My New fabulous website

http://www.skeuomorphgames.com/mtravisano/

This is my new website. It has an in depth site about the Beatles, including a gallery of my drawings of the Beatles year by year from 1961 to 1969, and a database on who played what instrument on what song. There is a page with various things connecting to me called the mineself page, which I just did as a college project.

http://www.youtube.com/beatlesopera
This has some of the posts I did on youtoube


http://www.flickr.com/photos/30818635@N05
It also has my flickr account with some of my artwork. If you like my art, you can see more of it there.

Finally The Percussion section

And Finally the Percussion Section there are so many percussion instruments that I can't talk about them all but here are a sample
Tympani: The tympani is the only drum that can change pitch it is the loudest drum in the orchestra it is often used to suggest power but it can also be used in rock music
Cymbals:the Cymbals make noise when you smash them together in a drum set there are usually three or four different kinds producing different kinds of music. The finger cymbals(shown here) are very popular in India.
Snare Drum: The Snare drum make it's noise with a group of snares under the drum and like the trumpet used to be used to get the troops ready for battle is still often used in the militarily. It is not only used in the Orchestra but in Jazz and Rock bands
Bass Drum: The bass drum is a big percussion instrument that is usually used to created the bottom of a beat
Bongos: The Bongo drum is used in the orchestra as well as popular music and are often used to create a tropical or Spanish feel.
Maracas: The Maracas are used for similar purposes as the bongos and are very easy to play they are played around the world but originated in the middle east.
Xylophone The xylophone is noted for it's crisp melodic percussion sound Saint Sienz used it in the dance macabre and The Fossils to create the sound of clinking bones. It is often used to create an exotic feel in western music.
Vibraphone: The Vibraphone is the same as the xylophone except it is electric and the bars are made of metal. It is most often used in Jazz but it can be used in other forms of music as well.
Glockenspiel: The Glockenspiel which literally translated means "bells playing" it is often used to create a sense of magic. For example Papageno's magic bells in the Magic Flute if you've see that play.

Chimes are the instrument that sounds like bells chiming on Christmas or bells on a very old fashioned clock chiming away the hours.

To hear what the percusion section sounds like together click here
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Lets Move on to The brass family these are louder than the strings or the Woodwinds and like the Woodwinds are all used in Marching bands
The Trumpet: Is the leader of the brass and is often used in jazz bands and Marching bands. It used to be use with the military getting troops ready for battle. It still is the main instrument in military bands. It can also be used in soul music and Latin American music and even in heavy Metal.
The Piccolo Trumpet: This instrument is smaller than the trumpet and actually was invented for performing Bach pieces because the valved trumpet didn't go as high as the regular trumpet
The French Horn: the Horn Is the most versatile member of the brass section unfortunately it is also the most difficult to play. It's tubing is so great in fact that if it was stretched out it would be 8 to 9 miles long. It evolved from the hunting horn, but got more sophisticated as time went on. And now actually it is two horns in one one for making high bright sounds and one for making deep rich sounds. In the Beatles opening song in Sargent Pepper what sounds like a full brass band is actually four French Horns
The Trombone: the slide trombone as it's name implies is the only brass instrument that doesn't use valves although there are a few valved trombones. Most trombone players have long arms because it takes long arms to get the slide all the way out. The trombone used to be used to announce the arrival of kings. Although it is the loudest instrument in the orchestra and is also frequently used in Jazz it can sound somber as well.
The Euphonium: also called the Baritone Horn is smaller and higher than the tuba. It actually is easier to play than any other brass instrument. It also makes a lovely sound mellower than the tuba. The person who invented the saxophone Adolph Sax actually invented this instrument and many other sax horns
The Tuba: Tubby the Tuba unfortunately instead of Advocating the tuba which was it's original goal; just encourages the stereotype of playing only Oom Pah in the background. But it can actually be a very powerful instrument. In the hands of a good musician it can sound very light or very strong even both at once. It isn't even the biggest saxhorn the biggest is over ten feet tall The tuba is actually basically an over sized bugle and a valuable instrument to the orchestras.

