Brainwave after class...

Better blog ‘em down before they escape my memory!

Okay, here goes..

1. 
   Somehow when we got on to the issue of “authorship”, I was thinking of Wikipedia. Yepps, I find it a somewhat more ‘interactive’ (boy, sure feels uncertain when I use this word nowadays- I can almost feel Crawford's laser glare beaming at me somewhere halfway across the globe.) encyclopedia, cos anyone is free to input and edit. Perhaps the dangerous part would be when the information input has errors, cos there prob isn’t any editor to verify the information is correct at any point of time.
2. 
   I’ve always thought of time as this grey or fourth dimension – cos it’s just something intangible that “pushes us along in life”. To me it’s something to be reckoned with, for it is unstoppable! It has never occurred to me that time can be “broken up” in comic strips. Playing with time. Cool.
3. 
   When I saw McCloud’s puzzle-like comic strip during lesson – my initial reaction was ‘WOW, cool!’ (hee hee, obviously I had yet to do my readings by then :P ah well.) But as this chap in class pointed out, “I get confused … so, what’s going on?” I can see where he was coming from (.. from the Arts faculty! ok, why do i get the feeling that i am dee only one amused BY MYSELF here???) I think he was looking for a meaning in the narrative. Perhaps when too many a linkages are presented to the user, the meaning gets split up and lost through so many nodes, leaving the user dissatisfied. So in the end, McCloud’s puzzle-like comic did puzzle us afterall.
4. 
   Perhaps when McCloud tried to squeeze in more node-like frames, he created more satellites than kernels, hence the little confusion from us.
5. 
   When Mr Mitchell showed us the postcard example, I was thinking to myself how such a narrative can be compromised with increased inference from the user, when he or she attempts to construct some meaning?
   
   Argh.. i cant think anymore. More brainjuice, please. Sleep screams at me.

Good nite =)