DrJoolz Snapshotz on Life

You need sound for these links. so make sure you have the volume on.

2 shorts from youtube here and here.

These two videos show excerpts from a tv programme about Jesus camp. If you find the videos scary you will be reassured by the majority of comments which follow… not necessarily because the comments are sane, but simply that they reflect the fact that people watch things critically.

In fact this is one of the things which web 2.0 really shows; that people are critical readers and are keen to be creative in their responses.

For quite a while now I have been looking for teeny tiny models of little people so that I can photograph them excavating cake (etc.)

(These little people are too big.)

Then Tim Herrick told me about this blog which has some great pictures and makes me want to buy little people even more.

Anyone know where I can get them?

Or is there a shrinking machine available?

Honestly . You would not believe how behind I am.

I have no idea why we bother with schedules. The best thing is to remember that nothing ever gets finished.

I am so behind with my work ALREADY. It is only just the start of the new academic year too.

I am only up to date with my marking, that’s all. Which is a wonder as I marked a chapter today that was 37,500 words long. Not joking. You can guess what my first comment was.

I am behind with my blog (as you may have noticed.)

I am behind with doing photos … I have loads to process from conferences I went to in the summer - (sorry Muriel and Jackie). Mind you I have done this one of these two very sober young women.

I am behind with my apologies too … I went to digigran’s retirement party and had just a tad too much to drink. Think I may have said a few things lacking in a little circumspect.

But oh my giodness I am SO BEHIND with Flickr. I have not done any flickring for ages and I will lose all my friends.

That is what happens on web 2.0.

I am thinking of starting a new tv channel called ‘Smug TV’.
This is because I want to put all my faves on one channel so I don’t have to bother ever changing channel and could watch my faves endlessly; also I would have new programmes made and really embrace the genre..

The kind of programme I am thinking about are the ones where the audience is invited to watch others (the victims) being useless/ greedy / ugly / fat/ stupid / badly dressed / a bad parent / a waster of money etc.

The programme has a presenter or someone who wants to convert the victims / subjects of the programme.

That presenter will be the opposirte of the stupid person - e.g. well dressed / slim / beautiful / rich / intelligent.

The tv nation meanwhile, sits on its sofa with its arms crossed with a smug look on its face. (And eats crisps.)

That’s it really.

If you want to make a programme for my channel, let me know.

(At the moment I am watching Jamie Oliver on tv)

This is a sweet granadilla.

I see that i-anya has spotted lonely gurl and she has cited Danah’s blog who writes really interestingly about this phenomenon.

What phenomenon?

The fact that a whole series of videos on youtube and an associated myspace account turn out to be a piece of art. That is to say a new form of narrative which is dispersed across spaces on the Internet.

so exciting.

Fascinating stuff and an exciting form of distributed narrative I would say.

I have just found a new group on Flickr - ‘Educational Bloggers’ which is a gathering of people involved in education and who blog and who go on Flickr. (It is of course a bit counter intuitive to have this gathering on Flickr. And in fact they have already found that Flickr will not keep displaying things that are not photographs ..but anyway they are a gathering and they talk.) I think it works as a good links/address database of edu bloggers.

It is weird how often the same names turn up. Some of these people I have met in New York and some in Sheffield, and some, well I just know from their blogs. Like Mrteacher.

Another one, Josie, is the person who tell s me about edublog conferences - which I have not managed to get to yet. But will do.

And you should definitely see this here from Frances Bell which has a thing in today about getting student teachers blogging.

Another person I am interested in is ChristinA who sometimes comments on my blog … she is from Australia but I don’t think I know her from anywhere apart from the blogosphere…

Do you want to do some surgery?

Then go HERE.

It is great fun. You get to cut someone up.

And here is me inside the Reichstag. Doing a self portrait.

I have three heads and four feet.

Why do people take so many self portraits with their digital cameras? (This is a test. I have told you the answer to this before.)

Had a good time at BERA (I mentioned it in my last post .. MaryPlain, we were so lucky with the weather and did not need umbrellas).

Everyone was splendid giving their presentations and Vic was HEROIC as our discussant and flew in and flew out again just to save us. (She is So-o-o-o-o-o-o clever) .

On Thursday lunchtime Drkate and I were invited to do a fashion quiz by some lovely young Chinese girls who gave us Rainbow drops to thank us for our help.

On Thursday evening we had chocolates in a VERY nice restaurant….

I was very drunk on Thursday evening and so had a headache on Friday. This was very bad and I spoke drivel to most people. I think the drunkness was partly the relief of getting the presentation done as I always get SO nervous.

The trouble is you never know what the weather is gonna be like … what shall I wear to BERA?
And shall I take an umbrella?

This is our symposium.

Whatever happened to feminism?

This is from a range called ‘Simply You?’

‘Simply WHO????‘ I ask.

Why wear these uncomfortable things?

Well actually it seems lots of people are interested in turning women into commodities.
And women are joining in.
I watched a programme last night about three women who want bigger breasts.

Only breasts were referred to as ‘boobs’ throughout.
Boob jobs
Big Boobs.
Small boobs.
Bigger boobs.
Booby Boobs.

I saw so many of them too.

Women are compartmentalising bits of their bodies and holding them up for scrutiny.
The body it seems has become a DIY project and we must not refer to them in any way that reminds us they are bodies.
One woman put plasrtic domes over hers every night and had a kind of vacuum suction thing on them to make them get biigger. She had bruises all round her breasts. I mean boobs. I mean breasts.
Just toys.

Boobs.