October 2011
4 posts
7 tags
Why Bahrain should be the most important race in...
On March 17 the UK Foreign Office urged all Britons to leave Bahrain immediately. The Arab Spring uprisings had caught the attention of the western world as governments from northern Africa and the Middle East were challenged by swarms of protesters. As a result, power was ceded in Egypt and Tunisia, civil war broke out in Libya and major uprisings occurred in Yemen and Syria. In Bahrain...
11 tags
A billion reasons the Indian Grand Prix will be...
In 2004 Formula One added races in Bahrain and China to its lengthening calendar. The move was part of the sport’s shift from its traditional European base into the new world. Austria’s A1 ring was the first sacrifice, but races in San Marino, Germany, France and occasionally Belgium would follow.
Broadening the reach of the sport made a lot of sense in 2004. Bahrain was willing to supply a lot of...
8 tags
2011 Japanese Grand Prix review
Until Saturday afternoon, the top of the time sheets had been owned by McLaren’s Jenson Button. Buoyed by a three-year contract extension, the 2009 World Champion looked a class above the field in the opening three practice sessions.
For Button, Suzuka had become a second home race. He is the former poster boy for Japanese manufacturer Honda’s foray into F1, has a Japanese girlfriend and has the...
September 2011
2 posts
UMass - communication culture
www.lewmass.blogspot.com
A collection of blog posts.
Bruno Senna : What's in a name
Part 1
Part 2
July 2011
2 posts
My application to the BCM internship.
BCM Internship Program
www.masslive.com
www.lew-s-a.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/lewisliveshere
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Prosopagnosia - 7/6/2010
Imagine a situation where you wake up every day to a house full of unknown faces, where every reflection in a mirror is a stranger staring back. These people are not unfamiliar, but simply unrecognisable. It is a circumstance that is becoming more and more prominent and its effects present a variety of challenges to both the sufferer and the environments in which they live.
Prosopagnosia, or as it...
June 2010
1 post
The Gaslight Anthem: Swimming, not sinking.
It’s great to see punk rockers grow up. Gone are the mohawks, leather jackets, ripped jeans and songs about anarchy. In their place stand acoustic guitars, harmonicas, plaid shirts and folk songs. It’s as if punks have regressed to their earliest form, that of Wood Guthrie, a pro-left, American folk singer whose songs inspired countless American youths to either stand up to the man,...
May 2010
1 post
Australian gamers, left 4 kids.
There is a soft breeze in the air, the sky is the kind of azure a poet would dream of writing about and the sun is unusually clement for this time of year. It’s a beautiful Autumn Saturday afternoon in Sydney and over 500 zombies are going to make the most of it.
Wait, what?
Zombies?
******
Australian...
January 2010
1 post
Published, sort of.
Two of my pictures from NYC 2007 were published on the NYC Schmap.
Chrysler Building
South Street Seaport
December 2009
1 post
Top albums & Songs of 2009. Aw snap.
Top albums & Songs of 2009. Aw snap.
The Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant. Take a bow Johnny Marr, I always thought you were cooler than Morrissey. An amazing album, if I had to pick my number 1 for the year, this would be it. Paul Dempsey - Everything is True. Who knew sarcasm could sound so good? Loved the supporting tours too. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions. A grower. It took about 10 lessons,...
November 2009
1 post
#DIGC 101 Final Blog How to create an internet...
50 internet means in under 100 seconds (Cloud Skull, 2009). A demonstration on how a simple idea becomes popular.
How to create an internet meme; if a cat playing a keyboard can do it, surely I can as well.
Despite the technical ease of filming someone pouring mentos into diet coke or dubbing a Rick Astley song over a random video, there is no simple formula for creating an internet meme....
October 2009
24 posts
#DICG101 Web Project Final Reflection
Hooray it’s done.
My web project initially began as an idea focusing on the quiner (it sort of means 5) things in life. What started as top 5 lists became 5 word reviews and from here, the idea began to sprawl across the interwebs many faces.
