March 2010
1 post
I Like Justice
I really like the French Electro House duo Justice, a lot. Yeah, I also like Daft Punk a lot too. A year or so ago I went on a hunt for Justice-like music and mostly came up with stuff that was too repetitive and too far towards house for my tastes. I later Stumbled upon DatA (not from stumbleupon). He’s pretty great and the other day my friend Kevin turned me on to Phonat, WOW! AMAZING! So...
February 2010
1 post
The Road and Fallout 3
I just read The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It’s a fantastic book. It paints an unapologetically bleak picture of a post apocalyptic US, but is incredibly personal. Most of the book features only two characters, “the man” and “the boy”. It’s simply the story of their journey south, through the dead and blackened landscape. It’s one of those books that sometimes after reading a passage I just sit and...
December 2009
1 post
All the World's a Stage: Theatre Professionals...
Presentation by: Dr. Michael Olsson - November 12, 2009
Dr. Olsson’s research focuses on how theatre professionals view Shakespeare. According to Olsson the prevailing academic view of Shakespeare is individualistic. Shakespeare is often viewed as the author and director of the plays. He is viewed as a genius who left everything anyone need know to put on his plays.
Olsson found the...
October 2009
1 post
The Role of Multimedia Literature in Critical...
Presentation by: Dr. Teresa Dobson - Sept 24th, 2009
Dr Dobson’s presentation, for me, really brought up the notion of narrative and what constitutes narrative.
I see parallels between digital literature are digital games in that narrative is often a process of discovery, the reader/player takes an active role in furthering the narrative, rather than simply reading forward to discover what...
September 2009
2 posts
This is a blog
This is a blog. I have to post things for a class on it. Maybe I’ll post other stuff as well.