micro blogging plans in the works !! I hope to feed my ego and lack of Facebook with this :3

"process memo"

The skills that I had to develop was video editing on final Cut pro, Motion and Live type. Most of all a new understanding for Mac Computers. And I would have to say that level I was working on is my new standard for what my level should always be at.

ES work…
This was a project that I heard about from a friend that is in Ethnic studies. And being that this is what I hope to do with NMC. That is representing my people and underrepresented minorities in media. I jumped on this project with both feet feeling confident that I can finish in record time! But with scheduling problems, setbacks and having to re-work the pamphlet over and over and over again… I have come to find that my capabilities to stay on top of projects is my ace in the hole. I can make a product I can re work it I can then bring it back have it criticized and then work on it then bring it back. And prove that I can do this work and do it with pride. My plan for this project being that it seems that I will not get it done after class is take the Practicum Class NMC409 and make a deal with the ES department and work for them for a term and get all this done and because I’m taking a Web Design class I can work on their webpage as well which is something they are looking for someone to do for them. And when this is all done I can have a vibrant portfolio that is not the same work as everyone else and I will have highlights of what I want to do and maybe one day with the work I’m doing today I can find a job doing the same things but in a grander scale.

My Card Game…
I have always been a fan of the Yu-Gi-Oh card game, I started making my own cards [proxies] out of indexes cards until my sister told me why I don’t make a card game on my own. Working at it backwards I started making the cards up with no idea on how to use them and having some basic rules in mind. Then I learned Photoshop in college and I picked up my card Game again. The next thing I knew had made up rules [in my head] but because of my shy personality it would take a year for me to start talking about it(the card game). Then I started to talk about it here and their; than I got the opportunity to develop my game in NMC301 so I took advantage of that and worked on the rule book. I know that the rules are over simplified but I think that the more simple a game is the more willing a person will be to play it and like it. I don’t have two decks printed out but I did make some things out of index cards and ran the beta test the only thing is keeping track of how many hit points a card has after a while so I am thinking of utilizing some sort of damage counter for the card game.

Home Town…
When I was back in high school I use to do side projects, for the school’s annual events such as the sports awards and community banquets. I made a scrapbook for my FFA [Future Farmers of America] chapter I got the chance to put my skills to the test against people all over the state, I went to regional’s which was made up of schools that had more developed computer programs and FFA programs when I saw my competition I thought that I wouldn’t do any good. But I won first in regional’s then at state it was the same story but I won first there to, bringing back a first place state trophy to my small school of 300 people. After that I started making more presentations but never showed anyone how to make them as good or as unorthodox as I have. When I was giving the opportunity to go back and show the students of today what I know, I took it knowing that this is a long overdue project. I have been keeping contact with my school but it seems like next term is when they can see me, so I plan to tie this up with the NMC409 Class.

Project

I had to get in front of class and present the progress of my project to the class the other day. It was already hard to get in front of class, but I was able to speak my mind and present what I have been doing.

Being that my phone is broken I can't seem to get a hold of anyone and don’t know how many people are trying to get a hold of me and I have to use Email for everything.

Media in my world

I get up in the morning to an alarm clock that is also my phone I turn on my computer and log in to YouTube and watch the first few things on the Associated Press feed. Then I get ready and walk out the door with my PSP and my back up iPod. I see something strange while walking to class and I take a photo with the digital camera that I carry on me. I get to class, and start playing video games that I have on my PSP till class starts; then I go eat and use the magnetic strip on the back of my ATM to pay for my food. I go home and check my email, then I do my work and it goes on like that. All around the U.S. for college students the stories are similar. I truly believe that technology is the gift we humans give ourselves to make life more convenient and it is depending on how you make it work for you, and how useful it is to you. I tried to think about how my world would be if I lost any piece of convenience and realized that even though I can live on without it I don’t want to go through that. It’s not that I have a dependency on it I think that I’m use to using tools in my everyday life such as my ancestors did when they used tools to fish and carve I don’t think they thought of their use of tools as dependency on something. Media is the cooperation of Engineers programmers and visionaries that work together and say why not, and Media is the tool that today’s people use.

Well it happened I lost an aspect of my media and am making dew with what I have. And now I can see if I can put my money where my mouth is; I can’t afford a new phone till April so I think that I will have to see what my world will be like without twitter, Texting, Phone Calls, a ease to use digital Planner, Radio, Mp3 player and Voice Recorder. Being that my phone served as all this things and sometimes back up things like a Calculator and a facebook Feed, I know that it’s a very important piece of my everyday convenience.

3 days without a phone later: I got my friend to lend me their phone and I put my Sim Chip in it to see how many texts I had missed so far. I had a few voice messages and 27 missed text not counting the facebook feed stuff. I didn’t want to know how many missed calls so I turned off the phone and gave it back to my friend this is going to be an interesting month.

