tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34719075574304368292024-03-14T08:34:34.592+09:00Erin Carroll's BlogErin Carroll's blog for CIS0835 Fall 2011.Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-84996826432730579292011-12-06T15:23:00.000+09:002011-12-06T15:23:50.080+09:00The British Royal Navy, The East India Trading Company and PIRATES!<!--[if !mso]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> <div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">PIRACY!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/mCDA-m-TQdU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(Unfortunately, this post is not about that kind of piracy. But that would be awesome.)</span></span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(That being said, I know my blog title may seem off-topic, but stay with me here!) </span></span></span></span></div><br />
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<tr style="color: white;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of the larger torrent-file uploading sites, <a href="http://thepiratebay.org/">The Pirate Bay </a>&<a href="http://isohunt./"></a><a href="http://isohunt.com/"> ISOHUNT</a>.</td></tr>
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</div><span style="color: white;"> </span> <div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Things are expensive nowadays and because of that, just about everyone toes the line and downloads something (or receives a downloaded copy of something from someone else) illegally. While not all file-sharing is illegal (for example, freeware or the Radiohead album <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2816893/Radiohead-challenges-labels-with-free-album.html">In Rainbows</a> ), generally things like Napster, BitTorrent & Kazaa, which provide an open peer-to-peer (P2P) system on which users can share music, movies, programs and more, are illegal. But to what extent are the private sector and the government involving themselves to stop illegal P2P file-sharing? </span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">First, let's start off with the question, "What is P2P file-sharing?". </span></div><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.techterms.com/definition/p2p">TechTerms.Com</a> gives this brief description:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In a P2P network, the "peers" are computer systems which are connected to each other via the Internet. Files can be shared directly between systems on the network without the need of a central server. In other words, each computer on a P2P network becomes a file <a href="http://www.techterms.com/definition/server">server</a> as well as a client.</span></blockquote><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> In one short sentence, two or more computers can connect to each other via the internet & share files. Oftentimes, these files are movies, music, television shows and other copyrighted material. While sharing these kinds of things may seem inconsequential (what with the burning of mix CDs, sharing of DVDs & books, etc...), since P2P file-sharing means that you haven't purchased the item in question, it has an adverse effect on the economy (and is technically considered stealing). Since this not only takes money away from the private sector, but also the government (in the form of taxes), it is something that they can both agree on & fight against, much to the displeasure of the internet pirates.</span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to an article on <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/google-now-censors-the-pirate-bay-isohunt-4shared-and-more-111123/">TorrentFreak</a>, Google has begun censoring its autocomplete function to not include terms or websites related to torrenting (another term for P2P file-sharing):</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Initially only a handful of “piracy-related” terms were censored, but a recent update to the blacklist includes nearly all the <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-largest-file-sharing-sites-110828/">top file-sharing websites</a>.</span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Searches referring to torrent sites such as “thepiratebay,” “the pirate bay,” “isohunt,” “torrentreactor,” “btjunkie,” “kickasstorrents,” “sumotorrent,” “btmon,” “extratorrent” and many others are now excluded from ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘. Interestingly, the full url “thepiratebay.org” is still offered as a suggestion.</span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The new list further includes several cyberlocker websites that were perviously left unfiltered, such as “4shared,” “filesonic” and “fileserve.” ...</span></blockquote><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is suspected that Google did this in order:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">...to keep on friendly terms with copyright holders. The downside to this is that they put perfectly legitimate companies such as BitTorrent Inc and RapidShare at a disadvantage. </span></blockquote><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since BitTorrent can also be used to legally download files (several sites that BitTorrent links to offer "download" services for shows, movies, et al for a donation price), it does hurt them (and their affiliated sites) as a company. However, Google's method and reasoning are not nearly as insane as that of the United States Government.