RSS

Ever wanted to know what RSS is?
well it stands for Really Simple Syndication and this video will explain everything you need to know about understanding the concept and how to use it.

Ray Project

The Ray project was started by a man named 'Ray' in St. Louis. The aim on the song was to cheer his daughter up after a hard days work. He never intended it to be a big internet hit but after it wass emailed to a few people it became massive and has been remixed.

"Hi, my name is Ray, and on yesterday my daughter called me, ah, because she was stressed out because of, ah, things that were going on on her job that she felt were quite unfair. So I was lead to write this song, just for her."

This video shows us that the internet can be a pathway to creating any type of media/entertainment and sharing it with the world.


http://thebandwidth.zefrank.com/ray/whipass.mp3

The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech (Ayn Rand)

The Show- ZaFrank

Boring places force you to be creative.
"I knew it was the ducks, they hate freedom"

Creativity vs The Law

This is another video from TED.com entitled 'How creativity is being strangles by the law' spoken by Larry Lessig. He uses three anecdotes to try educate the audience about how children are using new technologies and how they are being faced with copyright laws and big businesses.

Here is my summary:

• How we open user generated content up for business
• We would lose out creativity via machines
• Read write vs read only
• Second best/ public domains can best major businesses
• Celebrating amateur culture- for the love not the money
• Re creating using other peoples content- say things different
• Internet = democratized
• How we speak, think and are
• The revolt
• Builds new technologies- take down content
• Rejection of copyright
• Ignorance of laws
• Solution
• Competition can achieve balance
• Artists and creators embrace the idea of amateur use
• Businesses embrace and enable

My 1st Day at Shifted Pixles

Today was my first day doing work experience at "Shifted Pixels"
http://www.shiftedpixels.com.au/Index.aspx
I came and and we spoke about how the internet helps contribute to our society and how to use it to my best advantage. We also spoke about how a design/web/marketing agency works.
I then watched two videos, one about how schools are killing creativity and the other on "broken" consumer products entitled 'This is broken'.
Nick then showed me how to create my own blog and how to customize it to suit what I wanted to be displayed.
He also showed me a site "http://www.archive.org/index.php" which allows you to view websites such as 'google' when they were first created.
It was a fantastic first day!

Daily Explosm Comics

First ever Mtv vs New Mtv

Visit this site for more look backs at the past of your favourite websites

White Chicks and Gang Signs

Education and Creativity

School kills creativity

This video comes from a site called Ted.com (ideas worth spreading) featuring a man named Sir Ken Robins who is speaking about how public education is killing the creative minds of its students and almost forcing them to value subjects such as maths over the arts. The main aim of this is to satisfy university requirements rather then allowing children to explore all creative avenues. He also uses funny anecdotes from is personal life to engadge the audience.

Here is my summary on the video:

Education and Creativity

• Kids will take a chance, if they don’t know they will have a go, there not frightened of being wrong
• If your not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original
• Picasso: all children are born artists
• Grow/educated out of creativity
• We are uneducated about what the future will bring
• Every education system in the world has rankings of subjects. Math languages, humanities then the arts
• Education succeeds/benefits university professors
• School education steers us away from the things you like on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that e.g music, art
• Everything depends on university entrants
• Intelligence- diverse, dynamic/interactive and distinct
• If a man speaks his mind in a forest and no woman hears him is he still wrong?
• Our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology- richness of human capacity

Seth Godin- This is broken

This is broken

This video comes from a conference called 'Gel 2006' in New York City. It is spoken by Seth Godin about broken consumer products in our society. He uses photos of ridiculous signs and products for example food lines in movie theaters and a sign with the words "this sign and sharp edges" to amuse the audience while getting his point across at the same time. The video exploits idiotic decisions made by companies and the mechanicalism of people to only do the jobs they have been given and not think for themselves. This video guarantees to make you laugh.

Here is my summary on the video:

• Stuff that’s broken, why is broken and if it’s a good or bad thing, how to benefit from them
• What does it mean to be broken? If I think its broken- its broken,
• Not my job
• Its not my job to fix it
• The system in broken
• Fix the original problem, don’t try navigate around it
• Not my job- not my problem, why should I bother
• Things go on unfixed
• Selfish jerk
• Spamming people- emails
• Advertisement
• Contradiction
• Challenge in technology
• I didn’t know
• Testing out a product in order the understand what the consumer needs
• Idiotic products
• I’m not a fish
• Not thinking about the consumer
• Contradiction
• Broken on purpose
• So people can see the brokenness
• To prove a point

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Yay my blog has started!

Yay my blog has started!