As you may have noticed in Adam's email to all NCT students and staff, Blogger was having issues earlier this evening but finally started working again after 6pm. Please post your essays asap and DO NOT leave this until Monday.
Regards,
Dr D.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Google dithers? Blog posts not working? Well, they are now!
Well, well. Even the mighty Google-saurus has its hiccups.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Electro-Pop Princess in the Provinces
While you're all so busy with your essays and exam revision, I thought some Emilie Simon might brighten yours daze days a little.
Those of you who don't know of Simon, I can hardly blame you. Australie has such a weird relationship with France that the exchange of music across borders proves much easier in countries without our deadening cultural provincialism that makes us think we're at the peripheries making impure culture while the centers (i.e. New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Milan, Paris) are where the real culture happens. This is an ideological lie. We're just as capable of culture as anywhere else.
See you in next week.
Dr D.
Those of you who don't know of Simon, I can hardly blame you. Australie has such a weird relationship with France that the exchange of music across borders proves much easier in countries without our deadening cultural provincialism that makes us think we're at the peripheries making impure culture while the centers (i.e. New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Milan, Paris) are where the real culture happens. This is an ideological lie. We're just as capable of culture as anywhere else.
See you in next week.
Dr D.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Road Trip Montage
So many of you, my dear students, have done incredibly well with the video exercise that I would like to invite you to maybe indulge in a bit of a montage over the break. Montage is what you've been doing all along, blending clips, pics, and music to make a single clip. One of my fave montages comes from Dana Colley of Morphine and Twinemen fame:
Hope you all have a wonderful week off/doing assignments. See you when class resumes.
Hope you all have a wonderful week off/doing assignments. See you when class resumes.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Video Update
It's great to see so many of you, my students, creating videos with wit!
Here's a quick rollout of all the videos I've watched thus far:
Justin's video
NCT Week 6! The Break away from Katie Kochanski on Vimeo.
Sam's video
Here's a quick rollout of all the videos I've watched thus far:
Justin's video
NCT Week 6! The Break away from Katie Kochanski on Vimeo.
Sam's video
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sony Playstation 3 Slim | Wired.com Product Reviews
Sony Playstation 3 Slim | Wired.com Product Reviews
What exactly does Sony have to gain by not ramping up the compatibility issues here...? The slimmed down PS3 is an act of contrition certainly, but only to a limit; the profit baseline perhaps? Even if Sony were to give backwards compatibility to its back catalogue of PS2/PS1 games, we'd be hard pressed to find it even more useful as a media centre: no infrared port for 3rd party remotes/controllers, no alternate OS support, loud disc bay.
What exactly does Sony have to gain by not ramping up the compatibility issues here...? The slimmed down PS3 is an act of contrition certainly, but only to a limit; the profit baseline perhaps? Even if Sony were to give backwards compatibility to its back catalogue of PS2/PS1 games, we'd be hard pressed to find it even more useful as a media centre: no infrared port for 3rd party remotes/controllers, no alternate OS support, loud disc bay.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | We're all mutants, say scientists
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | We're all mutants, say scientists
We're all mutants? Ha, feel that liberation? No, me neither. Although it does make 28 Days/Weeks Later seem like an apocalyptic fantasia if we're already mutants anyway.
But what's this story got to do with NCT? Well, DNA is the way our species communicates down through the ages. It's not a spoken word, but something far more primal. We literally 'embody' this media. Of course, it doesn't service notions of art, civilisation, or love, but DNA does tell us something about the microcosm of our genetic heritage. Yet, and as Heraclitus said, "character is fate."
We're all mutants? Ha, feel that liberation? No, me neither. Although it does make 28 Days/Weeks Later seem like an apocalyptic fantasia if we're already mutants anyway.
But what's this story got to do with NCT? Well, DNA is the way our species communicates down through the ages. It's not a spoken word, but something far more primal. We literally 'embody' this media. Of course, it doesn't service notions of art, civilisation, or love, but DNA does tell us something about the microcosm of our genetic heritage. Yet, and as Heraclitus said, "character is fate."
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Clash of the Coffee Gadgets
otto espresso - the world's best stovetop espresso coffee maker
This is a sample of fabulous design. The Modernist curves and Bauhaus functionality of the machine give it a semblance of bygone Paris-meets-Weimar style. But while it's still a stovetop espresso machine, there's clearly a milk frothing innovation at its peak. Why did this take so long to add to a stovetop espresso machine? I've no idea, but the website clearly shows how clean and efficient they want the machine to be.
It'd still be a bitch of a thing to wash and clean though.
Personally, I'm more partial to the innovations of the AeroPress. Sure, it doesn't froth milk, and that demands you become a 'hardcore espresso-head' (if such a person exists). But the speed at which this gizmo works, the simplicity of its design, and the 10 seconds it takes to rinse, can't be ignored.
This is a sample of fabulous design. The Modernist curves and Bauhaus functionality of the machine give it a semblance of bygone Paris-meets-Weimar style. But while it's still a stovetop espresso machine, there's clearly a milk frothing innovation at its peak. Why did this take so long to add to a stovetop espresso machine? I've no idea, but the website clearly shows how clean and efficient they want the machine to be.
It'd still be a bitch of a thing to wash and clean though.
Personally, I'm more partial to the innovations of the AeroPress. Sure, it doesn't froth milk, and that demands you become a 'hardcore espresso-head' (if such a person exists). But the speed at which this gizmo works, the simplicity of its design, and the 10 seconds it takes to rinse, can't be ignored.
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