To hear what all these brass instruments sound like together check out this video of the Canadian brass quintet playing Jazzed up Bach

Intruments of the Orchestra The woodwind Family

The woodwind Family
Not all of the woodwind instruments are made of wood, in fact they all have metal keys but when the orchestra started in the eighteenth Century they were all wood.
Flute: The Flute is made of Metal not wood, but it has been made of wood glass and precious jewells. The flute unlike the other winds is not blown through a reed but through a hole in the side that produces the melody.
Piccolo : Is higher than the flute but basically the same shape. It has a shrill piercing sound and for this reason some musicians prefer to have theirs made out of wood so not to drown out the flute this one is a hybrid of wood and metal.
Oboe: The oboe is a double reed instrument which means it has two small pieces of wood that you blow on together. It is often used in moves to emulate pity and horror. It can produce a merry and bright sound too. In fact it is the instrument that the orchestra uses to tune up
English Horn: It is French not English and a low oboe not a horn so why the name? The horn part comes from the fact the people said it sounds like a distant hunting horn. The English part was all a misunderstanding. They meant to call it angled horn (cor Angle) because of it's distinctive curve but it sounded too much like the french word for English (cor Anglais)and the name stuck.
Clarinet: The Clarinet is single reeded which mens there is only one reed that can be tightened and loosened while playing. It i s a very beautiful and very versatile instrument that is very important in jazz as well as in classical. There are very few people in fact who do not like the sound of the clarinet the bass clarinet however is another matter entirely.
Actually until Mozart used it regularly in Symphonic Pieces it wasn't even in the Orchestra.
Bass Clarinet The Bass clarinet is a lower version of a Clarinet it sounds very sinister at the bottom of its range and is often used for suspense in horror moves. Though it can be used simply to sound dreamy and mellow.
Bassoon: The bassoon ,or Fagotto in German, which means a bundle of sticks, is an apt description of this instrument. which is awkward to play. It is often used to play comedy parts because of it's comical playful sound; like in the sorcerers apprentice. if you've seen Disney's fantasia you'll reconise that sound as the broom starts to come alive. But in it's high range when played slowly it has an eerie sound If you know fantasia you'll also have seen the Rite of spring with dinosaurs and heard that eerie instrument that opens the cartoon it is a bassoon .
contra bassoon this is the deepest double reed going even lower than the bassoon or bass clarinet it is usually used only for the bas line and usually only in orchestras with at least two bassoons.
Saxophone: Though usually not considered part of the orchesta, the saxaphone is an important instrument too. It is often used in Jazz Blues and rock. It is as loud as the brass, as versatile as the strings, and as Bright as the woodwinds. That was exactly what Adolph Sax the inventor wanted. It is comes in Soprano(the highest), Alto, Tenor, Baritone and Bass the lowest). However the Baritone can get very low and the alto can get very high, so the soprano is pretty rare, and the Bass is extremely rare( it isn't even shown here).
To hear the woodwind instruments play together in an orchestra here is the first half of Ravel's bolero


Actually the second half is way cooler

Instruments of the Orchestra The String Section

The Orchestra is divided into Four Sections the Strings, The Woodwinds, the Brass, and the Percussion. Today we will talk about the Strings, the string instruments vary vastly in size but all have the same shape.

The piano: the Pianoforte or piano for short Is the most versatile instrument in the entire orchestra. It can actually play in virtually any form of music even rap. It gets it's name because it can play both soft (piano) and loud (forte). There are electric versions that can synthesize almost any sound. It has 88 keys, the white keys play notes on the scale, and the black keys play The flats (lower) and the sharps (higher). It is not in every orchestra but is often used in concertos, which are for the orchestra plus another instrument. There are two kinds of piano upright and Grand. This is a small grand piano called a baby grand.

The Violin: The Violin is the lead Instrument in the orchestra even though it is the smallest of the strings. It is the only instrument divide into two section, First and second violins. In fact the leader of the orchestra called the concert master is usually the first violinist. The second violins are usually considered a lesser instrument but without them there would be no such thing as a string quartet, The violin the same instrument as a fiddle.
The Viola: Q When is a violin not a violin?
A When It's a viola
The viola can be easily confused with the violin but should not be ignored because it is actually a very appealing instrument once you get to know it. The viola is Bigger and lower and produces a mellower sound. It is usually an accompanying instrument, but some people (Mozart in particular) take a fancy to the viola. He wrote a concerto for a violin and viola as equals either as two lovers two friends or a parent and child.
The Cello: The Cello or Violoncello for long, the Cello is a good deal bigger than the violin and viola but smaller than the bass. It is a also a very beautiful instrument. In the eighteenth century it was supported on the legs but now it is supported buy a rod that goes below the instrument called an end pin. It used to be used mainly for providing a Bass line for the Orchestra, but it is equally at home taking the lead in solos. A few examles are like the the Swan the Tarantella and Don quixote . When Two violins a viola and a cello play together it's called a string quartet.
The Double Bass The double bass is the biggest of the stringed instruments and has sloping shoulders. It is not a very powerful instrument on it's own, but you'd notice a difference without it. The bass when plucked also can be used for jazz Reggie and even rock. In fact the electric bass has it's roots in the string bass. Incidentally the string quartet does not use a bass.

