The New Media?!?

Today, New Media is not so new; the term is so accepted that I think the new part should be renamed Refinement Media or maybe Evolution Media. While all that I have learned and am continuing to learn is New, we are so inundated with examples every day that I don’t think after waking at 6am, I go 5 minutes without one of my senses ingurgitating some type of media. I’m pretty sure that I dream about media from just the amount of information I come across everyday.

So far in the New Media Design program, I have changed my mind on what is my new favourite. In the beginning I truly found writing XHTML exciting and was charged and completely stimulated that I had made a web page; it was only a single page that said “this is Wylie’s first web page” but the thrill of the experience was there. As with most things, the more frustration you experience, the less you enjoy something; but there in lies the lesson, again, practice, practice, practice and eventually you will not only not enjoy something, but you’ll know it so well that you don’t get frustrated anymore, just bored.

A key point that should be addressed here is the format that the entire program has taken. I am glad that at the beginning of the program I had some experience with Photoshop and color correction. An unfortunate twist was the fact that Photoshop, Scanning and Colour Correction, and Graphics and Colour Theory are all so closely related and during the learning curve, often the content would overlap but not for a few classes. Are you keeping up? Because in the beginning, there was darkness and illumination was only a week away, now it has all become clear and the ground work is there, again it is practice, practice, practice.

Taking the Winding Road

Where am I going with all of this, it is always changing, much as any idea, it begins somewhere and keeps growing to encompass your ever increasing knowledge and interest. This program is not always easy, and I struggle with the reasons why some things are the way they are; but accumulated knowledge everyday changes my interest and therefore my direction continually adapts.

The concept umbrella of New Media is not one that will keep us dry in a rain shower, it is the clouds that rain down media and soak us every other day in the city of Vancouver. We are covered by it every day, it might be grey and wet or blue and warm but the metaphor is the same. There is always more and every day it changes and differs from the last. I look forward with despair and excitement to what will be my next favourite topic and where it will take me.

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