Monday, February 25, 2013

Jonathan Colton's leaked music


       The message of empowerment that is slow, sensitive and poky are conveyed through the music. Jonathan Colton’s music was basically stolen as he says, “Content theft in plain side may be legal but its wrong”. He says that he basically did this to show that white musicians, appropriating music from black musicians. Colton says that he did not release the music but it was an unknown contribution to the peer episode in fox. He assumes that it might have appeared on the fan website, which is a leak and not release. The funniest part was that the character, which sang that song, was named Adam. In any case the copyright is violated.He says that using his audio, his fans did some artifacts, and it leaked out to be his music that he does not know it himself. So he had to change it to a new version from his original recording for the music foundation donation.


Monday, February 18, 2013

Tweeting, Revolution

         Andy Carvin the one that kept tweeting about the revolution in Egypt, was interviewed. He shared his experience about twitter. The advantage of twitter is that, when the journalist does not, knows answers for certain things; the followers in the twitter come up with answers. Some videos are made based on the cultural facts that the journalist knows about. He sorts out the videos by giving careful attention to the footage that he receives, though it creates problems sometimes. When he finds something unusual or he is ignorant about, he just posts it and asks if anyone knew about it, which I think is the best thing in Social network. Though he tweets revolution, he can feel free to ask and know about it. Whereas, the other news broadcast does not work in this two-way communication process. He says that he trust people that he knew, people who get into personal communication with him, about the event. He also keeps digging their twitter accounts to see, whom they have been following and it all ended up with the protest leaders whom he found online, this made him believe, that the information sent by them were true. He had revolutionary followers who sent him videos that he posted in twitter and the next day it comes out in CCN. He says that there is a cause in naming this as a social media because it also shows the care and empathy for others, rather than just giving news about the revolution.


Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Narnia. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe



                    When I was in middle school, a team came to my school to show the trailer of a movie named “Narnia”. I never watched the movie until a person who had that DVD showed few scenes of the movie. I searched for the biography and found that this movie is based on the book written by C.S. Lewis. Then I saw the complete movie after I went to high school and I fell in love with that movie. It is an amazing movie with kids that described the teachings of Bible. All the scenes in the movie are my favorite, yet the scene where the white witch Jadis meets Aslan to claim the blood of Edmund, so that she can rule Narnia though she is not the rightful ruler. It is the intense scene, as no one knows what is going to happen. Peter being the eldest son takes his sword against the white witch to save Edmund the younger brother. The sound, the reactions and the fear is well expressed and the witch shows her attitude and power to Aslan, but neither does Aslan leaves his respect and honor. This scene shows the power of God and Devil. Though Aslan wins the battle at the end of the movie. It also shows my personal emotion and feeling when I stand in a situation like Edmund, between God and evil power.