Back to the Primative, A.K.A Ooga Booga, Ooga Booga!

Being an advocate and practitioner of DIY (Do It Yourself) art and expression, digital literacy is very important to me (even if i don't search it out all the time). Keeping up with new technologies is one of the only means to survive as an artist if you don't have a backer, or pimp. Most of the technology that i am interested in involves:

• layout programs for independent publishing and
• regular scanners

I have never really considered any other means of media producation because it has either not been brought to my attention, or I dont really think that it applies to what i am trying to create. I, as well as many others, see value in the written word (my chosen form of expression) and dont really see the value of turning it into something that it isn't, like a mini movie, slide show, or publicity trailer. If making films is what you're all about, than go for it, but I dont want to turn a written story into something people can lazily sit back and watch. The images that words create are much more powerful than any digital image anyone can upload onto a computer.

As a blanketed statement, our memories and attention spans are becoming shorter with every new generations. Could that have anything to do with our ever growning reliance on technological media for entertainment and quick and easy information (internet, movies, ect)? Is there a connections between murder rates and societies inability to communicate in person or even on the phone(texting, emails . . .second life ;-) )? OKay, so maybe i'm being a little fecicious with that last question, but i dont want to end up sounding like this guy from my environmental literature class last semester (he specialized in conspiracy theories and general bullshit), so i threw a little humor in there for the two people who might actually make it this far into my BLOG. Tah.