Those first few moments before you truly come awake in the morning can be your most creative. Your body is coming out of a REM cycle and whatever dreams you have dreamt through the night are still fresh in your mind, as detailed as they can be. Then, the alarm goes off. You’re all business [...]
Welcome… to the Matrix
Welcome to the Bank of Imagination. Is it what you thought it would be? Did you expect a pristine, white space, like in The Matrix? Did you imagine hearing a calm, digitized voice welcoming you inside to deposit your bit of daily wisdom? Was the last thing you expected to see a page full of [...]
The Bank of Imagination and its Rhetoric
When considering the “Bank of Imagination” as a rhetorical device of new media, I instantly refer back to how dialogue has evolved over centuries upon centuries. When people look at mass media, especially in the beginning days of newspapers, they see a string of dialogue: news->audience. It is a one-way communication, hence the word “mass.” [...]
