Moe's Syzslak's identity

1. The overall indentiy for this project is a humourous one.
2. We are performing to a group of core fans of the Simpsons who would get the inside refrences.
3. The goal for this is to outdo all the other Moe profiles on myspace.
4. I think our client would find it accurate.

Dave's tech bio video

Here's my video.

Medium Analysis

I think my medium will be about film and video, and the impact youtube and vimeo are having on profesional user-created content, verse amatuer postings. Examining the idea of market saturation by amatuers.

Digital Native Digital Immigrant

I'd consider myself a digital native born in an immigrant Chinatown. My age range is right on the cusp of the internet revolution, I did not have a cell phone until I was in high school, my family did not have a computer with internet until I was in Jr. high. I never IM or blog or myspace. However I would consider myself very competent with new technology and the internet, using it for fun and work. In terms of school, even today at NMSU I am shocked when a professor stares at the DVD player and projector with a horrified look of disbelief. If I have to hear, "Why don't I have any sound?" one more time, there's a volume button right in front of you! Seriously, if you are going to be teaching a film class, take two seconds to learn how to use a dvd player and a computer. Any time I have a professor who fumbles around with the equipment, it immediately signals to me that they do not care enough about the class to spend five minutes learning about the room, or they have some archaic pretensious idea that they, "the professor" is above meger tech stuff, that a TA should take care of that for them, as was the case in the past.

Technological Biography

Man Goldeneye was an awesome game, I put way to many hours into that game when I was in 6th-8th grade. The James Bond based first person shooter (in 64 bit graphics!) really defined the FPS genre and set the standard for every shooter and multiplayer game since. An N64 was my first gaming console, and I literally locked myself in a room at all hours of the night playing, those were great days when I could have a death match with 3 other friends, that number was considered amazing back then. I;m not sure how video games effected me as a youth, except that I still like video games. Another piece of technology was our family's first PC. It was a Packard bell with triple ram, a 28 k-b-p-s modem, and a processor tyhree times the speed of a pentium. Then Angelina Jolie said, "that's too much computer for you." Hackers, anyone? Actually I don't even think it had a pentium in it. It did have DOS based Win 3.1 though, I really wish windows would switch back to a DOS platform, I might throw away my mac then because that OS was great, and stable. That machine had a few great games on it, original warcraft, and Sim city 2000, the two best stratergy games ever. Other than that my first mac, a G4 tower, which is up for sale as a bitchin' audio machine if anyone wants it.

Discourse community

I belong to Reduser and DVXuser, both are camera and filmmaking forums with great tips and tricks. Most members are amatuer, student and indy-filmakers, and are on the tech side of things more than the creative end. I would say 99% of the community is men over 25. Probably all are under 50. It is a very male-dominated firum, but very formal and on topic. Most are American, but there are quite a fews guys from Europe. I can surf the forum for hours just reading articles and posts.