Assignment 3 part 2(2)

Assignment 3: Visual Art Blog

Written for Performing Arts sector of Arts hub

Next February Training to be a Circus woman

“When you think of a circus you think of people standing around juggling but it’s not like that — it’s really involved, it’s far-reaching and it actually does change people’s lives. Being a part of that is really exciting.” Women’s Circus general manager Dianne Toulson

Join Circus, it sound like a joke from childhood but circuses are still around and they're still as fun as ever. To join circus you don’t need to have an extraordinary talent, only you want to break out of your usual work routine, you can consider joining a circus. The New Women’s Program is designed especially for first-time participants in Women’s Circus. It is an introductory class that gives participants a basic introduction to as many aspects of circus as possible, and that pays special attention to building trust and establishing safe ways of working. We are currently accepting women for the 2010 waitlist. There are no prerequisites to take part in the program and for the last few years, all women on the “waiting list” have joined the training program.

That is a funny opportunity to join the program as we can know more the issue behind circus; the life experience is not something you can find learn in internet. After the program, you will understand yourself more, you may find that work in circus is not your cup of tea, or that is your dream work.

Outreach coordinator Annemarie Ferguson said, “People can get quite frightened by it because they don’t know what they’ve come into, but that’s more about the unknown. Once we get them in the space there’s a lot of laughter and people unwind and relax. “We had a 92-year-old woman swinging on the trapeze. She likened it to an orgasm she hadn’t had in a very long time.”

New Women’s classes are two hours long, you would taught Aerials, Acrobatics and Acrobalance, Juggling, Hula Hoops and Stilts and participants come to one class a week. In 2009, New Women’s classes run Wednesday to Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. Training takes place at Drill Hall, 395 Barkly St, West Footscray.

To do classes at Women’s Circus, you must also be a member, which covers you for insurance purposes and gives you voting rights at the AGM. The cost of a one-year membership when joining for the first time is $65 (full-time worker) or $55 (concession). Membership renewal for 2009 is $25 (full-time) and $20 (concession). Payment is due before or at your first class.

To register for the 2010 New Women’s Program, send your name, address and phone number to info@womenscircus.org.au and you will be emailed an invitation to join the program in late 2009.

Reference

Noonan, A. (2009, September 9). WOMEN RUNNING AWAY TO THE CIRCUS. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from Southern Star: http://www.sstar.net.au/entertainment/2009/09/09/women-running-away-to-the-circus/4413

Assignment 3 part 2(1)

Assignment 3: Visual Art Blog

Written for Visual Arts sector of Arts hub

PETER GREENAWAY
LEONARDO'S LAST SUPPER

It is widely believed that if Da Vinci, bold, risk-taking investigator par excellence, were alive today, he would be abreast of the latest visual technologies and push their limits with great experimental vigor. Anticipating sound and movement in his painting, and certainly all the extreme potentials of lighting, an investigation into the continuity and correspondence between the language of painting and the language of cinema would have been obligatory for him. With due modesty, we have attempted some of the paths he might have taken to further arouse and stimulate awe, intellectual response, and spiritual experience with the profound moment of the Last Supper and all it prophesized and represented. “Peter Greenaway

It seem that you shouldn’t miss it, if you are in Melbourne. The large promotion attracted me to go, building wall cover and tram poster, so I went to the event last Friday.
Be true, I don’t like it, may be I came there with too much expectation.
I don’t know much about this painting. The first time I noticed this painting was at the time everyone talk about Da Vinci Code, the painting made by Da Vinci, that is! I am expecting cultural experience, the history background of Di Vinci and the painting, what kind of people can appreciate this painting at that time, what kind of cultural activity they hold in related to the panting….

I think they did fantastic projection of images and light bouncing on the very painted surface, accompanied by a soundscape of voices, music and noises. The performance did a good job on transformation the painting, but only the surface appearance of the painting.

The event was hold in Milan in 2008 April, Leonardo’s original artwork (below), which is painted on the wall of the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church. The live performance involving light projection and sound is exactly same as in Melbourne Art House. In addition there is a same exact characteristics and surface texture of the original, which is on show in the Sala delle Cariatidi in Palazzo Reale.- Sala delle Cariatidi in Milan during the Peter Greenaway: Leonardo's Last Supper event


Installation in Milan.

