Scavenger Hunt

The scvaneger hunt without using google is by far one of the most time consuming things i have eve done. Hopefully some of these answers are correct.


Answers:

1. In 2008, the world's heaviest pumpkin was weighed in America at 1,528 lb, which is about 693kg in kilograms (Guinness World Records, 2008).

I found a video on youtube about this pumpkin, however, an error message kept appearing when I tried to embed the video, so here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxg16hm0xsA


2. I'm going to take a stab at this question and say that the best way to contact Lilly Allen is on Twitter. She's always tweeting about what she's doing, and had gotten herself into a couple of fights with other famous celebrities on Twitter as well. Follow here at http://twitter.com/LilyroseAllen

3. A giraffe’s tongue is about 21 inches (53 centimeters) long (How Stuff Works, 2009).

4. When I saw the word 'glycomics' I imediately thought of sugar. Every women's magazine encourages girls to eat foods that have a low glycemic index, meaning they have less sugars and the sugar that is in them is realsed slower, rather than a massice sugar high you get from eating lollies. So my conclusion is that glycomics must be the study of sugars, their properties and how they affect the blood sugar level in the body.

The term 'seagull manager' refers to a type of management where a manager only speaks to emplyees when critiquing their work. Acting like a seagull and only diving in to pass criticism and then quickly leaving again, somewhat like a seagull who dives quickly for food. (Word Spy, 2009).

5. David Cronenberg's first feature film was in 1969 called Stereo. Debbie Harry, a.k.a Blondie, starred in his horror film Videodrome (Internet Movie Database, 2009).

6. The original 'Hacker's Manifesto' was a small essay written by Mckenzie Wark in 1986 (Harvard University Press, 2009)

7. " The answer lies 30 years ago or more when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978.
It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc.
Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen. Generic and satirical advertisements and commercials often used 555 numbers. In the early days of exchange names the prefix KLondike-5 was used as this exchange did not exist" (Mark Cuccia, 2009).

8. The cheapest way these days is highly most likely by traveling on a plane.

9. I Got You Babe- Sonny & Cher. http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Number-One-Songs-60s.html

10. The band that Stephen Stockwell plays in is the Black Assassins. Their homepage can be found on http://www.blackassassins.net/


Reference List

Guinness World Records (2008). World's Biggest and Heaviest Pumpkin Record 2008. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2008/10/worlds-biggest-and-heaviest-pumpkin.html

How Stuff Works, (2009). Giraffe. Retrieved on August 19 from http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/giraffe-info.htm

Word Spy (2009). Seagull Manager. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.wordspy.com/words/seagullmanager.asp

Internet Movie Database (2009). David Cronenberg. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/

Harvard University Press (2009). Hacker's Manifesto Mckenzie Wark. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html?show=reviews

Mark Cuccia (2009). Code 555 and the Movies. Retrieved on August 19 from http://www.telephonecollecting.org/code.htm

Shot Composition Task

So I missed this weeks tute on shot composition so I don't really know what I am required to blog about. So here are a few of my own pictures (with a friend of mine as the model hahaha) on what was mentioned in the lecture about shot sizes:

VLS

MS

MS

LS

ECU

CU

BCU

Update of Previous Post

Just wanted to make an update on the post about the 'languge of the screen'. I didn't realise what was going on in the tute, so after the lecture on thursday, after everything was explained, I know realise what was needed for the blog content. Too bad my tute can't be after the lecture huh!!

Language of the screen refers to the movies and television when describing shots and sceens used.

ECU- extreme close up

WS- wide shot

MS- mid shot


Atleast now I kind of understand what is going on.... maybe.

Movie Task

For the movie task I chose to analyse one of my favourite movies, The Holiday. I know this is a chick flick, but I don't care. So here goes....

Who
The story focuses on the two main charters, Iris and Amanda (Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz respectively), who are two single women wanting to leave their hectic lives behind to escape for a much needed vacation. As a result, the two both meet men they never thought they would have fallen for. Enter Jude Law and Jack Black who play Graham and Miles.

What
Both women essentially switch homes and cars to escape the rat race of their own lives, both professionally and romantically.

When
During the English winter and the Californian Summer.

Where
The movie takes place in Surrey, England and L.A. California. However, at the end of the movie both women and the men are seen spending Christmas in England.

Why
Amanda wants to get over a bad break-up behind and put it in the past quickly as does Iris, who also wants to escape a bad fling, where in which she was the other.

How
By logging on to a website where you can exchange with another individual there home, car and the contents of their house for a vacation.

Above: Cameron Diaz and Jude Law who play Amanda and Graham

Above: Iris and Miles, played by Kate Winslet and Jack Black

Language of the Screen

Explanation of the following computer related acronyms: ECU, WS & MS


ECU- EISA Configuration Utility (Tom's Guide, 2009)

WS- wait state
"A wait state is a situation in which a computer programmer or processor is waiting for the completion of some event before resuming activity. A program or process in a wait state is inactive for the duration of the wait state" (TechTarget, 2009).

MS- Microsoft (Real Knowledge, 2009)


Reference List

TechTarget (2009). Definition of 'wait state'. Retrieved August 12, 2009 from http://whatis.techtarget.com/wsearchResults/1,290214,sid9,00.html?query=wait+state

Tom's Guide (2009). EISA Configuration Utility. Retrieved August 12, 2009 from http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-31/eisa-configuration/11159.html

Real Knowledge (2009). Computer Related Acronyms. Retrieved August 12, 2009 from http://www.real-knowledge.com/acro.htm

Internet Timeline, Part 2 Lecture 2

Part two of the week 2 lecture content focused on the history and timeline of the advancement of the internet.


The Internet Timeline:

The History of Computing, Part 1 Lecture 2

Lecture two saw a guest lecturer provide information on the history of computing. It was interesting to hear from someone who really knew his stuff and who also shared his personal experiences concerning the growth and movement of the internet and the personal computer.

The History of Computing:

19th Century produced the origins of the adding machine and particularily the works of Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first digital computer. He was later able to sketch out the logical structure of the modern computer.

The 1950's saw the first commerically produced computers by IBM. These machines where thought to be very large and expensives devices used for the military, government and the corporate world.

The 1970's saw the development of concepts, including the mouse, the graphical user interface and pull-down menues, which we take for granted today.

In 1975 the first personal computer (PC) released.






Shortly after, the famous company Apple was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wazniak.








Competition was fierce as IBM teamed up with Bill Gates's Microsoft systems to try and occupy a maximum position within the booming marketplace. As a result, IBM and Microsoft took off and dominated the market.




1998 saw the rise of Apple once again with its release of the Apple iMac, which has turned their losses dramactically around.

In 1991, born out of a need for an inexpensive operating system, a Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds created the GNU/Linux system. This Free operating system has quickly spread across the world.