New Media Love

I'm happy to be in new media.
It is truly a "new" media. Like all creative medias, the internet and interactive design will grow but exponentially. The internet is becoming endless and with that, so are the possibilities.
It will only grow and with it, the limitations of creativity will lessen.
I'm happy to be in new media.

Neat.

1. Hilarious one for Lowes. Cool games.

http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/websites/sunnyville/


2. Really cool and different way to profile and explain a development plan.

http://www.peruvianwharf.com/flash.html


3. Makes me thirsty but get a little tiered of scrolling around the beach.

http://www.thecoronabeach.com/

Zombie Web.

I think as the web develops and develops it will diversify in the way it is used.
Every technology eventually revolutionizes to a point where in is used for entertainment.
The light bulb to Shadow Puppet Shows.
Television to Saved by the Bell.
The telephone to 1-900-numbers.
Internet is just next in line. The new fine art.
Myself , It depends what I'm looking for in that moment. The history of modern trigonometry or the new youtube video of a frog eating a cat. The internet is and needs to stay versatile to the needs of the user...
like playdough.

Concept?

I think the article is very accurate to one individual but I think creative process cannot be described by a blanket statement. Everyone has their way. Myself, it's all trial and error. Think of an idea, realize why it wont work, think of a new idea, think it works until I get half way through and realize it is not going to work . Rinse, repeat until I get something solid that I feel confident about. I know, inefficient but effective... most of the time.
For this film festival project I started with the idea of a year, an event, a form of film. From that it is just a spider web of strange connected concepts...

...or maybe not, trial and error.

the "new media"

The term "New Media" is open.
When I first think of New Media I think of fine arts with multi-media works where it is just a combination of different paints, clays, inks, etc. Then you throw the term new into that and it becomes a little infinite. Does new mean unheard-of or something not used before? Is it new because the media is always changing?

I think it is probably a combo of all those and the result is technology. It is always changing and because of this designers will find new, unheard-of ways of doing things. This is necessary to keep the field from going stagnant or old.

I noticed that many of the schools on that list had their version of New Media concentration under a communications title. All design, graphic or new, has really one goal: To communicate a message. To go back a few classes, Milton Glaser said "To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."

So is New Media an appropriate term? Sure. For now. It will always be changing with different specifications and emphasis.

Findings From the Web Design Survey

• Most Surprising Statistic: Years at current job, 32.2% said 1 year or less

Why:
In one of the questions before this it asked how excited web designers were about their job field and they overwhelmingly said Yes-frequently or Yes-very frequently. If this is the case, why are they changing job sites so often?

• Least Surprising Statistic: 43.6% Between the ages of 25-32

Why:
The web is still "new" so I would assume that younger generations will be right on the curve of innovation and technology.

Dear Vannevar Bush

Wow.

So I think this article was discussing the influence of technology on information organization? It started with a little shot at innovation seemingly stating that information loses its specificity when put in order of alphabetical importance but later goes as saying:
"...his talk with a friend turns to the queer ways in which a people resist innovations,
even of vital interest. He has an example, in the fact that the outraged Europeans still failed
to adopt the Turkish bow."
To me this flip/flops to saying organization using tech should be adapted and is a pro rather than the con of losing specificity?

I know the overall goal of the reading is to compare early forms of information organization with the internet but it seems these days it is so much different. The statement "5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely" does not compare to the amount of info on the internet. And the way of finding info has changed too. You cant trust everything you see.

The internet is a shot in the dark and at the same time like fishing with dynamite.