EBooks

In this new technological age, very few things are left how they are, and in the past few years one of our oldest things, the book, has finally been taken by technology. The EBook is an electronic book that can store up to thousands of different books on a tiny pad and last year for every one hundred paperback books sold, 115 EBooks are sold. Many people view this as a bad thing as the book is sacred but in my personal opinion if the EBook will make more people read than it is a very good thing because it will help more people to become more cultured.

People say that soon the book will die out but in my opinion Paperbacks are going nowhere. For many reasons, personally i will always chose a physical book as i like a momento of what I've read and there is nothing quite like the feeling of a book in your hands. There are also the advantages of going to the library and renting books without having to pay for them, which one can not do with an EBook.

Some of the most popular EBooks are the Amazon Kindle and the Sony EReader, the kindle probably being the more popular of the two as it has a wider selection of books and is cheaper and far nicer to read on. The IPad too has a reading feature although I find the strong light on the IPad quite harsh on the eyes.

The Ebook is one of the most popular spins on such of an sacred and classic object and think the Paperback as well as the EBook will stand the test of time.

MASHUPS

Mashups have become extremely popular recently but their are still downsides, primarily the restriction of copyright.

An example of a mashup/remix that has been removed is Nirvana vs Destiny's Child remix. The accompanying YouTube message is:

"This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants. Sorry about that."

This message is appearing all over YouTube and will soon reach some of our most beloved mashups and remixes.

such as:

Not only is this copyright affecting mashups but also popuular spoofs such as the 'Downfall' series of videos. Some of my favourite of these which could soon be sude for copyright are:

Our Stop Motion

This is the stop motion video that me and a friend made for a school project. Using a Canon SLR 400D we took 1,364 shots, each lasting 0.12 seconds and then edited it on iMovie '10. The project took about 10 hours so i hope you enjoy.

Stop Motion

For those of you that don't know stop motion is a filming technique. A picture is taken of an object and it is moved slightly then another picture is taken, when these are played as a continuous sequence a movement illusion is created.
Stop motion has been a huge part of filming for more than 100 years now, it was originally used in 1898 by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton in which they made a circus of animals come to life. Since then stop motion was used as an illusion technique in films (before CGI). For example in 'The Raiders of The Lost Ark' stop motion is used to create ghosts, or in 'The Terminator' stop motion is used for an alien spaceship scene. Stop Motion also played a huge part it children's animations, it was used in the pilot of south park which was made almost entirely out of construction paper. It was also used to create animation phenomenon 'Pingu' about a penguin.
CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) has effectively rendered stop motion obsolete as a serious special effects tool in feature film but many still use stop motion for its very low price and unique texture. For example Tim Burton used it over CGI in the making of his move 'The Corpse Bride' which was puppet animated in 2005.
To finish, although there are newer and probably more realistic ways of creating the same effect as stop motion they will never be the same and therefore stop motion still remains a key part of the film industry.

Presentation.

Heres the presentation I did on 'The Mighty Boosh', I found it quite difficult to upload but hopefully this will work.

Holiday

So the Holidays are finishing, what did everyone do? I just stayed in england and had a nice Christmas, Sorry I didn't blog too much there wasn't much internet down in The Cotswolds.

That's where I spent the main part of my holiday.

The Internet.

The internet is a huge global system interconnected computer networks that connect billions of users worldwide. A huge system, the internet is often nicknamed 'The Network of Networks', it consists of public private, global and government networks which are linked with a broad array of electronic networking technologies.

Founded it early 60's as part of a government as part of the Sputnik project it really became commercialised in the 90's and by 2009 almost one quarter of the entire world used the internet. The music, film and shopping industries, among others are being revolutionised every single year and now it is now the basis of every day life. As well as businesses,  communication is being reshaped by the electronic mail, one of the first major advances in early internet, as well as google documents and online forums.

The key idea of the internet is that it has no central governance and is purely run by the people who use it and the men and women creating the websites. The internet uses the standard 'Internet Protocol Suite' (TCP/IP). The internet is often considered to be the same as the internet, a misconception much hated by Tim Berners Lee, the creator, but the two are in-fact very different.

The Internet has made a huge social impact on the world as well, with social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter wreaking in millions of users from all across the globe. For the latest generation, our dependence on the internet is huge and for most children and young adults could not function without it.