Digital Music

Metallica sued Napster for file sharing rights 0n it's music several years ago. I'm sure anyone who listens to music remembers this happening and as far as I'm concerned it was bogus. I know that there are a lot of people out there that can relate to Metallica. It's their music so they want their rights cared for. But what if music became a creative commons and they no longer have the right to say who can and cannot open source it? All of a sudden Metallica has a HUGE fan base, more than before, buying concert tickets at outrageous prices, buying merch from their website, stores begin to sell their merch because that's what the people want. Metallica is an awesome band, they've been on the music front for a long time but we don't hear from them much anymore because they charge such exorbitant amounts of money to use their music on anything; games, movies, and the web. I don't mind making file sharing a little more artist friendly, but let the people have your music without kicking screaming and throwing a fit. It will only benefit you in the end!


Read the article here and give me YOUR opinion on file sharing.

Love hate relationships

Newspapers are one thing that I have steered clear of in my life. As a kid I would be the first one to grab the Sunday funnies or the ads for Toys'r'us but I just couldn't bring myself to read the actual newspaper. It wasn't until high school when I finally was on the staff for the Beresonian (high school newspaper printed in the town newspaper during the school year) that I began to take an interest. I had a lot of fun writing up articles about my peers and then seeing them printed a few weeks later. Even now my mom will save the Beresonian for me if there's an article she thinks I would like.

One other memory involving newspapers; I loved the movie the Newsies growing up and I distinctively remember wanting to sell newspapers. But since I was a country kid, being a paper girl was out of the question.

Today I still don't read the newspaper much in paper form. I will read it if I'm at work and bored online. And I don't receive a newspaper at my home, but I think online sites are much more accessible and interesting. But I still read the funnies if I can get them :)

Heights

I chose this poem initially because I'm afraid of heights. Don't get me wrong I adore roller coasters but I'm strapped to those. Put me in a tree and I won't be able to get down, and don't expect me to stand at the edge of a balcony and look down.

At first the simplicity of it made me think about leaving. The structure could easily be duplicated in power point with word art animations. Might need to use photo shop for the warping of the picture at the end but in general it could be put together in less than an hour if you had the text. An easy flash program could create this quick presentation of the poem.

I took a few screen caps of some of my favorite lines from the poem...

Cool Shit I'm Diggin'

So one thing I LOVE about media is how even when the sites I go to on a regular basis (Facebook, YouTube, and etc) get boring as all heck I will find something that keeps me coming back. Recently a friend posted this link to his fbook wall and it had me in stitches. Hope you get a kick out of it (being English Majors and all).

Click here please for funskies.

Foundations of Me

As far as my introduction is concerned I will be making a list. The following are the bricks that lay the foundation of me! We'll start and the top and work our way to the bottom...

----Piercings---
---Tattoos-----
-----Kohl------
-----Reading---
----Writing-----
---Creativity---
----Smiles------
----Laughter----
----Adoption----
Tears and Emotion
----Loyalty-----
----Love--------
F... A... I... T.... H

Stop Motion Engl for New Media