Today's Class

Ay, I feel like a web design failure. It is hard to make sites appealing and some of my classmates are pretty damn good at it. I feel like if someone was to hand me Photoshop and say hey design a site I'd be like yes! but then dealing w tables and such just hurts my brain. Practice Practice Practice.


Also, my caffeine free Life style is getting more and more complicated. Thursday 8am field trip to Arboretum (sp?), climbing rocks at Blue Hills and then Castle Island all before 11 has over exhausted me.

Today

copyrights and citations

In a world where we are warned not to plagiarize I am constantly confused with how fast this simple rule is forgotten on the web. Last week we learned that when making a web site you MUST give credit to any image you use unless you yourself took it. Common sense to writers and artists. And yet blogs like Tumblr exist where credit is never given and when it is, some annoying person decides to erase it because the artists name is just far too gross for their beloved tumblr's layout. How is this allowed? How are we allowed to share music and art without giving credit? Where have the rules gone and why is this grey area not taken into account? I feel like I am the one of few, linking back to artists websites and citing the creators.

too.much.work.to.do

Kompozer.

While this program is extremely helpful and even my computer illiterate mother could probably make a site of some sort I just feel like no matter how hard I try I am left with an unattractive site that looks like a Microsoft Word page live on the internet. I honestly don't understand how people do it. I understand the codes and have played around with tables but even as an art student I fail at making it look appealing. Oh well... In time?

Why Robots Scare Me...

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I just feel like the future is going to happen and robots are going to take over the world and they most likely wont be singing Asian pop songs when they do it. It walks so real, its creepy. That is all.

What Can An AIB Student Do?

When they are stuck at Lesley University from 2:15-7:30. I find it extremely boring waiting for my 5:00 class between 2:15 and 5:00... I have no dorm room, I barely know this building... avocado rolls from downstairs and hours of internet stumbling it is.

Birthday Complex

While reading Chapter 2 of Here Comes Everybody the Birthday Paradox is something I found to be extremely interesting. The Paradox explains that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them will have the same birthday. As the number of people increases the probability of two or more people sharing a birthday increases. It all makes sense logically it just is not something I would think about.

Facebook Ruins Lives

Went and saw The Social Network on Friday at the Somerville theater. First of all Somerville theater $7 movie, beer at the theater and popcorn was under $5 = [unlike every overpriced theater in Boston] win. The movie was surprisingly very interesting. The inventor of facebook is from Harvard? odd. The inventor of facebook striving to just be popular in college? odd. The inventor of facebook is the youngest billionaire. wow. The film was shot really well and I am a sucker for seeing Boston scenes in movies now that I live here. Once again the internet has blown my mind in how facebook blew up so quickly and gained so much revenue. However Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed basically as jerk which yet again makes me want to delete my facebook forever.

I also saw Catfish a few weeks ago which I personally think is a bit more interesting. Also dealing with the internet and facebook this accidental documentary shows us what happens when you spend time talking to people on the internet and what can happen when they don't turn out to be who you thought they were. After the movie there was a Q&A with the director and his brother who were both in the film which was pretty awesome. It is a scary world out there. Talking to unknown people is never a good idea and this film shows how weird it can turn out. Also will make you want to rethink having a facebook.