For your listening pleasure...

The Ricky Gervais podcast.

I heard about this one as I watched Conan's farewell tour this past week from the Tonight Show. He had Ricky Gervais, creator of the BBC's "The Office", on the show and he was plugging his new show and the premise caught my attention. So, I decided to add this to my audio blog. The new show is an annimated cartoon called the Ricky Gervais Show debuting on HBO soon. What started this was Gervais and two of his friends would sit in a room and record themselves talking about popular culture and trends and then releasing them as podcasts for your ears to hear. The podcast was such a success that they developed them into a cartoon, so technically its not strictly audio anymore but the video your seeing is created from the topics they dicussed originally and recorded on the audio track.

This next one, The Deadpod, is a podcast/blog that a man called The Professor runs. He goes through and finds great live, and often rare, recordings of The Grateful Dead and shares them with the masses for our enjoyment. I really like this one because as a big Dead fan, I can go here and find music that I have never heard before and get to enjoy them almost as if I was there. It is not the most common podcast format since there isnt much talking but, to me, that is the beauty because its all about the music and it will always set you free!

Thanks for stopping by, come back soon for more class/personal blog posts. Peace!

Media Diet

So, after tracking my media diet over the last few days I have realized I use a good bit of different media's throughout my everyday meandering. What was most striking is the almost habitual routine I followed during the course of a day... it seemed I would listen to my IPOD, go to class, IPOD, class, IPOD, computer, sleep-- or something like that.

This exercise has shown me that in today's age, media usage is done constantly thoughout a day both conciously and subconsciously. We has humans have come to the point that we literally cannot function normally without a phone or computer right next to us at all times. Media is the new frontier of the human lifestlyle and we can either fight it or go with the flow and embrace our advances in the field and use them to our advantage both career-wise and liesually.

Here is an excerpt from one of my days:
10:45-11AM: Walked to class listening to my IPOD (Frank Zappa)
11AM-12:15PM: Sat in class as the teacher used powerpoint to lecture us.
12:15-12:30PM: Walked to class with IPOd (MMW and the White Stripes)
12:30-1:45PM: Sat in class as the teacher used powerpoint, teacher played Celine Dion and Elliot Smith in class for us to break down the song, and I updated my fbook status to promote the film "Moon" which played at the Bama Theater last week.
1:45-2PM: Walked to work listening to IPOD (Radiohead this time)
2-4:45PM: At work, where I am a computer technician so I am constantly using a computer. Also checked email, fbook, and blog. Also read out of different books for class. Enjoyed some youtube time and then I went home.

So, as you can see, media was a constant character in my daily life. Without it, I would be seemingly completely lost in the world. I believe this new media wave is just the beginning and the future is so bright, that well, you better wear some shades.

Assignment: Self Portrait

My Long Portrait

TCF 444

First post for TCF 444.

A link to Kate's blog. She thinks she is cool.

This video, however, is confirmed cool.