PhD student Julia Velkova visited the Blender Institute as part of her research, and reports on her first impressions.
It has been an awesomely productive week. Leaving my silent and somewhat lonely office in Stockholm I arrived last Wednesday to vibrant Amsterdam with a slight feeling of thrill. During a week I would stay at the Blender Institute and see how the Gooseberry production goes, who works here and talk to people. All this should give me some input and become the foundation for developing the PhD dissertation project that I am working on (very prelimiary title: “Open-source in cultural production: animation in the network society”). I want to write about the mechanics of producing an “open movie” through following a real, on-going production and exploring the culture of making and sharing of the Blender and Synfig communities. Time will show whether this goal is too ambitious.
2 Comments
you may take into account that many of the people working on
gooseberry project have collaborated before resolving previous issues
or situation .
i think that they respect each others as equals and understand each other limitation.
when
working with a group of people questioning others ability with out
giving them time to prove presumption often results in conflict. but
then again my brothers and i still get into scuffles after many years.
"the blender head in its natural habitat
exhibits levels of joy creating cybernated pictographs usually
accompanied with beer."
-
Jane Goodall
Jesus fricking Christ. Don't kids know that 'i' is a proper noun and has to be capitalized? Yes, I this, I that. Not to mention first letters of a sentence need to be capitalized as well.
Excuse the rant.
Anyway, very interesting your Phd thesis is on what it is. I would like to read it once it is done.