Recycling

Film: Wall-e
Wall-e is perhaps a film intended for younger children but this film to me was the most obvious as from the few minutes and trailer I've seen the film is based upon a robot that has clean up earth from all the junk and scrap that remains. And within the film from I've seen he's just surrounded with junk and especially at the beginning when he's alone and just shoveling and crushing scrap together and moving it but also routing through it to find different things that could be possibly useful to him from all the junk of others. So from the 2 minute clip and trailer that I saw on youtube of this film he just routed through tons of junk that was their which the majority of it was useless but he filled a box full of things he selected that could be useful for him but to anyone else could be seen as junk.

Game: Minecraft:
Now for choosing a game that had some form of recycling or re usability within it I thought of minecraft as this is a game heavily made out of blocks and pixels, so when playing minecraft you go round breaking or digging blocks which at first are practically useless or not the greatest looking and then you are able to craft them into other things that look nicer and place them elsewhere and make something better or more useful for yourself. But for the recycling side of this game I thought of was that you are able to dig and move any and as many blocks as you want and place and use them elsewhere in the map or make them into something else so this is like a form of re usability of the blocks which you can use over and over or make something out of them that perhaps they aren't meant to be used for and are useful or helpful to yourself. I guess the whole objective of this game is to survive with the resources that you can find or make use of and re use and re place things in different places to help you out and the more useful and effective things are rarer within the world.

Artist: Brian Marshall:
This artist was an artists that I found by just looking on the internet and this artist creates robotic sculptures with things like spoons and household materials. From the images you can see he creates his sculptures from discarded metals and materials that you would find around the house such as things like spoons, forks and pencil sharpeners and from these materials he creates little robotic sculptures by using obviously disused household items or others junk and is able to then create these figures. But as you'd think with recycling and re using instead of making something useful or helpful out of disused pieces of things instead he creates little bot figures that are like ornaments.
 

Book: Stig of the Dump:
Again this something aimed at younger children but this book is about Stig who is essentially a caveman and lives at the bottom of a pit close to the other characters Barney, grandparent's house and as the pit is no longer used, people throw all their junk and scrap away down in the pit and Barney manages to fall down this pit and discovers Stig who has made this den at the bottom of this pit from all the bits of junk, scrap and pieces that people throw down there and is obviously not wanted by these people but is essentially treasure for Stig who has made a den from all the junk that has been thrown over.

Illustration: Andres Guzmann:
This was a piece that I found purely on google images by just searching recycling illustration and there were lots of results but I felt this one demonstrated recycling the best as it's done circular it shows how the way things go in a cycle so as this one shows how apples growing on trees, us picking them off and eating and then putting them away to decompose and then from them decomposing the nutrients back in the soil for another plant or tree to grow using what decomposed from something that went in the same cycle.

Animation: Recycle Animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3-2pC5hU8
This was a stop motion animation that I found on youtube wasn't very long or detailed it just shown different items being crushed and transformed into something else. and on this video it shows how the simplest thing like a can, can be crushed, recycled and re used into something more complicated and clever like shown on the animation like a computer. So in this animation it shows how things can be re used and recycled over and over into loads of different things.

Video Game Timeline

 

1972: 

Atari's Pong is released in this year with help from Sears Roebuck, which helps finance the production of 150,000 units.The company released several sequels that built upon the original's gameplay by adding new features. During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a home version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores. It was also a commercial success and led to numerous copies. The game has been remade on numerous home and portable platforms following its release.

 

Magnavox's Odyssey, the first home video game system, who is showed at a convention in Burlingame, CA, and is released to the public later that year. The input into this console was two paddle with basic controls. This console was later discontinued in 1975 after approximately 330,000 units sold.

1978: 

Midway introduces Space Invaders into arcades. It is the first arcade game that tracks and displays high scores. It was originally manufactured and sold by Tatio in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games. By the end of 1978, Taito had installed over 100,000 machines and made over $600 million in this was in Japan alone. Within the next two years by 1980 Taito had then sold over 300,000 Space Invaders arcade machines in Japan, in addition to 60,000 machines that they sold in the United States where prices ranged from $2000 to $3000 for each machine.

1981:

In 1981 Notable games "Frogger" and "Donkey Kong" are released. Frogger was developed by Konami, and was licensed for worldwide distribution by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one. To do this, each frog must avoid cars while crossing a busy road and navigate a river full of hazards. The game is regarded as a classic and was noted for its gameplay and theme. It was also an early example of a game that used more than one CPU, as it used two Z80 processors.Frogger to date is still popular and versions can be found on many game sites. By 2005, Frogger had sold 20 million copies worldwide, including 5 million in the United States

The original Donkey Kong game was the first appearance of Mario, Nintendo's flagship character, pre-dating the well-known Super Mario Bros by four years. Donkey Kong first made his appearance in the 1981 arcade machine called Donkey Kong (which only appeared in Japan) while going against Jumpman (later named to Mario). A hallmark of the Donkey Kong series is barrels, which the Kongs use as weapons, vehicles, furniture and lodging. The Donkey Kong character is highly recognizable and very popular; the franchise has sold over 40 million units worldwide to date.

1985: 

Super Mario Bros is a 1985 platform video game initially developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. It was originally released in Japan on September 13, 1985, and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe on May 15, 1987 and Australia in 1987. However, no release date in North America has been verified. It is the first of the Super Mario series of games. The game has been highly influential, popularizing the side-scrolling genre. In 2005, IGN's poll named it as The Greatest Game Of All Time. The game also sold enormously well, and was the best-selling game of all time for approximately three decades. The commercial success of Super Mario Bros. has caused it to be ported to almost every one of Nintendo's major gaming consoles. 

