You know, I’ve never cried at movies. I never could understand how a person could get that deep into the story (The Notebook, I’m particularly looking at your way) and start weeping from the on-screen events.
Boy I didn’t realize why until I saw this short film called “About My Dog – Marimo”. It’s part of a japanese compilation of short films and launched as a full length feature. Stumbling to it through other sites, it was user commented as being emotional, while some others said it was a total junk. My person being the curious little bee that I am, decided to click on the YouTube link.
Afterall it’s just a link that loads in no time, so even if it was total rubbish I’d only waste a couple seconds of my life that would just go to waste on something else anyways.
Initially I couldn’t believe the emotions that this video was leading me to. I click play and my brain starts getting in the video. My eyes started to tear, making it almost impossible to see the screen. My tissue wet with this strange liquid coming out of my eyes that I didn’t see since I was a kid. Great. I’m one of “those” emotional people now.
To tell you the truth, it isn’t bad a thing afterall. Emotions make us feel human. They make us realize we are very vulnerable beings in this world in constant need for love and affection.
And how could I have arrived at that realization without the internet? Without those transient spaces that enable us to post anything in a split second to an instant worldwide audience cheaply (and most of the times freely)? Probably I wouldn’t and still have a negative idea of “those” people who cry at the movies. Thank you internet. Thank you Al Gore for inventing it! (Allegedly of course).
Agnes’s Weblog
The improvements of technology over past years have provided a great extent of freedom for young people. Different media types, digital content creation tools and distribution channels provide them choices and differernt ways to construct, express and distribute their ideas.
What she says is quite true! I remember when I grew up. In the 80’s all we had were NES cartridge games and VHS movies. No Xbox Live, MSN Messenger, cellphones nor 8 disc-set of Season 1 of Heroes.
People today can play and communicate with people around the world through the comfort of their living rooms. In my days (I don’t want to sound old, but it was in my days!) if you wanted a co-op play of anything, you’d have to dust off controller #2, plug it in and tap your neighbor’s door to see if little Billy could come out and play.
Then this comes to another question. Does technology really improve our lives or just make us more busy and miss out on things? Wouldn’t we all sleep a few hours more a night if we didn’t chat away on Messenger/Yahoo/AIM? Or actually talk on the dinner table instead of munching away facing silently the TV keeping track of what happens on Wisteria Lane?
Don’t get me wrong. I *love* technology. I just wouldn’t know how to survive without a cellphone and the internet. Technology makes our lives more convenient, but always everything in moderation and with caution.
Impossible to Make Line Breaks in Posts « WordPress.com Forums
Prior to this month, I never had trouble separating paragraphs in my posts but lately, even when it all looks as I’d like it to in my editing stage, as soon as I publish my words and lines all get squashed together. HTML tags do nothing. I’m not an experienced web designer by any means – I just blog.
Seems I wasn’t crazy afterall! Searching the WordPress tech support forums I’ve stumbled to a quite a few posts with people having the same problems as I. There is a workaround out there, but it involves using Terminal and doing some complicated commands. I’ll just stick to Firefox until the people at Apple fix the Safari problem ;). Don’t want my lappy shooting up into flames and accidentally entering The Matrix after those commands…
Just for your personal edification, I was running OS X 10.5 Leopard flavor on Safari 3.
And yes, Safari can have it’s quirks now and then apparently.
I was poking around my Youtube favorites page and thought I might dust off something by Bonnie Pink, one of my fav jap artists ever. It’s a cover of the 1988 Fairground Attraction song “Perfect”.
Btw, I’m having some linebreak problems with WordPress and Safari on OS X. Anybody out there with the same problem? Had to switch to Firefox while using WordPress :P.
In this day and age, one might choose to blog for a variety of reasons. People might blog to vent out thoughts in their mind, popularity, class points, or just to make a quick buck. What acts cross the line of internet blogging morality?
Afterall people who read blogs are looking for some form of entertainment. In the end is it so wrong to blog about made up events/acts/persons? Or to sprinkle in a product mention or two?
Most movies/TV series are about fictional acts and despite that fact we still watch them. Can’t that be applied to blogs and still be socially accepted?
Think about it, maybe post a comment or if you wish send me a buck over the mail!
Here’s an uplifting geeky (in a good way, seriously!) love story.
Instead of the usual guy dropping to the floor with a ring proposal, some guy hacked his way around a version of Bejeweled for DS as a wedding proposal.
Just signed up for a WordPress blog! That was incredibly fast and trouble free I must say! I feel a bit peckish right now, so after the Transient lab I might go to grab a cup of hot mocha and some kind of pastry ;).
UPDATE: I didn’t get that mocha afterall. It got a bit too close to dinner time so I decided to skip it.
