Sunday, April 26, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
http://omegle.com/
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: Sheep are noisy
You: Sheep are noisy
You: Sheep are noisy
You: Sheep are noisy
Stranger: Hey icon_smile.gif
Stranger: Bahhhh
Stranger: Barrrr
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: Weiman
Stranger: im no sheep
You: Yes you are
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Your conversational partner has disconnected
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: Sheep are noisy
You: Sheep are noisy
You: Sheep are noisy
You: Sheep are noisy
Stranger: Hey icon_smile.gif
Stranger: Bahhhh
Stranger: Barrrr
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: http://i36.tinypic.com/2dufh9s.jpg
You: Weiman
Stranger: im no sheep
You: Yes you are
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi
You: ih
Stranger: f/m?
You: ?m/f
Stranger: female or male?
You: ?elam ro elamef
Stranger: vc é do brasil?
You: Oh another Brazilion!
You: Anyway.. male
Connecting to server...
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: HIII
Stranger: Bored? Of course you are, you're on omegle. Try http://rrowland.mybrute.com/ - A fun new game.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi
You: My name is Weiman
You: Hi
Stranger: hey
You: I am very fast and fancy typing
Stranger: where are you from
You: with my hoofs
Stranger: ok, cool
You: Netherlands Zoo
Stranger: what is a hoof?
Stranger: where is netherland?
Stranger: never heard of that before
You: New Zealand
You: In New Zealand
Stranger: where is new zealand
Stranger: didn't hear of that, either.
You: Near Antarctica
Stranger: what is antarctica?
Stranger: sorry.
You: Near The Southern Pole
You: Of the earth
Stranger: ok, i guess i know it now
You: here, only the Weimans can survive the harsh terrain
Stranger: thank you for being so patient.
You: You should really download Google Earth
Stranger: what are weimans?
Stranger: and what is harsh terrain?
Stranger: sorry my english is so poor.
You: Weimans are the Alphas and the Omegas, the Beginning and the End
Stranger: google earth is quite a large file, isn't it?
You: Kinda like Demi-Gods.. Yeah, it's a few megabytes.
Stranger: it seems i know each single word in the sentence, but once put them together. it doesn't make any sence to me
You: Are you from Fraggle Rock or something?
Stranger: such as ur explaination about weimans, i know what alphas and omegas are, what the beginning and the end mean, but put them together, means nothing to me.
Stranger: what is Fraggle?
Stranger: oh, it feels so bad about it.
You: Fraggles cannot be sad
You: Are you downloading Google Earth?
Stranger: nope
Stranger: i'm not gonna do that. too huge for my old and slow laptop.
You: It's just a basic 3d landscape. I'm sure your Fraggle Laptop could handle it. Unless it's from 1995.
You: Once you have Google Earth, find Fraggle Rock
Stranger: fraggle rock is not a place, is it?
You: Weimans live on Fraggle Rock, So i'm pretty sure it's real
Stranger: what the hell are weimans
You: I'll get a picture..
You: hang on
You: This is a Weiman: http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn202/TehCameramanman/2dufh9s-1.png
You: TehCameramanman was my old internet name.
You: But I changed it
Stranger: what is that!
You: A Weiman
Stranger: that tehcameramanman thing
Stranger: ok
You: Camera man is someone who operates a video camera
You: Camera man man is a superhero who operates a video camera
You: Did you see Weiman?
Stranger: yes i do.
You: Were you aroused? And lust juices flow
Stranger: that pic nearly killed my laptop
You: He does that sometimes
You: When did you buy your Fraggle Laptop, Fraggle?
Stranger: are you typing english?
Stranger: 5 or 6 years ago
You: I'm sure they had basic 3D engines back in 2004.
You: Get Google Earth
Stranger: no way!
Stranger: i hate google earth.
You: WHY
You: i love google earth
Stranger: ok , to be honest i downloaded it before.
You: I don't think we can ever be friends
Stranger: it really kills
You: (//_-)
Stranger: maybe
You: Download it or i'll kill all the Fraggles and Weimans
Stranger: i am so old fashion
You: i'm not fucking around
Stranger: thou i am not a real fraggle
Stranger: plz dun't kill them.
You: THAT'S IT!
Stranger: dun't kill anyone.
You have disconnected.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Storytelling Myth and Ritual! week 6
Images from Vogue
We confront, and are confronted by images every day.
Each image demands that we make senso of it
One type of knowledge was entirely factual
Other knowledge was inferred by me.