</span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This insanity brought about by the US Government is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA</a>. S<span style="color: white;">OPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, much like its creators, would work well if it were doing something else or didn't exist at all <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>No, I am not wild about the US Government. Or any government, for that matter</i>.)</span>. A summary from </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/congress-weighs-fighting-internet-piracy-like-the-war-on-drugs/248690/" style="color: white;">The Atlantic</a><span style="color: white;"> states that:</span></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">...the Stop Online Piracy Act goes after piracy by targeting not just copyright violators, but entities on the Internet with which they might interact. And the way the law is written, these other entities will be effectively forced to censor content not <i>after</i> piracy has been proven, but when it is merely alleged.</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">'One infringing file or 'portion' (e.g. a forum thread) could be used as the basis to take down an entire website,' Devin Coldewey <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/01/kill-switch/">writes</a> at the blog TechCrunch. 'That's a hell of a lever to have at your disposal, and the process for review is slow enough that it could easily be used as a perfectly legal kill switch for any site on the internet.' </span></blockquote><span style="color: white;"> </span><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Imagine a world where making a harmless joke about downloading a file can get your blog, YouTube account or website taken from you. That is the world that SOPA will create. And SOPA is not just the by-product of a government that still carries a flip-phone:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Stop Online Piracy Act shows what happens when single-minded zeal originates not with bureaucrats or lawmakers, but with well-connected industry groups understandably focused on a narrow set of interests. They've been able to advance them not only due to the legalized bribery of modern lobbying, but for these reasons too: 1) The industry has a core grievance that is legitimate; 2) Congress is disproportionately made up of older people who are clueless about the Internet; and 3) this stuff is complicated, so neither journalists nor the general public have paid much attention to it.</span></blockquote><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By comparison, SOPA makes Google's censorship look like a harmless prank- while both aim to please the corporate world, SOPA goes above and beyond the call, marrying the government with the corporate world in order to create an age where even mentioning "internet" and "piracy" in the same sentence could get you removed from the internet forever.</span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These two articles show vastly different methods in achieving the same goal- an internet where people actually pay for things they listen to/watch/use. Google's method, a mere inconvenience to pirates searching for torrents, in this situation, seems like the more sensible way to go about things. You don't anger your constituents, alienate innocents and the uninvolved & eventually censor the internet to the point where it is no longer a useful tool. And while <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html?_r=4">it has been said that</a>: </span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Congress, under pressure to take action against the theft of intellectual property, is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China’s Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America. </span></blockquote><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">America, a country that has always prided itself as being, "land of the free," seems to be taking a leaf or ten out of its largest creditor's (in October 2010, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/18/us-federal-deficit-china-america-debt">Mainland China owned 906.8 billion USD of US Treasury Securities</a> ) book. However, in a country where everything from iPhones to Rolexes to DVDs are copied and sold on the black market:</span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: left;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">...the United States...[is]... consistently critical of Beijing's failure to stop the illicit production of US brands...[and]...issued an annual report saying piracy in the Asian giant remained at 'unacceptably high levels'.</span> </blockquote> ...<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"In China, you can get enforcement but no deterrence," said Chow.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"You can easily get a raid but there are no consequences to the counterfeiter, who usually pays a light fine and is back in business in two to three weeks."