The location/space brings the meaning to the artwork, so I think that it is not a wise decision to move the event to Melbourne. If they move the event in Melbourne, they should reference the work is original in the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church and have support information.

After research I found that the show have quite many good commends and feedbacks in media.


Here Leonardo’s Last Supper, Andy Warhol’s 1987 interpretation of the masterpiece is presented. These piece is part of pop culture, you can be go to visit for “pop”.

Reference

Laera, F. (2008). Peter Greenaway: Leonardo's Last Supper. Milano: Charta Art Books.

Design 360
Leonardo’s Last Supper by Peter Greenaway
http://www.italiandesign360.com/ARTICLES_ARCHIVES/2008/March/Leonardos_Last_Supper_by_Peter_Greenaway_.aspx

Julia and Julie

I plan to see the movie: “Julia and Julie”,

“Juliaand Julie”is a real story.

Julie Powell start her blog, cooked all the 524 recipes in Julia Child’s book “Mastering the Art not French Cooking, Volume I”, which she started in 2002 at age 29.

The Julie/Julia Project different then other is because of her cooking blog is not only sharing cooking technique, but sharing her experience of learning from a cookbook.
Learning experience of Julie is overlap with the learning experience of Julia, Julie Powell wrote a post to tell her sad feeling and why she is so respect Julia, the post is on August12, 2004, one day after Julie heard Julia died.

here is some paragraph form her blog
“Julia Child began learning to cook when she was thirty-seven years old. She started because she wanted to feed her husband Paul. She started because though she’d fallen in love with great food late, when she did she’d fallen hard. She started because she was in Paris. She started because she didn’t know what else to do……...the openness to experience that makes life worth living…..Julia was so impressive, so instructive, so exhilarating, because she was a woman, not a goddess……if Julia did it, so could we. ….

Julia learns cook in cooking school, Julie holds Julia’s cookbook to cook, thousand of Judy look at Julie’s blog to cook. After 365 days, Julia cooked her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in Julie and Julia,

what would Julie Powell do next? She learns to be a butcher.

What is your next step?

Reference

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/446756/Julie-Julia/overview

Assignment 3

Audience involvement

Here is a series of video come launch at last month, from a Sweden environment organization Rolighetsteorin which is run by Volkswagen, cars company.

Rolighetsteorin shows some easy way to change people’s behavior to better by making it fun to do. They call it the fun theory.

Världens djupaste soptunna The world's deepest dustbin

Throwing garbage in a garbage can instead of on the ground should not reasonably be so difficult. Surprisingly, many still people fail with this. Can we get more people to throw rubbish in the bin instead of on the ground by making it more fun? The result you see here.

Pianotrappan Piano Steps

"Take the stairs instead of escalators or elevator and feel better" is something you often hear or maybe read in Sunday attachments, but very few people have followed this advice. Can we get more people to walk over the stairs over on a normal day in Stockholm, by making it more fun to take the stairs? The result you see here.

In their website, they create a competition,

Tävlingsregler Competition Rules
Find your own evidence that happiness is the easiest way to get to the changes and improvements. For yourself, the environment or whatever you want. The contribution is presented with a text description and a visualization of the idea, which can range from simple pencil sketches and photos to photo or film of a prototype. You decide how to make your contribution fairest.

Their website written in Swedish, I get translation by google.transtlate.

Many people have a dream to contribute the World to make our earth better, but most of us give up this dream when we grow up. Creativity and Art is the most beautiful thing in human. I do think organize a activity to ask people to involve the game and art is much more meaningful then hold a dead painting exhibition.

In New York, Improv Everywhere is an organization believes in “organized fun”. They has executed over 85 missions involving thousands of undercover agents which encourage a large group of citizen to join their idea and game.

Here is the mission of Improv Everywhere

“Our missions are being a fun source of entertainment for the participants, those who happen to see us live, and those who read this website. We get satisfaction from coming up with an awesome idea and making it come to life. In the process we bring excitement to otherwise unexciting locales and give strangers a story they can tell for the rest of their lives. We’re out to prove that a prank doesn’t have to involve humiliation or embarrassment; it can simply be about making someone laugh, smile, or stop to notice the world around them.”

