So Kathryn Bigelow....She's broken the mold and won Best Director at the BAFTAs. Yes that's right, the very first woman to win Best Director, EVER. Or so the newspapers tell me but then again, that's not always the best reliable source.
Ironically, it was for her film 'The Hurt Locker'. A war film. So it's probably more by CHANCE she was the director and won it, in fact I wouldn't be too surprised if many men watching the show went "WHAT? That was done by a WOMAN? Shouldn't she have been doing COSTUMES? Well I feel like I have been tricked!" Or some kind of drivel like that.
So maybe it is a win for women, it'll be interesting to see if the Oscars follow suit. However I will find it a real victory when it goes to a female director of some soppy girlie epic romance film, however I think we might be waiting some time!
A Banksy image
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
I have my head in the sand, or so the BBC is telling me
According to the BBC lab, I am an ostrich when it comes to the internet. Using "The Virtual Revolution" and their web behavior test, I have worked out my web surfing animal counterpart. Though to be fair, it could of been something a BIT more interesting than an ostrich? I could of been a bear, or a fox...I could of been an leopard!
But each to their own, I accept my animal companion and will keep venturing into the internet. Only, I don't really understand how you can put people into categories when using the internet. Surely we each have our own styles and we are all individuals? Though, and what I find highly ironic, was when "The Virtual Revolution" announced that the test was available for people to start taking...the surge in people trying to do the quiz caused the server to crash...what's so revolutionary about that?But the test itself was...interesting. Being bombarded with the normal survey question of "how long do you spend on the internet" or "how many hours do you spend on social networking sites" I thought it was going to be a tedious twenty minutes with a non reliable outcome. I have to say though; I was slightly disgusted with myself, over 40 hours at least on social network sites? You'd think I lived with my cats or something. The worst part is I most likely spend most of my time...talking to my flat mates...Who live directly opposite me....I think I need Facebook Therapy or something..
However, it then introduced games, and no matter if you're in University or Primary School, when a game is part of a survey, that survey is therefore, to say academically, awesome.
Using things such as multi-tasking games and memory games it comes up with your results in a bit more of reliable, real life sense.
But, I do feel a bit cheated. On one of the games, where you type 'Y' or 'N' if a red candy bar changes positions, I was totally unsure as I was doing it, and therefore my score was a pitiful...3.
Ah well, maybe it's for the best. If I had been a majestic member of the cat family I would of become too cocky for myself.
So Ostrich is probably the best way to go. Who knows, I could get used to sand. Or Facebook, whichever the internet counterpart is.
You are a Web Ostrich
Fast-moving - We can tell from your results that you are a speedy surfer - one of the characteristics of the Web Ostrich, whose real-world counterpart has an impressive top speed of 45mph.
Sociable - The web is a social place. You take full advantage of this when you search for information by using social networks and other sites whose content is created by its users. Real-world ostriches are also highly social, even keeping eggs in each other’s nests to share the burden.
Specialised - The real-world ostrich is a true specialist, highly adapted to survive in hot, dusty African grasslands. You might not be at risk from lions when browsing the web, but you are still very focused. From your test we can tell you do best when you concentrate on one task at time, rather than several things at once.
Pyschogeography...
I was looking back on my notes over the weekend; I came over the lecture on media art, and our pyschogeography project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxuBY2b2-cc
Unfortunately, for some reason, YouTube won't allow the music to be played for "copyright" reasons, even though I purchased the song from iTunes, but then again, the copyright/copyfight debate is for another day.
I loved the idea we came up with, leaving our journey to the game of chance, by throwing a die to know how many stops we would have to wait until we got off. Using only First buses it meant we would at least stay inside the city of Leicester, however if we had more cash, and more of a sense of adventure, i would of loved to have ventured out on the "out of city buses" and seen where we ended up.
We used a mixture of film and photography to track our course of where we went and ended up in. We started a trend of taking a picture of the bus stop, the number of the bus, and the first landmark we saw as we got off the bus on our chance decided stop. So when it came down to finally making and editing the footage, the only sound I used was at the very beginning, and then put the rest of the film in silence, with "King of the Road" playing in the background, using the old country song as a comparison with the new age type of art we were creating, making a contrast between the two types of creativity. I also put the films and images in a weird, almost A-Ha style effect, everything was just like a drawn outline, rather than full images, showing the fact we didnt really know any details of where we were, just the general outline of the place.
As it was, our bus took us to the most deserted streets of Leicester, with only rubbish blowing on the pavements for company, to then the more "suburbia" type estates and cult-e-sacs, passed a primary school, passed a Tesco and, quite randomly, we ended up at Dale's Mum's house.
The game of chance is a powerful, and quite coincidental, thing.
Looking back though, I would of loved to have tried something a little different, maybe on foot, mimicking 'The Thought Project' by Simon Hoegsburg, stopping people in the street, asking what they were thinking about just before we stopped them, and using their quotes and pictures. I think that would have been so interesting just with random strangers, yet you never can tell what kind of answer you'll get, like Simon Hoegsburg did with some geeky looking man telling him he was thinking of a rude, intimate joke about a hostess...
Looking at more professional New Media Art, I feel like ours lacked a lot. I love the Listening Post done by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin...Though it would have been a lot harder to mimic that, maybe taking a status from each of our Facebook, from a random friend, and writing it up on a wall, till they all form together in just a bundle of words and random people's thoughts. Some call it graffiti however...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxuBY2b2-cc
Unfortunately, for some reason, YouTube won't allow the music to be played for "copyright" reasons, even though I purchased the song from iTunes, but then again, the copyright/copyfight debate is for another day.
I loved the idea we came up with, leaving our journey to the game of chance, by throwing a die to know how many stops we would have to wait until we got off. Using only First buses it meant we would at least stay inside the city of Leicester, however if we had more cash, and more of a sense of adventure, i would of loved to have ventured out on the "out of city buses" and seen where we ended up.
We used a mixture of film and photography to track our course of where we went and ended up in. We started a trend of taking a picture of the bus stop, the number of the bus, and the first landmark we saw as we got off the bus on our chance decided stop. So when it came down to finally making and editing the footage, the only sound I used was at the very beginning, and then put the rest of the film in silence, with "King of the Road" playing in the background, using the old country song as a comparison with the new age type of art we were creating, making a contrast between the two types of creativity. I also put the films and images in a weird, almost A-Ha style effect, everything was just like a drawn outline, rather than full images, showing the fact we didnt really know any details of where we were, just the general outline of the place.
As it was, our bus took us to the most deserted streets of Leicester, with only rubbish blowing on the pavements for company, to then the more "suburbia" type estates and cult-e-sacs, passed a primary school, passed a Tesco and, quite randomly, we ended up at Dale's Mum's house.
The game of chance is a powerful, and quite coincidental, thing.
Looking back though, I would of loved to have tried something a little different, maybe on foot, mimicking 'The Thought Project' by Simon Hoegsburg, stopping people in the street, asking what they were thinking about just before we stopped them, and using their quotes and pictures. I think that would have been so interesting just with random strangers, yet you never can tell what kind of answer you'll get, like Simon Hoegsburg did with some geeky looking man telling him he was thinking of a rude, intimate joke about a hostess...
Looking at more professional New Media Art, I feel like ours lacked a lot. I love the Listening Post done by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin...Though it would have been a lot harder to mimic that, maybe taking a status from each of our Facebook, from a random friend, and writing it up on a wall, till they all form together in just a bundle of words and random people's thoughts. Some call it graffiti however...
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