relevence.

dear world wide web,

I know that we don't have to post on our personal blogs anymore, but I really wanted to write about an encounter I had last night at work, where this class was never more relevant to real life.

I work at a restaurant/bar in town and I was getting off of work last night when a couple having drinks at the bar started a conversation with me. They asked me typical questions: where are you from? do you go to the college? what year are you? whats your major?

As I began to tell them my major, and some more detail about my academic career, they started telling me a little about themselves. The man went to college and ended up moving to California to work on movies. The woman lived in New York City her whole live and was an expert in Film Editing. She was telling me about how sad it was that print media was dying. She started saying how much of a generational gap there is because of technology and how many things she grew up with are disappearing.

We then started talking about her husbands old 35 mm camera with a thousand and one lens' and how much training it took to be able to work a camera like that, to create art in the form of photography. She then started complaining about how kids today have digital cameras and put their pictures on facebook and call it art.

I found myself involved in such an interesting conversation with this women, and somehow ended up quoting Andrew Keen. I told her all about the classes I am taking and what we say about the future of the media. I told her all about Andrew Keens theories and ideas and she found it incredibly interesting.

I ended up writing Andrew Keen's name and the name of his book on a piece of paper so that she could read it. It made me realize how relevant the conversations we have in class are to the real world. It was really rewarding to be able to have a conversation with this woman who along with her colleagues agree with a lot of what we say in class.

I hope to find some more people to whom I can speak with about issues such as these. Maybe there are enough people who feel the same way about media; and if we spread the message and discuss matters like this more regularly, maybe media can slow down on becoming old technology fast.

Kiersten