This month some of my friend joined TOYS (Take off your skin), is a large-scale collaborative dance-performance and media art form during Melbourne Fringe 2009. Over 100 performers and many others infected the streets of Melbourne as a mass clone explosion. Simultaneous cloning occurred in Newcastle, Darwin, Brisbane, Nagoya and even at the Venice Biennale.

For me I think that if you want to change people behavior, you have to change their thought first, when you see the same icon walk in everywhere can make you review your life, is it many same icon in the earth, am I unique? Bring us to this entire philosophical question J

Reference

http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/

http://www.takeoffyourskin.com/

http://improveverywhere.com/2009/10/04/invisible-dogs/

http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/

Assignment 3

I will start from saying some background of this website, I chose to write on a topic: Art Management, so my audience is people who involve art activities, the target audience would be Art management people, student. I guest this topic is a bit dull for people who is not interest, but I am really interest to research those Art management, strategies, marketing stuff… I would be glad to share some inspiring Art management idea in here from the collection of my everyday life.

Art management and Media

The world's first collaborative online orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009. This Orchestra Featuring more than 90 musicians from 33 countries, selected from 3000 videos submitted over four months, The musicians rehearsal for three 12-hour days before performing live.

Go back to the auditions, it is taken in World wide on YouTube, all musicians have a chance in the limelight. Contestants must download the sheet music for a new piece written by composer Tan Dun, and then upload the videos of their performances. The YouTube-viewing public will pick the winners in February, and YouTube will announce them on March 2. These winners will fly to New York City in April for classes, rehearsals, and an April 15 performance in Carnegie Hall.

Another similar type of program is Project Direct which is YouTube's annual short film competition, the first launch was in 2007.

You Tube incorporates Moviefone's red phone and the Sundance Film Festival. Everyone could get an exposure and chance to turn your craft into a career. The winner are going to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for five days where his winning short film will screen at a Festival event. The winning short will broadcast on the home page of YouTube in countries all over the world, and the winner will win $2500.

The winner picked by the YouTube-er of last year program is ¡Perfecto! (Project Direct 2009 Winner),

Audiences are being drawn into the arts experience through participatory involvement and contests.

The Indianapolis Symphony, the New York Philharmonic has also asked audience members to choose encores via text. New York performances of Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” by a small opera company, attendees used text messaging to decide which couples would end up together.

When a director asks concertgoers to participate in a performance, some patrons might respond in unexpected ways. However that is the most interest part of the interact between the art organization and audience, what audience really want? The choice is hand over to the audiences’ hand rather to guess that is the best choice for the direct isn’t it?

Reference

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS237763+06-Jan-2009+MW20090106

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/arts/music/16text.html

New Toy! Monopoly City Streets

MONOPOLY City Streets – A live global game of MONOPOLY using Google Maps as the game board. Own any street across the world and play to become the richest property magnate ever.

The ultimate goal

Your goal is simple. Become the richest property magnate in the world!

Start by buying and owning the very street you live on. Then your friends' streets, your neighbourhood, your town, the world. You can own any street across the globe. Build humble houses or stupendous skyscrapers. Be clever and sabotage your friends before they know what's hit them.

With MONOPOLY City Streets you play against the world, but nothing beats the face-to-face fun of playing the MONOPOLY City board game at home against friends and family. Victory is all the sweeter when it's up close and personal! So, nip out today and buy your MONOPOLY City game.

The game started from this month 11th September,

Most of the main street already owned, I am not big friend of Monopoly, but this game produced by google, i think that is other meaning to have a play.

A blogger already set up blog for teaching other to play the game. fast enough

twitter and facebook

In this course, the 1st thing impress me is Sarah introduce twitter and google reader in the class.

Before the 1st lesson I never heard of twitter. Before this course, I wouldn't notice any internet new phenomenon, I do think that if this is a trendy I will know that naturally, because I am in the generation.

I start to feel interest in this subject, after I finished the essay.

For the assignment, I read all the readings and the blogs, feel that this is time to wake from hibernating and find that invest this WWW phenomenon is interesting.

There is 1st issue that keeps popping up in my mind is "What is twitter", is it really popular, is it like facebook?

Google search results: facebook vs twitter

I find this article, talk about the different between this 2 applications

"Facebook appeals to people looking to reconnect with old friends and family members or find new friends online."