At first I found it hard developing the idea and ascertaining popularity. It took a bit of old fashioned labour (see spam) but I began to produce a...
#DIGC101 Folk off
To use folksonomy for web project I had to recreate my project on another platform. I was initially using Twitter for its user generated content but expanded to Tumblr, a platform I was already familiar with, for tagging. My previous experience was fairly limited, but one of my room mates had learnt an important lesson when uploading a video to YouTube. As a joke the video was tagged with...
#DIGC101 Flickr word review
http://sites.google.com/site/5wordreview/home/flickr
At first I adapting 5 word reviews to Flickr felt like that whole square peg metaphor. I began playing around with Flickr, creating personal galleries and adding my own photostream when I finally realised how to incorporate 5 word reviews. I have since created a 5 word review Flickr account, where I review images, add them to a gallery and...
#DIGC101 Web project reflection
Eek, only a few days left.
The idea behind my project was consolidated a few weeks back. Since then I have been generating content and using the tutorials as a means to spread the idea. I have since set up a 5 word review rss feed, use twitter for social networking, tumblr for blogging and have a specific flickr account. The flickr account leaves reviews on popular images and consolidates them...
#DIGC101 Second life Business
andrewm138:
We could potentially have islands for specific artists/genres. The demographic is kind of the same demographic as the MySpace music crowd… unsigned artists who want a good way to put their music out there in the online sphere
tbooth13:
We will sell our music as virtual discs and mp3’s as well as selling virtual band merch such as t-shirts.
lewisisaacs:
Task Two: You are a...
#DIGC101 Second life Business
And second life skateboards. Woot.
tbooth13:
We will sell our music as virtual discs and mp3’s as well as selling virtual band merch such as t-shirts.
lewisisaacs:
Task Two: You are a virtual world entrepreneur, and you want to create a business in Second Life. What sort of service would you provide? What purpose would it serve? (Social service, building specific item.) Who is your...
#DIGC101 Second life Business
Task Two: You are a virtual world entrepreneur, and you want to create a business in Second Life. What sort of service would you provide? What purpose would it serve? (Social service, building specific item.) Who is your demographic?
The business to start up in second life is a record lablel/music distribution company. The idea is that avatars could play artists music as well as direct second...
#DIGC101 Second life
My original intention for a second life character was based on Ian Curtis of Joy Division, but I couldn’t find a large trench coat for the character. So now, I have chosen a plain character who has no shoes.
This character differs from real life as it has green eyes, only wears black, no shoes, no hair and unlike myself, has giant hands. As far as developing the character is concerned, I...
#DIGC101 Online Worlds
Online World : An expansive world like environment made by humans for humans, maintained, rendered and recorded by a computer.
Predecessor: role playing and self contained virtual worlds, dungeons and dragons & sim city.
Online multi user environment - Habitat: chat world with visuals.
LamdaMOO - Text based virtual world. http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle.html
1996 - First...
Wilco + Billy Bragg - California Stars
Everyone...
#DIGC101 Somalian Pirates We!
Cost of entertainment (music, books, film) remains constant whilst storage and broadband costs decrease.
ISPs being forced to disconnect prolific downloaders. In effect, banning their top customers.
Mp3s are an example disruptive technology.
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/02/piratebay-comic.jpg
Napster took off, hitting 25+million users within 1 year.
Moving on to...
#DIGC102 Wookieepedia!
Reblog again!
Below are our questions for the people at Wookiepedia. We’ll be taking a double lightsabre’d approach and grabbing some quotes from discussions as well.
tah727:
- Why did you get involved in Wookieepedia?
- Is there much conflict on articles in general?
- Are some users considered more authoritative than others?
- If yes, what constitutes or is the basis for, this...
#DIGC102 Wk 10 - Research interviews: Wookieepedia...
