Essay Topic

My topic- Clean Feed

Rough plan of attack-(keeping in mind this is bound to change a little once I start research).

Define what clean feed is and why the Government wants to implement it.

Outline how it will be implemented and who by-be more precise than just the Australian Government.

Outline what the positives of implementing Clean Feed will be (to give the essay balance).

Outline the negatives about implementing clean feed....brief reading tells me that the internet wasn't made to handle something like this.

Outline what effects clean feed will have on the internet for the future.

Restate why clean feed should not be implemented.

Eddie Murphy's Delirious

This is a stand up comedy from Eddie Murphy. There are two that I know of Raw and Delirious, but I think Delirious is the funniest. I have put embedded my favourite part of it. Eddie is talking about family bbq's and how his Dad gets drunk and has a go at his Uncle Gus about his wife Aunt Bunny....that should be enough info so you know what's going on...SO FUNNY!

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Reference:

H-Ref 1: Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awrfIReVQtA
Accessed Thursday October 8, 2009.

Today's Lecture (Week 10) Video Games Studies

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Studies prior to 2005 on video games showed that games were played by 80% of 18-25 year old males. It also showed that there was a boom in the use of games between 25 year olds to 40 years olds. 59% of these gamers were male and 41% were female (which seemed to amaze Josh). It was also said that mostly girls play games on their mobiles. However, games via the internet are mainly played by males.

Why was their a rise for males playing games?

Because all the males that were 18-25 years old prior to 2005 are now in the 25-40 year old bracket.

Genre plays a major factor in the choice that women and men make between the internet, playstation and mobile. Mobiles have games that have puzzles and appeal more to women than they do to men who would prefer to play grand theft auto on playstaion or Tony Hawke.

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It seemed that Josh would rather play the play station than puzzles on his phone because he can play Tony Hawke and grand theft auto.... making him closer to the dream of being pro skater and or a gangster.



We also found that Josh doesn't like dealing with reality in his entertainment/leisure time. Working, earning and learning is something he can do in real life and he finds it interesting that people would choose to do that in their leisure time when they could be running around with guns and shooting people which you clearly couldn't or maybe shouldn't do in real life.

Approaches to Video Games:

Social Science- Effects of games on people. People who are inherently violent may not be effected by violent games as a person who is not inherently violent may.

Humanities: Video games usually involve a narrative element if we take out puzzle and fitness games. Humanties is also interested in Games as artifacts or mediums of art in the given time. So you would compare violent games of the 80's and now in 2005 and it would signify the difference in they way people are at these different times.

Industry and Enterprise Problems:

Development of games to make them faster, better graphics etc is a major driver in New Technology.

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References:

H-Ref 1: Wikinomics
http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/tag/mp3/
Accessed: Thursday October 8, 2009.

H-Ref 2: Indie Youth Fest
http://indieyouthfest.wordpress.com/activities/e-sport/official-games/
Accessed: Thursday October 8, 2009.

H-Ref 3: Shopping.com
http://uk.shopping.com/xPO-Tony-Hawk-s-Proving-Ground-44133099
Accessed: Thursday October 8, 2009.

My Art

Computers and art- two things that I am pretty bad with, so I was happy (for me anyway) with what I made. I did this in paint shop pro, playing around with different effects, colours etc. Above is what I came up with...not too bad I think.

My Google Map Complete with Lines and Explanations

View I want to travel to.... in a larger map

Other Blogs I like.

woonyoungstudio

I like this first blog because as you may have guessed I love art, considering can't even draw a stick figure. There are some great pencil sketches on this site which really caught my eye.

I LOVED this next blog...I found it really interesting not that I plan on getting married any time soon this blog has a lot of stuff on weddings, organisation, dresses, other peoples weddings. It has some nice pics and some random stuff too check it out on: Eastbride





Here are some of the pics I liked from it-








I LOVE HORSES so that's why I liked this next blog. I had a pony, a foal and another horse when I was little and miss them so much. The horses are pretty cute and remind me how much I loved having them as a child although I had a few stacks and the pony was a bit crazy and the foal would bite and kick. http://nztbs.blogspot.com/

The Reader

The Reader is a book created by Bernard Schlink and has been made into a movie. I had to read this book in grade 12 and I loved it. It is about a 15 year old boy who has an affair with an older woman and where there separate lives take them (not to give away the story). It is set in World War Two and is quiet sad, but a great story. The movie itself follows the book quiet closely and the images and places where made as I imagined them to be in the book. I would recommend you read the book and then watch the movie as I remember being left with questions in the book that were answered in the movie. The trailer for the movie is below...

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This is the cover of the book if you are interested in reading it...

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Reference:

H-Ref 1: Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgqVyWcfXqI
Accessed: Wednesday October 7, 2009.

H-Ref 2: Illiterarty
http://www.illiterarty.com/reviews/book-review-reader-bernhard-schlink
Accessed: Wednesday October 7, 2009.