This video of the Trout quintet shows what these instruments sound like when played together

Muppets Sgt Pepper!

This is an image I found of a Muppets version of Sgt Pepper I hope you like it. I am a big Beatles and a Moppets Fan

Hit movies that started out as Flops

It is interesting that not all hit movies were hits initially here is a list of a few hit movies that initially were flops to show that even the best critics get it wrong sometimes.
Duck soup 1933
Princess Bride 1987
Citizen Kane 1941
It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Labyrinth 1986
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975

The Unnesecary Censor

Censors Warning: this page contains explicit Sax and violins!!!

Reflections on Joes art Class

This digital art 213 class has helped me in many ways I now understand about how digital manipulation is done. Before this class I never really thought all that much about how digital manipulation was done. Now I have a better understanding of how it is done. I would never have guessed before that the beautiful women in magazines look this way because they have no collar bones. I also found it interesting to learn Joe's opinion on Wikipedia being a very reliable source of information. According to him it is mostly posted by people who study the subject for recreation and therefore doesn't have to be taken with a grain of salt. On the whole Joe is an interesting teacher and I am glad to take his class.

The curious case of the cross eyed cartoon characters

It's amazing that so many people in Anime. It is especially common in Pokemon but it is by no means limited to that show. I observed in many other animes having certain characters (especially heroes) being cross eyed. Why are there so many cross eyed people was there once a great Japanese hero who was cross eyed and therefore in Japanese cartoons it is associated with heroism? If somebody knows the reason please post.

This is a video based on the Weird Al Yankvioc song but it on EBay (a parody of the Backstreet Boys song I Want it that away). Although Weird Al didn't make it himself it is just as funny as a real weird Al video in fact I like it even better.

WHY did you press this button?

Did you see the thing in Sarah's web site that had a button that said Do not press this button. This gave a reverse Psychological response to press the button. I pressed it as I think everyone else did. But basically you spent 5 minutes of your time pressing a button over and over again. Talk about American decadence. However it is amazing that this person with very low tech digital media could hold you're interest for so log on something so trivial. If the thing had said press the button I doubt that many people would have pressed it.

Art Exhibit of John Kingerlee

Yesterday I saw an exhibit that was actually a world premier of a previously unknown artist, since his art took nearly twenty years to complete. These works of art are by 70-year artist old British born artist John Kingerlee. He lives on the Beara peninsula in the place that is the furthest west you can go in Europe. He has observed bits of American art that really make us American and has created a new and originally style of truly American art even though he’s from England.
His art was paintings in 3D that could be anything you wanted them to be. They actually evoke things more than they actually show anything. For example, I saw a sailboat, in one a skull in another, musical instruments in a few, and a penguin in several of them. I like that most of his art different people see different things in them. In fact, the same person at different time in their life might see different things in the same artwork or just depending on their mood.
John kingerlee is a very interesting person. He seem to be a very positive example of a Hippie. He has certain hours set aside for prayer and everybody must take off his or her shoes in his home. He doesn’t waste anything grows his own food and is a vegetarian. Even though his art is very vague and surreally abstract he is also very much a people person. He is also a world traveler and considers himself and outdoors artist.

Michael Palin For President

http://www.michaelpalinforp...

This is a funny video based on the fact that Michael Palin and Sarah Palin have the same last name. This uses digital media in the various cuts to different Monty Python Sketches featuring Michael Palin, and the photograph of John McCain and Sarah Palin on the American Flag, and The photo of Michael Palin Near the end of the film.