Reblog war.
tah727:
Not cheating Lewis, it is spelt C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-O-N. Anyway, I like your comments. So I have also reblogged them.
lewisisaacs:
So I’m cheating by reblogging…what of it?
Anyway, whilst T-rav-4 has done some excellent work (but what did you expect?) in compiling and sequencing the rough questions Tim and I left him with, it became apparent that asking a moderator...
#DIGC101 film school.
…thanks Margaret.
I’m surrounded by a room full of Spielbergs, Scorseses and Woody Allens.
The films for academic integrity were good fun and it is nice to see how everyone got the same idea and took it in different directions.
My vote for the Oscar of best in class goes to the “Food for Thought’ film. It was a great parody and demonstrated the idea of academic integrity...
Travel map, by country, not overly accurate.
#DIGC101 Reflection Essay hypothesis
Focusing on one particular topic for the DIGC101 reflection essay is proving difficult. As the intention for my project was to rely upon user generated content and folksonomy I feel that I should focus on those areas.
I planned on creating 5wordreview sites on a number of different formats (so far it’s only twitter and tumblr), so I will be able to compare different audiences.
The biggest...
#DIGC102 Wk 10 - Research interviews: Wookieepedia...
So I’m cheating by reblogging…what of it?
Anyway, whilst T-rav-4 has done some excellent work (but what did you expect?) in compiling and sequencing the rough questions Tim and I left him with, it became apparent that asking a moderator these questions would provide a vastly different response from a standard contributor.
As we learnt from the analysis of ICRwollongong asking...
#DIGC102 ICRwollongong interview review
There were some double barrelled questions that were replicated across a few blogs. There was also some specific jargon involved and it wasn’t explained.
On the plus side, the questions were on topic and sequenced.
September 2009
22 posts
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#DIGC101 Study break
Well, after being so chuffed with Flickr, we have since started a beef between each other. I was getting involved with adding some pictures from a previous overseas jaunt and folksonomising the hell out of them when I received a pop-up stating that I can only display 200 images on my peasant account. Boo. What is a poor student to do?
I have also been updating my 5wordreview twitter more...
Positively 4th Street- Bob Dylan
His finest 4...
#DIGC101 - Week 9 Blog - Flickr
I’ll admit to being wrong about Flickr. I initially dismissed it as another image hosting site, similar to photobucket, imageshare or even twitpic. What I did learn is that the idea of photosharing has melded with social networking to create a very interactive take on viewing photos.
After initially searching for things based around my 5 word review web project I found myself stumbling...
#DIGC102 Week 9 Blog - Wookiepedia
For the conversation analysis assessment Travis, Tim and I will be focusing on the Star Wars themed Wookiepedia. Wookiepedia is an online encyclopaedia and wiki that features user contributed data. There are 70,931 as of 26/09/2009 that very in the depth of content. Wookiepedia was chose as it not only reveals the history and discussion behind articles, but its wiki format allows anyone to...
#DIGC102 Industry Analysis Report
How are different sized music companies embracing new media technology?
Video: The effect of music industry piracy (Fowlj1812, 2007).
Between 1999 and 2000 the file sharing program Napster shot to prominence, allowing internet users from all over the world to share music and bypass the traditional consumer means of accessing music. This new technology had a profound effect on how record...
Paul Dempsey - Unibar 17/09/09
His height and humour make him the Wayne Bennett of Australian music.
The man covered Atlantic City & Cinnamon Girl. Excellent.
I didn’t miss the other two.
Here’s his cover of Billy Jean from Splendour 09
#DIGC102 - Online Community
The online community that I am involved with is a Glasgow Rangers supporters forum. I have been a member of this forum for over one year, yet I have not contributed a post.
For the uninitiated, Rangers F.C. is a Glasgow based football team who play in the Scottish Premier League. Whilst they have more domestic titles than any other European club, they are just as famous for their rivalry with...
“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.”
– Bob Dylan
