An aspiring journalist, advocate for justice and Justice Kirby fanatic is working towards graduation, a real job, and all her big ideas. So really, this is a place for practising those ideas. For practising real life. For penning my youth. All that.
I saw the new Alice in Wonderland film on Wednesday and I must say, I very much enjoyed it. Although people have criticized it as plot weak, I think this is irrelevant. There seems a perfectly reasonable plot to me. Alice is on a mission to save Underland but doesn't quite realize it. I love the graphics and I love the magical feeling it emits. It's so unrealistic that it is almost real.
I was inspired to think of my 6 impossible things for the day, just so I can maintain a little bit of craziness among an abyss of normalcy.
1. My toys are really alive and when I leave the room they get up and play
2. That I will be able to make an origami crane properly sometime this weekend
3. My lolly jar is evil and I should not touch it
4. Events organize themselves
5. I am really dreaming and tomorrow I will wake up and life will be perfect
6. I don't need an umbrella to stay dry, I can deflect water with my mind, just like in the matrix
The other day, I gave blood. It might seem like a really trivial thing to some people. For me though, it was scarier than anything I had really done before. I was sitting in a chair, watching The Simpsons, eyeing off the post blood giving milkshakes and cake, with lots of people around me chatting happily, and I was sitting there scared speechlessly out of my mind. It was... horrific. So why then, would I do something that scary?
I think I have mentioned this before that every once in a while, I do stupid things for kicks because I get bored with my life. I question my existence, the reason I am alive. I go and do something that makes my adrenaline go crazy, just so I can get calm again. Last year I did a 150m bungy in New Zealand just because I felt like it. Or sometimes I sit under a train bridge and wait for a train to go roaring over the top. It's not scary, but it gets your blood pumping. Getting needles like the ones they use for blood donations has a similar effect on my body, and I am doing something good. It's like a double whammy natural high and it felt great. I spent 45 minutes screwing around crying, shaking, deciding whether or not I wanted to go through with it. My heart was beating so fast and everything was hazy with fear. That is how irrationally scared I was.
I have sort of come to the conclusion now, that I like being scared because it is such a strong emotion. I feel like after everything that has happened in the last few years, has made me emotionless and the only way I can find some, is to get really really scared. Anyway, I think thats why I did it. And also because I saved 3 lives. Bonus.
Explaining to my tutor why I was unable to complete the final assessment of the semester last year was singularly the most embarrassing moment of my entire life. I didn't have enough internet downloads left to complete the online quiz. Explaining why I had been on youtube for over 24 hours on my university account was never going to be easy, but when asked for a record of what exactly I had been browsing I almost cried. You see, I was caught up in the "Kitty cat". The most brilliant internet meme I have ever seen. While many hours were spent watching the original, I also enjoyed such variations as "Kitty Cat Hyperspeed", "Kitty Cat Dance Remix" and "Kitty Cat (The Chipmunk Remix)".
Beginning in 2004, the original has received over eight million views on youtube. Since it was first released, it has become a hit video around the internet and it is even possible to obtain Kitty Cat merchandise here. Over time it has been varied, with a halo version being released in 2005 and other fan made videos of their own cats in the past 6 years.
So I have another Cassie Therapy to do. I get it off http://littleblogofhappiness.blogspot.com. It's quite fun :) Much more fun than property law! It's been a very slow few weeks with assignments and the like. Life is like that sometimes. Too slow.
Abracadabra, Wow!
I like boys with curls and girls with cool looking skateboards.
I like it when randomly good songs pop up on the radio
I like having crushes
I like it when you wake up because the sunshine is shining through the curtains
I like random coffees in trendy places
I like going running only to wind up sitting on the beach, dipping my toes in the waterI like fancy fonts I like this time of year, when the night air is so cool and yet nothing but refreshing I like super expensive icecream I like my lime green law folder. Makes the day easier to get through when I look at it and think "It's not black!" I like super long dinnertimes I like the fact my grandma gave me an easter card
I love loving.
Today I decided to give blood tomorrow.In some ways, I love everything.
