What are the two paradoxes as discussed in Mediation and Remediation?

One of the paradoxes that Bolter mentions in his piece is that hypermedia could ever be thought of as achieving the unmediated. Images and sounds always bombared the viewer or listener, and taking away these goes against how over time these images and sounds have been increasing and increasing. Bolter also mentions is how people avert their gaze while viewing something. the example that he uses is MTV, and how the viewer does not have a fixed gaze, it is going back and forth and is not fixated. Another paradox that Bolter mentions is how hypermedia strives for immediacy, transparent digital technologies always end up being remediations, even as, indeed precisely because they appear to deny mediation. By erasing certain things, it takes away from the original meaning or intent of the original piece.

Questions from Bolter Reading

1. What exactly is digital hypermedia, and how does it relate to MTV?
2. Do you agree that all mediation is remediation?
3. Do you think that visual media can be compared to linguistic media?

1. On Monday after it rained, I was walking down fourth street, and there was part of the gravel that had been pulled up from the parking lot; it created this bumpy surface that had been covered with rain, but the rain was low enough that parts of the gravel were sticking up.
2. I turned the lights off in my room one night before closing my blinds, and all of the street lights littered the black surroundings.
3. The USPS is right outside of my apartment, and the design on the glowing sign in the front has the weirdest design, and i still can't figure out what it's supposed to be, but it looks cool.
4. I was crossing the street and there was a tread pattern from a person squealing their tires on the street
5. I made bruschetta wednesday night and I never really looked at it when I finished it, but it actually looks really pretty as seeing as it's homemade.
6. I noticed a spiders web while walking up to my car in my apartment complex, and the design of it was really intrecat and cool.
7. When I was at Allerton, there was a snake that was right in front of me that started unraveling itself and wiggling its tail, despite freaking out a little bit, it looked really cool.
8. Also while at Allerton, there were a lot of hills there that were eroding, and the paths that the water made through the dirt looked really cool.
9. i went by one of the ponds on campus while going to McKinley, and someone threw a rock in and the ripples of water were really pretty.
10. Since its getting cold out, birds are flying south, and i noticed a bunch of them flying together in a v formation

Project Reflection

For this project, Lauren and I decided to do a documentary on Allerton Park and Retreat Center. We decided that since Lauren’s dad was coming up for Dad’s Weekend, I would do the interview Saturday morning and she would do the editing of the footage and interview that I conducted. It is about thirty miles away in Monticello Illinois. After getting the camera, I figured out how to use the tripod, how to go back on the tape, etc. The next morning, I got there at around 9am, and took shots of the actual Allerton mansion where I took video of the artwork around the house. I had an interview with Linda Bailey at the Visitors Center. She went through the history of Allerton, the gardens, her favorite artwork, the organizations and weddings that go on there, etc. I spent a good hour speaking with her and she got out a map and went through where everything was. After the interview, I went through all of the gardens, and then set out to find the major sculptures that Allerton had purchased for the estate that Linda had specifically mentioned in her interview.
Overall, taking the video of this project was really interesting. We had typed out questions to ask Linda, but when I met with her, I gave her the questions, but told her to talk about what she thought would be beneficial for us to know. I ended up just starting the camera, and let her just talk, and I told her how we could edit out what we did not want, but I wanted the interview to be as seamless as possible. Lauren and I had discussed before I went that we would cut out me asking questions. Therefore, when I gave her the questions, I told her to just incorporate the questions into her talk about Allerton. It ended up going very smoothly that way, I only had to interrupt a couple of times for her to repeat something, or to go into depth as to what she personally liked about Allerton, her coming to Allerton etc. Also there were some noise interruptions where she began again with her sentences. Overall it was extremely informative, and it was fun to go around and take footage of what I thought would be appropriate to go with what she spoke about in her interview regarding the sculptures and garden. I tried getting footage of the inside of the house, but because there was a conference going on, the front desk let me stand in the entrance way and just take footage from there, so I had to make a lot of use out of the zoom function on the camera. One thing I had a lot of trouble with was keeping the camera steady when I zoomed in on high sculptures, or in the house where I was trying to get as much footage from the limited area I could stand in.