Questions

Is there a need for it? Yes! Of course there is! My idea is awesome! >.< AWESOME! (if I say awesome enough you will admit it too ^_^) There isn't necessarily a NEED for it but I'm sure, POSITIVE, there is a market for my product! As technology is unreliable, I personally like receiving a disk for games or programs instead of just getting it online and it being on my computer, because I have a hard copy in case my computer crashes or something goes wrong.

Are their competitors to your project? Are there options? I will keww them =_= dey come to my house dey eat my food and now they try to take my idea! :P Blu-ray would probably be the only competitor, but also I suppose in a sense Steve Jobs trying to undermine my idea the bastard =_=!

Blu-ray in relation to my product

Blu-ray uses a blue laser, what that means is that the wavelength is shorter so therefore it's easier to focus the laser with more precision, which in turn allows more information to be packed in the same amount of space.

Blu-ray discs can hold 25/50GB.

Blu-ray has also made a disc that can hold up to 500GB by adding 20 layers on the disc.

My product could be made with the same idea - more layers = more capacity. Also it only needs to be able to hold a movie.

Information from - http://www.blu-ray.com/info/

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1616

DVD upscaling

The average DVD player can output 720x480 (480i) pixel resolution. A progressive scan DVD player can output video signals 720x480 (480p).

480i = 720 pixels across 480 down. All the odd lines are displayed then the even

480p = 720 pixels across 480 down. Each line is displayed one after the other.

HD-DVD - upscaling

HD-TV outputs 1280x720 (720p) pixel resolution or 1920x1080 (1080i or 1080p)

720p = 1280 pixels across 720 down. Each line is displayed one after the other, in a progressive pattern.

1080i = 1920 pixels across 1080 down. All the odd lines are displayed followed by the even.

1080p = 1920 pixels across 1080 down. Each line is displayed one after the other.

Upscaling matches the pixel count of the DVD to the pixel count on the TV.

- information retrieved from http://hometheater.about.com/od/hometheatervideobasics/qt/dvdvidupscale.htm

My awesome idea

.... that's not outdated >.<

It would be AWESOME to see a tiny CD player on an iPhone/iPod because it's an AWESOME idea! iPod classic is the only one with a harddrive but the rest of the iPod's just Putting a slot in the iPhone and iPod would be more convienient for consumers. The i-products have limited memory status; if you wanted to add more than the capacity you'd have to delete things you may not want to, with a hard-copy you can take it out and put it back in when you want to exploit it's media.

Smaller, stronger, more resistant DVD’s

· How would it be made?
· How are DVD’s currently made?
· What are the advantages?
· What are the disadvantages?
· What would be the difference between a DVD and the newer version?
· How would it be made to hold the equal amount of data?
Bad things
Would it indirectly/directly lead to the destruction of the environment? (destruction was for you David :P) Due to the materials used and by-product?
Is it easy to lose?
A special DVD-player would need to be made or DVD players would have to update?
Are hard copies of movies becoming outdated anyways?
Good things
DVD’s are fragile – stronger
They scratch easily so a more resistant DVD would be better
A smaller DVD would be able to fit into our ever downsizing products – something that might fit into an iPhone perhaps
Marketability, relevancy, loss vs gain, practicality, expense, social impact, legal issues, public feedback, offense principle
Rewards people will get from my product -
It's just frikkin awesome! Aside from that hard copies although they seem outdated, really, they are needed. Not everybody has a large internet download limit so if they go over, then there's no more internet OR really slow internet. Computers and External harddrives have a limited capacity, so you'd have to delete whatever you've paid for (or not) and downloaded. Also if a computer crashes EVERYTHING has the possibility of being lost. Technology malfunctions.

Mood Board Task

Well as you can see, I'm a beginner photoshopper =P

My focus is definitely performance.. in fact it's my only focus. So I included: a stage, Marilyn Monroe from 'The Seven Year Itch', Johnny Depp in 'Benny and Joon', Leonardo DiCaprio in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape', Norma Shearer in 'Marie Antoinette' and a Sleepy Hollow image.