Denotative - They are white / no rings
Connotative - Successful / linking rings to marriage
Seeing physical intimacy .
Heteronormativity
People presumed heterosexual
There clothers suggest or indicate status, class, access to disposable income.
This is entirely CONNOTATIVE based on MY understanding of what success is.
She is lower than him in frame
Makes you think he is pulling her towards him
Makes you think of physical intimacy
Makes you think of sexual intimacy
Ideology most effective when it is invisible
ideology not truth
Ideology becomes truth
percieve it to be truth.
Image 2
Both young and white
Tells us what success and beauty SHOULD look like
Both have young couples
Both suggest intamacy
Both white couples
Heterosexually aligned
In both, man is holding woman towards him
Denotative aspects naturalize connotative aspects
Thus ideology invisible
Content should look entirly natural, unproblematic
Image 3
Everyone in picture is white
Protagonists young and white
She is higher in frame
He looks at her
She looks at us
Image4
Whiteness
Image5
Whiteness
She is married
Ring = marriage
image 6
Whiteness
1. Images transmit information / are made meaning of
2. When we make sense of images we identify facts and infer meaning
Discourses of Gender (Through Vogue)
Mean active women passive
(Mean pulling women around in images)
Supposition: Men have power 'naturally' / women mst purchase power.
Gucci, armani code, 'only gold signifies true power'
'power for women = power over men
Man = technology
We might assume that these discourses do not affect us, somehow immune to them.
Unitec ad
Young white people.
clothes indicate style
Men and technology
Active man / passive woman
Femininaty with exotisism
Pedro
Anti-heroes and dystopia
We are the Protagonists of our own existence
we are the heroes of our own narratives
And how about all the ‘nobodies’, underdogs, losers, villains, outsiders, the socially
excluded, mad, tricksters, con, dishonest, coward, greedy, vulgar and evil characters from
literature, drama, myths, film and real life.
The Anti‐hero
• An Anti‐hero is simply a character who lacks the traditional heroic qualities
• Its goals are opposed to the values of classical heroism
• A trouble maker – someone whose actions do not serve the dominant ideology
• They reject moral standards and believe in anarchic ideals
Anti-heroes selfish like Bart Simpson
The Trickster – Subversion and Freedom
• Balancing: Order in the Universe and Chaos
• Creation and Destruction – Eternal Circular Movement
• Tricksters denounce the excess of Rationality and Idealism
The poetic images embodied by Anti‐heroes are immersed in beauty (truth)
• Curly Howard (1903 – 1952) ‐ The Three Stooges ‐ Disorder in
the Court (1936)
• Buster Keaton (1895 – 1966) The College (1927)
• Billy T. James (1948–1991) – The Eating Out Guide
• Charlie Chaplin (1889 – 1977) – City lights (1931)
• Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The
Pink Panther film series
Picaresque Literature and Drama
It is a genre of narrative which is usually satirical and depicts in detail the adventures of a
roguish character of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society.
• Homeless characters
• Petty crime
• Crooks
• Hustlers
• Any adventure of an Anti‐hero on the road
Anti‐Heroes and Anti‐Establishment – Challenging the Absolute
• Maui – The Oceanic God of Freedom – Fights against nature (fish islands, stop the
sun, pull earth and ski apart, steal the fire...)
• Biblical stories like Cain and Abel ‐ Cain, the first murderer, is sometimes seen as a
progenitor of evil. His jealousy, rivalry, and aggression are central to the story.
Historical Anti‐Heroes
1. Emiliano Zapata (1879 ‐ 1919): Mexican revolutionary
2. Martin Luther(1483 – 1546): German church reformer whose ideas started the
Protestant Reformation
3. Antonin Artaud (1896 – 1948): French Poet, Theoretician, Visionary
4. Frank Zappa (1940 ‐ 1993): North American musician ‐ satirist
5. Osama Bin Laden (1957): Anti‐American radical militant
6. Tame Iti (1952): NZ provocateur ‐ Tūhoe Māori activist.
7. Zumbi dos Palmares (1655 – 1695): Brazilian slave, was the last of the leaders of
the Quilombo dos Palmares.
8. Dario Fo (1926): Italian actor , writer, theatre director and satirist
Dystopia
opposite of Utopia
When things go wrong.
undesirable societys
visions of dangerous and alienating future societies
Children of Men
Oliver Twist
Lord of the Rings
Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Brave new world
1984
Wall-e
The Terminatororeoer
The Dark Knight
V For Vendetta
We confront, and are confronted by images every day.
Each image demands that we make senso of it
One type of knowledge was entirely factual
Other knowledge was inferred by me.
