by phoenix | Jan 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
by phoenix | Jan 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
[ganked from fayr] NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet’s shape and also reduced the length of the day by 3 microseconds and shifted the North Pole by several...
by phoenix | Jan 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
No, actually, it’s not. It’s probably an ‘idiom’ as a figure of speech is actually a rhetorical tool. I have no idea how many of my students from last year have kept reading my journal, but they may be interested to know that I’m busily working...
by phoenix | Jan 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
Interesting. Watched Channel 9’s package of tsunami mourning in order to test theory that visual footage tweaks emotional triggers in a way that written stories did not. Admittedly, anyone who knows Channel 9’s brand of emotional manipulation...
by phoenix | Jan 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
I’ve been musing lately on cameras, the power of the image and the role of the media. It started when Naomi paid for a video person to skydive with me and record the experience. I had no problem with that — or at least with what I thought was...