Blog Posts – Multimedia Studies and 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...

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...

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

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 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

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 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

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

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...

June 16, 2024

NeuroPsychoCinematics

NeuroPsychoCinematics is a research focus in which I hold a great deal of interest. It builds on the speculations I laid down in my BA (Hons) theoretical dissertation, Ways of Being: The Spectat...

June 13, 2024

Constructive Film Studies

"If the study of film just becomes film history, then film will be history!" - Me, Breaking Cinema with a Selfie Stick Constructive Film Studies, a.k.a. Film Studies 2.0, is my endorsement for a...

May 28, 2024

Creative Postgraduate Life: The email that started it all

Presented below is a 6,000 word proposal email I wrote on the 25th April, 2014 and sent to my peer Tom, who I had collaborated with in the creation of the Fencing documentary we produced as part o...

July 25, 2023

Recycling old content to make new components

Building my final projects has two parts… there is undertaking the actual project and then there is presenting the project as content on ibuiltmyown.education. For instance, with my Not Your Avera...

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