Boundary&Dissolution

Definition of Dissolution
1. the act or process of dissolving:as a: separation into component parts b.) decay, disintegration (2): death (3)termination or destruction be breaking down, disruptin, or dispersing < the dissolution of the republic> d: the dissolving of an assembly or organization e: liquefaction


2. a dissolute act or practice


Definition of Boundary
1. something that indicates bouds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
2. Also called frontier, Mathematics, the collection of all points of a given set having the property that every neighborhood of each point contains points in the est and in the complement of the set.
3.Cricket, a hit in which the ball reaches or crosses the boundary line of the field on one or more bounces, counting four runs for the batsman.

The reason I gave the definitions of to the words dissolution and boundary was because I wasn't sure of meaning in this context. Were going to look at c : termination or destruction by breaking down, disrupting, or dispersing <the dissolution of the republic> for out example of dissolution. And we are going to look at 1. something that indicates bounds  or limits; a limiting or bounding  line. for the example of boundary.

We are surrounded by boundaries in our every day lives. Weather it be governmental, personal, or even work related.  I relate this to Wikileaks by way of how some feel that the leaking of certain topics have intruded their personal boundaries.  When you put information out in the open the way Wikileaks does you cross boundaries that make some people uncomfortable. 


The way in which a leak from the site Wikileaks disrupts some people's lives or how it impacts the national security has been a major issue. 

video project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LilFWuVx3g

Wow how quickly things can fall apart. We almost did not get this one finished.

Instead of doing the more traditional video project a small group of us got together and shoot our interpretation of what an interview with President Obama and Mr. Assange.  My fellow class mate played the role of President Obama and I played the role of Julian Assange. We started by coming up with questions that we thought would be asked by the media played by Leah Caddigan. After a couple of practice runs we shot it. 

?What is Digital Media?

To tell the truth I never really knew about Digital Media as its own medium. I come from a different generation than most of my peers in this class (that is to say that I'm not post pokemon and I'm not a millennial) and its astounding to see how comfortable most of them are with this subject matter and how lost I can sometimes feel. With that being said though its been a journey to learn about everything that goes on in the world and culture of the Internet. I think that my way of framing the definition of Digital Media is to say that its any kind of art that comes from digital sources, but mostly the Internet. WikiLeaks seems to be the biggest example of what Digital Media is right now and its a perfect way to discuss the different consequences that result from everything we do being part of the internet. 

TEXT COMPOSITION

D.M.A

Bob King
Text Composition
Josh Barker

The first thing we will have to do is take a look at what sociology is and how it relates to Wikileaks.  I will start by defining sociology.  Sociology is the study of development, structure, and functioning of human society.  Now the best definition of Wikileaks I could find.  Wikileaks was a website that published anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors.  Join me as we look into the sociology of Wikileaks.
In 2006 the website Wikileaks was launched under The Sunshine Press organisation and claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its laucnh.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks)  Since then that number has grown ten fold.  In April 2010, the site published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad air strike in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by an Apache helicopter, as the Collateral Murder video.  Also 76,900 documents about the war War in Afghanistan were released in July of the same year.
The argument of the United States is, several U.S. government officials have criticized Wikileaks for exposing classified information and claimed that the leaks harm national security and compromise international diplomacy.  When the reference was made to national security you could assume that they were talking about the sociology of a nation. Some believe that these leaks have hindered the progress of our country if not the whole world.  Other’s say that this type of thing is necessary in order to put an end to terrorism and world violence.  In my opinion I believe that these leaks will always have an effect on our sociology until the end of time.  I’m not here to say who is right or wrong but, by look at the response of the leaks the government knows that they did something wrong and the person or person’s who let the information get out presumably be wrong as well.  In order to move on we will need to except Wikileaks for what it is and not put our selves in a position to be the next leak or do something to stop it permanently .

AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO blog

WOW, for what ever reason I had a very hard time creating this audio collage.  After trying and failing, and trying and failing again I just gave up. Thanks to the help of a very understanding and patient Jeremiah Cullen and Harper Alexander I was able to come out with what I believe to be a pretty cool song.  I took the instrumental version of Express yo self by NWA and made it my base track and then found sound bits of wikileaks stuff I like.  When I laid it on a track with the base track it just worked.

Image Blog

When you look at the image that I created I hope it will be rather easy for you to understand the main idea.  Lets first look at the word Controversy.  Since the before the Wikileaks hit the internet our privacy has been an issue.  But we also have the our rights and freedoms and some believe that they aren't doing anything wrong thus causing a Controversy.  Next your eyes will notice strange looking weapon just above the neon light.  No your eyes are not playing a trick on you that is an AK-47 mixed with a video camera. It seems to me that these are two of the principle tools used by those who leak private information to the world. "WHICH IS THE MORE POWERFUL WEAPON?"  All of said picture, you will see that it is floating in space above what could be an internet satellite.  One could speculate the the title covers the whole picture.    

Tron, Wikileaks and Me

Even though I am in film school I am not very savvy when it comes to movie knowledge. From the time I watched my first movie until now I have mostly watched for fun.  Its  a hard habit to break.  Tron was an interesting flick. It was cool to watch a picture that was made in 1982 and see there perspective on what they thought would happen in the future of computers. I'm not very sure that a computer will ever be self sustaining with out the help from a human.

With Tron and Wikileaks I think the correlation is how the results will effect the human race. In Tron the MCP (Master Control Program) was going to take over the world if left alone.  In the real world we have Wikileaks a program that has the power to control the world in its own right.  By leaking information that may cause countries to be at war with each other.  In the movie we were able to send in someone to help stop the madness, because he help to create the problem.  The Wikileaks guy has to see that what he is doing is madness and he will have to put a stop to it. 

In terms of Tron I guess we will have to zap him into the system so that he can go and destroy the program from the inside.  But who knows when we will have that technology to do this type of work.  We will have to wait and see.