Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.
The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...
2014 was recently described by Inside Film as shaping up to be "one of the strongest years for Australian films." In anticipation of this, and considering my lack of posts recently, I thought I would provide you all with a few more reasons as to why this claim is valid made with summaries of the films mentioned and their accompanying trailers....
Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.
The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...
Its amazing what some people will do to get a couple of bucks from this nation's newspaper houses. In today's front page news, the Herald Sun all informed us of how "disgusted" the mother of the woman Wayne Carey admitted to having an affair with, an event which he apparently willingly revealed all details to in his new tell...
To add another dimension to my HTML project, I decided to include this critical analysis of Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece to backup my argument that films can reflect our dense modern world. Blade Runner is a science fiction film that was originally made in 1982 but was later released as a director's cut in 1992...
In investigating my current assignment, I realised that I had absolutely no idea about what my main point of focus was on about. The person I refer to in saying this is Lev Manovich, professor and theorist of the new media art forms. Manovich is famous for his theory on the development of new media, more specifically, the importance of the computer in instigating a whole new culture of art.New Media,...
A lot of my posts as you will have noticed are extremely lengthy and look like they have had a lot of thought and time put towards them. The former of these two points is true but whether or not much thought has gone into them, that's up for you to decide. However, in investigating all these ideas about density and how our world has evolved into such a complicated and complex environment, I set this...
"In bid to curb alcohol-fuelled violence", Liquor Licensing director Sue Maclellan announced today that all-night bottle shops will have their hours slashed from being open 24/7 till just being allowed to continue serving customers until 11pm. As an ex-member of the hospitality industry in which my experience occurred mostly...
Today's Herald Sun front page did not provide any of its readers with new or exciting information, rare for a Monday edition of a newspaper. I say this with absolute confidence that most of you would have either been watching the Storm vs. Eels game on Sunday afternoon or at le...
Semester Two at RMIT has been focused a lot on the ways in which we produce, distribute and consume media forms. In Auteurship and Narrative, we have been deconstructing films and looking at the ways in which they communicate certain ideas to us. In Broadcast Media, we have been creating TV segments for various lifestyle and current affairs shows whilst also producing radio documentaries for the hypothetical...
All semester, we've known that I have been studying RMIT's Networked Media course under the guidance of Seth Keen, one of the key lecturers in the Media department. However, recently, when I began researching into my Communication Histories and Technologies assignment, I realised I had absolutely no idea what Networked Media was about.Ok, I knew the basics. That is, networked media is all about creating...
Ok, so, I didn't really do too well with the whole "take home this A3 piece of paper, jot down ALL your ideas about your project, and then bring it to class on Monday". You see, I kinda got lost between the "take this A3 piece of paper home" and the "jot down all you ideas" points. Mainly because I had no ideas at this stage.For...
Participation Week 1Participation Week 4What have I done well?When I began this course, I knew right away that I was going to need to participate fully throughout the semester in order to ensure that I completely understood all the skills and practices involved with the course. This was due mainly to my inexperience with the online media platform particularly in the realm of creating webpages and...
Frequently Asked Questions you may have about Facebook:1. What is Facebook? A: Facebook's main function is to provide an avenue for naturally unfocused students to practice procrastination. According to our statistics, Facebook user numbers increase around June and November of each year which bizarrely enough, coincides with the examination timetables of most universities and schools. Facebook also...
Ok, so it took me a while but eventually, I knew I would have to hop on the Copyright bandwagon that everyone else has so diligently blogged about during the course of this semester. To be honest, I believe that the topic of Copyright has never really interested me and hence, that is the reason why I could not be bothered to address in on my blogging site but recently, I had an experience that was...
After "picking up" The Age this morning (i.e nicking it from outside the security department at RMIT), I wasn't suprised to see that yet again, another depressing, heart-wrenching, overally emotionalised report had been placed on the front page. The story this time was about the recent sentencing of Leigh Robertson, a man who...
For all of my loyal readers who missed my quirky, random posts last week, you have my complete and sincere apology. As I should probably have mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was on a holiday to Sydney with my best friend Georgia and was unable to post any blogs due a lack of internet access.Needless to say, I already have...
In today's lecture, I stumbled upon what you may call a mini-epithany. Ok, maybe the idea wasn't that grandiose but it wasn't something I had thought of before so to me, that was quite stupendous. What I'm blathering about by the way is the astonishing link (pardon the pun) between Tim Berners-Lee's intention of the internet...