Supermodel Part One

Nobody looks like a supermodel

This image shows the digital manipulation. See, she already is gorgeous but
they have to make her look even better, in fact inhumanly so.
What they did was elongate her arms, remove the lines in her eyes, remove her collar bones. They also made her hair shine even more than it really does, accentuate her eyebrows, remove her neck shadow, and even shrunk her nose. They also removed her shoulder blade, put her arm in a new position, and shrunk her waist. They might have even removed the calluses from her soles but you can't see that much of her feet.
This image shows why we cannot emulate the look of the supermodels it doesn't really exist. It seems that even the supermodels themselves don't look like supermodels.

College student Art Exhibit

The Juried art exhibit was very interesting. I saw some blown glass, suspended by strings, that looked like sea invertebrates. I also saw a trap on the floor to represent city life. There also were paintings like one of just colors, one of something that could have been plants or technological, and several artsy photographs of city life, nature, and one of a cat. There was even one of hot air balloons. I submitted five images and two were accepted - the one of the penguin morphing into a bass and the other of the Beatles of Oz. I would tell more if I remembered more stuff definitely but I do remember I liked this art exhibit. The food was quite good; I may have hd a bit too much though.

Celebrity Lookalikes site

I think the web site totallylookslike.com is really neat. I never noticed, for instance, that the star ship Enterprise totally looks like a sink. They all make sense but you have too look at them together to realize that they do look alike. I had already noticed that Cher totally looks like Morticia and that Ringo Starr totally looks like Yassir Arafat. I have to say I cracked up when I saw that John Kerry totally looks like Guy Smiley. I think there should be one that says Colin Firth totally looks like Robert Lowell. I would never make the connection between Leonardo da Vinci and Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 or Davy Jones in The Pirates of the Caribbean and Cthulu. I also think Tim Curry totally looks like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland, and Anna Russell totally looks like Miss Piggy.

Mona Lisa's Secret

Mona Lisa Film

I found making a movie a very interesting process. I now can understand why movies take so long. It took over a month for me to complete even twenty seconds of film. I always wanted to do a film about the Mona Lisa’s secret, you know what she is smiling about so slyly. I made some mistakes on this movie but the basic concept is still here. I would like to make some more movies. Although it is true that I have made a few movies before this one in another computer art class. This is also my first podcast I would like to make more of them too. It is really exciting to be able to make movies whenever you want. What I have learned is don’t be afraid to make you’re movies short if you’re not a professional. There is nothing more painful to watch than a heavily padded film.

Loch Ness Monster Digital Manipulation

This image of the loch Ness monster with a photograph of loch Ness and a digitally manipulated Nessy. It is therefore not a very convincing job. If they rally wanted to fool us they should have payed attention to what marine reptile flesh looks like. However whether they actually wanted to fool anyone is a matter of conjecture This might fool a few gullible people that the loch Ness monster exist. I myself am very gullible but I am also quite skeptical by nature and I can easily see through this. If you are even a little skeptical than this looks very fake.
The Loch Ness Monster is a very popular legend because it is a colossal beast but it is harmless. In the 1930s they took a blurry Photo which was proven fake. However recent photos have been taken, that have not been proven fake on any level, but still might be fake. After all the same technology that causes such advanced Photo detection also cases advanced photo fraud.

aliens Mt rushmore

This photo of extra terrestrials making the faces of mount Rushmore look like them Is probably digitally manipulated. Not only that but it is quite obvious and is probably not even trying to fool anybody. The idea that aliens are altering the faces of Mt Rusmore by making Lincoln and Washington look like their likeness is amusing; especially since they seem to have the same likeness no facial differences to speak of. The other amusing thing is that for all apprances the aliens look like little green men of the stereotypical images of aliens. If you look Closely you will find that the rock with the aliens' faces doesn't look like rock but the mount Rushmore rock does. So although this drawing may suggest otherwise I am not worried about an alien invasion there are a lot more serious thing to worry about.

Before and After?

I think that this weight loss before and after image is digitally manipulated because these diets usually don't work although I think they did such a good job digitally manipulating it that you can't tell how they did it. I think what they did is they took someone who was in between these two weights and manipulated her twice once to be thinner and once to be fatter.

Media litteracy video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1348234756028344328&ei=i4LdSM7gHJPYrAKnhcGdCw&q=Digital+Media+uses&vt=lf&hl=en

This video show even in other countries digital media is very prevelant

Reboot Music Video

This is a music video with clips from a TV Show That used digital animation as early as 1994 Called Reboot. The show is set in a computer even before it was that well known, they used computer terminology regularly on the show. . Like the villains megabyte and hexadecimal were viruses and they annoying but comical Mike the TV bombarded the people of mainframe

(even the city has a computer name) with totally useless ads just like spam. They also had computer games which you saw from the other side that is the user was the bad guy.