</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAzaA37JQGbYPUaKXJwts0nA8vXg">Counterfeiting in China thrives: experts</a>)<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAzaA37JQGbYPUaKXJwts0nA8vXg"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While the government and Google did not drink the same Kool-Aid before brainstorming over what to do about internet piracy, they do seem to share the same objective of covering their asses. So for all you pillaging internet pirates out there, watch out, the East India Trading Company & the Royal Navy are out to get you!</span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ernesto. "Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, 4Shared and More."<i>TorrentFreak</i>. TorrentFreak, 23 Nov. 2011. Web. <<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/">torrentfreak.com</a>>.</span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Friedersdorf, Conor. "Congress Weighs Fighting Internet Piracy Like the War on Drugs." <i>The Atlantic</i>. 18 Nov. 2011. Web. <<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/congress-weighs-fighting-internet-piracy-like-the-war-on-drugs/248690/">http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/congress-weighs-fighting-internet-piracy-like-the-war-on-drugs/248690/</a>>.</span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jackson, Allison. "Counterfeiting in China Thrives: Expers." <i>Google</i>. AFP, 2 Jan. 2010. Web. <<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAzaA37JQGbYPUaKXJwts0nA8vXg">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAzaA37JQGbYPUaKXJwts0nA8vXg</a>>. </span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MacKinnon, Rebecca. "Stop the Great Firewall of America." Editorial. <i>Nytimes.com</i>. New York Times, 15 Nov. 2011. Web. <<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html?_r=4">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html?_r=4</a>>.</span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Monaghan, Angela. "Radiohead Challenges Labels with Free Album." <i>The Telegraph</i>. 02 Oct. 2007. Web. <<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2816893/Radiohead-challenges-labels-with-free-album.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2816893/Radiohead-challenges-labels-with-free-album.html</a>>.</span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"P2P (Peer To Peer) Definition." <i>The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary</i>. Web. <<a href="http://www.techterms.com/definition/p2p">http://www.techterms.com/definition/p2p</a>>.</span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rogers, Simon. "US Federal Deficit: How Much Does China Own of America's Debt? | News | Guardian.co.uk." <i>Latest News, Sport and Comment from the Guardian | The Guardian</i>. 18 Jan. 2011. Web. <<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/18/us-federal-deficit-china-america-debt">http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/18/us-federal-deficit-china-america-debt</a>>. </span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: white; text-align: center;"><br />
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But the main reason I refuse to use it is because it tracks what you do. Facebook has admitted to, "keep[ing] a timestamped list of the URLs you visit and pair it with your name, list of friends, Facebook preferences, email address, IP address, screen resolution, operating system, and browser," while you remain logged in to the site and, "captures [capturing] everything except your name, list of friends, and Facebook preferences. Instead, it uses a unique alphanumeric identifier to track you," when you're logged out (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-tracking-2011-11">Here's The Information Facebook Gathers On You As You Browse The Web</a>). However, it claims that this is only for sites with the widely-recognized "like" button that facebook attaches to just about anything it wants to. This information is then distributed to, "...third-party app developers," similar to how supermarket cards (if you've ever shopped at a grocery store overseas & joined their rewards program, you'll know what I'm talking about) collect information about you based on what you buy, then promote certain products they feel you'll be interested in (I'm sure I sound like Fox Mulder by now...Soon the aliens will come and force feed us little food capsules based on what we get at the supermarket, etc...) (Christopher Soghoian in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577024262567105738.html">How Much Should People Worry About the Loss of Online Privacy?</a> and <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=12621">Supermarket cards<br />
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However, it's not just advertisers I'm worried about when it comes to facebook. Any government that claims to give its citizens freedom of speech, yet has contractors that go into groups that oppose its policies in order to eliminate them is no longer providing its citizens with freedom of speech. According to NaturalNews:<br />
"A secret campaign to take out groups and organizations that oppose the policies and agendas of the US Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and the US government has been outed, thanks to an archive of private emails obtained by Think Progress. According to reports, USCC hired HBGary, Federal and several other defense contractors to create fake accounts on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in order to sabotage progressive groups critical of the organization's platform"(<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/033490_Facebook_infiltration.html">Exposed: Military contractors hired to create fake Facebook accounts, infiltrate opposing groups<br />
