Tuesday, September 29, 2015

My top 5 faves


I loved this original video when it came out years ago. So it being turned into a little tune is super adorable.  

This one is a classic!! I never realized it was such a technical process, video remix’s. The people who make the songs out of someone else’s words have to have a true ear for that kind of stuff, and I give them props!
This is four minutes of gold. Someone who was really board must have conjured up all of these dramatic sequences. Cute squirrels and drama, classic comedy.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one. Especially the story behind it, the creator Ryan McHenry had bone cancer and passed away last year. Ryan Gosling replied to the video, and McHenry’s death by posting a video of him finally eating his cereal.
This is the one you showed in class, but I still talk about it to everyone I know. I love the sassy feminist buffy, being creped out but the infamous Edward.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Triumph of the nerds post

Xerox started the first user friendly, personal interface. However it was very expensive. Xerox was scared of the new technology and didn’t do much with it, that’s when they showed it to Steve Jobs, who knew the potential. He brought it to the Apple board, and to copy what he learned at Xerox. They code named the computer Lisa, however it had many problems. It didn’t work right, and was going to have a price tag of $10,000. An apple employee, Jef Raskin had an idea for a cheap computer, which was as simple to use as a toaster. He came up with Macintosh because it was America’s favorite apple. Jobs took it over to make it "a cheaper lisa." 
However! (dun dun dun) IBM came out with their first PC in 1981, trailblazing the market. Software ran the market for IMB, which wouldn’t work on the Mac. That’s when the Macintosh started Graphic user interface and go into the application industry. With years and years of rumors, and prepping, the Mac came out with a release date: January 24, 1984. The Mac market was 1,000 more than the IMB PC, and those applications they bragged about, were scarce. They only had Mac paint, and Mac write. Even though IBM wasn’t as easy to use, you could make spreadsheets, word processing, and database. Apple then bought Adobe out, and created desktop publishing.
Bill Gates then created Windows, which challenged the Mac.

            All of the innovators knew that the Internet was a fast moving and evolving medium, and knew that they were going to have to keep up and change with the revolution.