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BetweenEars
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 Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: How do you use your iPod? |
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Hi everyone
I'm working for a filmcompany in The Netherlands and we are doing research on the forthcoming international documentary 'Between Ears'. This will be a film by which the viewer is taken away in the discovery of the different and surprising aspects of how and why people use their mp3 players.
It is going to be a cinematic trip around the far corners of the world, that leads the viewer to a surprising diversity of people. It will be about people who use an mp3 player to dream away for a while, to escape from reality, to imagine things, to recall good memories or to feel more free.
You can visit our site to read more about this project: http://www.betweenears.com
I'm wondering why and how you are using your ipod? Is it to relax at home, to escape from boredom at work, to feel tougher while walking down the street, or to feel more strength while doing exercise? What's on your mind while listening to your tunes? I'm very curious!
We also made a questionnaire wich makes you think it over. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: helps me read |
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I read better when I listen to music.
There's one question I didn't quite understand: Do you ever use the mp3 player, not so much to look to sound, but to be with your own thoughts or mood?
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ranger1021
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: helps me read |
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| dungeon92 wrote: | I read better when I listen to music.
There's one question I didn't quite understand: Do you ever use the mp3 player, not so much to look to sound, but to be with your own thoughts or mood? |
I believe it means do you ever listen to your MP3 player for relaxation or to help you think, but not really listen to the music.
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Been using my iPod Touch in the evenings after work to listen to my tunes and watch a tv show. Sometimes when I'm bored I like to browse through youtube.
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BetweenEars
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:01 am Post subject: Re: helps me read |
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| ranger1021 wrote: |
I believe it means do you ever listen to your MP3 player for relaxation or to help you think, but not really listen to the music. |
Thank you for the respons all!
You can also say that question something like: Do you ever use the mp3 player to be with your own thoughts or mood instead of just listening music?
Not for adding just some background noise like in an elevator for example,, but to be really with your own thoughts and mood. |
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I kinda split my iPod listening time in three... during the day I use it to seperate myself from everything, and give myself a chance to think. But at night I use it to listen to my music and thoroughly enjoy the track themselves. I kinda do that as well when I'm driving, but when I'm in the car I usually have my iPod on to show off a bit 
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fouadbakht
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I use it in following ways:
1. Cant imagine going out for a walk/jog without my new iPod Nano. Gives me that energy and vigour to keep up the pace.
2. In my home I usually like to hook it up with my Altec Lansing im7 speakers and relax and enjoy.
Both of the above are two distinct things. And the iPos fits in both. |
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guyeva
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I use my iPod Touch as a DVR right now, it's connected to my mini which is a video server having a terabyte of USB drives. The Touch is connected to my LCD TV, a rig which serves as my entertainment as we don't have cable here.
We don't do cable/satellite here because we so object to the marketing model the providers use, in which you have to buy a lot of channels you DON'T want just to get what you do want.
I see this as like being required to buy 10 pounds of lima beans in order to get one pound of green beans. If your local supermarket did this just imagine the outrage. |
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BetweenEars
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Thanks for replying! Below is a message wich will give some more details about the forthcoming film.
We still like to hear from people by making the survey!
| Quote: | DUTCH FILM COMPANY TUNES INTO SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF MP3 PLAYERS
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - The Dutch film company Zuidenwind is preparing the documentary “Between Ears”, wich will explore the way people use their MP3 player and how it’s influencing their mood and environment. It will reveal a social phenomenon by focusing on a variety of persons from around the world who can’t live without their MP3 player. The film is going to be an international co production and will be shown worldwide.
Perhaps everyone has experienced that sound can change our awareness in a way that it lets us forget about our surroundings and makes it seem our head is somewhere else. “When I was a child, I was given a very large shell by wich they told me I could hear the sea with it,” says the director Susanne Engels. “With the shell close to my ear, I basked in the warmth of the memory of my last holiday at the beach at any time and place. It was like magic.”
With the arrival of the walkman, and later mainly the MP3 player, this phenomenon has taken off tremendously. Especially the MP3 player has captured the hearts of a lot of people, young and old. Producer Joost Seelen says: “Not just in western and urban societies, but in the whole world, even in remote areas, people are attracted to the possibilities this small device offers, which exceeds just listening to music.”
According to British sociologist Dr. Michael Bull, listening to portable music acts as a shield, aura or cocoon. People are using headphones to keep the world at bay and reclaim some space. Portable music players are “multi-faceted transformative devices,” says Dr Bull. It is a “tool whereby users manage space, time and the boundaries around the self.”
Between Ears will show this magical experience to the audience. It will be a cinematic trip around the world, that leads the viewer along to a surprising diversity of people who shut off from reality around them. With the help of an MP3 player they try to move into a place between their ears. The focus of the film is mainly on the intense experiencing of image and sound, in a way which enables the viewer to identify with the people in the film.
The film company made a call out for individuals who are willing to share their experience with the MP3 player. They made a questionnaire available from www.betweenears.com. The results will be used as the foundation of the documentary Between Ears.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: helps me read |
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| BetweenEars wrote: |
You can also say that question something like: Do you ever use the mp3 player to be with your own thoughts or mood instead of just listening music?
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Well I have a couple of different responses for you. (There are two iPods in my household, and two people, and I guess we're both, ahem, different.)
I sometimes use my iPod for listening to music walking down the street, etc. but it generally seems to get in the way, and I don't bother.
Most of the time I use it as an aid to meditation. Knowing that I can 'get into my own space' anywhere I am is a big help - having meditation (minimalist) music helps clear away what's going on around me, and gives me a known time frame without having to set an alarm or something.
Also, my wife has a top-of-the-line video iPod, but it holds no video, and no music. She uses it exclusively for recording her personal audio journal, which she had previously done on cassette tape for the past ten years or so. Once I finally buy a mini we will start transferring those boxes of cassette tapes into the digital world!
So there you go - two players, two less-than-usual uses.
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I use it mostly while working out on the treadmill or when I'm walking outside. I also will use it sometimes when I'm going to bed to listen to a few tunes. Sometimes I'll bring it into the car and listen to it there with my Transpod, but since I've got XM radio in the cars, I don't listen to the iPod much in the car.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: I love my ipod Classic |
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I use my ipod classic for the following things.
1. Wake up to when using my iHome (on Max Volume )
2. Keep myself occupied during school
3. Do my homework with
4. Exercise
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BetweenEars
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Hi all!
Thank you for the replies and for doing the survey! It's really appreciated!
We had a small interview with Dr. Michael Bull or "Professor iPod" as people like to call him. He is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK who is studying the cultural impact of iPods and other digital music technology.
We asked him some questions about the influence of the iPod on our lives and society.
You can watch it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZT8TqRvEE4 |
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I use mine with a Griffin iTrip in the car and at work in the office.
the iTrip was the best thing I ever bought it makes it so much eaiser than messing around with headphones.
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| I use my 2nd gen. nano in my car, integrated with my scion xb. It's perfect for heading up my music listening experience in there. I unplug it from there and use it on runs occasionally with a work out playlist to keep me going. I also have a 1st gen. 5gig that we use for music to wind down the night with, or often an audio book or comedy set. |
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