For now, here's part of the view from where I live.
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Still here
As mentioned, I've been mostly working on my Dev Blog while the ideas are fresh, so this one has not got off the ground yet, but I hope to put that right in the very near future.
For now, here's part of the view from where I live.
It's quite a big picture and I want to see how it comes out on the page
For now, here's part of the view from where I live.
Sunday 8 January 2012
My Dev Blog
I'm currently working on a development blog outlining my work developing Android Apps using App Game Kit.
Both are a bit new, so I'm not going out of my way to mention them.
Both are a bit new, so I'm not going out of my way to mention them.
Friday 6 January 2012
What's in a name?
Pod Born - from The Matrix, meaning simply "born in a pod". In the films, people were born in a sealed pod and hooked up to a giant virtual reality simulation which controls every aspect of life.
The Matrix films are an allegorical view of the world we live in and made many comparisons to the way we are influenced, affected and conditioned by various aspects of society, not least of media itself.
Being pod born was inevitable for the people of the Matrix, and yet the term was even used in a derogatory manner by some of those born outside, despite the fact that (as with our world) no-one gets to choose how or where they are born.
The films then make the point that even those born outside the pods are still subject to the same influence and control of "the machine" and so discrimination is pointless.
Being born in a pod is not the defining factor of a Matrix inhabitant's life, to them there is no pod and to tell them otherwise would be pointless as they simply wouldn't believe it.
But these are allegorical characters in a fantasy world. Surely real people would know better.
The pod for us, is the pressure placed upon us by certain aspects of society to act a certain way, to believe in certain things, to do otherwise is simply antisocial.
But when the pressure is to behave contrary to what we feel is right, to accept things we know not to be in our best interests, then we need to question the motives of those who decide what is acceptable.
Its all too easy to leave it to the experts, but who decided they are experts? where are the checks and balances? Who is held to account for the mess when it all goes wrong?
So I use the term here, not as some acknowledgement of weakness or submission to a greater power, but to salute the message in the films.
As possibly the most famous sound bite of the film states...
Free your mind.
The Matrix films are an allegorical view of the world we live in and made many comparisons to the way we are influenced, affected and conditioned by various aspects of society, not least of media itself.
Being pod born was inevitable for the people of the Matrix, and yet the term was even used in a derogatory manner by some of those born outside, despite the fact that (as with our world) no-one gets to choose how or where they are born.
The films then make the point that even those born outside the pods are still subject to the same influence and control of "the machine" and so discrimination is pointless.
Being born in a pod is not the defining factor of a Matrix inhabitant's life, to them there is no pod and to tell them otherwise would be pointless as they simply wouldn't believe it.
But these are allegorical characters in a fantasy world. Surely real people would know better.
The pod for us, is the pressure placed upon us by certain aspects of society to act a certain way, to believe in certain things, to do otherwise is simply antisocial.
But when the pressure is to behave contrary to what we feel is right, to accept things we know not to be in our best interests, then we need to question the motives of those who decide what is acceptable.
Its all too easy to leave it to the experts, but who decided they are experts? where are the checks and balances? Who is held to account for the mess when it all goes wrong?
So I use the term here, not as some acknowledgement of weakness or submission to a greater power, but to salute the message in the films.
As possibly the most famous sound bite of the film states...
Free your mind.
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