Dear 8,985 Views and Counting!! <----I LOVE YOU!
If you can't tell by the psycho pup up there I am excited. There are a lot of notes to make on building a website but considering I look at so many daily (like you, don't judge : P) and what am I planning on doing with this?
Good note to self that one. On my last blog post I discussed how important my viewers are because they keep my soul afloat (<---- not really but I do enjoy them) yet I keep wondering who my audience is. Since Sunday my only international view was from Egypt (totally awesome) I can simply say I have no idea who will view my website, simply that I enjoy any audience. I think that people complete and fueled the advertisement economy because people simply never know who is going to discover their products or services. If people focus too much on niche audiences no one will ever be successful, I know that most of my audience will be those that read books. I'm hoping anyway. Maybe that's growing too niche yet I believe stories will stand strong or I will fall with them! #that'sdedication
On notes on format I truly have no idea, I believe I will complete them once I finish all of my other assignments. Hopefully class later today will tell me all I need to know about how to put together my digital life properly. I'm relying on the reason I have so many readers for this! Hopefully my digital portfolio will get me employed as well! That'd be great. I will do my best to keep this active even at the end of class, maybe move it to my website! That'd be exciting.
Ideas to put on Website!:
1- Writing Samples (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
2- Ceramics Work
3- Resume (<---- This is Probably Important)
4- Infographs
5- Photography Work
6- Videos Produced (maybe YouTube account)
Graphic Design Ideas:
To Come...
~Love Media Mike
Oh I want to use moonfruit.com to put my website together! So give support viewers <3
I am thankful for my readers and strangers that are entertained by my moronic voice. We can talk about my life problems (there are many), we can talk about the reading (probably best since that's the assignment, or we could talk about miscellaneous things that seem to entertain me. Well we can go with THREE. I know I think I'm an overachiever too.
WEll I was thinking the same thing when I decided to put something on the reading, but I feel like this could be quite useful because I have no idea why someone from Sweden reads my blog. I do have friends in Sweden (I'm like the mafia <----life goal almost achieved) yet she moves much more than I do, and I've lived in three places this year for greater than a month. Which is quite the feat according to men on grindr (for those creepers that message me from California being like 'where are you now') and its quite a feat for me (I believe so at least) and yeah. So dear people from Sweden, why do you read my blog? I hope you find it entertaining. Don't worry North Dakota (no one from the US is labled) I still find you awesome, I plan on visiting to make out with someone there one day (don't ask). So here's the question for the reading! Who am I writing for!?????
My answer:
-Love Media Mike
Kidding! Well I will go look at some different items on my users and those that comment (NEVER) and get back to you next time!~ Soon I will be building a website so this is quite important!
We all start out here. I know when life just seems like people are going through the beginning of a class, reading the syllabus and going "I have to write a paper on....huh?" or still saying now "I have to build a website on....huh?", we all get it. I never took in the importance of every plane until I understood what was going on from an overall perspective, and then I went back if needed. Sort of feels like reading a book right? When you go into a character's plot without knowing what was going on in their lives before chapter 1 or the prologue began? And then suddenly you know the character like your best friend, so much so you are seeing from their written mind's eye. Almost creepy considering how often it works like that in the real world.
The reading for today goes through five separate pieces of conceptual framework surrounding user experience. The Surface of the design is the images, visuals and general appearance that rope in the audience. The skeleton consists of the place of the design in coherence with the structure that defines how users get the the page.
I'm giving you a throwback Thursday with this one, because do you remember when you got scared so hard a lot of inappropriate things happened? Comment with the craziest one you've ever heard when someone gets scared! And I'll send you something good in the mail....? I don't know I just want a comment from a stranger is all. Back on topic! If you watch the trailer, this movie was tough to get into theatres locally, because of how much it cost to produced and how it wasn't a well funded movie. Well now, need I say more?? I haven't seen number 16 but I still get chills for like 1 to 3, they were scary. And the main reason they were horrifying? Perspective!
If I managed to talk about perspective in another way or another I would sound like a broken record, but since I think I can nail this down a bit, I'll try. Paranormal Activity had a great deal of rhetorical appeal for a few reasons, hopefully I can tackle them with this post and what I grasped to a higher degree from the reading. The cast was normal looking in their own beautiful way. Micah had an appeal because she looked like an everyday human being, and her acting was something that we would expect to see among out peers. That enhanced our perspective on an ideological level, because they simply weren't rich and powerful Hollywood stars with years of experience, they were normal people being haunted by a demon.