Hey everyoneAs you know, a couple of weeks ago I had a major freakout because I could not for the life of me remember how the hell you upload an image to a webserver. From looking at my posts, you've probably realised I worked it out ages ago, which I did but this is the first time I've remembered AND had the time to write...
The recent article contained within the Media section of The Age last Monday couldn't help but make me laugh with the title "Neighbours takes roles to Twitter". The brief reflection on Fremantle Media's latest attempt to entice Gen-Y into their program is apparently being claimed as "the first in the world" "to establish Twitter accounts for its fictional characters". According to The Age, the Twitter...
Today I believe is the first time in about a month where I have actually looked forward to pointing out the positive aspects of one of today's top stories. For those of you who picked up The Age this morning, you all would have seen the MASSIVE photo of a jockey going hell-for-leather at a horse's neck at what we can assume...
Throughout the duration of this course, there have been a number of words which I have titled "weird-ass" because you look at them from front to back and still think they're weird. These W.A.Ws as they shall be abbreviated include TCP/IP, HTML, and CSS. As you can see, these are all acronymn's for much larger words but even when these tiny abbreviations are extended, I still have no idea what they...
For those of you who diligently cross yourselves each morning before facing the on-coming rush hour traffic, this morning's Herald Sun front page would most definitely have given you something extra to worry about. I on the other hand was jumping for joy! As you will have already read in my earlier post, Flamin' Firebombs, I am a huge supporter of any initiative that involves the decreased production...
Recently, a survey was conducted (by yours truly nonetheless) of the blogs posted here at TOTP and it was concluded that the number of articles featuring newspapers other than the Herald Sun or The Age was ... 0. Therefore, today I decided to change tracks and switch to another newspaper outlet that we are all familiar with but one I would not normally consider as a "depressing" newspaper, this being...
According to today's Age, "Australia and Japan are at loggerheads over the use of nuclear weapons in war, with Japan - the only country to suffer an atomic attack - determined they should remain a broad-based deterrent". Great, but since when have we needed to worry about nuclear warfare? I why is it all of a sudden front page news. Never to dissapoint, I investigated further into the matter for you...
After much confusion about the purpose of these blogs to the point where I felt my head was about to explode, I decided it was necessary to listen to the Jamaicans and "Just Breath". Funnily enough, oxygen is really handy in getting the brain to think harder! Who knew!?! So, with this new found attitude, I decided to find some inspiration by working my way through the entire Networked Media Blogging...
Ok so no I'm not an idiot or a complete techno-loser but I seriously can not remember the process of converting one of your photos from your desktop onto a website. I got as far as opening the image into Photoshop and saving it under the "Save for web devices" category but that's as far as I could remember. Will get back to this so...
In line with Quentin Tarantino's Hitler, all I want to do this morning is scream"NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!!!OK, phew, its alright, I've got it out of my system now.Now, you are probably all wondering what the hell is wrong with me if I am simulating the behaviour of a fictional/real historical evil mastermind, particularly...
Anyone who happened to pick up today's Herald Sun would have immediately been created with the gruelling image of a fire truck desperately racing away from an enraging furno. The front page boldly reads "Nobody Was In Charge". The following story on page 4 detailed the latest developments of the Royal Inquiry into the Februaru 7 "Black Saturday" Bushfires.Now I know I'm treading water in dangerous...
I was particularly excited to hear today (more for the fact that my hometown of Perth had actually done something worthwhile for a change) of the landmark case involving Christian Rossiter, a quadriplegic who finally was awarded the right to refuse medical treatment that may result in his death. I don't know why, cases like this don't usually concern me or strike me as momentous as I don't really...
Oh this one was just too good not to do.
For those of you that don't know me, I am madly, crazy, gooishly (yes I did just make up my own word in a blog), in love with the opposite sex (i.e the male variety) and relish any chance I can get to grab a sneak peek of said species' anatomy. Hence why I spend a lot of time at the...
Today's shocking news for all was most definitely the sudden and unjustly premature death of Sam the Koala, the cute bundle of fluff that attracted audience's attention around the world to the devastating effects of the Black Saturday Bushfires.But bizarely enough, Sam did not die of what one would assume a koala would naturally...
Ok, so, probably not the best day to start an optimist's blog based on daily front page news. Today, I had a choice between the Somali Islamists foiled suicide terrorism raid and the death of a 2 year old girl called Hayley. Naturally, I chose The Herald Sun's coverage of the brutal, violent attack on an innocent infant.What's that you say? My logic fails you? Yes, I'm not surprised. Most people would...
