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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: Comparison

Posted on October 26, 2004 by Susan

This is your brain: (Credit: Neuroanatomy) http://www.neuroanatomy.hpg.ig.com.br/brain6.htm This is your brain on New Media: http://newtek.com/products/lightwave/product/highlights2.html#NewLayerTools (Credit: Newtek)

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REALITY & NEW MEDIA: Accumulation, Storage, Tossing Out

Posted on October 26, 2004 by Susan

The fascination with the notion of a computer as a brain continues. That is where I’ve been for days. Thinking, clicking, marking words to seed the paths. Seeking out the best in all of human technology. A new computer when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: Learning Process

Posted on October 24, 2004 by Susan

At some point of frustration with one’s own lack of knowledge, it is often a wise choice to stop at the fork and consider not running wildly further into the woods. Mapping is tedious, yet vital, for the way back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: Space in Time & Place

Posted on October 24, 2004 by Susan

We skim the surface, skating on the top on winter ice. Dependent upon the depth of knowledge that is frozen into place to carry us along the edges, to the center where the water’s deep and not as deeply known. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PEOPLE: Cubicle Man

Posted on October 21, 2004 by Susan

He sits there unnoticed like yesterday’s coffee, leaving a mark on his space in the world. The cup he was handed, his name in gold letters, sullied by drips from his lips from his words. Mellowed to coolness, a bit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Ah, the wonder of it all…

Posted on October 20, 2004 by Susan

I’m sitting here in the campus library hiding from the world. Just went through a Stats exam and the probabilities of my passing it are not great. Just can’t seem to get my head around the fact that I do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Achieving Writerly

Posted on October 19, 2004 by Susan

Another of my professors has given me the ultimate compliment of noting that my writing is oftenwriterly. This mostly comes from seeing my writing here at Spinning I assume, and yet I cannot reconcile that with a writerly position–it seems … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Technical Difficulties

Posted on October 19, 2004 by Susan

Off on another track… And yet, a perfect example of where I’m heading in the previous post; the mind working as a powerful computer network of software programs. After all the whining I’ve done about learning Algebra and now, Statistics, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Fantasizing Reality/Realizing Fantasy

Posted on October 19, 2004 by Susan

As I sink deeper and deeper into the technical fantasy world of New Media, I learn more and more about the human mind–at least mine (which is the only one I can say I even vaguely comprehend), and the phenomenal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Six-thirty a.m.

Posted on October 18, 2004 by Susan

Yellow-gray clouds over red-orange horizon. Whatever happened to white, blue and green? Continue reading →

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New Media: Powerpoint (Updated)

Posted on October 17, 2004 by Susan

ooh, ooh, ooh! Just learned how to turn a Powerpoint presentation into a website! Update: That evidently only I can see… Continue reading →

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REALITY: Stretching Skins

Posted on October 17, 2004 by Susan

It’s easy to see it in the young: The growing of the inside pushing at the outside until it can’t push any more at chubby cheeks blown up with knowing. Puberty is a shedding of the shell that can no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Non-Gender Based Marriage

Posted on October 16, 2004 by Susan

Never thought I’d put my thoughts on it down here. Try to stay away from political and societal issues that are, after all, decisions made based on more than fact; personal opinions arise from moral convictions, religious beliefs, and like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Parallel Narrative Structures

Posted on October 16, 2004 by Susan

What some of us have been feeling, Danny Gregory puts into words at Everyday Matters: “But ever since the debates began, I feel an overwhelming need to flip to the end of the book and find out how it all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & NEW MEDIA: The Struggle

Posted on October 15, 2004 by Susan

Left brain fighting with the right brain for attention. Logic suppressing creativity; fantasy has no place in formula. Textbook and notebooks full of figures and graphics; notebooks full of graphics and words. Give up, go to the computer. Software arranges … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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