tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24406196.post601629799394922563..comments2024-03-22T03:31:03.398-04:00Comments on serif of nottingblog: Videos in the Virtual Worldgary barwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05063921311334434357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24406196.post-82983550378832888012008-01-27T16:56:00.000-05:002008-01-27T16:56:00.000-05:00Thanks for the viewing suggestions -- I haven't se...Thanks for the viewing suggestions -- I haven't seen them but will look out for them. <BR/><BR/>I know, would Shakespeare have chosen not to sample from the history, legends, and folktales of his time, and instead create plays though choppy-right -- through borrowing from the cultural artifacts of his day?<BR/><BR/>I do think that the practise (of assembling these cultural objects) from pre-existing forms is an anti-Postman argument. I guess the issue is whether the forms limit the imagination in a Sapir-Whorf kind of way, delimiting what is or can be imagined, having the tools to limit the result. Then again, a hammer doesn't necessarily make everything look like a nail. Sometimes it makes things look like power structures, salami, or cologne. <BR/><BR/>Which, come to think of it, are what my woodworking projects end up looking like.gary barwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05063921311334434357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24406196.post-50979235746518296062008-01-26T19:28:00.000-05:002008-01-26T19:28:00.000-05:00Hi Gary,yes, I've been fascinated by these kinds o...Hi Gary,<BR/><BR/>yes, I've been fascinated by these kinds of responses to games/videos, etc. for the past little while. From the mash-up to machinima, increasingly, the "normal" response of young users to content is to take it, and use it as the basis of their own creations. <BR/><BR/>have you seen red vs. blue? it uses the same technical approach- video capture of players in a video game- to create a sit com. The first episode is still, to my mind, funnier than what follows, but it's still all pretty smart.<BR/><BR/>kinda reminds me of making up skits with my friends when we used to play the old-fashioned way.<BR/><BR/>is it enough to be just excited that the creative drive is alive and kicking out there? maybe it's just enough because it poses a strong counter-argument to Neil Postman's fear that we're "amusing ourselves to ( a passive somatic)death.happenin fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10764149381553113468noreply@blogger.com