26-03-15  10:52am

This is the time I find myself sitting in the state library, an eerily quite place for the time of day, writing this blog thinking – man, when did I all of a sudden find find myself with this gargantuan amount of work due in?

Having spent the previous week travelling both directions from Torquay to Melbourne to accommodate both study and familial duties, time seemed to have dissipated in front of me and left me a week behind.

This inconvenience has disrupted as I have burnt the Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil) and managed to find myself now, only 2 readings, an assessment plan, and gathering data for my Self Portrait behind. Having had little rest in the last 96 hours, I have been able to enter an alternate state of delirium and discovered that all of the classes held this week have been highly informative and engaging.

Although I would like to avoid this current situation I find myself in, in the future – I have come to find that I am able to catch up and remain active with all material that is being given to us. A somewhat oddly pleasant thought.

– donandsherri

24-03-15

The focus of the todays Lectorial was threefold:

The first instalment was a talk about the way in which ideas, unless put into practice, are essentially useless and won’t grant you any sort of reality. It was presented by a man whose demeanour was reminiscent of the Rabbit in Alice In Wonderland.

The second phase of the Lectorial consisted of a collaborative exercise between the people either side of you developing an interchangeable story, penned to post-it notes. This exercise proved to be quite worthwhile as it not only granted me insight into the creative minds of my contemporaries, but also enabled the group to collect ideas and develop a (albeit simple) story.

Part III of the class was again a presentation by one of RMITs lecturers. This brief presentation centred around the idea of ‘editing’ as a practice, and the endless amounts of connotations that can be drawn by making an edit. The concept that I enjoyed the most from this part of the Lectorial was the idea that the images (scenes) that you choose to place on either side of the cut only act as half the reason you make an opinion…It is “the space between cuts, the collision of two images where meaning is formed”.

-donandsherri

Gracing the class this afternoon was a merriment of RMIT Staff that came to express their expertise on the way in which ethics plays its within the construct of Media.

Amongst the discussions that played out over the 2 hour time slot was the importance of copyright law (more importantly, copyright infringement law), extroversion and the importance of prior preparation.

Having two different Media practitioners give valuable advise on the industry and the ethics that they choose to employ came as a warm welcome by the cohort.

Although, acting in complete juxtaposition to his advise, Paul Richard did not prepare thoroughly and landed himself in front of the group without the powerpoint he had prepared. This made me wonder if he were exercising an act of deviance and using us as experiments.

– donandsherri

After 14 years and countless different forms of speculation and rumours, the world was finally graced with some of the best news to come out of 2015… Zoolander 2 is coming!

Ben Stiller (Derek Zoolander) and Owen Wilson (Hansel McDonald) hit the runway at the Paris Fashion Week to promote their sequel to the 2001 cult classic. Dressed in patterned purple suit and boutique pyjamas respectively, the two pounded the catwalk in a scene not too dissimilar to their infamous ‘walk-off’. Unfortunately though, David Bowie was nowhere to be seen.

Sources say that filming has already commenced in the Italian city of Rome, with Wilson being seen sporting an oversized fur coat and ‘you can’t touch this’ attitude.

My only hope is that Jacobim Mugatu (inventor of the piano-keyboard necktie and former member of Frankie Goes To Hollywood) is featured heavily in the new film.

(Music Credit to Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

– donandsherri