Blog Posts – Dabbling with Creative Technologies

October 25, 2024

Updated the Dabbling with Creative Technologies overview page

It's taken me a while, but now that I have each of the component pages posted up, I have jumped back into the final project overview page and given it a much-needed update. There is now an overvi...

October 24, 2024

Component 1 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 1 of my Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies final project is all about the websites I have created using the WordPress website builder suite. This component is not really...

October 4, 2024

Splitting up the distinct aspects of my web design skillset for greater user engagement

Dabbling with Creative Technologies is one of the final projects I am currently working on and Component 1 - Web Design with WordPress of that project is concerned with my utilization of the WordP...

October 1, 2024

My Creative Technologies Sandbox is now Dabbling with Creative Technologies

Dabbling with Creative Technologies is the new name I have given to my Creative Technologies Sandbox a.k.a. the final project for my Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies concentration. ...

September 27, 2024

Component 5 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 5 is all about the Breaking Cinema experimental documentary storytelling podcast I developed between 2014 and 2016. The podcast was an off shoot of The Cinema Complex documentary...

September 21, 2024

The Inception for Breaking Cinema and The Cinema Complex

Back in 2014, when I was first starting to gear up to do some more filmmaking or filmmaking-related creative projects, I created the following reflection video to help me articulate my ideas. The ...

September 7, 2024

The Miracle of Crowdfunding: Update #1 - Intro and ideas

This blog post was originally published on 03/06/2014. It was posted as part of my master's degree crowdfunding project, The Miracle of Crowdfunding. Initially, all my creative energies were aime...

August 4, 2024

Progenitors now added to my MTA Portfolio

I previously highlighted how I had added my BA (Hons) dissertations to my MTA Portfolio and my reasoning for including them is because they serve as key progenitors for the creation of my MTA Port...

July 30, 2024

Being a Creative Producer and adding some creative technologies to it

Being a Creative Producer is what I've christened my final project for the Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship concentration. The name 'Being a Creative Producer' already has a history with my...

July 30, 2024

Component 4 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 4 is all about the Cameo Microfilms I produced in 2015. As with all the ‘components’ of my Dabbling with Creative Technologies final project, 365 FRAMES 2015 is its own dist...

July 29, 2024

Component 3 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 3 is all about my 365 FRAMES 2015 project in which I made a video a day for a whole year. As with all the 'components' of Dabbling with Creative Technologies, 365 FRAMES 2015 is i...

July 29, 2024

The Summative Video Montages of 366 FRAMES 2012

In 2012 I undertook a 366 project which was a creative endeavour where I captured a photo a day for each day of the year. Therefore, at the end of the year I had 366 photographs (366 becaus...

July 29, 2024

Component 2 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 2 is all about my Ways 2 Interface research project, study log and personal journal. As with all the ‘components’ of Dabbling with Creative Technologies, Ways 2 Interface was in f...

July 29, 2024

Five new blog posts for Ways 2 Interface

While I was wrapping up the Ways 2 Interface blog by posting up all the unpublished and un-utilized posts, it occurred to me that it would make sense to create a new introduction post to succinctl...

July 24, 2024

Ways 2 Interface blog posts added to MTA blog

I've now reposted most of the blog posts from my Ways 2 Interface blog onto this MTA blog. To be clear, my Ways 2 Interface blog is still up and running and accessible as its own site. How...

July 23, 2024

BA (Hons) Dissertations added to MTA Portfolio

I've now added my two BA (Hons) dissertations - Ways of Being: The Spectator and the Spectacle and EYES - to the Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies concentration of my MTA Portfolio. ...

July 23, 2024

Unfinished posts and no longer used pages now posted on Ways 2 Interface

As part of the wrap up process for Ways 2 interface, while I add it as a component to my Creative Technologies Sandbox, I have now posted all the unfinished/unutilized posts I originally wrote in ...

