Walking Life clips/ Post media aesthetics/Intellectual Freedom in School Library

The one freedom not often spoken of or making news headlines is the "Intellectual Freedom" and the issues that arise out of it. The use of the Internet in schools, the screening and filtering of material in school libraries, and censorship in the school library. There are tools in place to deal with these transgressions of our freedom in literacy. The Library Bill of Rights, Louisiana Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, National Council of Teachers of English, and the International Reading Association. These bodies of law and policies should be called upon when ever a challenge to intellectual freedom or literacy is at hand. The Librarian should be knowledgeable in the use of these resources. When the "privacy and the right to read are not respected" censorship may take over good and well intended judgement. We live in diverse communities as well as a very diverse country. All genres of literature and literacy must be respected. It is usually political pressure from school administration that sparks the controversy over what is appropriate or inappropriate. We must therefore educate our children to make wise choices concerning the literature and literacy's used in the pursuit of higher learning.
The Walking Life video on You Tube is an amazing compilation of animation. It is realistic in a way that I have never seen animation put to music and a series of story lines. It is cutting edge technology that will most likely navigate its way into mainstream media. I feel this technology is not difficult to produce given the freedom and imagination given to put the scenes together. This is Second Life in another area animation imagination. It touched on a variety of issues in a way that will keep the viewer interested in the topics or issues discussed. If you are not into sitting in a classroom listening to these types of issues such as existentialism. Some of it sounds like babbling. Some of it will put you to sleep if you just focus into the audio in some of the clips. But the animation is what keeps it interesting. It gives off very powerful imaginative feelings to me.
The article on Post Media Aesthetics was very informative. It was highly philosophical. I had to read it twice. Honestly I had a difficulty with some of the readings with in the paper, but if I understand it correctly it deals with how artistically things are moving forward out of necessity, to offer art and different forms of art on a much larger scale. The one example of the office and the club, where different software is used to express to different forms of medium, yet they both emanate from a computer, it is this type of expressionism that has taken the place of how aesthetics is portrayed and expressed.