Pitch Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy0Nq1NFv4&t=3s BCM215 Pitch Video Animation & Game Graphic Influences In order to successfully analyse my game media texts and understand their seemingly 'poor' graphics, I will need to be well versed in the related academic research in this field. Many game studies focus on the psychological or behavioural effects, and do not take... Continue Reading →

Discussing my degree with particular family members often leads to confusion on one end and invalidity on the other. Tweeting, blog posts, online discussion - none of this is tangible. Look at my new commissioned drawing of sonic the hedgehog erotica rings a little different to look at this wooden chair I made you pops.... Continue Reading →

For my research area I am planning to explore vegan food and wellness content on YouTube and related platforms. More specifically, the health advice and recommendations provided and the legitimacy of these claims and the environment it comes from. In order to put my past ideas into legitimate points, secondary academic research and considering ethical... Continue Reading →

The cyberpunk subculture in its heyday was internet badasses - hacking, weird clothes and the epitome of the entire aesthetic of The Matrix. It was described as the Red Light District of the Virtual Community by Steve Mizrach. The cyberpunk set up today goes a little something like this: Source I think the loss of... Continue Reading →

'this book does not exist' will be an eBook/online magazine that compiles AI produced reference images and my recreated digital art versions using Reddit user feedback. The AI image websites I plan to use are listed here and here. My personal favourites to help explore my art style are: This Person Does Not Exist (help... Continue Reading →

As explored in my previous posts that detailed and mapped my media niche of vegan food and wellness YouTubers, this week it's time to put it all into perspective in regards to its validity as a project.  Problematisation  The vegan food online community comes with quite a lot of spectacle, and often backlash. These creators... Continue Reading →

Stepping back in time and dissecting this world's means of communication really puts into perspective how far the advancement of technology has come using the foundations it was built on (and how useless this degree would be without it).  I truthfully thought Morse Code had no important place in history and was just a movie... Continue Reading →

Building from my previous post on my media niche, this week I tried to narrow and define my field site of Vegan Food Content.  My Field Map A field site can be mapped by recognising the spatial characteristics of a field-based research project, focusing on the way and how the relevant interactions take place (Burrel... Continue Reading →

The internet is full of information on the wildest range of topics you could ever imagine, however not all of this content is true (or helpful). Being a coeliac individual and following a plant based lifestyle, I am no stranger to self proclaimed health gurus, ‘dieticians’ and weird people trying to sell herbs as a... Continue Reading →