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I'm not saying that I'm fearful of what the government does as a whole, but rather what it does in order to achieve its goals. (I really sound like Mulder...Sheesh.)<br />
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I guess the best way to summarize this, as well as to warn you about what you shouldn't say on any social network, would be:<br />
"You wouldn't be surprised that a rock concert is loud, or that a swimming pool is wet, so don't be shocked when you learn that a social network shares data. It is better to assume that anything you post on a social network may one day be public, and think carefully about posting that rant about how fat and lazy your boss is no matter which group you think you are sharing it with" (<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/243733/facebook_and_privacy_dont_mix_well.html">Facebook and Privacy Don't Mix Well</a>). Watch what you click + what you write, having that end up in an advertiser's, or worse, your boss' inbox, isn't a good thing.<br />
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Final exam question: How can you remove your personal information from services such as facebook? (Answer: <a href="http://www.matthewhinman.com/2011/11/21/more-about-your-online-privacy/">More about your online privacy</a>)Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-27031078109831539952011-11-22T18:13:00.000+09:002011-11-22T18:13:36.931+09:00Final Presentation!For anyone interested in my resources or for following my personal twitter...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I chose to do the <a href="http://ds106.us/2011/10/21/superhero-super-villain-your-friends/">SuperHero - SuperVillain your friends </a>assignment and, using a rather fantastic picture of one of my friends (for whom this assignment is all too perfect), combined with photoshopping and a fantastic <a href="http://www.wondercostumes.com/imgzoom/devil-half-mask-7993.jpg">mask</a>, I managed to create The Pickpocket!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecarrollphoto/6291564417/in/photostream">This</a> is my friend Toshi - we "work" together for our friends' band <a href="http://orbit-69.info/">ORBit</a> doing filming & photography. However, Toshi isn't exactly what I'd call normal. Not only is he insanely into <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei">ヴィジュアル系</a> , he's also a closet kleptomaniac (I tried explaining <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania">kleptomania</a> to him once- he took two of my rings, put them on his own hand and walked away with a gigantic smile on his face). This, combined with his constant, rather snarky attitude, has led us (other band staff/friends of mine and myself) to call him, "brat". However, I felt that, as a super-villain, he would be a better pickpocket, seeing as he enjoys stealing things & he would love the attention that pickpockets get. So may I present to you The Pickpocket:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Keep an eye on your wallets & valuables, folks!</span></div>Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-18188709811367684082011-11-15T15:48:00.001+09:002011-11-15T15:49:45.408+09:00I'm going to promote the living hell out of this for the next week or so, apologies in advance.So if you've ever been curious as to what I do/go to in my spare time or what industry I want to get into when I graduate, it's music. However, I am TOTALLY musically inept (read: I tried violin in elementary school and it didn't work out so well. When I got my iBook in my first year of high school, I tried learning via garage band - this too didn't work. In short, do not hand me an instrument or sit me down at one because I will fail. Hard.) SO I decided to get into the other creative & slightly more my style area of music- live photography as well as photoshoots, graphic design and of course, my favorite, management (if you're familiar with the American TV show Frasier, I am planning on being the music industry version of Bebe, without the 90's clothes/hair/makeup). While this may seem crazy, I know it's possible. Anyhow, this internal craziness of mine is not what I came to promote to you today, galaxias! is.<br />
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galaxias! is a a three person group, composed of <a href="https://twitter.com/ko_shibasaki/">Kou Shibasaki</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DECO27/">DECO*27</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/TeddyLoidSpace/">TeddyLoid</a>. Next week (11/23) their first album comes out AND on the 22nd, they're holding a "secret" live in Shibuya. The details are available on TeddyLoid's blog and even though it's cutting it a bit close with class, I hope some of you will join me in supporting them (after we've finished up presentations, of course!)! <br />