July 21, 2024

An Ambitious Project: Understanding the Interface of the Spectator and the Spectacle

This is an unused blog post from late 2013 that was originally intended as one of the introduction posts for the Ways 2 Interface project. Ways of Understanding Ways 2 Interface is the ...

July 21, 2024

The Network-Narrative: The World Wide Interface

The following is an unpublished post from 2014 that would have formed one part of the introduction for the Ways 2 Interface research project. The Bigger Picture There is a bigger picture today,...

July 21, 2024

The Interface: Reconsidering the Terminology and the Perspective of Understanding

The following is an unpublished post from 2014 that would have formed one part of the introduction for the Ways 2 Interface research project. Re-asserting Grand Theory with Practical Validation ...

July 21, 2024

Unfinished Business: The Story of the Interface

The following is an unfinished post from 2014 that was originally meant to be one of the introduction posts for the Ways 2 Interface research project, but I didn't end up using it. I've publishe...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface Research Interests Page

The following is the research interests page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site. The research page outlined my wider research interests in relation to the focus of the Wa...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface Coaching Page

The following the coaching page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site. The coaching I offered was aimed at students and served as a natural extension of the postgraduate stu...

July 21, 2024

The Interface of Reality: Spontaneous philosophizing about the nature of what is real in the 21st century

The following is a Ways 2 Interface post from 2015 that contains the uncut version of three videos I recorded as part of my 365 FRAMES 2015 project. In the videos I pondered the nature of reality ...

July 21, 2024

My Ways 2 Interface studies page

The following is the studies page that was originally accessible on my Ways 2 Interface site.The studies page listed all the MOOCs and courses I was undertaking during the period when my Postgradu...

July 19, 2024

Posgraduate 2.0 Studies & PeterOBrien.me - October, 2015 Update

Blog post originally published in 2015. Every good day, every bad day; complex and simple at the same time - that's very me, that's PeterOBrien.me. Considering that my last blog post was post...

July 19, 2024

Emerging Technologies & Career Success: Expanding my Entrepreneurship Specialization

Blog post originally published in 2015. The entrepreneurship specialization sequence of courses I have been studying on the Coursera platform since December 2014 I consider to be representative...

July 19, 2024

Proactive Adaptability: Online Learning and MOOCs - Where to start?

Blog post originally published in 2015. Embrace the maze and mess and multifaceted realm of online study that WILL continue to change and that WILL continue to be recognised by employers, educa...

July 19, 2024

Building, crediting and utilizing your learning

Blog post originally published in 2015. On building... While I have undertaken somewhere in the region of fifty online courses, I am not suggesting that you do the same, unless you want to. ...

July 19, 2024

The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound and Colour - MOOC Review & Reflection

Blog post originally published in 2015. A very insightful free online course that uses some less known film examples to explore the evolving aesthetics and technologies of hollywood filmmaking. ...

July 19, 2024

English has gone global - Understanding Language - week 4 reflection/course conclusion #FLlanguage #MOOC

Blog post originally published in 2014. Global English is a major component of the MA in English Language Teaching that the University of Southampton offers in partnership with the British Coun...

July 19, 2024

Headspace for Neuroscience... or not: Dealing with Multiple Focuses, Burnout and Information Overload

Blog post originally published in 2015. I can clearly see the filmmaking entrepreneurship outcome at the end of all my research, studying, practice and endurance. Additionally, the fact that t...

July 19, 2024

Odd John Philosophy: My view on Philosophy as expressed by Olaf Stapledon

Blog post originally published in 2015. I am currently reading Odd John by Olaf Stapledon, an author who is very close to my heart and a very formidable philosopher in his own right. Howeve...

July 19, 2024

Psychology and Photography MOOCs - completion reflection #IntroPsy #PHOT

Blog post originally published in 2015. I have now completed my 4 week courses in the Foundations of Psychology and The Art of Photography. I have also passed both courses! Foundations of Psyc...

