Things About me

Hello, I'm Katrina an I welcome you to Things Katrina says - my little digital playground, where you can read about a variety of media-related topics of mine interests. But first, let me say some things about who I am and my interests.

Background

I am from Latvia.
I study Interactive Media at TAMK.
I live in Tampere, Finland.

Before coming to Finland for studies I have lived in Denmark, where I also studied in Multimedia design and Communication programme. During my gap year after finishing high school, I dedicated my time to travel, work and explore new cultures in Greece and Finland. Besides that, I also traveled with music school's choir, where I studied vocal music for eight years.

Interests and hobbies

I enjoy spending my free time reading books, especially sci-fi and fantasy and do enjoy playing video games. My closest friend is nature and I seek every moment to spend my time outdoors. I love to challenge myself from time to time so life wouldn't get boring. I am always ready for new challenges and will go for the new and exciting, rather than old and familiar.

I am following the newest events in technology and more specifically I am interested in front-end development and UI design. I enjoy working with interaction development and learning how it advances with technology. I enjoy working in a creative environment with likeminded people, where I can express my creativity and be relaxed.

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Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence analysis

In this post, I will do a textual analysis of Disturbed metal band's song The Sound Of Silence. I chose this song because it is one of those songs, which gives me emotional chills every time I listen to it. This song is only a cover by Disturbed but is quite different from the original one. But before heading to the analysis, here is the song's video: The genre of this song falls under the rock, however, it is quite different in the sense of what we usually perceive as rock music. There is no presence of electric guitar, bass, and drums as it is usual in rock music, but instead, there is piano, acoustic guitar and timpani. In some cases, it is classified also as a piano rock, which I completely agree with. I would not classify this song just as a rock genre as the sound and the feeling of it does not represent rock music in my eyes. The singer (David Draiman) is represented as the storyteller in the music video. At the beginning of the video, the artist seems to be vu...

How did Cartoon Network shows evolve in time

Probably most of us remember or have heard about Cartoon Network animated TV series channel, which was particularly popular among 90's kids. In my case, it was a huge entertainment part of my childhood and I have seen it rapidly reforming from 2000 up until 2011 by the old shows being replaced by new ones. My main question in this blog post is: Is CN still something worth watching or did it diminish to please the newest generations? Now when asking someone else from my generation (mostly generation Z) about whether Cartoon Network has become something greater, the usual answer is: ''No, the old CN is gone and nothing can replace it''. Even though I do believe in that myself, I assume that there is that piece of our childhood that is irreplaceable so we do not want to cope with the fact that our favorite childhood cartoons can be replaced in any way. This is why in this blog post I will try to compare the new CN with the old one with an unbiased opinion of mine. E...

Cartoons that predicted future

I have heard more and more cases where cartoons predicted the future and some of them have done it in quite a significant scale. It is somewhat creepy but intriguing enough for me to go digging up on which cartoons have done that. I know that there are quite a lot of cases so I will not cover many of them in this post and will go through a couple of examples. On top of the list will be of course The Simpsons , because I think that it has the most discussed cases in predicting the future. In one episode there was a frame with a brochure saying "New York at $9" and behind are the twin towers, which form together 9/11. The episode came out in 1997. The creators say that it was just a bizarre coincidence. "New York at $9" brochure (Image source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/arts/television/simpsons-prediction-future.html ) Another prediction from The Simpsons was that Trump became president of US and Theresa May the prime minister of UK. 'The Regi...

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