This reading was not really what I expected.  But I did think that it was going to be on the side of hacking and hackers.  There are other interesting things that I read, one is that there is more to hacking, it is not just about braking codes and looking into others information.  It can also be seen as a new way of exploration.  I think this reading goes beyond what a hacker is and how their work is done.  It goes to the benefits and brings and the categorizing of people.   One of the things that mostly stood out to me was when McKenzie says “While we recognise our distinctive existence as a group, as programmers, as artist or writers or scientist or musicians, we rarely see these ways of representing our selves as mere fragments of a class experience that is still struggling to express itself as itself, as expressions of the process of producing abstraction in the world.”  I think this is quite true, even though there are different groups of people categorized by their looks, likings, and beliefs we can still find uniqueness and individuality within each group.  I found it a bit difficult to relate and understand the part of production.  Another area that I found interesting and true is when he talks about education. “The so-called middle class achieve their privileged access to consumption and security throughout education, in which they are obliged to invest a substantial part of their income, but most remain workers, even though they work with information rather than cotton or metal.  They work in factories, but are trained to think of them as offices.  They tai home wages, but are trained to think of tit as a salary.  They were a uniform, but are trained to think of them as offices.  They wear a uniform, burt are trained to think of it as a suit…The hacker class desires knowledge not eduction.”  This makes me think that education is just a direct/straight forward way of people tell us how to behave and react in society, where as knowledge is something that is gained on our own, from own experience work.

One of the things that I really enjoy from this reading is that it is bullet point structure.  I think this makes it easier for me to see different points and follow along.  It doesn’t cause me to not want to read.

When I think of the word animation one of the first things that comes to mind is cartoons.  When I read this work I realized that animation is more than just moving cartoons.  I learned a lot of things and saw some of the examples given in the book.  A quote that stood out more for me was: “Animation is not the art of drawings that move, but rather the art of movement that are drawn.  What happens between each frame is more important than what happens in each frame”  I think this is quite true, sometimes the way the characters act is far more important then how they look.

frame by frame which is a form of animation was quite interesting to me. One of the main things that mostly stock to me from this part of the reading was the story behind the “yellow kid”  and how it was used to attract viewers  as well as to relate to yellow journalism.  Another popular yellow kid that was used as an example in the reading is Bart Simpson, I learned that Matt Groenig choose to make his characters yellow to make it easier for the viewer to identify them.

When I was also reading about the concept of frame by frame I remembered about the little flip books I used to make, with simple stick figures or little flowers.  It is interesting to me that animation started with something simple as well.  Technology has improved animation as well as our way of communication.  I hadn’t thought about all the work that is put into animation since the beginning. When looking at a film people may not consider all the work that is put into art of animation.  I think that animation enhances many works of art, it can perhaps even bring in different works of art to collaborate to create something better.