Working on the structure for a research project / paper as I read Creswell’s Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. My paper is about new ways of knowing, perhaps species evolution, emerging from the mixed method research approaches now available because of technology. The abstract I have so far is: Today’s emerging research…
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My 360 photos of a chalk drawing on wood My dream journal statements starting with, ‘I feel…’ Quotes inspired by ‘Dawn of New Everything’ by Jaron Lanier with I have read about 1/3 of this book and of the many great ideas, two of the most influential for me are: Mirroring personal inside reality/worlds in…
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I’ve started a new virtual reality / massive-multiplayer online mobile (phone or tablet) game. ARK is a role playing experience-learning basic life skills in a wild world where dinosoise wonder. It’s my summer break for all the environmental stress. Nina is also giving her heart and grounding out the feelings. Thank you, Karsen, for introducing…
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An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations. These are the first attempts at designing pages with the Mermaid Love Letters. Do you have any quotes or messages that would be appropriate for the mermaids? I’ll be working with them in…
Read MoreLevi-Strauss, C. (1966). Savage Mind (First Edition edition). London: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. The use of more or less abstract terms is a function not of greater or less or intellectual capacity, but of differences in the interest – and their intensity and attention to detail – of particular social groups within the national society.…
Read MoreManovich, Lev. (2002) The Language of New Media. (Reprint edition). Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. There is no reason to privilege the computer as a machine for the exhibition and distribution of media over the computer as a tool for media production or as a media storage device. All have the same potential to change…
Read MoreCampbell, J. (2002). Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension – Selected Essays, 1944-1968. Novato, Calif: New World Library. A symbol – and here I want to propose a definition – is an energy–evoking and – directing agent. When given a meaning, either corporal or spiritual, it serves for the engagement of…
Read MoreQuotes Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations, pp. 217 – 254 (37 pp.) They (concepts on art and production) are, on the other hand, useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art. p218 Since the eye perceives more swiftly then the hand can draw,…
Read MoreQuotes Davis, Erik (2015-03-17). TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. North Atlantic Books. Kindle Edition. of all technologies, it is the technologies of information and communication that most mold and shape the source of all mystical glimmerings: the human self. information technology transcends its status as a thing, simply because it…
Read MoreMcLuhan, Marshall (2013-06-14). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Gingko Press. Kindle Edition. The student of media will not only value slang as a guide to changing perception, but he will also study media as bringing about new perceptual habits. (Kindle Locations 79-80). The power of the arts to anticipate future social and technological…
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