Vidya Games!

I love games. Playstation, Xbox, Game Cube, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo Systems... Ahh. Just, game systems. Gameboys. 3DS's. DSI's. PSP's. Just. Love games.

True story, when I was 7, I learnt how to read through reading PlayStation magazines, and honestly, it was probably the best thing that had ever happened to me. I really fell in love with games, when I was 8. a Title named 'Metal Gear Solid' was released, and capture my mind and soul. It was incredible. After growing up without a father figure, I used to sit under the stairs (in the living room.) behind the sofa with a tiny, tiny little television playing on my playstation, when my friend - who's dad would buy all the ne games - would come over with Tomb Raider 3, Metal Gear Solid and Crash Bandicoot to share with me. It's interesting, because I never remember ever buying ANY new games.

I remember when I was about 10, renting out a game pretty much every week, and one birthday I had actually getting a game I always wanted called 'Command and Conquer'.

I love the internet.

The Internet is ever so important to people these days because its full of so much information that it is hard to look/find anywhere else. With videos being a huge part of the internet, one up every other media format as it is versatile and appeals to almost everyone in the world and when used right is a beautifull thing.

Personally, I use the internet to game, and acquire certain things that could not be found anywhere else. This tends to be mp3's, for example, after buying 'Alter Bridge's' 'BlackBird' album, I was very disappointed to find that there was no bonus tracks. After some research online, I found that there was 4 that where released strictly in Japan! I Couldn't believe it. But after a few minutes, found a download link and was able to enjoy a full album experience.

Also, world of warcraft, porn, etc.

Steve McQueen

The awesome Steve McQueen, born 'Terence Steven McQueen' also known as the King of Cool, was the ultra-cool film star of the 1960s, who quickly rose from a troubled youth (which was spent in reform schools) to being the worlds most popular actor.

Over his 25 years, he accomplished many things, such as starring roles in the film 'The Blog' and 'The St. Louis Bank Robbery' which where released in the late 1950's. Personally, Steve McQueen's best film was that of 'Bullit' which was in fact a mega-hit. It was released in 1968 and was renowned for its famous chase sequence through San Francisco between McQueen's Ford Mustang and 'the killer's black Dodge Charger.

David Lean

David Lean, born 1908, who passed away in 1991, was an Important British filmmaker. He was originally born in Crodyon, and was brought up in a strict family, who ironically, as a child, wasn't allowed to go into the movies. During the twenties, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding a job in cinema studio in 1927. He worked as many different roles, including Tea boy, clapper boy, messenger, then Newsreel Cutter and finally feature Film editor.

By the end of the 1930s, He's reputation as editor was very well established. Later in his career, he worked on a film which was an adaptation of a novel called 'Doctor Zhivago' which was released in 1985. The film was hugely successful, as was the musical score. The film went on to win five oscars out of ten and he received the main recongnition as the receiver of 'The Sound of music' award.

Anthony Minghella.

Anthony Minghella, born January 6th, 1954, and passed away in 2008, was the son of apparent immigrants, who where born in italy, who owned an ice-cream factory on the Isle of Wight. He and his two siblings grew up there, before he left to study at the University of Hull. He took on the position as a university lecturer, but eventually quit to focus full time on his one true love, the theater and songwriting. He oversaw the music in many of his own movies. He got his first piece of success in the acclaimed british tv series named 'Maybury' which was aired in 1981, and later in the highly successful 'Insepctor Morse' which started in 1987 and is still running today. He even served as a Script writing for the British TV series 'Grange Hill' which also began in 1978. He went on to become the Most Promising Playwright of the year a,d two years later, his drama "Made in Bangkok" won in the 'London Theatre Critics' Award for best play.

He was best known for his film 'The English Patient' which came out in 1996, which won nine Oscars, including Best picture and best director.

Postmodernism

Postmodernism started to grow after modernism. It mainly started its area of 'academic study' around the early 1980s. unlike modernism though, postmodernism is different since it's a concept that appears in a variety of study, which include: Art, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion and technology. Postmodernism is not temporally or historically, mainly because it is very unclear when this area began. Postmodernism is like modernism, they both follow the same ideas and principals, rejecting the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and rejecting the rigid genre's distinction whilst emphasizing pastiche, parody, bricolage, irony and playfulness.

Modernism

Modernism is the word mainly associated with the terms 'modern thoughts, characters or practice'. Mainly associated with cultural movement. Modernism started around the year of 1880 and ended around the end of World War 2, which isn't very modern at all if you ask me. Modernism offers many different types of techniques, and it was use to show the expression of history.

Current modernism is quite different, with some of them being divided into the 20th century reaction, turning into modernism and post modernism. Others might see the 2 aspect's doing the same thing.

http://arthistoryresources.net/modernism/roots.html

Semiotics

Semiotics, basically, referes to Semiology, which it is some times referred too (as well as Semiotic Studies). It is defined as a study of signs and symbols and is mainly seperated into three different branches which are semantics (which simply define the relationship between the signs and also the things that they refer too), syntactics (relates to the relationship between the signs and also the things that they refer too) and Pragmatics(which refers to the relationship between the signs and also the effects on people who use them).

Well then.

Looking at the future.

Honestly, I'm exicted to laern mainly because I am totally fascinated by people's ability to use objects to make stop motion animation. Stop motion nowadays have many techniques of doing an animation, but what interest's me the most is when people use playdo and modelling clay in they're stop motion animation mainly because I've always been a big fan of animation style of 'Robot Chicken'. It's a comedy show, made by Adult Swim, and is pretty huge in America. It stars Seth Green and many over guess stars and is often referenced on Family Guy as 'not being a real show' due to the fact that it is on Cartoon Network.

This is the reason why I've decided to study Moving image and animation, to have a better understanding of how stop motion animation should be done and learn other techniques of doing animation such as using flash, after effects, 3d modelling software's and shooting it live action. Last december, I basically mastered After Effects CS5, due to the fact that our Animation teacher was unable to teach us anything about it himself.

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Appropriation;

Quentin Tarrintino, uses Appropriation in almost every piece of work he has ever produced. In KillBill, he basically stole every scene from a film that was done before in mainland japan based on karate, or any kind of martial arts. The Yellow jumpsuit, which is now quite symbolic in itself, was taken from Bruce Lee. The film also contains references to many western and italian film, including The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and Once Apon a Time in the West. He references, borrows/Samples from many different anime and TV shows. These include The Green Hornet (The Bad guys, the 'Crazy 66s' who wear Kato masks), Superman Comics, and even Charlie Brown comics (With a character even being called Charlie Brown.) The names of the main 'bad-guys' are taken directly from a comic book, called Captin-America.

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What is appropriation.

Find an artist/designer/animator/photographer/illustrator/filmmaker who uses appropriation in their work. write about how they appropriate images/objects etc.

send the URL to barr@uel.ac.uk She will post it on some website.

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