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2023 Welcome to your IE 3 class blog. The object of this class project is to log in and write your comments, web links, answers to questions, and your questions to others at least twice a week. It's fun and you can include pictures or graphics. Keep it original, helpful, and interesting. Don't forget to spellcheck your work before publishing. Also, when you create your user name, please use your real first name, in Romaji (ex. Ryuki, Mari, Lisa, etc.) so that we know who we are communicating with. Enjoy, and Blog on!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Spellcheck!

I appreciate your various comments and descriptions. I can tell some of you want to be told "this film means this" or "the filmmaker is trying to say that" but, truthfully, none of these short films are so mysterious. Whatever you think it means is what it means. To draw no conclusion is really lazy thinking. Use your imaginations . . . and some of you really are.

Yusaku- I think you raise a great point about the mysterious nature of "imprinting" of baby birds. This short film certainly brings us into the magic work of evolution, best not messed with by mankind. Your words were good.

Jaime- The googly-eyed guys in white were pretty creepy and clearly were the animated servants (like zombies!) but I also though they were somehow radiation creatures (the white suits and other features?) and that this future world had creatures that had been wiped out or mutated to adapt to an environment that had zones of green among zones of total radiation pollution. I like Tomomasa's imaginative description of how they glided (truth: low budget short film = use roller blades for "special effect" zombie locomotion).

On a somber note, I'm seriously tired of reminding everyone to spellcheck your blog entries, media reports, book reports, and other classwork. From now on, I will just delete entries that have too many mispellings. Why be so careless and sloppy in the age of easy fix for spelling errors? Let's step things up to a higher level and be diligent with our work. Your interesting content is important but form is important as well. Blog on!