I wish to follow the standard of brilliance of all of the actors I've included. They each speak to me on many different levels. I've also included Sleepy Hollow because I love Tim Burton films and to star in one of his movies would be a dream come true.

I might set my sights a little high but it's my dream and I hope to make my dream come to life =)

Brand Task

I believe a lot of people view me as a overtly sexual person into Bondage (BDSM) due to my series of drawings "Bondage Barbie". That sort of became my nickname as people believed it was my alter ego =P

Creativity and Innovation

I am an artist, working mostly with pastels, colored pencils and graphite pencils. I love to dance and I also act, which is what I want to make a career of, so I'm studying Performance art at university. I am very fascinated by human behavior, if I wasn't studying acting I'd most likely be studying forensic psychology.

I met Esther and she discussed why she was taking the university course Creative Arts Industries. She wants to make art that can be seen by everyone, without limitation or censorship, she used to graffiti for that very same reason. I think she would find this quite interesting - http://bluekitchen.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/flamingo.jpg

Could misogyny and homophobia stem from the same place?

A lot of times people who hate male homosexuals tend to have a similar view on women. My blog won't speak on hatred reasoned with religion, and I will focus more on male mentality. This trend seems to be more with certain males, not all men, just some.

To these men, women are objects, as "holes" per se. Women are naturally submissive during sex and men who view this submission as a weakness also have a tendancy to hate gay men. Gay men, to those men who hate them, are all "bottoms". They willingly become "holes", they willingly take this submissive position and these men resent that, tremendously so. These men also tend to, at least, passive aggressively hate women. They may view women as stupid, emotional/crazy, gold diggers etc. Basically with all these reasons to hate them they're dehumanized, they become objects. There's no need to feel bad about using them or treating them badly.

Also with gay men it's almost as if they're betraying their gender, and the men that hate them say it's not natural yet hardly any seem to have a problem with two women. It's because in their head women are sex objects, they're not really human, in a way, there's nothing to be "natural". If it's only natural for a man and woman, then it's only natural for reproduction. Therefore to not be a hypocrite they would have to remove all condoms and forms of contraception and anal sex is out of the question, yet they're not all doing that, because "it's not natural" is just an excuse to hate, not a reason.

This isn't aimed at all men, just men who are homophobic and have tendencies to think of women a certain way. This is just a hypothesis made from observations of the people I've encountered. X

I'm awesome =P

I'm so awesome ^_^ Yeaaahhhh dat's right

Crazies in the big city

It would appear that the bigger the city, the larger the number of insane people wander the streets. I moved from an outer regional location to a significantly larger city and I noticed more people who seemed out of touch and more unbalanced. But why is that? Why is there such a difference merely from the size and density of population in a city?

Isolation?

There is less human interaction when there is a denser population. People are doing their own thing, minding their own business, it could be intimidating meeting new people, and since the population is so large there's a lack of a "pack". As "pack" animals we lose this sense of stability because our identity comes from experiences, and most of our experiences are with other people and with other people we grow as a person. There seems to be a lot more isolation in larger communities in comparison to a small town where you sneeze and everyone knows it.

Homelessness?

Homeless people suffer so much mentally. They have this complete lack of security and safety, of ownership/belongings, of friendly human interaction, in fact they're mostly ignored. People turn their heads as they walk by a begging person. This falls in with isolation but there's more to put them at risk of insanity. Humans need stability in their life, if they don't have it or they go out of their way to have a complete deficiency of it, it can turn anybody crazy. But why is homelessness a problem in larger cities in Australia? My hypothesis is that real estate and the cost of living is higher, people's presentation (clothing, appearance) is more valued and there seems to be this general apathy towards the homeless. The reason I brought up people's presentation is that it may be used to consider or disregard a prospective employee.

Isolation is a very big factor, I believe, to why there's a greater number of mentally ill people in the cities; although it's quite possible the larger the number the more probability of crazy people.
That's my short blog on my opinion of insanity in the big city X