The actual Assignment B (seriously this time).

Ok, so there was a bit of confusion before, as i thought i wanted to do the Yotube video response. After looking at some quality work done by other students, and after my editing software on my computer decided to die, i felt it was necessary to change to a different idea.

So i did a photographic tour instead, using Google Maps.

It was a bit of an issue getting the hang of the way it works, also took some research to see if i was supposed to use Flickr Maps, or Google Maps (obviously went with the latter). I actually used both at one point.

Good Maps is a great tool, and suprisingly much faster to use than Flickr. Tagging areas and giving them some descriptions was fairly straight forward, but there wasnt much information as to how to start the whole thing. I basically just kept clicking on buttons to see how it worked.

Still, it's done and i hope it does ok, marks-wise.

Assignment B:
http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=2

Learning while you still can.

Ok, so reading back on an earlier blog made me realise maybe i was a big harsh on this whole blogging thing.

I believe i stated "I hate Blogs. I hate people who keep blogs".

Now... while im not the biggest fan of blogs... well, the majority of blogs, some are very fucking entertaining.

The reason i have changed my mind recently is dependant on a little story, which i well tell you now. So sit back, relax and take your goddamn cursor off the "Back" button.

I have a mate, a pretty good mate, let's call him Coop. Now, Coop is studying Law/Commerce at university, which he does very well at. Thing is... he hates his degree. He constantly bitches and has a massive rage over how bad and demanding his degree is. I keep on telling him, "Look on the bright side... at least you have a great career path to follow".

This does not help.

His degree is VERY academic, no room for crativity and is extremely black and white. Either it's legal or it isnt. It works or it doesn't. It's right or it's wrong.

He craves creative outlets. So much so, that just talking to him in a nothing conversation can lead you either down a path of elaborate lies that will end in you trying to figure out what is real and what isn't, or it will go down a massive highway of ideas he has saved up for various projects, be it film, writing, physical... whatever.

He just... NEEDS... an outlet.

And that's what i see blogging as now. Not just a vanity explosion of people's desire to be seen and heard and some kind ignorance to other people actual interests. But as an outlet for people who have none.

It's a free easy way for people to express anything at all. To sit down and write all the things that their life won't let them.

I...

I kind of like that.

ASSignment B

SO i decided to do the Youtube video assignment for my Assignment B project. Im a littl wary of what is actually required for this bad boy, but hopefully i can pull it off.

The reasoning behind this decision is simple. Basically, i have had a very packed schedule with various things and this one seems to be the quickest to do under a timelimit. That and i figure id prefer to do a short film clip (something im interested in) rather than photographic or pc intensive (something im not interested in).

For now im thinking of just doing the Youtube blog style, me in the frame giving an interesting view on youtube and its pros and cons as i see it, drop some knowledge on the technical aspects of the site and BAM... assignment B done.

I dont know.... seems i might have missed the point of this, but... hopefully not.