"Twitter.....a large party or social event where you don’t know most of the people in attendance, you will use a very different style of communication, more like Twitter; you want to meet people and somehow make yourself known, stand out from the crowd, make an impression, self promote and make new connections."

However I still not clear what twitter is, best ways to know is use it.

then I search "how to start twitter" in google and join twitter

after sign in, I have to find some twitter users to follow, but i don't know who i should follow, i browse different user, find top users in melbourne,

I following Lilylauren, traveler007, RMIT, nicknsteel

I feel that Lilylauren is a girl have many friends, tweets in her page is conversation,

The other three, are information tweets by the page users, not much dialogue...

I do think I need time to figure it out, and I want to invite everyone in this class to join twitter, and we learn how to use it together : )

Assignment 1: Evaluating web writing

In this essay, I am going to compare three journalism websites, include an Australian website Crikey(http://www.crikey.com.au/), a website which launch last year October THE Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/) and a website which launched in early time Drudge Report (http://www.drudgereport.com/) The choice of these three websites is according to same nature of their ploy, aggregating news information from the World media. They also have similar mission, to bring reader interesting and newsworthy information. To reach their mission, the three websites are using different website layout, editing technique and article selection for reader to access the website conveniently and efficiently. This essay is going to start form the background and culture development of this type of journalism. Their mission affects their layout design of the website for reach to their target audience. Base on these observations to evaluate the websites.

The Drudge Report, an internet web site created by Matt Drudge, began in 1996, and was delivered by e-mail and by America Online before finding its primary home at http://www.drudgereport.com/ . In the original, The Drudge Report began as a supplement to his $10/year email newspaper. The website initially focuses on the gossip of Hollywood and Washington Star. After 1998, a banner headline usually anchored the page, focusing on the top news of the moment. The biggest scoop was it reported that Newsweek magazine held a story alleging President Bill Clinton had affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in 1998.

Drudge operates in a new medium with different rules, where anyone with motivation and a website can become a disseminator of news. Some point of the lack of editorial oversight or any ethical cannon of fairness to suggest that Drudge is a threat to journalistic standard. (Vaughn, 2007)Articles about blogging seem to have appeared in all major newspaper, and all current affair magazines, during 2002-3. Half of them say that blogging is the perfect democratic internet application, giving everyone a platform to express their views, and giving non-mainstream voices an opportunity to contribute to media culture. The other half are by journalists furious that unqualified amateurs are being treated as legitimate commentators on current affairs this. They feel, should be left to professional hacks (Gauntlett, 2004) Traditional journalists thought that journal should be report with resources, opinion with expertise, fairness without personal objective opinion. Internet journal and blogging is warning the fundamental trust of journalism. The debate is meaningless, in internet is big enough, with unlimited capacity to hold both professional journal and gossip type journal, as Hattendorf state that the press has been accused of being biased for so long that they have finally said, “Bias? You want to see bias? OH, we will show you bias!” I think they just don’t even attempt to show balance anymore. Leave that to FOX News. (Hattendorf, 2007) Professional and good reputational internet journalism, which most of them are owned by printed newspaper publishers still are the major primary source for the world journalism. Crikey, THE Daily Beast and Drudge Report aggregate the news from external websites of mainstream media outlets.

Drudge is a pioneer in online journalism and political blogging, his website now has many mimics and rivals. The Daily Beast is one of them, but is the latest one, which launch Octuber 6, 2008. It is positioned somewhere in the middle of the Drudge Report and the HuffingtonPost, both in terms of content and political placement. But like Drudge it also acts as an aggregator, linking to stories of the day as chosen by its small team of editors under its motto "Read this, skip that." (Pilkington, 2008) The Drudge Report, which the liberal columnist Joe Conason labeled the “favorite webpage of the credulous right wing.” Yet even those who deplored Drudge’s politics found guilty pleasure in reading his mix of Hollywood and Washington gossip. (Ritchie, 2005)However, now a day The Drudge Report no longer the single choice of this type of website. Audience may choose the web site on their Political view.

