Elliots New Haircut – Lecture 04

if anyone knows how to fix these upside down iPhone pics, let me know!

I often think both students and teachers alike fall into a trap of ‘it is a potential educational argument/topic, therefore we must pursue it’ when much of the time this is not the case. I think the best part of arguments, especially educational ones is what comes out of them, not when two people walk away from each other both thinking that their individual opinions are better than the person they were just verbally bashing. In todays lecture we covered many topics such as the reliability and validity of different sources, perspectives and opinions being granted access into online sources, the art of bullshitting and noisy eaters. I’d like to focus on the idea of the massive expansion of literacies and form vs content.

could he be any louder with that sandwich?

could he be any louder with that sandwich?

I think people would agree that the transition from high school to tertiary education (university in particular) makes students feel as if they need to be super opinionated, join all these random groups, sign yellow pieces of paper and dispute other opinions because they feel theirs is right. In high school it was more a feel of ‘lets get this over and done with’ and ‘students hang tight’ kinda feel. Uni is very different, and that almost ignorant attitude, or the surfy kid who just wants to get good marks and move on to the next thing has totally gone out the window. Adrian talked much about understanding and the loss of power one has when third parties are allowed to do our work for us, or when we hire them out, we become a slave to these external sources. Honestly, who cares? I don’t care if I use the visual box feature on WordPress as a pose to the text HTML feature, as long as it works that is all I care about. However, it is not as if I do not understand the perspective of having a greater understanding or more well rounded knowledge is advantageous. I totally agree with this. When the computer guy used to come over to the house, and I’m sure other teenagers experienced this, that they are the ones talking to the ‘third party’ not the parents as they do not understand this talk about gigabytes and wireless traffic etc. Perfectly valid, but really with the advances in technology there is really nothing stopping me from…well anything?

I don’t get where this argument starts and begins. I am not a slave to anybody, and then someone really self righteous person comes along and says ‘you are a slave to our economic system, the uni’s, your parents’ etc. See, its just arguments for arguments sake. We really don’t need to concern ourselves with such things. If everyone understood everything then there would be a lot of job loss wouldn’t there to start with. As humans we are here to educate ourselves but there is no reason you have to know certain things or do certain tasks. Free will is a thing yes, and laws and restrictions apply but this is just blowing the original lecture topic out of proportion. No one cares about enslavement to third parties because that is a paranoid approach. Those lucky enough to be at university are capable of educating themselves about more than one topic. Fuss for no reason really, but makes for great blogging 🙂

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Working For The Man – E.C.I

"because the world is run by the man"

Why is work, much of the time so shit? I’ll tell you what is worse than working is looking for work. Sending out resumes every 2 minutes, writing thousands of cover letters and then you hear back from maybe 2 businesses if you are lucky. Why is it that so many jobs have such specific requirements. I want to have a go and learn in that industry, but I need 3 licenses and need to know how to rewire the whole company network incase the electrician is sick one day…I mean really.

all I hear

all I hear

It is at this point in time that most students and young people realise they will do almost anything to get a job. ANYTHING! You start out with pride and ambitions, you want a good job that you will enjoy, has flexible hours and a great pay rate. HA! Any second year student or adult for that matter will simply laugh in your face. BUT, you continue to pursue because you have that one stupid annoying friend who has the dream job. They are a door to door salesman that gets paid stupid amounts, or a photographer who sets his own hours and rates. BULLSHIT REF! Eventually though you get a job offer from you 157th preference and you take it out of fear that you may not get anymore offers and definitely no more money from your parents.

The system we have in place just doesn’t seem to function well does it? So many people working jobs that they hate and jobs being so hard to obtain in the first place. Granted, all of us can be a little lazy and not apply for a few days etc but in the end its just so frustrating. Photographers will amazing skill sets for example can find it near impossible to get a paid gig so they end up working behind a coffee machine for the next 5 years. Not ok.

That being said, we all need to do some hard yards at some point. If you have to get up at 6 everyday so be it. We keep working that so we can go on spending so we in turn can go on working. It is all about how you work around it, stick it to the mana and find a job and system that works for you. Now I have acquired almost 3 jobs that work in with my week and my skills and soon I shall have enough money to expand my media business. Go inspire someone with your decisions 🙂

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The Grey Space – Workshop

the grey space in-between...
elliot explains the deadliness of copyright

elliot explains the deadliness of copyright

I am trying to think of a clever way to convey the information and exercises we do on a Friday to my readers but it is proving difficult. Side note, make sure you download the above album by Horrowshow, awesome lyrics and was written when they were just in high school. ANYWAY! I have an idea for next weeks class but I don’t want to waste it this week. O whatever, lets get this out of the way. Elliot engaged in a class discussion extending off the ideas presented in the lecture about copyright and the laws and ideas surrounding it. We touched on many ‘grey areas’ meaning the legal outcomes can be very difficult to determine, however generally in these situations, the company or individual with the most moneys is going to win 🙁

Unfortunately for my classmates I got really into this discussion, leaving them to listen to the sound of my droning voice for at least 45 minutes. Left them ‘enthralled’ as can be seen below…

matt, ash and meg with their 'engaged' faces

matt, ash and meg with their ‘engaged’ faces

Then it was onto more serious topics which seemed to put the class into a frenzy, despite Isabella’s constant Harry Potter distractions. Elliot gave us a proper example of what the HTML test will be like seen below. Essentially we have to have an understanding of how the framework of a basic HTML site works so things like headings, hyperlinks, images, bold text etc. I thought it was actually going to be a lot more but this doesn’t seem so bad.

coding n uploading

coding n uploading

So I came home and attempted to replicate what we did in class. I put the following code into TextWrangler;

<html>
<body>
 
<h1>Le Heading</h1>
<i>A <a href=“http://google.com”>link</a></i>
<img src=“ http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/c0.180.851.315/p851x315/10514194_546757428767401_8767785724168524941_o.jpg”
<strong> THE END. </strong>
 
</body>
</html>
Then saved it and went to the web browser to be confronted with this…
feck

feck

The image I am attempting to insert into the HTML code is this following which I took but it is being linked through google images off Facebook so I am wondering if that is where the problem lies. Either that or I haven’t closed the code off properly.

bring back willem!

bring back willem!

If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know, but I am sure it is just a minor issue. That is all I have to say about that.

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