Its less, its less of a thing to like, its less distinct, its less particular
I like things that I like but I love everything
There’s more choice in like
Cos even the worst things have things you love in them
I don’t know what you mean about things I hate
I hate people telling me its going to be okay when it might not be
I hate getting sweaty walking to uni
I hate loving people who don't love you back
I hate mixing up the names of siblings
I hate being forced to get upI hate food, but in a way, it’s kind of important for survival I hate being left behind
I hate hot chocolate that just tastes like warm milk
Okay, so this is this weeks blog for uni. It is about transmedia storytelling. It's actually kind of cool how all this works... and everyone loves an excuse to write about pokemon!
Pokemon is an excellent example of Jenkins's concept of transmedia storytelling. It incorporates all 7 concepts used to define this theory.
Spreadability v Drillability- Pokemon comes in the form of the television series, multiple movies, video games, card games and there is even a side series. All of these build on each other, constantly introducing new characters, allowing fans to delve deeper and deeper in the fictional world of pokemon.
Continuity v Multiplicity -The Pokemon story is built on throughout all the various types of media. If you play the game, you will have a better understanding of the movie and similarly, if you watch the movie you will have a better experience when playing the game. In this sense, the better you master the material, the more rewarding the Pokemon experience is.
Immersion v Extractability- Pokemon utilizes extractability. There is a lot of merchandise for Pokemon, ranging from clothes, to figurines, to candy. Consumers can take these things away in physical form. There was also a pokepark. This was a traveling theme park based on the pokemon series. In this sense, immersion is also used in this transmedia story.
Worldbuilding- Needless to say, Pokemon is a highly sophisticated world. The games particularly, give consumers the best grasp on these worlds as they allow users to explore them through game play. This then gives people a better idea on where things are happening in the movie and means that they know details that the movie may not explicitly provide.
Seriality- The Pokemon series broke the story up within that one medium, however, the story continued in the movies, and also in the games and cards. This is an excellent example of seriality.
Subjectivity- Although most characters remain the same through all the different mediums, minor characters are introduced sporadically through each medium. Different kinds of Pokemon are in fact still appearing, and there are rumors that new Pokemon will be included in the movie due to be released some time this year.
Performance- This is perhaps the one area that is lacking within Pokemon. There has been much fan fiction about it, however, little fan produced performances.
Sunday afternoons are the best afternoons. Yesterday, mine was spent, watching a game of cricket, playing in a friends wheelchair, laughing so hard I was almost crying and later, sitting in a tree. It was so calming just knowing that at that moment there was absolutely nothing to worry about. I was free, I was happy and I was content. Life was good. It is good.
Anyhow, I felt that this picture of a tree, while not quite an accurate representation of the one I sat in, was very very pretty. I hope you thinks so too.
I never normally read marie claire. It's one of those magazines that I consider just a little too fashion oriented for me. It makes sense, being a fashion magazine and all. Anyhow, after spending the week locked away in the room of doom and gloom, doing assignments that are much to hard for me and becoming resentful towards life in general, I decided that I would hunt through the house and find something other than cases and textbooks to read. And there it was, lying there all alone in back of the car. This months marie claire. So I pick it up and start flicking. I came across a photo shoot entitled girl meets boy. It was women's clothing, inspired by men. Love Love Love. I love men, and I love clothes. It's an impossibly perfect combination.
Yay easter! Its all about the bunnies and the chocolate. Oh, and the hot cross buns of course! You have to indulge once in a while right?
I let myself fall in love with easter egg hunting all over again this morning as I dashed about in my pajamas and bunny ears collecting eggs from the TV, behind the sofa, on the windowsill and nestled into the stairs. You just can't go past reliving childhood memories. It was all so childish and yet everyone was smiling and laughing and eating large amounts of "sometimes" food.
I love that easter signifies the beginning of Autumn here. I mean, we are already halfway through, yes, but that crispy air is returning. When you look outside you see sunshine, but it looks cold. The surf is choppy from the southerly swells and the clouds make it seem like it might be snowing in the sky. You can wear Jeans with a T shirt, or shorts with a jumper.