Denotative - They are white / no rings
Connotative - Successful / linking rings to marriage
Seeing physical intimacy .
Heteronormativity
People presumed heterosexual
There clothers suggest or indicate status, class, access to disposable income.
This is entirely CONNOTATIVE based on MY understanding of what success is.
She is lower than him in frame
Makes you think he is pulling her towards him
Makes you think of physical intimacy
Makes you think of sexual intimacy
Ideology most effective when it is invisible
ideology not truth
Ideology becomes truth
percieve it to be truth.
Image 2
Both young and white
Tells us what success and beauty SHOULD look like
Both have young couples
Both suggest intamacy
Both white couples
Heterosexually aligned
In both, man is holding woman towards him
Denotative aspects naturalize connotative aspects
Thus ideology invisible
Content should look entirly natural, unproblematic
Image 3
Everyone in picture is white
Protagonists young and white
She is higher in frame
He looks at her
She looks at us
Image4
Whiteness
Image5
Whiteness
She is married
Ring = marriage
image 6
Whiteness
1. Images transmit information / are made meaning of
2. When we make sense of images we identify facts and infer meaning
Discourses of Gender (Through Vogue)
Mean active women passive
(Mean pulling women around in images)
Supposition: Men have power 'naturally' / women mst purchase power.
Gucci, armani code, 'only gold signifies true power'
'power for women = power over men
Man = technology
We might assume that these discourses do not affect us, somehow immune to them.
Unitec ad
Young white people.
clothes indicate style
Men and technology
Active man / passive woman
Femininaty with exotisism
Pedro
Anti-heroes and dystopia
We are the Protagonists of our own existence
we are the heroes of our own narratives
And how about all the ‘nobodies’, underdogs, losers, villains, outsiders, the socially
excluded, mad, tricksters, con, dishonest, coward, greedy, vulgar and evil characters from
literature, drama, myths, film and real life.
The Anti‐hero
• An Anti‐hero is simply a character who lacks the traditional heroic qualities
• Its goals are opposed to the values of classical heroism
• A trouble maker – someone whose actions do not serve the dominant ideology
• They reject moral standards and believe in anarchic ideals
Anti-heroes selfish like Bart Simpson
The Trickster – Subversion and Freedom
• Balancing: Order in the Universe and Chaos
• Creation and Destruction – Eternal Circular Movement
• Tricksters denounce the excess of Rationality and Idealism
The poetic images embodied by Anti‐heroes are immersed in beauty (truth)
• Curly Howard (1903 – 1952) ‐ The Three Stooges ‐ Disorder in
the Court (1936)
• Buster Keaton (1895 – 1966) The College (1927)
• Billy T. James (1948–1991) – The Eating Out Guide
• Charlie Chaplin (1889 – 1977) – City lights (1931)
• Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The
Pink Panther film series
Picaresque Literature and Drama
It is a genre of narrative which is usually satirical and depicts in detail the adventures of a
roguish character of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society.
• Homeless characters
• Petty crime
• Crooks
• Hustlers
• Any adventure of an Anti‐hero on the road
Anti‐Heroes and Anti‐Establishment – Challenging the Absolute
• Maui – The Oceanic God of Freedom – Fights against nature (fish islands, stop the
sun, pull earth and ski apart, steal the fire...)
• Biblical stories like Cain and Abel ‐ Cain, the first murderer, is sometimes seen as a
progenitor of evil. His jealousy, rivalry, and aggression are central to the story.
Historical Anti‐Heroes
1. Emiliano Zapata (1879 ‐ 1919): Mexican revolutionary
2. Martin Luther(1483 – 1546): German church reformer whose ideas started the
Protestant Reformation
3. Antonin Artaud (1896 – 1948): French Poet, Theoretician, Visionary
4. Frank Zappa (1940 ‐ 1993): North American musician ‐ satirist
5. Osama Bin Laden (1957): Anti‐American radical militant
6. Tame Iti (1952): NZ provocateur ‐ Tūhoe Māori activist.
7. Zumbi dos Palmares (1655 – 1695): Brazilian slave, was the last of the leaders of
the Quilombo dos Palmares.
8. Dario Fo (1926): Italian actor , writer, theatre director and satirist
Dystopia
opposite of Utopia
When things go wrong.
undesirable societys
visions of dangerous and alienating future societies
Children of Men
Oliver Twist
Lord of the Rings
Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Brave new world
1984
Wall-e
The Terminatororeoer
The Dark Knight
V For Vendetta
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