Basking in the Splendour of Byron Bay

Hey kids, just a quick update to say I am in Byron for the magnificent Splendour in the Grass fest. Staying at an awesome rainforesty retreat. Can't wait for saturday! Stayed in Coffs last night and met Tom Tilley from Triple J's Splendour Express. Twas exciting.
Off now for some dinner, drinks and hippy chillaxing.

I am a statistic

So apparently we live in the age of the Blogosphere (that is a silly word). A cheap world wide publishing tool that allows global immediacy and interconnectivity. And now I am a part of this sphere.

Well perhaps its not an 'age', but it's certainly a phenomenon of sorts. There is now so much content stored on the Internet that it worries me a little bit. Now I know this is probably naive and a little bit technophobic (yes I am aware of the irony) but just say the Internet breaks and all that stuff is lost? That's some sort of history and culture and stuff all gone. I understand that news, art etc are not stored solely on the net and wont disappear, but I'm talking about all those communities and blog posts like this one, that have cultural significance that without the Internet would not exist(I am not suggesting that my blog has any sort of cultural significance). I guess that's the key-The Internet-it allows for interaction and connection to take place that, due to geographical constraints, among other things, would not otherwise occur.

Speaking of connection, I'm told that a good start for blogging is linking to relevant or interesting media (what a segway!). So whilst it's not particularly relevant, I do find this clip interesting. It was made by this guy for a final year music project using Adobe After Effects. It's a music video for a Josh Pyke song called 'Fill you In'.

I'm impressed with myself, 2 posts in 3 days. Given that I've never been able to maintain any sort of journal in my life I feel as though this is a good start.

Inauguration

OK so this is my very first blog post.

Ever.

Its kind of freaking me out a bit. The idea that people are going to be reading this, and marking me on it is more than a little disconcerting. I prefer regular formal assignments, void of any humour or colloquialism, that you drop in a box. No real interaction or judgment on you particularly, just whats on a page. Cold and impersonal thank you very much. Where as on here I have to worry about an image; an identity. And its real worry too. My main aim is to avoid seeming pretentious, which is ridiculous because everything has a pretense, especially when you have a chance to review what your producing. Like on here.

It's hard to create an accurate portrayal of yourself over net. Its all construction. I was neuroticising over what goes where-colour, pictures, font- for over an hour. All for this Identity, because once you jump on the web people only know you by what you tell them. And usually I don't tell them anything. My facebook is as basic and as private as you can get, and I'm only 'friends' with people I already know. Which still portrays an image. I guess its a reaction to all those facebook/myspace pages of narcissistic youth, with their self-taken semi-naked pictures with screen names like 'sExC gUrL' ect, which make me cringe in embarrassment. I did have a link to an example of one of these 'identities' but I felt guilty for exploiting her any more than what she has already done, so I've taken it down.

So this is my online 'self'. I hope I don't make you cringe.