somethings today. its not as extreme as the 13-17 emo crowd (plus, its way un-cool to be an emo right?) but its not as angry/sad swing feeling as the 27-35 crowd. this is a generation of people who were told repeatedly its ok to be different, while all the same time making us feel nerd-tastic for liking the smurfs, thinking ben stiller is a knob and watching “labyrinth” so many times you could recite it word for word. we aren’t happy all the time. but we aren’t sad either.

thats my rant.

go visit the set.

now.

defaced

so dudes, week five is upon us and in the in-class this week was to find your favourite site and present it to the class. i came up with three, cause i’m industrial like that

Website #1 – Ted Tap’s Blog

“a celebration of brain gushings and nonsense” this is the one i used in class, i said it was pretty conventional in its set up, service and functionality.   it is a fictional blog written by a friend of mine who attends UTS. as far as i understand it is a similar assignment as ours, a weekly blog, however his has to be fictional. it is web2.0 with user generated content, part of an online community etc. i like reading it because his imagination is insane and i love the idea of a guy who lives on top of a mountain by himself keeping a blog. it makes a nice change to reading another communications traditions lecture.

Website #2 – Adbusters

A culture jamming network site. this is the web version of the ‘real world’ magazine. it features articles, ABTV and counter hegemonic thought on popular culture. i subscribe to the rss for this site. the articles are informative and sometimes funny. it is not user generated, it is pretty much a visit and read site. i think it is very easy to use, clear to understand and the language is conducive to someone who likes to read anti-pop-culture stuff every now and then.

Website #3 – jess_with_spaghetti

this is my flickr site. I LOVE FLICKR. i am not a great photographer, but i do take a TONNE of photos, and i find flickr is a brilliant way to get my better stuff out there. for someone intent on selling their work i could see how flickr could be a big help, but as an amatuer, its great to be part of a network of photographers and have others leave me critiques on my stuff.

anyway, stay tuned for this weeks music video

peace love and juiceboxes

xx

hey! this is my first post… hopefully it’s working, i only tried seventeen million times to get it looking how i wanted! (that may be a slight exaggeration…)

so i am doing a Bachelor of Communications in Multimedia Production, you think i would be ok at using the internet, but sadly all i use it for is downloading mp3’s, facebook, postsecret (which i have an rss feed for, yay me), bubbleshooter, hotmail, and uni…

anyway, forgive my spelling/grammar, like most people my age i now rely so heavily on spell check i have forgotten how to spell! which is sort of sad seeing as i did a double major in english at highschool.

i think i can get alot out of networked media production (from here on out known as NMP), which is the reason for the very existence of this blog. everyone needs to know how to market themselves right? what better place to do that then the internet… just look at teila tequila, perez hilton, and all those myspace rock stars. not that i want to be famous, i’d rather just make movies till i die.

stay tuned, i am going to work out how to get my flickr stuff popping up on this profile and you all can have a gander at what i do in my spare time…

peace, love and juiceboxes

-kika