пятница, 22 мая 2015 г.

Perc - Rotting Sound (2014)

Tried some features here. but my equipment is not for seriouse montage, so the result is not too good..
Perc - Rotting Sound
from "The Power & The Glory" (2014)

video agoldzahn 2015

пятница, 7 февраля 2014 г.

Kamchatka aboriginals #O2SIndig

A bit from me about Kamchatka aboriginals regarding Indigenous Studies MOOC on the Open2Study.

There are three well known folks in Kamchatka - Koryak, Even and Itelmens
They have been living here for thousands years and definitely they have some connection with other Aboriginal Pacific.


The main difference in the history is different treatment and attitude from powers and community at all.  

Kamchatka Aboriginals (foto from the open source)
As I remember from Soviet time aboriginals were never  considered as need-to be-enhanced. Also their children were taken to Internat-schools but they were not withdrawal from families, that was just studying in pansion with spending vacations at home. 
Native culture was like some regional feature and every settlement had some local cultural centre. 

Of course there were and are great deal of problems, such as alcocholic addiction, changing the mode of life and the others.. But I'm still not so good in Indigenous Studies to be more familiar with the topic.

I can just put some video taken by me this summer during the Aboriginal Day celebrating in August in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky:




четверг, 28 ноября 2013 г.

The human touch #edcmooc

 Now it's time to think about the sensitive aspect of being human.

1. BT: heart to heart advert



This short film induces the reflection of contact between people in modern society. Seems like the protagonist's choice is a "real" contact with his beloved. But what is "real" here? It's a conversation by phone.
 Actually I don't think this choice is perfect. At least why not to use skype if so? Even more contact.. )
But the topic is sure not about the choice for a contact. Here we see the problem called the human-touch problem which is pretty actual for e-learning for example. 
People plunged into the web and start to loose real contact turning to the text-contact. I can confirm this as mostly use emails and other web tools for conversation even with my family members.. At the same time we're still humans and need some sensitive way of contact. In this short video the human-touch contact is implemented by voice. But I think it's better to go far.
Steve Kolowich in his article "The Human Element" notes that on-line education usually more effective when some "presence" effect comes. It realizes in different video tools, skype, clips, conferences and so on. The presence-oriented education definitely more involving and motivating. I understand now why EDCMOOC staff pays so much attention to video tools like introductions, hangout and short clips for analysis. All this makes the presence effect and is more motivating than just text-oriented learning.

2. They’re made out of meat


Based on Terry Bisson's story. This not so bad screening illustrates the difference between possibly other lifeforms. As someone notes in discussion forum it can be compared with racial and other distinguishes.
But the same time our discussions about machines are often look the same: ah, they are not organic, just a technical equipments.. ))
It's a good point to think about humanity and what is it to be a human..

Some thinking on being a human is in my wordpress in Thinking about humanity topic


воскресенье, 24 ноября 2013 г.

Reality - Digitality #edcmooc

Some more videos from the MOOC course E-learning and Digital Cultures.
Now we're thinking about the humanity and what is it to be a human being. At first two videos the problem of virtuality and it's connection with reality is shown.

1. TOYOTA GT86: 'The Real Deal' TV Advert

2. World Builder

We see here two ways of representing the virtuality. The first one is obviously dystopic. It's a gloomy, limited digital world devoid of true colors and genuine feelings. Just man's will can break this dome, like John Truman did. It's pretty impressing seeing, and we see all advantages of the true real life.
But thinking about education we may change the attitude to the virtuality. The real life may be different and often not so welcomed.. But modern technologies now allow everyone to get education through the web. And not so bad education thankfully to the MOOC. That is what e-learning is.

Virtuality shown in the second video is utopic one. The builder demonstrates his amazing skill in building a fragment of virtual reality. He does a great job restoring the model of the real world down to the smallest details. Everything is for his sick wife who is in coma. We discussed all this in the forum and I guessed that she sees everything in her dream (like a lucid dream).
 As for me, I think this clip shows good example of interrelation between humanity and technologies. Ultimately medicine is the very field where human life definitely depends on technologies.