Week 7 - Post 1

I found this reading very interesting as far as how Bolter and Grusin applied immediacy, transparency, and hypermediacy to film and digital art. First, digital art. It is so funny how some people are obsessed with owning or knowing the most up-to-date technology, but some of those very people can turn on a dime and discredit digital art for being unauthentic and artless. It also amazes me how the rich, who can afford the luxuries of digital art, brag about owning older paintings.

I did get lost in the film section of the reading because of paying more attention to the number of movies I recognized or had seen. On that note, in a geeky kind of way, I enjoyed being able to put a finger on the techniques used in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". That movie always capitavated me. As I recall, the movie and music industries of the nineties picked up on the trends of integrating animation with actors. Two great examples I can think of are the movie "Howard the Duck", and in music, Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract". Evidently, I watch too much television.