My flash assignment turned out pretty bittersweet to me. When I first got started on picking out a topic, making it linear or non-linear, etc. I had so many ideas rushing through my head, I was sure It was gonna be a good final assignment. Unfortuanately half of the good ideas were able to make themselves into the final project. I was too focused on how to make it better that I pushed all the technical work till later. And when later came, I hardly had enough time to get the bases in(and post it). Anyways, I am confident that the project turned out solid despite the fact I couldnt fit in all the cool stuff.

Music Piracy or Music freedom?

Our podcast is on music pirating and whether it is bad or not. We approached the podcast by using two perspectives, pros of music pirating and cons of music pirating. We also added the interviews so that we had one for each side. As for the music, we tried to provide different music for each part of the podcast that set and matched the mood of that specific part.

-Virgil Almeda (VA)

(P.S my voice sucks)

In my montage I tried to fit a lot of pictures while still blending them together well. The background of my montage consists of just a light pole. What makes it different is that on one side the light pole shines regular white but on the other side it shines black. I put it in my montage because basically it looks cools and unique. Also part of the background is a two anime characters that I like. On the left is Vegeta from Dragon ball Z, and on the right is Kakashi from Naruto. I grew up with Dragon Ball Z and Vegeta has always been the character I rooted for in the show because he always kind of been the underdog, always working for power that mostly never received; sure he was a arrogant jerk but I let that slide. As for Kakashi, he succeeds in being mysterious, powerful, quiet, and funny (and a little bit of a perv) all in one motion. The two faces are split into two so I could conjoin them together. I mainly did this to save room and it fit the split theme of light and dark.

The main pictures you should see first are the two Spidermans. On the right is the regular Spiderman you all know and love. One the left is Symbiote Spiderman. I added him in for two reasons, one because he, in the comic (not in the movie) is really cool and because it ties back into the light and dark theme of my montage. Also a standout to my montage is the bust of Virgil the Greek poet. I tried to personalize him by adding a pair of headphones on his head to symbolize my love of music. The last two side images are of my team, the San Diego Chargers and a logo from the group hieroglyphics.

      As any other kid in America, I was flooded with Media. Anything from the Saturday morning cartoons to Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64. My Television was glued to Cartoon network and Nickelodeon. I was a very active, short attention spanned, and as my mom would put it hard-headed child so media couldn’t keep me in one place for very long. In spite of that, i can clearly remember the first time I played one of the greatest shooters of all time, DOOM II when I was five years old. I never was really able to enjoy the game ever again, always on the edge of my seat checking my back for any kind of red fireball coming my way.

      As i grew, however, media played a bigger part of my life. Around the age of tweleve, music really inroduced itself to me. I started listening to all the the most popular artist like 50 cent, Ludacris, and Nelly. My T.V taste didnt change much. As for videogames, I retired my ‘64 for a Gamecube. The Metroid Prime series was and still is one of my favorite videogame series of all time.

     Fastforwarding to today, media has taken a front row seat in my life, being the roots of everything I do. Music has became an important part to my everyday. My interest in music has tweaked though. I’ve started to take more interest in music that wasnt necessarily popular and played on the radio every half hour, but music that had more of a meaning. Groups called Hieroglyphics, The Roots, and more recently FLOBOTS began taking up more space on my ipod. Videogames also has earned priority in my life, so much that I am even considering a career in that field. From the Gamecube I moved on to the Xbox 360, where the “next generation” of gaming began. Games like Madden ‘08, Gears of War, and Call of Duty 4 kept my interest constant. And somewhere along the way I gained a dislike for anything Playstation.