Sam is stoked for the release of White Bird in a Blizzard after finding out that the film is directed by Gregg Araki, the man responsible for directing one of Sam’s all time favourite films: Mysterious Skin. He likes Araki’s unconventional filmmaking style and proceeds to give his review of Mysterious Skin in this post, claiming its relevant to the course because “networked media is pretty mysterious” haha I love it.

Michael joins Instagram and speculates that each new digital platform he uses, designed to be a online representation of one’s character, may actually be forming an increasingly disjointed reflection of his original self, spread across the extremities of the digital world.

Mitch reviews some of his work from ‘writing media texts’ last semester, picking up on small mistakes and things that could have been done differently. Overall a very intriguing image Mitch, good use of the rule of thirds and at the end of the day I think it is great to learn from old work because if we aren’t able to notice previous mistakes how in the world can we improve?