MM 3503 - Rhett Gentry

Mary Alice Cole's Blog First and foremost, I would like to give an incredible shoutout to Mary Alice for the work she has done in class. You can find her blog right here . mac1998.blogspot.com/ Functionality: This blog is incredibly neat in its functionality. At the top-left is a section where users can select how they want to view the blog. In flip card mode, each picture is shown and once the cursor hovers over the picture, it flips to show what the post is about. Magazine looks just like a magazine, mosaic takes all the images and arranges them beautifully, and snapshot has each photo surrounded by a polaroid print out. When you click on a picture-button post, this page opens up to show the blog post. It is incredibly neat in its presentation, but most importantly, you can either go to the next blog by clicking the buttons on the upper-left corner or exit out of post's window at the upper-right and scroll through the other images to find the post

A Look at a Japanese Film The western culture of films is so mainstream that America is known as the film industry capital of the world. "Hollywood" slips off the tongue of any who say it, with the aroma of class and culture escaping from the lips. The city for big dreamers who are trying to get lucky and catch a break seems American at its core. As an American myself, I find it hard for me to remember the film industry outside of America. Below is one film that was both a commercial success and an amazing work of art. Spirited Away is the largest movie title to be released from Japan - both in sales and viewership. It has grossed $277,296,953 since its release on September 20th, 2002, and it is the largest commercial success ever for any film from Japan. I interviewed Southern Arkansas University student, Rachael Schaefer, about her experience with the film. First off, what do you think about the film Spirited Away  compared to an American 

Is Facebook Dying? A Look Into the World's Leading Social Media Site The social media giant has made a lot of news within the last year - in a lot of cases, Facebook is the news. From Mark Zuckerberg's appearances in front of Congress to banning users due to their content, Facebook has been headlining the news since its inception into the app store. What should surprise you is Zuckerberg's ideas of heralding the Facebook company into a new direction. Content That Delete's Itself Zuckerberg says it best himself: I just think that this is the future. People want to share in ways that don’t stick around permanently, and I want to be sure that we fully embrace this. This seems to be in light of both the recent meetings with Congress over the Facebook privacy scandal, as well as the introduction of Stories on the Facebook app. "Stories" is similar to Snapchat where you post a Story, (either a picture or video), that is only ac

Video Game Critics The biggest thing anyone needs to know before looking at a review on a videogame is the truth behind gaming critics: Videogame critics don't play videogames like regular fans and player bases do. Grinding for Gear Take a game that has non-linear focus: games like No Man's Sky and Destiny 2 could both fall under this scenario. These games are full of grinding and looking for materials to the point where playing can feel more like work instead of what gaming should be: fun. Minecraft was is an excellent parallel to judge other free roaming/grinding games by. Minecraft has you set in a world where everything is destructible. You mine some cobblestone, you get cobblestone. There are small exceptions, like having an iron pickax to mine diamonds or a diamond pickax to mine obsidian, but these things were quickly learned and developed into a system of understanding that players accepted and enjoyed. The problem with a game like Destiny 2 is that play