No Media?

If there was no media, I think, in general, it would be an improvement. We would not have people constantly telling us what we have to look like, buy, wear, act like, and eat. I think in that regard to a lack of media pressure, it would be a good thing. However there are some bad things to having no media, like fewer people would know what other cultures were like. In fact , not only couldn't they communicate through things like computers and television, they probably wouldn't even want to travel so people would probably be a lot more bigoted.
However I don't think there are that many cultures without some sort of media. Even Communist Russia, Medieval Europe, Asia ( both Ancient and Modern), Ancient Greece and Egypt all had media; in fact even many tribes in the jungle had media even before communication with"civilized" cultures. Now digital media is the current division from the haves and have nots or even the "civilized" and "uncivilized" itself. In this day and age, words like underdeveloped sound negative even if the people are happy. We are trained to believe they are not. It might alter their whole way of life and they would have trouble adjusting to the new fast paced living.
Digital media however is very new but even at this stage we are now used to getting information quickly. In a way we are both spoiled and more informed. However some people are not even informed. Digital media has also had controversy over porn sites, although porn isn't necesssrily bad, there are many other things to do on the web as well. If this is the only thing it is used for, it is a bit of a waste. I enjoy the videos on youtube. the only thing I really don't like about youtube is that there are videos that cannot be played anymore because of some glitch with the web.

The Weird World of Digital Media

An online symposium at the University of New Mexico explored the following concerns about the impact of digital media on daily life:

1. Identity and Self-Image

2. Credibility and the reliability of information

3. Civic and Social Involvement

4. The Arts, creativity and design

5. Social Networking

6. Educational potentials and implications

All of these are important issues, but I'm most interested the issues of "credibility and reliability of information, civic and social involvement, and the arts, creativity and design.

 how do we really know if we can trust any source of info not just the Internet.  The web is a bit unreliable because anyone can fake information even when it seem that everything is proven and genuine you can't tell for sure that it's the truth. There are always ways of checking the best is to go to every site and if they all seem consistent it's probably true however even that method isn't foolproof.

I like to see people getting involved in things like citizen participation in things like the Obama McCain Election and many people nowadays get political news from the web.  I have seen several ads for Obama since I'm on his side but just to be fair and balance things out I think I should see at least one Republican ad for McCain. I also remember seeing an add for voting which makes you think at first that it is for one of the parties; but it was a non partisan add for non voters to get them to vote.

I also like to see people illustrating interesting things on the Internet and making videos that express their creativity. It can be anything from a collage of pictures o footage of  a school play to a fully digital film. I love to see films by others on my computer in fact these late night computer sessions are usually because of distractions of that nature

Digital media 's effect on the daily life of  people talking on the Internet is a very comlpex question on the web searches I have found people wondering about America being incorrectly represented and us made to look bad although we may be just as bad I saw a sight about kids talking about the problems with spam on the Internet when you click there what will happen and Intolerance and exercising instead of just using computers and verification of information on the web. In this bizarre age where nothing is certain we can't rely on any sources for reliable information not just the Internet. 

Will digital media have a good tomorrow?

I found a lot of very interesting ideas about digital media from class members sites. For instance, someone was worried about what would happen if all this media suddenly disappears because of an energy crisis. On the other hand, somebody else wrote thinking about how it's hard for parents to regulate their kids anymore. Kids could be watching damaging things on the internet without their kids knowing anything about it. Sarah had a lot of youtube videos and one was about computer dating. One youtube had various people expressing their opinions on computer dating. This made me think that you might not have more luck than with actual dating, however it might work any worse, as well.
Another website reflected on digital media in the future that presented a rosy picture. This site suggested that all the TV networks might go all-digital, along with newspapers, books and magazines. The website suggested that this would make everything better, and it attacked the idea of censorship. However, I think some kinds of regulation are actually a positive idea, particularly controls over spam and viruses.

digital media and Me

I found the videos that Sarah had online fascinating. There was one about what computers would do in the future, which I don't know  if the energy supply will hold out this long. The one about online dating raised several valid questions. However I think online dating is not anymore likely to find a perfect partner with, however, I don't think it is that much less likely either. For instance what happens if one of the people was fourteen and said they were twenty; and the other was sixty but lied and said they were thirty. 

