Wednesday Night @ PTV

Hey everyone!

We had a very exciting night at PTV!  We started off the night with Zack Brady's show The Beard at 9PM.  I have to say it was pretty hilarious.  They built a couch fort out of blankets and sheets (what could possibly be cooler than that)!!  There were a lot of technical difficulties, as in camera issues and lights falling, but it only added to the fun of the show.  As one of the interns Elizabeth said working on the show tonight, "We really put the fun in dysfunctional!"  haha.

Wish I had some pictures, but I'm totally not prepared.  As soon as I get some I will put them up or from now on I will actually take some pics when I'm there, instead of being distracted by a million other things.

So tonight was also the Brick TV's second episode of the season.  I have to say I was very impressed, not only with the fact that PTV set up 3 cameras for them, but the news was very well done and our PTV interns did a fantastic job!  Thank you to Nina and Elizabeth who flawlessly teched the show to Brick TV standards.

The Brick covered tons of things including the Fire Safety Fair, cooking, the YouTube video pick of the week, and a new gaming segment called Brick Breakers!  Very well done guys!

Here is the YouTube video Corgi Flop they showed this week.  It was hilarious:



Well everyone. Hope you enjoyed that and hope you got to catch the shows tonight live. If not there's always reruns! Be sure to check the schedule and tune in tomorrow night for News Flash With Michael Latin, Show & Tell, and Whalehammer.

Thanks and come back soon!

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Maker Faire New York

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 Maker Faire at The New York Hall of Science in Queens.  Be excited, because this was the 1st annual Maker Faire in New York!  I met up with a few other students in the Physical Computing class that I am a learning assistant for.  The faire was absolutely amazing.  There was everything from robots to arts and crafts.

One piece that brought a huge crowd was The Lifesize Mousetrap, by Mark Perez.  Here are some of the photos I took:

Mark Perez

The Lifesize Moustrap is only one of the tons and tons of spectacles that came together for the faire.  Here is a link to an entire album of photos I took from the Maker Faire:  MAKER FAIRE 2010 ALBUM

Hope you guys enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed being there!!

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Kicking Off the Season with All New Live Shows!

PTV has a ton of new live and pre-recorded shows this season.  On Monday night at 12AM Peter and Laura's Power Hower premiered live at the studio.

It went well and you should check it out next Monday night!

Last night also went well.  Zack Brady hosted his show The Beard at 9PM and at 11:30PM The Brick kicked off their new season with breaking news and footage about everything from the recent rain storm to the Battle of the Complex's that took place last Saturday.

Tonight will be a lot of fun as well!

The series debut of News Flash with Michael Latin will be on at 9PM and it looks like it's going to be good, so make sure you check it out!!

Then Show and Tell will be kicking off their new season as well at 10PM with their crazy antics and karaoke.

Then of course everyone's favorite PTV show Whalehammer will be on at 11PM, so be sure to catch that as well!!

Well everyone make sure you check out all the great PTV shows, be excited, and enjoy every minute of them!

Results Are In!

The polling for what will be the Fall 2010 lineup ended yesterday and the results are in.  You can now see what the AM lineup is on PTV69.com.  Just look on the left hand of every page.

ALSO!  The live and pre-recorded show schedule is now up as well.  Check it out: Live & Pre-Recorded Schedule

If that isn't enough there's a bunch of new shows to check out, so take a look at their bio's on the right of every page :)!

Whalehammer Season Launch

Tonight one of Purchase's most well known live show Whalehammer will be kicking off the 2010 Fall season.  Whalehammer will be on at 11PM, but you can come out and share your support by invading the Dining Hall at 7PM.  The event details can be found here: WHALEHAMMER SEASON LAUNCH: SEXY CATS INVADE D-HALL

If you don't feel like coming out you can always turn your TV's on to channel 69 at 11PM and catch the new season!!

Also if any of you did not vote for the AM schedule yet.  Please do so at PTV69.com!!!  Voting ends tomorrow, Friday the 17th, so get on that!

The Web: How We Experience Time in a New Way

For our Senior Seminar class we were required to read the article "Assumed Mobility - Thoughts on experiencing time online," by Marcin Ramocki.  Although we were not required to write about or respond to the article other than talk about it in class, I found the article so interesting and worth the read that I thought I would share it with all of you.

First of all you can view Ramocki's work here.  You can download the PDF of his article here.

Ramocki stresses through out his article that we are constantly changing how we think of the past, because of "new imaginations of the future (1)."  He uses a very good example to explain what he means:

"the importance of your expensive college education would fade substantially if you decided that, instead of going to medical school, you wanted to pursue a career managing a rock band(1)."

 What he means is that, because you changed your mind about your future, the things you used to worry about become obsolete. Ramocki moves on to explain how we interact with images around us and how it has drastically changed because of the web.  The reason I started this blog was for my Viral Marketing class and a lot of the ideas that Ramocki touches upon we have talked about in different ways in class. 

"Just like a film, which is a collection of still, photographic images, the web cannot be reduced to the sum of its elements. The difference here is that the elements are far more complex and the relation between them is algorithmic, not linear(3)."

 The huge difference between the web and normal video or images is our ability to control them and our ability to interact with them.  On a standard TV or movie we are only accepting information and in no way is it two-way.  However, with the web we can not only control the speed at which we watch something, we can comment on what we watch, we can pass it along to friends, and we can download what we watch and edit it in ways we see fit.  The image can now become malleable and be controlled and changed in any way in which the viewer sees fit.  This is where we can "assume mobility of the viewer(4)."

Ramocki uses links as a way to explain our "assumed mobility" in that a link on a page can move someones position and focus, inevitably directing the eye to a whole new experience.  The images and and way we perceive our environment is no longer a linear function.  We can now experience things using the web in non-linear forms.

Ramocki compares how we perceive things linearly to riding a train and how our environment can only be interpreted based on where the train is moving.  He ends his article by saying, "It is up to us to decide how we want to look at things. Without a doubt, the vantage points will keep shifting: the key is to remain a conscious, thoughtful passenger(6)."



Well that about sums it up, but I hope you can enjoy Ramocki's article as much as I did.  Have a good day!!

I Have Been Quoted!

Hooray and good news everyone!

An article about The School of Film and Media Studies was released yesterday in the Harrison Patch featuring Program Chair Michelle Stewart, fellow senior Jared Kaplan, junior Cam Kafura, and me.

Check it out:  New Media Arts School Launches at Purchase College