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★<a href="http://teddyloid.com/blog/galaxias-special-secret-live/">TeddyLoid's blog</a> • <a href="Galaxias.jp">galaxias! Official Site</a> ☆Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-63364072029764932452011-11-08T17:41:00.000+09:002011-11-08T17:41:48.962+09:00CommentingIf I haven't commented on your blog, I'm terribly sorry. Once I'm finished peeling back my fingernails (AKA writing a presentation for a 12-page paper, finishing aforementioned 12 page paper, then finishing 3 - five page papers, plus readings, my job and moving) I promise I will get to actually thinking like a normal human being and give you a nice, constructive comment rather than something I've dashed off in .02 seconds!Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-67722945238766489152011-10-31T23:36:00.001+09:002011-10-31T23:50:16.120+09:00Are we all artists?In listening to <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/timmmmyboy">Timmmmyboy's (Tim Owens')</a> talk, cleverly entitled <a href="http://www.timmmmyboy.com/2011/02/we-are-all-artists/">"We Are All Artists"</a> , I feel like he hit LOTS of fantastic points (most of which I agree with, some more so than others).<br />
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<ol><li>Creative environments foster creativity. <b>Agreed, but with exceptions.</b> I have friends in the United States that are prime examples of this - children born to art gallery owners and musicians who turned out to go to art school or to play fantastic music throughout high school and into university. One of these friends, however, is an exception to the rule. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric_aniag">Eric (personal flickr)</a> is not only a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International">MENSA</a>-quality walking brain (speaks German and Chinese, plus some Russian, Afrikaans, French & Japanese and is one of the people I go to when I need math help), but incredibly creative (plays piano, cello & viola, takes travel pictures and does creative writing as well as travel blogging). Neither of his parents were artists, but they were both well-traveled and incredibly supportive of his endeavors. On the other hand, my mother holds a B.A. in photography, so I grew up with cameras and pictures around me all the time. It also explains a lot of the reason why I'm interested in photography and have taken it to the next level and started learning graphic design & photoshop by myself.</li>
<li>Daily Shoot provided a way to work outside the box & improved my photography. <b>Disagreed.</b> Daily Shoot, to me was incredibly constraining. Almost every day I received a new, specific assignment that, to me, left little wiggle room (i.e. the construction one, specific color ideas). Maybe it's just because I don't take demands to be creative in one way very well or maybe it's just shooting on days when I really don't feel creative that I disliked Daily Shoot. For some, I imagine it may have sparked ideas or trains of thought, but to me it just didn't do it.</li>
<li>You're creative when you're hungry. <b>50/50.</b> My mind is about as one-track as a pachinko parlor is quiet between the hours of 9 and 22:00. Meaning it's not. I think CONSTANTLY (and don't sleep a lot of nights because of it) and will pop out with ideas, some more feasible than others, at any point. Some of these times I'm hungry, some of these times I'm jacked up on caffeine, some of these times I've actually had something to eat and am satisfied. Hunger is a bit irrelevant to my creativity.</li>
</ol><div>Now that I've listed off my thoughts, I feel that we all have the capability to be artists. There's all kinds of arts out there (from business to <a href="http://www.artofbeing.com/">the "art of being"</a>) that anyone can get involved in! Think of problems or challenges that you face in everyday life and figure out ways to make them less problematic or overcome them entirely!<br />
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There are also SO MANY tools and resources available to the public for free (well, technically free, provided you pay for your internet, etc...)! Things like <a href="http://www.aviary.com/">aviary</a>, <a href="http://dafont.com/">dafont</a> and <a href="http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes">brusheezy</a> provide the program, font and brushes you need (FOR FREE!) to play around and make some really awesome art on your computer. And, like Timmmmyboy mentioned <a href="http://abduzeedo.com/">Abduzeedo</a> provides A-MA-ZING tutorials for Photoshop and other Adobe programs such as Illustrator and Fireworks (I have been using their tutorials for ages and there are some that are just STUNNING!). Furthermore, there are other <a href="http://icon-tutorial.livejournal.com/">tutorial</a> and <a href="http://texturize.livejournal.com/">resource</a> blogs out there that can be accessed with a simple search on google! Thanks to the internet, art has become a worldwide capability.<br />