The Daily Beast aims to provide interesting and hottest topic for conversation information to their audience which is efficient to read after the smart edit of the website. Crikey’s aim is very traditional, to bring reader the inside word on what’s going on, to act as a vital check and balance on the activities of government, the political system and the judiciary. If Crikey publishes such information, its status is identified. Crikey aims for full transparency in what it publishes and to be fair and open in its journalism. The Drudge Report doesn’t claim any aims in its website. By my observation, The Drudge Report is trying to aggregate the hottest and funny news with selecting external webpage which is readability, allow reader to pick up influential news efficiently.

Let’s start to have a look on Drudge’s webpage design, which website attracts 600 million visitors a month. The Webpage of The Drudge Report is simply one page, white background and black word. A big banner headline and image on top central of the webpage, focusing on the top news of the moment. Roll down is a list around 40 incomplete headlines, only 3 -6 news have their image with them. Check on the headline, the hypertext will link to the external websites of mainstream media outlets. It occasionally includes stories written by Drudge — usually two or three paragraphs in length. They generally concern a story about to be published in a major magazine or newspaper. The website is encourage to linking internally, if reader want to go back the front page of the website, reader have to undo the page to go back. The Daily Beast and Crikey have simular impress when I first seen their webpage outlook. Both of them are colourful, complex, multimedia and also blogging. They have a column on the top to categorize their information and news. On the top right side is their headlines and focus topic in their journalism. Indeed, look detail on the both websites they are totally different in their layout. In Crikey, there are 3 part in the front page, the top part is Australia local and international news, the second part is interesting and funny knowledge column, the third part is separate into 6 sections which is according to the top column; latest stories, politics, media, business, environment and life. All sections have a list of relevant headlines. The layout of Crikey follows the traditional newspaper format to sort out their categories.

Compare the three websites, Crikey’s format and ploy is the one closest to traditional target of print newspaper, so that is the format easiest to carry on in the first sight and reader know where to find information they need. That format would attract Adult and senior obstinate reader which hold the traditional reading format tight. . Crikey’s category Break Media Wrap, cutting newspaper form every morning, is a great idea to match their senior and adult reader, but I think Crikey should more explicit this category in the front page.

The categories on top column in The Daily Beast are all in strange words, such as Cheat Sheet, Big Fat Story and Buzz Board. Check on Cheat Sheet, it is summaries of the all hot topic; Check on Big Fat Story, it is a relation map or mind map to explain the complicate recent issue in a visual way; Buzz Board showing the personal opinion comment by the journalist, singer, designer, talking about the life style, cultural industry and music; like twitter. I think The Daily Beast is the most success on editing their website, example see at Chest Sheet, billed as “must reads from all over” and Big Fat Story. The Chest Sheet offers a selection of articles from online news outlet on popular stories. The Cheat Sheet includes brief summaries of the articles, and a link to read the full text of the article on the website of its provider. The Big Fat Story is more like a magazine, revealing the whole story from their news aggregation in other website, and present the story by visual map. From the front page design that is not hard to estimate The Daily Beast would be more attractive to teen and young, as reader comment on the news and blogging lively and actively in webpage. The Daily Beast is the most engaging audience to the news in the website within the three of them.

Drudge Report obeys one rule: Simplicity. Drudge Report does not do any editing on the news, the opinion and aspect is reveal in its selection of articles and the headline. The target audience would be simular between Drudge Report and The Daily Beast as both of them make the audience able to talk about the hot topic in current issue.

More than half of the news information in these three websites is linking to other websites. The three websites are using same kind of primary source form online news outlet; the different is the presentation skill and technique of editing by their editor. The Daily Beast holds a unique feature on the Cheat Sheet and Big Fat Story. Drudge Report and The Daily Beast both is useful tool to select information form information overload internet. The filler of Crikey is not tight as the other two, but in other side, it provides a more fairness information, let the reader to build up their own opinion, instead of guiding the view to the reader. (words count: 1570)

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funny blog share

This man created an essay which  seem logical, but if you read the detail will find strange, I guess all is fake, bullshitting, Isn't it?

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

halo!

dusksoup... is a blog I open last year, but did nothing on it, what a shame, It calls ducksoup just because of I like the image of duck, I don't know why. Like some people like Hello Kitty, some people like the logo go LV. Soup is like many many ingredient with water... many stuff, I hope it delicious, but I have to tell you that I like to do experiment.