July 19, 2024

Understanding Entrepreneurship - The First Step in Entrepreneurship MOOC - Completion Reflection

Blog post originally published in 2015. I have now fully completed Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, the first course in my Entrepreneurship Sp...

July 19, 2024

Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business - specialization is a go

Blog post originally published in 2014. One of the primary focuses for all of the studying I have been doing over the past year has been to demystify the many intimidating intricacies of entrep...

July 18, 2024

A little ill, a lot slower and all because of STRESS - a warning to any individual who actually wants to get somewhere

Blog post originally published in 2014. This post is as much of a reminder to me, as it is a warning for others... enduring high levels of ongoing stress is just not worth the cost to your gener...

July 18, 2024

Classrooms and Technology - Understanding Language - weeks 2&3 reflection #FLlanguage #MOOC

Blog post originally published in 2014. I believe that the current expansion into online learning is starting to change this and all these MOOCs offer additional study resources for students ...

July 18, 2024

The web is not an exact science - Web Science - week 1 reflection #FLwebsci #MOOC

Blog post originally published in 2014. Web Science is inherently transdisciplinary as it employs many analytical techniques and knowledge bases from other subjects, such as economics, law, psy...

July 18, 2024

Information is an asset - Introduction to Cyber Security - completion reflection #FLsecurity #MOOC

Blog post originally published in 2014. Successful and vigilant cyber security requires a proactive attitude in order to maintain your current situation and to be on the look out for new updat...

July 18, 2024

Do you take my meaning? Understanding Language - Week 1 Reflection #FLlanguage #MOOC

Blog post originally published in 2014. The emphasis of the first week of the Understanding Language MOOC has been focused on the theory behind language learning, as explored through a consider...

July 18, 2024

Academic Integrity: Values, Skills, Actions MOOC - completion reflection #FLintegrity

Blog post originally published in 2014. The Academic Integrity MOOC as hosted on FutureLearn is very much aimed at students about to undertake undergraduate study and it certainly lays down the...

July 18, 2024

Ways #2Learn: expanding my focus by expanding this blog's focus

Blog post originally published in 2014. I am finding that my creative entrepreneurial practice and self-directed postgraduate study is proving to be vastly more beneficial and fulfilling than a...

July 18, 2024

Learning how to Learn #MOOC: Reflective Essay about a Learning Challenge

Blog post originally published in 2014. Currently I am undertaking the Learning how to Learn: powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects MOOC by UC San Diego that is hosted on Courser...

July 18, 2024

Why #2Interface: expanding my focus + focusing my interests = mastering the enterprising researcher

Blog post originally published in 2014. In truth, Ways 2 Interface is the presentation and exploration of a very broad research interest, opposed to being a research project in the traditional sen...

July 17, 2024

Complexity Specific Accuracy from the Outset: The Perceiving Participator and the Spectacle Experiencing Situation

Blog post originally published in 2014. What do we mean or what should we mean when we talk of a 'spectator' and a 'spectacle'? In this post I provide an example of a complexity specific reclas...

July 17, 2024

Consuming while being content: 'consumer' + 'content' = IDEAL?

Blog post originally published in 2014. From the cave walls of long ago, via digital content creation, 'Batman Begins', 'The Dark Knight' and Apple, to the ideal at the heart of our perceptions...

July 15, 2024

Spectatorship redux: why we need to re-understand the spectator and the spectacle

Blog post originally published 2014. "I am going to watch a film," when this common statement is expressed, you are exerting a fundamental ignorance hardwired into the human intellect; yet, it i...

July 15, 2024

The Digital Rebirth: From the Cave of Complacency to the Age of the Upgrade

Blog post originally published in 2014. The Rebirth of Cinema The 'digital rebirth' is a term I use to refer to current age of digitally and aesthetically focused technologies that increas...

July 15, 2024

Welcome #2interface: Something New and Fantastic!

Blog post originally published in 2014. For Creatives, Brand Builders, Academics, Enterprisers and anyone who is interested in how their life is shaped by stories and how those stories are shap...

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