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In short, as Stephen Colbert would say, I am an artist and so can you!</div>Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-68404473291996613662011-10-18T00:48:00.002+09:002011-10-18T17:55:12.964+09:00The Girl Who Wanted to Be...<div style="text-align: center;">An Alien! (Not that this isn't the case already, seeing as I carry around an "Alien Registration Card" at all times.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Took a page out of William's (mome) book and did a self-portrait recolor!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I would have done one of a friend of mine, but the rather unflattering pictures of her I have on hand are just a bit too...Yeah. Maybe a derp face would be more appropriate, but she makes those naturally, so I'd have to call it the anti-derp, haha.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">(It may not be Friday yet, but since this will probably be read on Friday, it seemed appropriate!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">There are also a few bloggers out there who have really informative posts. For instance, <a href="http://ilovetypography.com/">I Love Typography</a> shares an array of information, from TEDx talks to trailers for documentaries related to typography, as well as some gorgeous fonts of the month! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://typography-daily.com/">Typography Daily</a> is a less-traditional blog that groups together images of fonts and displays them as collections. The most recent (as of 18:00 Thursday) is the <a href="http://typography-daily.com/2011/10/12/supertype-comic-book-mastheads/">Comic Book Mastheads</a> collection. These are designed to inspire designers (because authors aren't the only ones who get blocks! Someone has to make fonts for those authors to write in!) and show different layouts of products, advertisements and images. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The final blog I'd like to share with you is <a href="http://typographica.org/">Typographica</a>. Typographica is an almost newspaper-style blog, where several people work together, reviewing fonts, their designers, books and so forth for others to see and, hopefully, to give promotion to the better fonts of the cyber-world (because there are some horrid fonts out there...Comic Sans, anyone?).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Typography is insanely fun! (I'm kind of obsessed and download at least 2, if not more, fonts per week...Opening MS Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, etc. is always fun because my font list takes a million years to load.)I hope that, in future, I'll get better at designing my own fonts (and maybe get myself a tablet with which to do so, because being neurotic with a Magic Mouse is so difficult)and maybe, in time, end up on Typographica as, hopefully, a well-reviewed designer or font!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope that you learned something new and exciting about design today! (It's always exciting to learn how things you see everyday- pop up ads, billboards, commercials, etc..- are designed and learn the tricks behind them! At least I think so...)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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On that subject, my favorite book/movie series is the Harry Potter series. But even though I'm not a fan of the dark side, I made a minimalist travel poster depicting one of the main locations where dark magic tends to take place. First attempt at doing this also made me realize that I need a tablet if I want to draw things. A Magic Mouse is nice, but doesn't let me draw EXACTLY what I want.<br />
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Font: <a href="http://www.dafont.com/shit-happens.font">DAFont.com</a>Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-57973718369692953032011-10-03T18:18:00.022+09:002011-10-04T16:04:40.210+09:00How artists use social media & how things all relate to my job.So our group did work on how artists (of all kinds) use social media to promote themselves & their work.<br />
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I focused specifically on <a href="josephta.me">Joseph Tame</a> and how he uses twitter and <a href="http://runkeeper.com/">RunKeeper</a> to create and promote his <a href="http://josephta.me/category/the-art-of-running/">running art</a> and his social media-semi-alternative art contraption, the <a href="http://josephta.me/2011/07/the-irun-how-14000-virtual-supporters-joined-the-tokyo-marathon-2011/">iRun</a>. <br />
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Video interview uploaded! Some of the parts overlap a bit, but enjoy!<br />
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The final project can be viewed here:<br />
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While I did not focus on music artists, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about my job <insert shameless job promotion here>.<br />
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I work at a live house (essentially the fancy term for a concert venue)in Shibuya. I am the only 外人 on staff, meaning if my coworkers have questions about the English language (my manager, pictured below, really loves learning all about swear words) or if a foreign customer comes in, my coworkers come to me to ask for help.<br />
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(This is from my coworker & was taken last Christmas when we had the gigantic tree up.)<br />
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Day after day I deal with managers, staff and even artists involved in the music industry (dur). I see the pain of over-aggressive and neurotic managers on staff & artists alike and, after months of watching it happen, I decided what I want to do with my life: change the system. While it may take time, my ultimate goal is to create a management system in Japan where artists not only have freedom to create, but also freedom to talk or not talk about their personal lives/significant others/etc on twitter/mixi/facebook/what have you. <br />
