Power Point Presentation

I love making Powerpoints, they make presenting so easy.Hans did a great job of showing what a powerpoint is capable of, not that I was interested really in the statistics of what he was showing. The animation was great and his presentation itself was an attention getter.Powerpoints should only be used for a few quick lines to let the audience know what you will be informing them about, then the presenter does the rest.I have made powerpoints for a few years or more now, but I still dont think mine will be as well put together as Hans.I will admitt I have trouble sometimes with putting too much information on my powerpoint because I have trouble with public speaking and forget everything I want to share as soon as I get up there, that is until I notices they had a little note section on the bottom of the powerpoints so I can write what I want to share without it showing up on the slide itself. I plan to take everything I learn from this week and put it to good use.

Kindle 2

First off the kindle is awsome,I have heard of them before but never really saw how they worked. That is probably one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. For someone like myself who dreads reading because I can never find a book I like, it makes me want to read, having the choice of any book pretty much at the tip of my fingers and having the option of being read to...where were these when I fist started school, there were plenty of books I would have rathered been read to me. Which brings me to the next topic, this whole copyright thing, to me it sounds stupid. Yes I understand why some say its a copyright issue, but seriously! There's bigger fish to fry and there are going to be more and more technologys to come out that are going to make it hard for older technologies to get the business they were and there already have been plenty. In one of the comments I read below the article they said are we going to be sued for singing with songs now too?

Obama

Personally I don’t know what all the fuss is about, it’s just because it made a couple bucks that AP now wants to take credit for it and it wasn’t even theirs to begin with! I think that Fairey manipulated the picture enough to get away with it, it was a great piece of art work and as one of the articles said Fairey’s work didn’t devalue Mannie’s photo if anything it brought up the value of the original. I think we have bigger fish to fry then worry about an inspirational piece of art would like “Hope”. What about BP they destroyed have the freaking ocean and we got people who are worried about who deserves credit on art unbelievable, I mean I know two wrongs don’t make a right, but seriously the original photograph was fine with the art and was actually flattered so leave it be. As far as fair rights go I think Fairey has it in the bag, and that’s probably why all charges were dropped.
AM

Micro Art and Fiction

After reading the articles on micro art,I think it's pretty neat and different. My question is, is this just another step in the wrong direction, does this really signify that we rely on technology more than we should? I don't know and can't answer that for you, but I can give you my opinion. I think that a phone is a phone, its for communicating not playing games,drawing pictures or making music.I don't have internet on my cell phone or any apps, the only thing I do on my phone is make and receive calls, text, and take pictures. I'm not trying to come off as a negative Nelly, it's just not for me.

AM

Creative Commons

This week we read What is Creative Common and even after reading it I'm still rather confused on exactly how this works and the legal end of it. I would never know how to use it, glad I dont plan on making, writing or singing anything anytime soon. From what I do understand I think it would be useful to artist and so on because they are creating their own rights on there work, and giving only as much as they want of it to the public to use. Copyright laws can be so confusing and people are constantly getting in trouble for misuse of others works. I have to admit I have downloaded music from sites that warn you the artist or what not have not given anyone the rights to their music.