just how much am I willing to spend...

So as one might have gathered I have been lucky enough to have spent the majority (10 months) of 2010 overseas in England and it was there that I fell in love...no not with a handsome duke but instead with a leather clad bag with brass buckles and a style that can only be associated with chic oxford uni study girl. Her name is the Alexa and it was getting a bit ridiculous to the point I was considering not eating to save my petty monthly wage to buy it. My stomach clearly got the better of me and the Alexa lost that battle....so instead I am going to showcase my beauty here.

Please do not hesitate to look at the detail of my love...

So if anyone at all would like to contribute to my fund or who am I kidding this fund is non-existent...let me re-phrase if anyone is feeling like being a benefactor to a girl in need do let me know.

(RRP $2000)

We all know who would pull it off better...and just a hint I am not talking about Alexa Chung.

program(me) program(you)

Media we are being subjected to daily culminates eventually to be somewhat ritualistic in nature to the point we aren’t even aware of how much we have come to rely on it in regards to defining moments and time in our daily routine or ‘dailiness’ as Scannell puts it. Upon realizing this main concept within this topic of time I got thinking about my typical ‘media-day’ and was it inadvertently the component that determined my time of day or gave me the security surrounding the normal actions in my day? My initial interaction with media commences as soon as I wake up I turn off my alarm which sure enough almost yells at me what time it is as I slide my thumb over the screen to silence it…I then progress to navigate my fingers to the sneaky little blue ‘f’ icon placed at the bottom of my iPhone screen as even though I am still in my sleep stupor I manage to somehow check the notifications from the past 9 hours that I have been sleeping. Without a doubt this is the routine first 5 minute action I take every morning. For me, one could say that media has become a priority within my life…this morning routine is a prime example that it comes above my highest needs as a human being, considering I haven’t even eaten yet my day has already started –I mean considering this perhaps Maslow’s Heirarchy of needs might need to be re-adjusted to account for 21^st century media and technology – just a thought.

Regardless of the fact there are multiple studies which show that sleeping with your phone on next to your head at night lead to all sorts of cancerous dangers it does not stop me…nor does it stop anyone else I know…yet why is this? You would think that on the grand scale of things receiving a text message the minute it is sent as opposed to perhaps 6 hours later when you turn your phone on would not be worth a brain tumour. However this is the society we have turned into, time has become even more of a precious thing due to the media which regulates our usage of ‘our-time’ or on a more personal level ‘my-time.’

My interaction with my iPhone has turned into my primary media interaction. On the bus I will listen to my ipod, at uni I will use it for the internet and to check emails. At night occasionally if I am at home having dinner I will be watching the news with my family. The news broadcast has become a central part of our household. My Mum who cooks the dinner has always made dinner time to coincide with the 7pm ABC news bulletin as she knows that is when my Dad will be watching it.

Scannell deals with an interesting concept in his article that the news is constantly being broadcast in the ‘now’ and that this becomes a means for the public notion of time. Whether a it is a radio broadcast on the hour or a weather update every 15 minutes we know what to expect and we know it is the current time news. The media in this sense have an obligation to fulfill to the public hence are constantly being manouvered by public demand. A prime example and quite a surprising one at that is even when a day ago the top story has continuously been the crisis in Japan, today it turned to the viralRebecca Black song on Youtube. Whether or not the story is deserving to be number one is another question it is simply a prime example of the ways in which news broadcasting and time interact and show how it does indeed become 'linear and irreversible' as Scannell puts it in 'Dailiness'.

There are certain events and circumstances in my day and year which without I wouldn't feel as accustomed to my routine. It is from the constant news feeds on Facebook and Twitter that allow me to keep up to date with the happenings of the world and keep up with events as time is changing and not stuck on the stories of yesterday or even an hour ago. Time is this constant component that every action and interaction is based around and indeed through society, time has become fundamental to how broadcasting has become integrated into the motions of our everyday life.

she's always a woman

In an attempt to be overly dramatic and cliché I am going to use the phrase that 'there are actually no words to describe' just how much this song and indeed video clip mean to me. A concoction of nostalgic joy this video represents love in all of it's forms. I just honestly love it and think those in the world who may not be familiar with John Lewis (a very top end English department store) should not be excluded from what awesome values this clip has to offer. I saw the movie No Strings Attached tonight and for some reason it stirred up a whole mixture of emotion which somehow made me think of Fyfe Dangerfield and then those moments when I woke up on the couch in cold and snowy Cheltenham last year watching some glamorous television when sure enough this little beauty played and I was enamored... enjoy and try not to think that the song is originally by Billy Joel as honestly Fyfe Dangerfield pulls it off incredibly :)

when I close my eyes...

Upon getting out of my car this evening a young guy drove past in his 'zooped' up Ford Fiesta with his windows down and music blazing. He did the whole 'how you doin' type nod at my sister and myself and only after his car passed did we realise the music 'blazing' was in fact the rather famous one liner of 'when I close my eyes...you're everywhere' off the song by Leonardo's Bride "Even When I Am Sleeping." Naturally we couldn't escape the humour of the situation after we assumed to be pounded with the tones of Flo-Rida or the like... but that is what I like to call a little pleasant surprise. Sure enough it is now an hour later and I can't get the one-liner out of my head and in an attempt to discover the title of the song all it took was a 2 minute google search and there it was! Check out the cool old school video clip - awesome!

welcome bienvenue benvenuto wilkommen

After not having picked up a pen or attacked a keyboard for fourteen months with a creative blend of my thoughts I decided what better way to initiate my welcome back into the educated world with creating my own blog. With absolutely no expectations, and to be quite frank no clue as to what I am doing (what is a blog anyway these days!) I am entering into the unknown territory to broaden my new media usage. I am however hoping this will become a more enjoyable past time as opposed to an enforced one (of which - I will be honest - it feels like at the moment.) 

Up until last week I had not thought about the connections between my generation and the media to the depth that was explained to us in a lecture on Media Culture and Everyday Life. Stemming from the 'Facebook' generation I can safely say I would check my Facebook perhaps on average 30 times a day which is on paper simply ridiculous. I could almost assume I know everything about it yet when the foreboding word 'blog' was mentioned the fear of the unknown crept in towards me and I decided instead of letting it get the better of me (something similar to what happened with the internet and our parents) I decided to check it out. I have been pretty amazed by my findings over such a short space of time...

So join me in my little initiation to the blogger world as I create me own little e-path...full of little e-luxuries!

As of yet I don't have a strict focus of my little blog but I am assuming one will present itself at a later date.

And no I am not obsessed with the letter E it just essentially represents to me how I was amazed with just how big a part electronics and all the little bits that come with it play a part in our lives. From blogs, social networks, marketplaces - my world and I am sure your world too is turning virtual and we are constantly being e-mazed.