long fairy tales have a tendency to dragon

vassup....

the history of movies was described earlier on in a previous blog, remember?? if not scroll down, but anyway this week a brief history of small to big screen will be shown. Black and white to colour, short to long, big to small, smelly to ooo-yum. Technology advances every second of every day until eventually it eats us, but until then only big and better things will be produced and shown to the public. These will also help filmmakers and creators express their ideas and individualites quite that much more. so heres a time line YO!

1906- Australian film Ned Kelly was the first feature length narrative.

1927- The Jazz Singer introduced dialogue

1929- first all colour movie was made

1933- first drive in theatre was built

1937- Disney released Snow White, the first feature length animated film

1939- TV was introduced at New York trade fair with great amazement

1952- introduction of 3D, however quite poor

1955- Tv recieved movies

1956- first proper VTR

1963- 'percepto' vision, aromarama

1967- Sony introduces the VCR and portapack for recording of favorite shows

1970- IMAX debuted

1972- pay TV was introduced for more variety

1985- first Blockbuster Video store opens, let the late fees gather from here

1986- Pixar makes first fully animated film

1995- Toy Story first feature length CGI film

1997- DVD video released.
2006 - first blu ray machine created

he dropped a computer on his toes and had megahertz

vassup.....

this week we gotta watch some chick flicks and eat some ice cream. Nah jokes but seriously we must rummage through the dvds we have, find a favourite and analyse a movie and the different shots and techniques used. I have decided to pick the ever so brilliant Kill Bill Part 1, its such a perfect film.

The close up (Who):
When the bride speaks to bill outside the chapple, a close up is used to show the character deliver their dialogue. the focuse is on her and only her which entices the audience.

The mid shot (What):
A mid shot is used when the bride is gazing at all the differnt types of hattori hanzo swords. it shows that she is interested in all of them and as the action of her moving around and reaching out to them is preformed.

The long shot (Where):
This shot is shown as the bride rides her bike through the busy streets of tokyo japan. this indicates and higlights where this certain chapter takes place in the story.

The close up (When):
The close up is used at the begining of the film when the bride is shot down at her wedding and shows her spluttering over her words covered in blood. this is used to shock the audience and to hide "Bill"s identity


The big close (Why):
The big close up is shown quite oftern throughout the film as when the bride recognizes a person or event it zooms into her eyes and then the object or person. Haunting music then helps add effect.

The medium close up (How):
the medium close up is shown when O-Ren-Ishi walks down a hallway with her gang to slow music. the effect is used to show that very soon an epic battle will take place. this is witnessed in the trailer below for more explaination.

this is the trailer below...its good shit. i love this movie and the second one is even better. quentin tarantino is a god

those who throw dirt are sure to lose ground

vassup....

scaaaaaavenger hunt bitches!

so i hear theres this scavenger hunt going down...i want in? but we cant use google. HOLY HELL WHAT WILL I DO?
good thing im mr perfect and am so smart....ill find other ways around this mystery


1) Worlds Tallest Tree? How Long It Took To Grow

The Coast Redwood, located in Redwood National Park California is the worlds tallest tree standing at 215.55m and is over 2.200 years old
(bing.com)






2) Best way to contact Madonna?
her fan base address...

Madonna
Maverick Records, Llc.
9348 Civic Center Dr.
3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA
(bing.com)

3) Oldest elephant captured and average age?

Vatsala the elephant is 92-years-old who is currently located in India's Panna Tiger Reserve

African Elephants average 50-60 years ......Asian Elephants average 60-70 years

(http://www.audleytravel.com/Destinations/Indian-Subcontinent/News/Oldest-elephant-on-earth18330023.aspx)

4) Define the world 'Glycomics" and what does it mean? What does "seagull manager" refer to?

"Glycomics is an analogous term to genomics and proteomics, is the comprehensive study of glycomes". While seagull manager means... "a manager whose interaction with the work force consists in arriving, criticizing everything and everybody harshly, and leaving again"

(dictonary.com)

5) David Croenbergs most recent flims...how many had Blondie in it?

1. Cosmopolis
2. The Matarese Circle
3. The Talking Cure

while Blond has been in one of his movies... Videodrome

(imdb.com)

6) When was hackers released?
Hackers was released in 1995

(imdb.com)

7) How do phone numbers in the USA start with 555 in movies?

The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies t o use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1970s.

(bing.com)



8) Cheapest way to travel from the GC to Cairns

by car? tank of petrol is only 50 bucks so....yeah would be cheaper than a flight.

