Vid on Vista
Well, the hullaballoo has started over Window's 'Vista'.
I suppose when we are located in an age where people create a fuss about anything only when they are 'trends', and simply because they are 'trends' as opposed to these 'trends' being worthy of being 'trends', 'Windows Vista' would feature quite highly on blogger 'tag' ratings (ref. technorati). I dare say that it would not be untrue to state that the 'trendy' are those who have the least amount of individualism and thus depend on the 'latest' or 'trends' to feed their feelings of self-worth. I always thought that 'style' was supposed to be an extension of the substance within, as opposed to it disguising the void within.
Anyway,
those of you who want to know what this 'vista' thing is all about, either because you are one of those mindless reflections of trends; because you are curious by nature; or because you want to know what's tickling society's fancies at the moment in order to understand its current state of mind, follow the links that follow to view a short video on the Vista (courtesy of bbc's 'click')
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play via realplayer
tip: I personally use realplayer to play videos from 'click'. All one has to do to watch it is to click the above link, wait for the video to start playing on realplayer, and then immediately press 'pause'. The video will be downloaded - as can be witnessed by the extending line beside the 'play' button(this line can be best viewed when the player is maximised) - and once the 'line' extends to the end, it can be played without 'stutters' while giving the viewer the freedom to fast-forward, rewind, or watch it all over again.
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1 comments:
Clichés of clichés concerning trends ... I don't consider "Vista" trendy, only an attempt to milk money (and implement DRM) in the guise that because it is newer, it is superior.
Trends are just movements within a culture within a certain direction. The feature of this is that it tends to be collective, so yes it is not technically an individual's oeuvres. But they are a product of a collected amount of different individual works. The different "-isms" in art - be it realism, romanticism, impressionism, modernism - were all trends. Someone explores something new in a certain direction and suddenly a new field becomes apparent to everyone, and work flourishes in that direction. Eventually this "field" gets milked or saturated and people move on to the next one. Add technology, and this process speeds up ten times - the centuries of each cultural trend becomes decades. (Hence the entire 60s, 70s, 80s thing, etc.)
It is human nature - biological nature perhaps - that we get tired of stale things - our favourite songs can get tiresome.
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