Week 9 – Writing the essay – Lecture Notes

There is a reading from lecture 4 that has inspired me more to explore the affects of cyberspace, the virtual 3D world;
Cyberspace
“A working definition of cyberspace might be: A conceptual space where words, relationships, data, wealth and power are manifested by people using Computer Mediated Communication technologies. Is it a ‘consensual hallucination’ or another form of reality? [...]

Week 8 – Internet Field Trip – eXistenZ – Jason Nelson

 
eXistenZ
This movie talks virtual gaming to its limits!  Shame about Jude Law’s stupid looking gun though!  I’ll give this 7 out of 10 as it did keep me interested all the way through.  The movie was interesting in the sense that you sometimes couldn’t distinguish which was the real world and the virtual… except for [...]

Week 7 – Digital Creativity – Video Games

Summary on the lecture
Along with the lecture content, I’ve had a think about the following questions;
 
• How are games virtual worlds?
Virutal worlds are non-tangible enviroments that are designed to phycologicaly convince us to think outside of our excistence. For example, making friends with people weve never met before. Or even walk around a place that [...]

Week 6 – Adobe Photoshop examples

 
This was a plain chequered board until me and Adobe Photoshop came along!  Fancy a game?

 
The different colours represent each state on this funked up map of Australia.

 
This weekend I went to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre to watch the Red Hot Chili Peppers a very popular culture.  Notice the logo pasted onto some hot chillies.

  
Flavor Flav has got to be one of my favourite celebrities; from Public Enemy he’s obsest with having a clock round his neck.

 
Oscar, as you all know is my trusty friend and I thought of using the same image but, give him a tasty bone this time.

 
Because of the recent news that all British telephone boxes are to become obsolete, I have chosen this  communication devise.  Notice the sign has been changed to obsolete.

Week 5 – Image Hosting

 
I have found that using Gmail and Ficker, to host my images via pages.google.com is an easi yethod. This site has a tool called Page Creater, and is very quick and user friendly for hosting your pictures. Just to let you know that when you first open a Gmail or Flickr account, it can take several [...]