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Yes, yes politics woo ! Over the weekend i posted my first vote as a adult ! I voted for Labor but of course unless you’ve been living under a rock Tony Abbott and the Liberals took out the race. Dear goodness the next few years should be fun… Lets not get into how i feel about him because theres already enough facebook pages that covers my thoughts pretty well. Anyway i voted like actually voted properly because i value my right my privileges. so to those of you who drew penis’ or voted for some made up crap damn you!! you had the power to influence our nation you lazy buggers.
#pointlessrantover

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail reading has achieved what many have failed to do.. interest me. For the first time i found myself actually just casually reading and not having to force it and so i write this post with much more enthusiasm than usual.

Finally ! Not everything mainstream, popular, in fashion is good ! Everyone has different taste in music, movies and well anything. I could not agree more with what Chris has written about, i couldnt of written it better myself (not that i could’ve)

1. Make everything available.
Holy shit yes, i do enjoy the odd few blockbuster movies and thats when i visit the cinemas to watch them. But i mostly light other low key sort of movies independent films if you will. But i tell you what finding a physical copy of such films is a task for sure and my local films rentals most definitely won’t have it so i have to go to other sources mainly online to which i wont go into detail. This so called Long tail has expanded the market and created such sample from which we can now select from. HOORAY!

2. Cut the price in half now lower it.
99cents for a single is bloody damn good to me. But no only is it 99cents for the latest Justin Bieber, Katy Perry track or whatever is trending but its 99cents of less for Alt-J or Rufus or some lesser known but equally as talented artist. The demand for more and cheaper is becoming greater and so such platforms as itunes is like a goldfield filled with endless supplies of nearly everything. The price 99cents however does come at a cost, for myself i dont mind that its a digital copy with no case or anything like that but still that doesn’t stop me from buying a physical copy if i really love an artist and so it shouldnt and i dont think it does. At that price there has to be sacrifices but quality isnt really one of them so im not too concerned.

3.Help me find it.
I personally think that the online entertainment sector is in essence a marketing ploy. More often than not in this day and age if the content is somewhere online then the likelihood of it get noticed is amplified. And when anything at all gets noticed it usually spreads like wildfire. Books, movies and CD’s that are unheard of can within days be “trending” and people will rush to stores to try and get their hands on a copy.

The “online-ness” has demolished issues like geographical barriers, availability and range. But does the success of amazon, netflix and iTunes mean the death of retail stores? Blockbuster, sanity and borders have all been in rapid decline in Australia and so scare that i have to travel more than 15 km from my house to find any of the 3. In a rapidly changing and expanding industry for the “next big thing” to thrive does something else have to die to make way? This seems to be the case in the Media sector more so than in any other where anything can fall as quickly as it rose. The media industry is essentially its own worst enemy.

Last week i adopted Boss from my boss 🙂 Yeah my boss has a bunny and sadly she’s moving back to Queensland where its illegal to have rabbits as pets. I already have a rabbit might i add named Harries and he’s absolutely adorable although he can be a brat sometimes. Well so when she was looking for a new home i volunteered to take on Boston, he’s a grey dwraf lop bunny and he’s so cute. Admittedly having two rabbits is hard cause they just eat, crap and pee all day but they keep me entertained and are so damn cuddly !

Unlecture, appropriately named seeing as there was one because of strikes. So i decided to make a lecture up in my mind and the symposium consisted of Ryan Gosling, Jennifer Lawrence and Spiderman. It was pretty cool.

whats a hypertext you say?

Writing as a technology. I’ve never really considered writing to be a technology but rather an innate behaviour. But of course it’s not because innate means inborn and that’s not the case. For along as i’ve known, i’ve known how to write. But i had to learn it and now it has become second nature.

When i come to think of it writing in all forms is EVERYWHERE and i love writing! Well there was a little period in semester 1 where i didn’t and i was like…

But other than that i love writing.

“It is a method for arranging verbal thoughts in a visual space”
Just like words cannot be unspoken, writing cannot be unwritten(unless you use an eraser). The idea that writing is a form of art sorry to speak is fascinating. When you write you can visually express your verbal thoughts without speaking them, in a way it provides an alternative to actually speaking. Writing something as opposed to speaking it can create completely separate meanings and reactions even if it were the same thing. Writing is a visual representation of what goes on in our brains. It is a state of mind.. The idea that something can exist in your mind and figuratively take up next to no space yet take up pages upon pages or just in general actual space is a weird notion.

Look im gonna be honest here, majority of my posts about the unlectures have been fairly short and shady. It’s partly because im lazy but more so because of the fact that i have the memory of a goldfish. I forget everything as soon as i leave the room if not earlier so it’s difficult to write about it a week later when i can’t even remember it a few minutes after. Also i really do believe i have mild ADD..

Any who what i do recall is the use of the word “contradiction” and how although Adrian knows his shit, his fellow tutes somewhat disagreed on a few things he had to say. (the “debate” about education being a transaction was a good one). This reminds me of something Ben spoke about in the histories and technologies tute about one’s inability to be objective. Although the word exist, is it real? Can someone really be uninfluenced by their own personal feelings or opinions when presenting facts? And yet again i have no clue what this even relates to but ill try to weave something in like speculative writing… and i interpret that quite literally as being speculative in your writing. When you speculate you assume or form a theory with not much to substantiate it. Looped learning particularly mode 1 whereby your actions are motivated by the judgment of others. Both of these examples have elements of subjectivity in one way or another. I personally am being subjective right now as i say i don’t believe that you can be objective and therefore objectivity doesn’t exist. So does that make the word completely pointless..? That’s the end to this yes, pointless entry.

By the way is this speculative writing …?

I’m gonna give you guys a run down of my not so exciting week just so you get a glimpse into my life.

Beginning from last wednesday (7th/8) because i can’t remember any further back..
-Had uni most of the day … boring train ride home
-Watched offspring and balled my eyes out like a child who’s had their lollipop stolen
-Most memorable moment: delicious chocolate fondue for dessert!

Thursday
-work .. rather uneventful although i did get a box of chocolate to taste test ! 🙂
-Most memorable moment: That roadside kebab on the home !!

Friday
-holy cow…. no beef intended. work 10-6 then again 7-10:30. What?!
-drove to a friends house which was absolutely stunning which made me sad because my house is rather standard
-Most memorable moment for the wrong reason: got tricked into drinking a raw egg !! yuck (note to self salt and pepper does not make a RAW egg any tastier)

Saturday
-woke up groggy, only had a few hours sleep
-watched The Spectacular Now at the forum for the MIFF
-Most memorable moment: One of the best coffees ive ever had at The Auction Room. Beauty
-Work…. got yelled at by a spectator.
-took about 5 years to decide what to wear to a friends 21st
-friends fun 21st

Sunday
-Work… beginning to hate work
-Netball… got smashed and didn’t get to play a full game = angry
-went to my best friends house and tasted the chocolates. A little disappointing
-Most memorable moment: opening the box of chocolates to the wonderful smell

Monday
-got up to work on a uni project
-ran late to uni jumping on multiple trains which took me in a circe
-work again, the term workaholic enters my mind
-most memorable moment: dinner 🙂
-and now here i am writing this entry !

Thank you, thank you no need for the round of applause. What an exciting week… i really need to travel.