Ziek of niet ziek
11 months ago
With its focus on electronic music Resident Advisor is a first choice address to get your hands on some great tunes for your listening pleasure. Not only will you find the latest buzz about artists, their releases and mixes, or top notch events in your area, but also be able to subscribe to the RA Podcast publishing a new mix by various DJs from all around the world every week. Acts like Booka Shade, Ellen Alien or Dinky are just a few to name out of numerous global players that have been contributing throughout the, as of this writing, almost 180 episodes. Headphones on my iPhone are blaring from an all new mix by Sandwell District, can't wait for the next week!
Besides joining and blogging about a community of choice we've also been eagerly working on our main assignment lately. Based upon the knowledge taught in the lectures we are supposed to come up with a community concept by ourselves. In a group of five we decided to target the unemployed and provide them with a platform to get back into business. For the first presentation we prepared a short clip to sum up and visualize our conceptual achievements.
workling.net from Jerry Kiefer on Vimeo.
Just realized that (quote) "One of the largest-ever social change events on the web" has almost past me by without even noticing. It's October 15th - it's Blog Action Day 2009. This annual event units bloggers from all over the world in a joint effort to make their readers aware of a particular issue of global importance. Powered by change.org, this year's focus is on climate change.
Buzzwords like "turning/being green", "carbon footprint", and "global warming" are - and rightly so - trending topics all over the globe. "Change we can believe in" promised US President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and has been lately awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, honoring - amongst others - the fact that the USA under his leadership is now "playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting" (nobelprize.org).
Buzzwords like "turning/being green", "carbon footprint", and "global warming" are - and rightly so - trending topics all over the globe. "Change we can believe in" promised US President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and has been lately awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, honoring - amongst others - the fact that the USA under his leadership is now "playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting" (nobelprize.org).
In a module called Time Management / Conflict Management we're told to keep notes about our daily routines or the things we spend our time on. Without even beginning to keep track, it's not hard to guess that I spend a good amount of time online, be it for school, work or even my spare time, but especially that part which has nothing to do with work or school has almost become something like a habbit for me:
As soon as I get online, my messengers automatically start, making me available to my contacts. I start Thunderbird, Firefox and the Twitter client Tweetdeck and wait for each program to update. My various inboxes fill up with emails (probably even telling me about new updates or messages on various social media plattforms), the feed reader loads all new pots from my blog roll, and Tweetdeck feeds all the little chunks of 140-character-information uttered by the round about 200 people I am following on Twitter. There might even be some messages on ICQ already demanding my attention. Well, at least the next 30 minutes of my lifetime have inevitably fallen prey to new media and its time consuming facets. And once I actually DO get to the point that all unread items are down to zero, it won't take long until the next few items pop up.
Well, I guess all that is far from being called 'spending quality time', I totally agree. And as a German idiom states: admitting is the first step to improvement, but hey - do I want to improve?! Oh gotta go, just got an email...
As soon as I get online, my messengers automatically start, making me available to my contacts. I start Thunderbird, Firefox and the Twitter client Tweetdeck and wait for each program to update. My various inboxes fill up with emails (probably even telling me about new updates or messages on various social media plattforms), the feed reader loads all new pots from my blog roll, and Tweetdeck feeds all the little chunks of 140-character-information uttered by the round about 200 people I am following on Twitter. There might even be some messages on ICQ already demanding my attention. Well, at least the next 30 minutes of my lifetime have inevitably fallen prey to new media and its time consuming facets. And once I actually DO get to the point that all unread items are down to zero, it won't take long until the next few items pop up.
Well, I guess all that is far from being called 'spending quality time', I totally agree. And as a German idiom states: admitting is the first step to improvement, but hey - do I want to improve?! Oh gotta go, just got an email...
As Resident Advisor is an online community devoted to any sort of electronic music the profile almost obligatorily includes options to favorite (and even rank) DJs, clubs, and such alike. Well, naming my favorite clubs appears rather easy to me, but hey... naming my favorite DJs... I dunno, but I've never thought about who I would actually consider my "favorite DJ". There's hardly any weekend that I don't spend in the clubs, but due to my job as an event photographer it's mostly just for the club, the party, or maybe even the going out itself - not for the lineup. I could name a bunch of great DJs right from the spot, but I don't know if I would consider them my "favorites", so let's see...
Rethinking the uncountable club nights within the past few years, Loco Dice for example is a great artist who has always made my day/night with his sets. I guess, he could be the first one making it to the list and 1836 other users proof me right. Without the slightest doubt the Swedish House Mafia also stands for exceptional nights out, so that would add Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso to the list. Another artist, who has impressed me most recently is Busy P. from the Ed Banger crew. I've only heard him play once so far, but his set that night was simply amazing - gotta add him to the list!
Well, I feel like I could go on for hours - or lines, to put it into cotext - dropping names and it appears that compiling such a list so far has been easier than expected. Scanning my memory for unique club experiences brought up DJs though that unfortunately don't show up in the artist directory. Seems like we've got the first starting point here to contribute to the community...
Rethinking the uncountable club nights within the past few years, Loco Dice for example is a great artist who has always made my day/night with his sets. I guess, he could be the first one making it to the list and 1836 other users proof me right. Without the slightest doubt the Swedish House Mafia also stands for exceptional nights out, so that would add Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso to the list. Another artist, who has impressed me most recently is Busy P. from the Ed Banger crew. I've only heard him play once so far, but his set that night was simply amazing - gotta add him to the list!
Well, I feel like I could go on for hours - or lines, to put it into cotext - dropping names and it appears that compiling such a list so far has been easier than expected. Scanning my memory for unique club experiences brought up DJs though that unfortunately don't show up in the artist directory. Seems like we've got the first starting point here to contribute to the community...
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