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Hello, and welcome to North Rutland Community College. I'm your lecturer for this module, Representations of Object and Subject in Digital Graphic Practice. I'm Professor Terence Spallow, but that's just my 'meatspace' name: I'd prefer it if you could all call me 'Viral', as that's my performance name for my embodiment in shamanic bitspace. Any questions? Yes, you in the 'I'm only as stoned as I think I am' T-shirt. My name's Andrew. I was wondering when will we learn Flash so we can get highly paid jobs in the industry before it runs out of cash. First there's much theory for you to absorb. You can't just pick up a powerful multimedia tool and make squiggly things without understanding virtual space architectures. When's that, then? Christ knows. You think I understand? Anyway, time for me to ask a question. What's this? Er... a PowerBook. Wrong! It's my drum!, for I am a shaman. You're cracked. I only want to learn Flash. Andrew Andrew Andrew. Andrew. You have much to learn. I know. I want to learn how to make those little animations that go woosh when you stick your mouse over them. I want to learn the best way to embed some wicked UK Garage choons in my movies. I want... You want to create without understanding the deep cybercurrents that have led us here. But you'll never be able to do those really cute little alpha transparencies properly without understanding the long history of anarchic organisation that has led to the rhizome of information you simply refer to as 'the Web'. No? And why not? Er... Ah... Because you'll have failed my course! That's why! Isn't that just a tad authoritarian? Nonsense. I'm encouraging you to become a viral agent of change: not ordering you. Yeah, but I'll fail the course if I don't wade through your cod intellectualising. A shaman must have pupils. Oh God. Look, just teach me Flash or I'll expose you for who you are. What!!!!??? Terence Spallow... a quick search at Amazon reveals you wrote HyperCard: Why Capitalism is Doomed By Hypertext in 1987. Yes, seminal work. OK, how about this one: Getting Started with Microsoft Works for Mac: A Visual Guide. Oh, Jesus. I'm undone! Exactly, you're an opportunist and a bad judge of technology: charlatan rather than shaman. I'll cut a deal! Okay, what's the beef? I'll give you an A in the first module: 'FrontPage - an ideal for living', and you can get straight on with Flash... | ||||||
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