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Anyhow, enough of my ranting about the industry.Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-10056719719761721302011-09-19T17:15:00.000+09:002011-09-19T17:15:18.793+09:00ARGH.So, a blog post. About pop culture and my computer being on the fritz for the zillionth time.<br />
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Pop culture, by definition, is popular or mainstream cultural items/styles/people/music/etc. For instance, pop music would fall under pop culture, as would facebook, twitter, Louis Vuitton bags and the like. It's honestly rather silly to have pop culture because there will always be people who do not agree with it or know about it, but on the other hand, there will always be people who obsess over it like it's the second coming of Christ or some equally silly nonsense. (I'm quite sorry if this post is seething with my rage- my trackpad is being fussy and my mouse isn't working properly, so I must slam down on it in order to do anything, which agitates my father and makes life a living hell.)<br />
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Anyhow, pop culture using social media. In Japan, most people know who <a href="http://m-flo.com/index.html">m-flo</a> have at least some knowledge of <a href="http://www.tcyradio.com/#bcc/soundcloud">TCY Radio</a> or <a href="http://www.tcyrec.com/">TCY Recordings</a>. Both TCY Radio & Recordings use a variety of social media (Both <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TCYFan">Recordings</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TCYRadioTokyo">Radio</a> have facebook pages, twitter accounts, mixlr & soundcloud accounts for Radio and label artists and members of TCY Recordings have individual accounts.)<br />
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Now to try and NOT beat my MacBook to death...Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-81946861833701567932011-09-15T18:10:00.003+09:002011-09-15T18:16:25.843+09:00Let's try this...<span style="font-size: small;">I detest blogger. It won't post comments on my last post, argh. To comment on my entry for 9/15</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://carroll-tuj.blogspot.com/2011/09/no-im-from-iowa-i-only-work-in-outer.html"> ( "No, I'm from Iowa- I only work in outer space"</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">) post comments here, please! (I'm sorry!!!!)</span></span>Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-45453292370090094572011-09-12T16:08:00.001+09:002011-09-12T23:36:30.556+09:00"No, I'm from Iowa- I only work in outer space."So I'm horrible at blogging. Blogs, like shrinks, force me to talk about my daily life, emotions and ideas, which I really detest. But this is all irrelevant.<br />
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This morning, one of my twitter friends from my personal account posted <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1oDAhY/michellzappa.com/map/envisioning-technology-2011-03-07.png">this</a> - it reminded me of Bush's ideas of what technology would become in the future (Source <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/JSNBRTZ">@JSNBRTZ</a>).<br />
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On the topic of the homework for class- I came across the <a href="http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/vision-highlights.html">Doug Engelbart Institute</a> (founded by his daughter, with the idea of moving forward towards his ideas). His idea of increasing the collective IQ of society is rather interesting- however, it seems that, because of the advance in technology since Engelbart's days, <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7mi9SE/americaisretarded.com/yes_we_can.html">society's collective IQ has decreased</a> (also through <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/JSNBRTZ">@JSNBRTZ</a>) (problem solving and answers to questions can all be found online, rather than by thinking things through or pondering over ideas/concepts by oneself). I also feel that if <a href="http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/mouse/mouse.html">Engelbart </a> could see the advances the mouse has made since he created it (like the Magic Mouse and its cousin the Magic Trackpad), he would be impressed, to say the least. (I also ran across a <a href="http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/index-inside.html">timeline</a> of his life, which provided other relevant events that happened throughout his life.) Nelson, unfortunately, was far less interesting to me, aside from being the provider of the terminology for my in-blog links.Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471907557430436829.post-59187690337770740932011-09-06T18:19:00.000+09:002011-09-06T18:19:40.254+09:00Testing Out Blogger...<div style="text-align: left;">So this is my first post actually using blogger (don't usually do normal blogs, microblogging like twitter & tumblr is easier when you have a thought process similar to hyperactive chimps playing table tennis).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">So hopefully I'll be able to write something worthwhile here. If I'm not (or if my posts don't make sense/seem off/am not interesting/etc...), PLEASE let me know!</div>Carroll.TUJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05802565150204252447noreply@blogger.com1