The new Age

Since the invention of technology through the ages we now come to what tech has evolved into, with the introduction of the internet (world.wide.web) social contacts are now a thing of the past.

Facebook/Twitter
Facebook is one of the chief social networking sites that allows you to communicate with people from all over the world you can befriend people in certain industries to find out what you need for a job prospect, but you can also use it to show your work.

Twitter is another chief social networking site it allows you to follow people and they can follow you, depending on your posts this is also a good way to post your work and get the attention of certain people.

Having your own website or setting up a Facebook or Twitter account is one of the best ways to get noticed because it seems nowadays everything is on either of those sites.

A large number of devices have being created to successfully display animated images were introduced well before the motion picture. They were used to entertain and even frighten their audiences, a majority of the devices could only be viewed by one person at a time, because of this they were viewed as toys rather than a good inventions. The Magic lantern and Thaumatrope are examples of these devices.

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The magic lantern (1650)

The Magic lantern is an early version of the modern day projector, It consisted of a  oil painting, a simple lens and a candle or an oil lamp. In a dark room, the image would appear projected onto the opposite flat surface. It was often used to show demonic, frightening images to convince people that they were witnessing the supernatural events. Some slides for the lanterns contained moving parts which makes the magic lantern the earliest known example of projected animation. The origin of the magic lantern is still debated, but in the 15th century the  inventor Giovanni Fontana published an illustration of a device which would be used to project the image of a creature on his wall. The earliest known magic lantern have been credited to Christaan Huygens or Athanasius Kircher

Thaumatrope(1824)

The Thaumatrope was another early form of animation in the Victorian times but it was a toy, it was a circular disc that had two different pictures on each side that was attached to a piece of string/ or a set of strings going through the center, once it was twirled quickly between the fingers, it would give the illusion that the pictures combined to form one image. This demonstrates the brains ability to perceive an image, the invention is credited to Sir John Herschel but it was  John A Paris who popularized it in 1824.

With the invention of the mobile phone it has allowed people to communicate a lot more easily over the years since the invention of Morse code, but as phones are getting much smarter i.e Android phones, ice cream sandwich. A lot of the mobiles now have internet access on so you have internet on the go which works for people who don't always have access to a computer. (android icon)