blog #58: dusty roads ahead

Week 12’s lecture, today, was all about media materialism! Dan took over this lecture again and presented the 2 hour seminar in a really engaging and comprehensible way. I especially loved the way that all the media terms were discussed and defined explicitly. The terms ‘Holocene’ and ‘Anthropocene’ were terms I struggled with but once […]

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blog #54: seedy sunday

After finishing work late last night and staying up until an unreasonable hour, I had every excuse to justify my sleeping in until midday. Now that I’ve got the house to myself (my grandma is away visiting my family in Adelaide), I’ve realised just how much effort goes into running a household – of this […]

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blog #46: sampling samples

Today’s lecture was all about copyright, sampling and originality. Dan, today’s lecturer, played some very interesting videos to keep us all engaged, intertwining it with some academic research. He then gave us an activity, to listen to Girl Talk’s song This Is The Remix and then to list as many song samples that we could find. I […]

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blog #25: confucius say

Today’s lecture really threw me for a loop, I understood quite little of everything that was discussed… and having a look over Brief 4, I can only add to that confusion. The use of stringent media terms made today’s lecture turn into one big blur. I tried my hardest to understand the key concepts discussed, […]

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blog #20: 1, 2, 3… break

First checkpoint… DOWN. I’ve reached the Easter Holiday one week break of my first year at university and it hasn’t been all that bad. In our Media One lectorial yesterday we touched on Brief 3 which is to make a media piece of someone we know. It definitely sounds interesting and I’m looking forward to […]

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blog #16: FOMO

Today’s Media One lecture will be down a member, that member being me. My friends from Adelaide have flown to Melbourne to visit me for the weekend and I have to make the trip with them to drop them off at the airport. Their plane leaves at 1520 hours (like my aviation lingo?), with their […]

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blog #8: roll call

Today’s lecture was a lot of fun, yet extremely informative! We had a chat from Anne Lennox, an expert on copyright management at the university library! The talk was all about copyrighting which is key, especially in my elective course of Music in Popular Culture as I really have to be careful with what I record […]

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blog #4: the walking dead

The first recording is of a Tibetan Protest that we witnessed in our lectorial activity. It was such an interesting rally that was taking place so we collectively decided to film and hear what was being shared. This audio is of a busker playing in the city, specifically Bourke Street. This is another display of […]

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