I agree with most of what Alan said but there are millions of people in the world rarely or never use digital media also I think that even without digital media advertising would find a way.

While most people in this country do use digital media a lot I don't as much I don't use  facebook or texting.  I tend to only watch DVDs on TV and only use the Internet to look things up and I haven't done a blog until now.  Part of the reason is I don't to get too hooked on it in case it suddenly goes away. 

Political cartoons of the Twenties and Thirties

This exhibit on the political cartoons of the late teens, twenties, and thirties was amazing. Cassel seemed to be on the money practically every time he did a political cartoon. He was pro democrat, pro Roosevelt, anti racist, anti Nazi and anti war; he really got nearly everything right in my opinion. His cartoons were a bit dark and shocking but they were usually on the money. There were a lot of cartoons about World War I, Prohibition, the Great Depression, and World War II.
It started with World War I drawings where he didn’t seem to feel that this war would end all wars. He talked about alcohol in the 1920s being prohibited, which just made the desire for alcohol more excessive. He had some cartoons about the Great Depression talking for instance about different types of itinerant homeless people. In his opinion, the worst of them were bums and the best of them were hobos. There was a display of code signs that hobos used in the 1930s, most of which I didn’t guess correctly. There were also a lot of political cartoons about the Hoover versus Roosevelt election.
He also had many political cartoons about World War II. For instance, there was a picture of Hitler as a school bully. And one about Germany being the greatest enemy with Italy and Japan as the two lesser of the three evils but still a threat. There were some that use Nazis as a recognizable threat to link up with something else. I will give one example. The DAR refused to have Marian Anderson, a black operatic contralto, sing at their hall because of her race. Cassel therefore compared the DAR to the Nazis. Eleanor Roosevelt, who was up till then a DAR member, resigned and allowed Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial, which was an even higher honor.
There was also a room decorated to look like a 1930s living room, complete with thirties radio, phone and record player. There was also a place where we could re-dress Uncle Sam in many ways to give America many images. For example, the farmers’ outfit and the gentlemen’s hat made him look like a gentleman farmer, and the white hat and suit made him look like a 20s tennis player but the green WWI soldiers’ costume combined with the Santa Claus hat made him look like the Grinch.
Finally, they had a teatime based on popular foods in the 1930s. They had Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, which were invented in 1932, and tea sandwiches, which were a popular snack in the 1930s. They had gingerbread, a popular desert in the 1930s, and mini hot dogs, also a popular snack in the thirties. They had a good sampling of period foods, but made a conscious decision to leave out Spam.

Effects of Digital Media

uses a good deal of digital media as well. This can be pretty annoying when I know that things are not supposed to go the way they are advertised, like collar boneless Digital Media is now available on my computer and TV; I like to do certain searches that you probably could not find out about were it not for digital media. Digital media also enables me to watch anything I want, thanks to DVDs; I don't have to watch the television which I don't like much of the shows anyway. E Mail with funny jokes and pictures uses digital media. Advertising almost invariably uses digital media. There however are many ads that i find annoying for example the women that somehow miraculously have no collar bones; the ads for kids toys that show them much bigger than they are, and doing things that that toy could never do; and the ads that somehow make using their product seem to be the only thing that is worthwhile. Ipods also have an effect on me especially when I am in a long car ride. Until recently if someone wanted to listen to music in the car, everybody had to listen to that same tune, but now if one person wants to listen to country western and the other person wants to listen to disco, they won't have an argument. Digital media is also affecting the election. Therefore if a politician makes a mistake it is repeated everywhere: Obama seems to keep his view basically consistent whereas McCain seems to be constantly contradicting what he said.

digital media othrs ideas

I noticed that everybody has concers about digita media one person said thta digital media is eveywhere and seemed to believe it was a good thing. His concern was about what might happen if this all dissapeares. Another person worried as to how you cannot regulate digital media when it comes to what your kids are exposed to, which I though was an impressive thought for someone my age. However no one talked about what would happen with digital media in third word countries which I thought was kind of interesting

I have seen digital media used by people to explain various ideas about what is important in society by a group of kids who were using it to inform people about exercising, prejudice and verification information on the Internet people can also make things for music like guitar hero and music videos  digital media can be frustrating because people can take things down on a website that you like to visit and you can't get them back. i am glad that digital media is out there because it can educate people but that education can be wrong or just something we don't want to hear.