Reaction to: Obama’s President Obama's First Prime Time Press Conference

As I keep watching the political world I have started to see that it has changed so very much from the ignorance of the past years; we have gone from someone that seemed to be more interested in his wars, Then the words of the people it’s so interesting to see the president talk about small towns he goes to see and how he cares about the people he meets in them.Obama talks about alternative fuels, jobs, health care, he talks about student aid and the need for fire fighters and police in cities and how the kids of the U.S. need to be connected to the internet. I bet the last administration talked about this as well but my memory can only recall the words "Terror" "Mass Destruction" and "They need or want democracy over their" along with a comment on how the past president said "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully". I have also been interested in how members of congress are Twittering during speeches; and how many places you can find information about the presidents addresses such as Hulu and youtube and even pirating networks! this rise in new media makes me happy to see that maybe one day my Dream of a free global portable communications device will be seen in my lifetime. Overall in can say with confidence that I support the actions of our Commander and Sheaf, and I thought that I would never say that without the words "use to" in front of that statement.

Anime in America

At first glance you would not be able to tell that I have a big interest in Anime. What is Anime you ask? according to Caroline Seawright a writer for Kunoichi [her webpage had the best definition that I could find] “Anime is the Japanese shortened word for 'animation'. In Japan, 'Anime' would be any animated production, from Disney to Legend of the Over fiend. Anything that is animated, be it Japanese, English or French. Outside Japan, though, 'Anime' tends to refer, specifically, to Japanese animation. In Japan, Anime is a rather popular form of entertainment. It comes in the form of T.V. shows, movies at the cinema as well as direct to video releases (OVA - Original Video Animation). Unlike in the west, Anime has a huge variety of genres - it is not only for children. Nor, on the other hand, is it just sex and violence for adults! Anime is for everybody” that being said I want to add that I didn’t know what Anime was at first but eventually I ended up watching a new series every week when I entered college because the internet was more accessible to me. It’s official definition according to /www.merriam-webster.com “a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes” . The more I got into Anime the more I started to see it all around me from people’s ringtones to their cloths and even their hobbies revolved around Anime; and each time I found people like that it was the last people that I suspected! Being that anime is not mainstream by any means. What I mean by that is you’ll never see an anime advertising on T.V. like in Japan nor would you hear anime songs on the radio here in America. Most of the time from first experience if something is not in English Americans don’t care about it. But after Animes such as Dragonball and Poke’mon were introduced in English, Anime has established a fan base here in America. But has a long way to go from being as big as it is in Japan. I started looking in to it and learned it started in 1917 I was amazed on how far it’s come and the technology needed to make the shows it was equal to the technology used in today’s Disney productions. It’s funny how two different cultures have different looks on what is basically cartoons. I looked in to it and found that a convention is held every year just for Anime here in America called
Sakura-Con; it's held during March and sometimes April in the Washington State convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington and had an attendance rate of 13,600 in 2008!

PSP WARS The Hackers Strike back

A long time ago the Sony Company released a product to compete with the well known game boy game device this was the play station portable (PSP). And as soon as it came out it was known as the portable media powerhouse. The capability to play music, movies, wireless internet, photo gallery capabilities and the brand name games that already followed the playstation brand; the PSP hands down earned that name. But the games and movies also had the trademark Sony overpriced price tag attached to it. But the months that followed it's launch hackers learned how to exploit the PSP with Custom firmware which allowed the PSP to play what is known as homebrew applications. Applications such as graphing calculators alarm clocks and emulators, and the cost of the apps… was nothing that’s right after you modified it you can download applications for free on to it. But you had to hack your PSP or the applications could not be used otherwise because they do not exist outside of the hacking community. Needless to say Sony attacked back by updating their PSP and tried to make it un hackable. But these lead in to a back and forth fight with the hackers. Bring forth heros to the hackers cause a programmer by the name of Dark Alex who is known for finding weaknesses in the PSP and exploiting them. Being that there are no real rules to modifying your PSP the only drawback is that your warranty is voided after you do so. The only real problem that Sony has with the Hackers is the piracy of games that is not done by the hacker’s necessarily but by the people that use the hackers programs to be able to play pirated games and movies that Sony would sell. But the hackers also take a shot at Nintendo being that most of the available emulators are for Nintendo games. It seemed that the hackers have won the war for a long time but with the recent introduction of the PSP 3000 the hackers had their work cut out for them. The PSP 3000 was deemed un hackable for the longest time but not until January 13 2009 a group called PSPGen team found a way to hack the 3000 but the how to has not been released to this day in fear that the Sony company would find a way to stop that mod from existing. So the fight goes on between Sony and the cyber world of nick names and teams that do amazing things for nothing but notoriety to this day.



Infromation and Bacround from:

Lisa Baertlein of redorbit
http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=166043&source=r_scifi_gaming

By Kenji Hall of businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051230_356459.htm

By Paul Rubens news.bbc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6397797.stm#chart

DarkAlex
http://www.dark-alex.org/

PSPGen Team
http://psp.brewology.com/