they’ll have to go outside, play, join sports, ballet, art classes, karate, pottery, girl scouts, whatever activity that makes him or her happy - outside of the world wide web.

I’m seeing 8th graders having a blogging site and I think back, I know I’m not THAT old, but when I was in middle school I was outside for a good part of the day. I hardly ever wanted to stay in, and the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of a computer.

Giving a computer to a kid that young won’t replace having a nanny or parental figure. Yeah they’ll stay in their room, won’t nag you, or probably care if you’re in the house or not. But I want my kid to experience things outside of the internet, you know - LIFE experiences you can’t Google. I don’t want to worry about who they’re chatting with, what pictures they’re posting up or what cyber creep is out to hunt them down.

I want my child to join school clubs, not myspace.

We’re suppose to get another 26 inches of snow tomorrow and Wednesday, needless to say I am very prepared for more snowed in entertainment.

People are more bold on the internet, willing to either put themselves out there all the way or create a whole different person to represent them.

• The weird artsy girl in your class is a blogging sex kitten
• The nerd dominates & gets respect in  tech forums
• The nice guy summons his inner bad boy on social networks

and so on and so fourth. You’re more confident and more opinionated (sometimes good and bad) without worrying about the repercussions.

This observation used to swirl in my head when I sat in my classrooms, I’d wonder what their online personalities were. Maybe they were closeted singers, poets, artists. Do they have a blog that contains their bleeding heart or are they a secret suicidal girl with tattoos I never thought they’d have.

Think about it next time you’re on a bus, subway or train. Is the girl sitting next to you with the plain T, plain jeans, and plain face a pornotube vixen or starting a political movement? I make up stories in my head when I sit next to people in a public place, imagine them going home and logging online showcasing their latest knitting prodigies or Potato collection of famous rock musicians.

There are so many possibilities..

Well… I’m not the most romantic person on these interweb streets but… will you?

The video above is a combination of old cameras mixed together with modern day sound and video editing to create a juxtaposition. It’s called Digital Analogue and was directed by Lu Sisi, a Glasgow School of Art student who made this beautiful stop-motion video out of over 6,000 photo stills. Not only that, but all of the sounds you hear in the video are taken from cameras, edited together to create a soundtrack of sorts.

Somebody probably already did this before me, but I just like my positioning skills. & This is my only contribute I have to give to Tumblr at 9 in the morning.