9) Song that was ontop of the Aussie Pop Charts this week in 1970

1970 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend / Run Through the Jungle
(http://www.australianmusichistory.com/)






10) Brisbane Band that includes Stephan Stockwell on Keyboards and Vocals

The Black Assassins (Also known as 'Brisbane's ugliest band')
(publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/pdf/10.2104/ha080051)

as the shoe said to the hat, 'You go on ahead, and I'll follow on foot'.

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this be me



leave your phone numbers in the comments section ladies



ps:

I WANT THIS!
god how i love technology

dead languages have to be encrypted

vassssup....

movies are perfect. its as simple as that. original created as a mistake once a man with Parkinsons took far to many pictures of his wife outside the lincon memorial, flipping through the pictures caused a "movie-ious" effect (latin for nacho cheese), the modern film was produced.

in more recent times, the movie has incorporated sound. also actors and even a set. so with all this in mind, the main reason behind the creation of the piece is to entertain you. thy make you cry, make you laugh, or even make you wish you didn't decide to become a priest.

for any ready and keen director, simple language of the screen must first be understood. so here is where it gets a tad confusing, try and keep up.

if you ever see any of these abreviations on a script or piece of work, this will help you understand what it means.

WS – Wide Shot
The WS gives a place and the geogrpahy of the scene, also can give time and timeline of era.

LS – Long Shot
The LS is a great technique to use to establish where a scene is taking place. This shot takes in the whole height of the person showing the background as well.

MLS – Medium Long Shot
The MLS is a shot that has a narrower field than the LS but is much broader

MS – Mid Shot
The MS is great to use when showing charcters carrying out an action.

MCU – Mid Close Up
MCU is used to show two things in one shot, such as a person and what they are doing.

CU – Close-up
The CU can be used to reviel more about the character and to create tension

BCU – Big Close Up
BCU is used when revieling detail of characters face and during interviews

ECU – Extreme Close Up
The ECU is used in extreme cases to show extreme detail of a person or object.

Also for further knowledge....

Two-Shot – Shot of two characters in the same picture
V.O. – voiceover
O.S. – off screen
P.O.V. – Point of view (eg. one of those wobbly cameras they use when someone is breaking into an apartment in a horror movie.)
M.O.S. – without sound. Great for when your characters are staking out some joint, watching the bad guys pull off some drug deal and they can’t hear what they are saying.
TRACK – camera moves completely to the left/right
PAN – camera pivots left or right
TILT – camera pivots up or down
BOOM – camera moves up or down.
DOLLY – camera moves in/out from subject
ZOOM – camera zooms in/out from subject

Source: Digvidflynn

When your internet provider goes bankrupt it's a 'net loss

vasssssup...

today i am here to infrom you on THE INTRAWEB and all its HISTORIES AND STORIES like....lolzerz ladies and gents

so for your enjoyment...here is a time line of the interrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrNET and computing

1642 - Blaise Pascal (France) constructs the first mechanical Calculator.

1835 - Samuel Morse invents Morse code.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

1896 - Herman Hollerith founds a company that would later become IBM.

1927 - London and New York get the first transatlantic phone link.

1937 - Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine.

1949-50 - Printed electronic circuits are developed.

1950 - Big computer built.

1953 - IMDB begin to build large computers

1954 - Fortran programming language invented

1960 - first email programme created called mailbox

1964 - IBM first word processor

1965 - first minicomputer

1971 - Microprocessor built

1972 - pocket calculator, email between two machines all invented

1975 - first portable computer built

1984 - Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface.

1984 - The CD-ROM is introduced as data-storage device.

1986 - Internet begins to form shape

early 1900's - Wired networks number over 7,500 worldwide, reaching people in more than 75 countries

1995 - There are 30 to 40 million Internet users in the world (estimated).

Source: Internet Time-Line.
Communication Studies - Murdoch Universtiy, Perth, Western Australia.

oh no...my rechargeable batteries are revolting

ah hoi hoi ladies and germs
howz it?

in the last blog i very much explained convergence to the highest of standards possible. i honestly think i might win an award for it. i dont like to toot my own horn but...toot toot.
however i very much forgot to add some EXAMPLES of convergent technologies. how stupid of me, i feel like a person who posts fml's...but im not lonely

to clear up things u, convergent technolgies is... *according to the almighty and very untrustworthy wikipedia*

...the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing similar tasks. ...previously separate technologies such as voice (and telephony features), data (and productivity applications) and video that now share resources and interact with each other...creating new efficiencies.
Many experts view this as simply being the tip of the iceberg, as all facets of institutional activity and social life such as business, government, art, journalism, health and education are increasingly being carried out in these digital media spaces across a growing network of ICT devices. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_convergence)

so heres a few....