The camera was first person perspective, as if you were the camera holder or character running through the house. The movie almost had its own value as a 3-D game like the article mentions the latest attractions at Universal Studios. We were following through their lives in what I remember to be 20+ days. I remember when the door slammed in the middle of the night and I jumped for the heavens. Because who wouldn't leave their door open when they made sure to lock every nook and cranny in their house. That was the point of the camera, to see if someone was there, and we did through our own lens in the camera lens.
Number 2 movie that still makes me scream to my neighbors and Satan. Just saying because both can hear whenever I do, its that scary. Its become a classic Media Mike drinking game since freshman year ever since I would watch it with my sister and her friends in middle school. Scared me then, scares me now, yet its so exciting. The time I went caving after watching? To conquer the fear? Not so much fun.
Welcome to the future right there Readers! Innovative, efficient, and what an ingenious take on something so cool. I am more and more impressed as I listen! I really needed something put my ownlife map into perspective, because while I could be fooled once upon a time how life works and looks, its much more difficult to do so. I think that's because I've regressed into an adult, I've lost my own touches of magic with all of the craziness I've placed myself through. I can't help thinking about how optional everything has become, I lived my life so much in 7 months it still baffles me, but now I'm walking. I'm walking along my map, and I don't think I can live through that anymore. Does that make sense? I hope so.
The reading for Digital Communications was based on the importance of how to view landscapes and scenes. Cool right? Like have you ever noticed what part of a scene you particularly look at, whether it be the right or left of a still, or ignore the periphery? Watch how your eyes adjust to a horror movie to take in even the slightest bits of detail? I can't help but think of how I was tricked into believing the funniest concepts as a kid, and now as an artist (someone called me this :D) I am trying to perceive everything with a more developed lens.
"If you aren't the least bit scared, then you aren't aiming high enough" -Susan Clark (my therapist not the article)
I love how we are told to look a certain way, act a certain way, believe a certain way, and we do. Because we refuse to be afraid, something that is natural. We look at different things and fill in the blanks, I read through the article and couldn't refer it to how we live. Sometimes pieces of life aren't for me, and they aren't for you? And what's wrong with saying "no thanks" to some things? Because we should try to do that when we are made to look, act, and believe a certain way. That's not who we are, that's who someone else is.
Not that I am one to quote the movie almost each and everyday, but usually if I have accomplished a large goal and only have minor ones or I'm intoxicated, I do get really bitchy. "Oh by all means do move at a glacial pace, you know how that entertains me" <------ it doesn't get any better than that. Just saying. After working a different set of jobs I can't help but have an appreciation for different aspects of life. Like I am one of those people that eats out (at generally cheap restaurants) most days of the week. I've worked at three separate restaurants and I understand the build that goes into a 7 dollar quesadilla, and how expensive a 7 dollar quesadilla may be. In the class that I write this particular blog for, we are being productive to prepare for a potential job in this field, and now our job is to make a video. Needless to say the sun isn't shining on me right now.
I once participated in writing college essays for my younger cousin, she had a bunch of random essays to do and was like "MIKE HELP ME" pretty desperately. I applied to a good number of schools that didn't have essays and were free for a reason ; ). My favorite essay, without a second thought, was the "In a 500 Page Memoir of Your Life, what is on page 82" or something or another. If I actually knew the college I would look it up once more, but my memory is fuzzy and I couldn't help her. Well I did come up with some good premise ideas from the time I spent with her, yet I couldn't help but think what a struggle that must be for a highschool student. Its a very good supplementary essay to give, I'm still impressed.
"Sometimes I get 6 to 7 hours of footage to edit into 30 seconds"- Craig Lewandowski, Editor
I'm a critic, we are all critics. So how do we edit our lives? Is this another facet of social media use or something that comes to our hygiene? Or every aspect of life for that matter? Editing is a very complex process and credits at the end of a movie truly aren't long enough. When it comes to my favorite aspect of life, publishing comes with so many counters that just a name on the book isn't enough. I never used to read the acknowledgements at the end or front of a book, yet now I do every single time because of how important they are. Every form of media comes with a grand deal of work, and I feel like with the reading of the editing process we can appreciate our life outlets even more.
