My Window is a Media Player.

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Sometimes a window can be the greatest media experience of all. It's easy to say that simply sitting and looking out of the window is not a form of media at all, and I would probably agree if I wasn't here right now. As I sit here, in front of the big window on the second floor of Hauke, writing on my laptop, listening to music, and gazing out at the sunny day in front of me, I can say I am having a true media experience. The laptop and music are a given; I'm connected to a seemingly endless amount of social networking and blogging sites and listening to the newest form of radio, Pandora. That combined with the grand window to the right of me is blending together to create a what I would consider to be a powerful media experience.
While the world outside does not follow the definition of media, I consider it to be a big part of the greater media experience I am having right now. It is showing me that many things can be viewed as media if you're in that mindset. Watching the sun slowly set, people walk by, and
trees blowing slightly in the wind as if I am watching a TV with my Pandora soundtrack, it becomes just that, like a TV. As I sit back and let the world pass by, I watch objectively, letting my limbic brain listen to the music and my reptilian brain react to the passing day that lies in front of me.
I'm starting to live my life more and more in the mindset of media, partly due to my involvement in this class, but also because of my long history as a participant and lover of media. It necessarily play too much of an active roll in my life until I take a step back and reflect on how I view things now in relation to how I viewed them previously. My window-media experience is an excellent example of that; even things that are not seemingly media-related at all can be integrated into the focal point of a great media experience, as my window was today. Another great example of this is author John Green's Thoughts from Places series, in which he takes videos of wherever he is at the time and reflects in voice-overs.