http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2005/01/24/images-from-gameinformer-magazine-gave-me-nightmares/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:14:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2005/01/24/images-from-gameinformer-magazine-gave-me-nightmares/#comment-21933 Eyes Right » Blog Archive » Christians on the web Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:00:42 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2005/01/24/images-from-gameinformer-magazine-gave-me-nightmares/#comment-21933 [...] iFilm (the site who owns the blog linked above) is quite an eye opener into the world of viral video. I first learned about iFilm a couple of summers ago, at the Digital Media Academy’s workshop on Digital Storytelling. Of course YouTube can be a bad place to explore as well– there is more there than any of us should go out and try to see and find. I have real mixed feelings about all of this. I guess in the online environment of the flat world, there are less “checks” and “boundaries” on individuals’ access to content of all types, good and bad. That is simultaneously exciting and horrifying. I wrote about some of this back in January 2005, in terms of the power of mere still images to powerfully affect the mind and the imagination. [...] [...] iFilm (the site who owns the blog linked above) is quite an eye opener into the world of viral video. I first learned about iFilm a couple of summers ago, at the Digital Media Academy’s workshop on Digital Storytelling. Of course YouTube can be a bad place to explore as well– there is more there than any of us should go out and try to see and find. I have real mixed feelings about all of this. I guess in the online environment of the flat world, there are less “checks” and “boundaries” on individuals’ access to content of all types, good and bad. That is simultaneously exciting and horrifying. I wrote about some of this back in January 2005, in terms of the power of mere still images to powerfully affect the mind and the imagination. [...]

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