1) who can say their idont ilike the almighty
iPhone

The iPhone is an internet-connected, multimedia GSM smartphone. It was designed by Apple Inc and is one of the obvious choices to represent convergence as the multi touch screen not only renders a virtual keyboard when needed, but the phone morphs into a video and normal camera, an ipod, internet client and great time waster. Text, MMS, Visual Voice, Email and Web Browsing are to name a few features it includes.

2) your book...my book...everyone has a
FACEBOOK

Facebook, created in 2004 is a social networking website that allows users to comment, message, video and update their friends with any news about...anything really. Users can also join organizeations, voice their opinions and pretty much do whatever they want on this online sensation.

3) when there is nothing on, you'll always have infomercials.... say hello to the
TELEVISION

The TV is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images and sound, either in monochromatic form or colour. Hailing from the latin and greek meaning "far sight", the television easily represents how from your bed room, you are watching Olympic games in China or watching a riot in Berlin.


4) some are recreation while others are girlfriends, welcome the
COMPUTERThe Computer is one of the best inventions ever....ever. Everything stated above can be preformed on the computer with ease and from the comfort of your swiveling office chair while you pretend your reading the Johnson files. The home computer blasted into the scene at 1977 and were not only expensive, large, only used for word processing (wheres the porn?) and was somthing only blind people found "sleek", but very under-powered and held minimal to no memory. Oh how we have changed since then.

in conclusion......
technology kicks ass and the old days were nothing but a blow, like honestly what could you do...play with a stick and throw a tennis ball at a wall....woopdi doo! like in all honesty, who does not like the age of technology we live in now....like, who does not want a self making bed?



or even this funny looking BIGDOG thing that makes a shit load of noise and just makes you piss your pants watching it

seriously.....they are perfect inventions

Links you should check out:
iPhone (Apple)
Facebook (Home)
Television History
Computer History

oh...and by the way
this is what 1gb use to look like

(the object next to it is what 1gb looks like today)

jimmy

barbed wire was first used for de fence

vassup...

OK so first up, we must address a serious issue that the world is dealing with right now. its bigger than swine and bigger than Obama....

if you live under a rock, the name Bindi Irwin is nothing more than gravel in the ears. however to us, this little bastard child has appeared more times on TV than Tracy Grimshaw during her Gordan Ramsey "this pig is under-cooked" dummy fit. and now it seems she will not stop....bring on her "block-buster-straight-to-DVD-bins" movie "Free Willy 4, Watch Out Steve For The...Oh Shit To Late". her acting has been deemed as deadly as a stingray and we wouldn't be surprised that this horrible piece of work kills the rest of her family.

but back to the matter at hand....

it is the first week back at uni (technically the second now but WATEVR!) and for new com tech we must make blogs. blogs and twitter and all that razzle dazzle is the latest trend in the world and well...i may not be a big fan but hell, you get the hang of it. it soon becomes as as addictive as crack, just a little less messy and you don't regret it the next day after waking up in a kings cross toilet with a guys number on your arm.

so "like totally what is communication?" i hear the Paris Hiltons of the world. well you future CEO's this is what you'll expect to find in that book called a dictionary....yes the one next to the camera in your room. Communication is any process that transfers, transmits or makes information. In real life, a speaker voices a message which is then heard by a listener. Then the world keeps spinning and your mum keeps baking cookies. Originally, this communication was done face-to-face but in common times this has become extinct as websites such as FACEBOOK and MYSPACE have taught everyone how to not only have over a thousand friends but even have a virtual date while you remain at home in your underwear most probably watching Maury!

now in the first lecture (and computer lab for that fact) both teachers proceeded to ramble on about the word Convergence. in the filed of technology, most common forms of communication can be achieved from one location now. originally it was the Internet, but now as the Internet is now located on the mobile phone, not only is "accidentally" sending naked photos to the wrong person handy and practically, but it can be done on the run. Also, as Facebook is now located in your pocket, call that "bikini wearing whore" a whore with ease.

but to be serious, in the field of information, with great power must come great responsibility....(all spiderman geeks out there just webbed in their tights). as interactive means of communication such as vision, sound, text and i do not doubt the introduction of "smell" in the future, communication is now easier to access than Queenslands theme parks, women, cars and restaurants, by disguising yourself as an "Arabic Prince"

but hey....shits getting to real these days. what ever happened to mr squiggle? cheez-tv? and pokemon that didn't suck and kicked ass and made you shit in your fruitloops every time they evolved? ahhh well, i kinda like the times now. lets just leave em be and enjoy all the new communication technologies that we have in front of us..

jimmy