no audience, no game? not the case.

we not lost?
wigwam is lost?
i don't care if the wigwam got lost and i do not agree with the view that the man makes his own space and the idea of a human getting lost is absurd. i get lost all the time!!
what does he do? i don't understand how this is digital media culture, other than us gaining more "culture" by listening to the podcast on the internet. i'm kinda confused. is he a scientist? and it's berk-lee. not bark-lee.
newton discovered levity, not gravity. up-pull not down-pull.
i mean.....
le puuta?
weightlessness as means of solving transportation issues.
when you are weightless, would you see things upside down? the mode of human perception is upside down. so do Eskimos see everything upside down? ..i think was his philosophical question for that series of cliches?
is he a philosopher? a psychologist? an artist?
flipping the image.
i read the article you wanted us to read before we listened to the podcast, but i have not read the four chapters yet. maybe after i read those, i will have more of an idea of who marshall mcluhan actually is and what, in fact, he is talking about.
in the Eskimo world, their world is upside down. i have no idea what he is talking about.
despite everything else, i have always found cliches fascinating.
overall, i tried to pay attention, but he literally put me to sleep. in the beginning. it got a little more exciting in the middle of the interview and towards the end.
i do not agree with his statements that if there is no audience, there is no play, it is only a rehearsal. or with the absence of a audience, a football game would just be a practice. i agree with the guy interviewing marshall. "there is a game without a spectacle, maybe." although he is unsure, he does stand up against mcluhan.
you can definitely have a game without an audience, i mean, has the american/canadian outlook become that arrogant to think that we can only play a football 'game' if people are there to watch? what is a pick up basketball game then? what is friendly competition? does it always have to be the burly musclemen on sunday afternoons being paid millions of dollars because people pay hundreds to watch them play in the games to actually be a GAME?
i don't get it.
children are expected to participate not only as consumers, but also as producers. the idea that it is not only about the product, but about the process. I definitely agree with that. that concept comes across a lot in the graphic design world, as well as every other world, but for the point of this blog? i'll make it about the gd world. the idea that it is not only about the final logo for the harford cable network, but what went into to finding out how that logo came to be. the behind-the-scenes look. that information is usually the most interesting. that's why you make design briefs to show the process and explain one's thought process as they designed their final logo.
it's a very cool thing.
overall, marshall mcluhan, himself, does not interest me, but some of his concept and questions he raises are interesting.