Times Change

New technologies make older ones (aka, formerly new technologies) irrelevant.  See below.

Imagine if you were working with old media and designing content on Linotype machines with lead letters instead of MacPro towers and software.


"Linotype: The Film" Teaser from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

Now, seriously, imagine that.  In a short essay, 300-500 words, talk about a specific technology that's changed in your lifetime.  It should be one that impacts you directly.  Talk about how it's changed things for you.  Digital publishing made your favorite magazine stop putting out a print edition?  You can no longer find a good music CD store because everything's online now?  You never knew you'd be a DJ/Movie maker, but your computer makes it so easy to explore, you think you may have a career in it?

From pocket cameras to streaming TV online, we live in a world awash in gadgets and rapidly evolving technologies.  This class has involved you working with some of it which you likely have not worked with before, and more and more of this stuff you see outside the classroom and in the hands of semi-professional and even amateurs.  Write about it.  Submit your essay as a Google Doc titled "ART 130 Fall 2010 - Times Change Essay - bcapozzi."  (Substituting your name for mine.)  I'd like these by 5Pm this Friday, 11/12.

~MrC