the good the bad and the ugly of Digital media

Where do I begin? It is used everywhere I see, it's used a lot of times in Commercials and Movies making the effectts in fantasy horror and Sci Fi believalble. You an now do any kind of beat or machine you don't have to pay a man to get into a suit or puppeteer a puppet. And they can be anything from cute to badass. I however tend to prefer the way films were before digital media, they kind of lost an intangable quality, once digital media started that kind of ruined a lot of recent movies for me it's more about the effects now than the story. I think one the first and one of the worst in this genre was Godzilla.
If you do not have a computer you are considered an old fogy or a fuddy duddy even thogh some people actualy make a consious descision not to use digital media or it could be something they just can't afford. This says that society prides itself on moving forward for better or worse. It is mainly used by young people but many middle aged and even elderly people are using digital media too.
Digital Media is also used in a negative way by people who post spam, write viruses and perpitrate vandalism those are usually bored college students who can't think of anything else to do. Digital media has also made it harder to track a persons collection of porn because it's now on computors in several places athough this may not be bad according to you're beliefs.


There are many youtoube videos on the web in every genre imaginable usualy to share these with other people and sometimes for monitary gain. Digital Media is also used in computer pictures that people post on the web so that people can look at them and sometimes buy them.

It was a slow day I have not gotten much done but  I thought that the Mighty Gorga film in the top five Crappiest Monsters series would make a great moves for the people on Mystery Science Theater to make fun of it.  For those of you that don't know that's the show with the two robots and the Human watching the Movie and riffing on it. I can Just Imagine some of the wise cracks they could do I even wrote some imaginary host segments.

Weil Walsh art exhibit

Marianne Weil is a fascinating artist; she was trying to create art that is uniquely American. However she was doing that by drawing on Celtic, Japanese, African, Native American, Ancient Egyptian, Medieval European, and Prehistoric art, just to name a few. This is very like the Impressionist art which was trying to create something uniquely French; and also drew on multiple sources of almost every culture but France. It is very Post Post Post Modern Art. I didn’t start out liking it but I ended up really likng them after all. I found the use of symbols intriguing.

I thought the names for the Ann Walsh pictures were  also fascinating. Jump looked to me like kids playing. Tie reminded me of Choc.-Van.-Straw. Ice Cream. Spring kind of looked like leaves’ colors in spring. Stir also kind of looked like mint ice cream. Lead had a bright and sure quality about it; I was not sure whether lead should be prononced lead as in the metal or lead a in someone in charge.  Drawing one was probably named that because it was the only one that was painted on a canvas. These art pieces were bright and cheery and exciting without standing for anything specific. This proves modern art does not have to be dark, or scary, or bizarre, or even a little alarming to be exciting and thought provoking.

I found James Walsh’s pictures interesting too. They are acrylic paint jutting on a canvas. The Dark Fantastic seemed like a celebration of glorious nightlife. Yellow One the title could mean an Asian, a coward, or a bad tooth, but when I saw it, it was clear it was about the color yellow. Sweet Harry had a combination of calming colors I liked. Gradient had a very appealing feel to it. 

All three sets touched me. They were very forgettable but beautiful at the same time. and they seemed to be from a draw your own conclusions school of modern art. 

The effect of computers

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/185.html

This shows how different effects can be done with digital media and how a mistake can actually turn out better than what the person is trying to do. The creater of Irregular webcomic uses a digital camera, photoshop, a web server, a computor, and programming language. It's amazing how much bigger the first computor in the 1940s was when you realise how much smaller computers are now but how much more they can do

Funny videos

This is a very funny pastiche of bad horror monster movies a lot of these monsters if they had had photoshop could have been made a lot less fake and more terrifying. 'Spoiler alert' they could have edited the man in the wetsuit out and made it really look like it was a jellyfish coming to get her.






I like this post because I like opera but I can never understand what they are really saying because I'm too lazy to learn another languge :) This is not just digital mediaa but digital media that uses digital media (note: the dancing bra)

What is digital media

Digital Media is art created on the computer, there are many degrees of digital media though one thing they have in common is they all use a computer. For example drawing a picture on a computer is less digital TO ME than altering a photograph because the computer does less of the execution in the first. The more important the role of the computer the more digital it is.

One advantage is you can do a wider rande of things and it takes less effort. One disadvantage for me of an increase in digital media though is that other art form like claymation for example decrease in use.