1989:

The Game Boy  is a 8-bit handheld device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America in July 1989, and in Europe on September 28, 1990. It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line. As part of the fourth generation of gaming, the Game Boy competed with the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx. Despite these other technologically superior handheld consoles the Game Boy was a huge success. The Game Boy and its successor, the Game Boy colour, have both combined sold 118.69 million units worldwide. Upon its release in the United States, it sold its entire shipment of one million units within a matter of weeks.

1991:

Sonic the Hedgehog  is a video game developed by what was called Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It was first released in North America, Europe, and Australia on June 23, 1991, the game became the first installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Development of Sonic the Hedgehog began in 1990, when Sega ordered its AM8 development team to develop a game which would feature a character that would mascot for the company. After a hedgehog was decided on as the main character, the development group was renamed Sonic Team. Sonic the Hedgehog received positive reviews, and was praised for game's visuals and its sense of speed. It was commercially successful, therefore increasing the popularity of the Mega Drive/Genesis and establishing Sonic the Hedgehog as the company's mascot. Its success led to the development of subsequent games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, as well as the creation of a media franchise of spin off products featuring the character.

1994:

The PlayStation sometimes officially abbreviated as PS, and also known as PS1 is a 32-bit video game console, the first released by Sony in Japan on December 3, 1994 with Western releases in September 1995. The PlayStation was the first of the Playstation series of consoles and handheld game devices. As part of the fifth-generation gaming, it primarily competed with the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn. The PlayStation was the first "computer entertainment platform" to ship 100 million units, which it reached just 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch. The last PSone units were sold on Christmas 2004 just before it was finally discontinued, for a total of over 102 million units shipped since its launch 10 years earlier. Games continued to sell until Sony ceased production of PlayStation games on March 23, 2006 over 11 years after it was released and just over half a year before the release of 7th Generation of gaming and their Playstation 3.

1996:

The Nintendo 64, often referred to as N64 (formerly known as the Nintendo Ultra 64, and was codenamed Project Reality is Nintendo's third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit central processing bit it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil. It is Nintendo's last home console to use ROM cartridges to store games Nintendo then switched to a MiniDVD-based format for the successor GameCube, where as handhelds in the GameBoy line, continued to use Game Paks. As part of the fifth generation gaming, it primarily competed with the Playstation and the Sega Saturn. Succeeded by Nintendo's GameCube in November 2001, N64 consoles continued to be produced until its discontinuation in Japan on April 30, 2002, Europe on May 16, 2003, North America on November 30, 2003, and Australia in 2003. The Nintendo 64 sold approxmitaley 32.93 million units worldwide, and in 2009, it was named the 9th greatest video game console by IGN.

2000:

The PlayStation 2 officially abbreviated as PS2 is a video game console that was manufactured by Sony It was released on March 4, 2000, first in Japan then followed by North America and then Europe later the same year. The sixth-generation gaming competed with the Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo Gamecube. The PlayStation 2 went on to become the best-selling video game console, selling over 150 million units with also more than 3,800 have been released for the PS2 since its official launch, and more than 1.5 billion copies of all titles have been sold since. Sony later manufactured several smaller, lighter revisions of the console known as "slimline" or "Slim and lite" models, and in 2006 introduced the successor, the Playstation 3. On January 4, 2013, Sony had announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued after 12 years of production, this being one of the longest runs for a video game console. Despite the announcement, new games for the console continue to be produced such as Fifa 14 and Pro Evolution Soccer 14 but these will be the last titles for the PS2. 

2001:

The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. As part of the sixth generation gaming the Xbox competed with the PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's GameCube. The Xbox was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar was discontinued in 1996. The Xbox had integrated Xbox Live service which launched in November 2002 and allowed players to play games online with a broadband connection. It was the first to compete with Dreamcast's Online service but later more primarily competed with PlayStation 2's Online service. Although these two are free while Xbox Live required a subscription, as well as broadband-only connection which was not completely adopted yet, Xbox Live was a success due to better servers and features such as the buddy list, and also milestone titles like Halo 2 released in November 2004, which is the best-selling Xbox video game and was by far the most popular online game for years.

The GameCube officially called Nintendo GameCube is a video game console released by Nintendo on September 14, 2001, in Japan and November 18, 2001, in North America and it was later released worldwide in 2002. It was a sixth- generation console and was the successor to there previous console the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony's Playstation2 and Microsoft's Xbox, and Sega's Dreamcast. The GameCube was the first Nintendo console to use optical discs, the discs are similar to the miniDVD format, and as a result of their smaller size, the system was not designed to play standard DVDs or audio CDs. Nintendo also introduced a variety of connectivity options for the GameCube. It was the first Nintendo console to support an online gaming service which relied on the use of an add-on broadband or modem adapter which was sold separately.The GameCube also supported connectivity to the Game Boy Advance, allowing players to access exclusive in-game features using the handheld as a second screen and controller.Reception of the GameCube was generally mixed. The GameCube sold approximately 22 million units worldwide before being discontinued in 2007. Its successor, the Nintendo Wii, which was released in November 2006.

2004:

The PlayStation Portable sometimes abbreviated as PSP is the first handheld games console made and released by Sony. Development of the console was announced during E3 in 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 in 2004. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in the elsewhere on September 1, 2005. The PlayStation Portable is the only handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal media disc otherwise know as UMD. Many other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation2 and 3 other PSPs and the internet/PlayStation Network. There were later releases of a slimmer, lighter, remodeled version of the PlayStation Portable the PSP-2000/"Slim & Lite" in early September 2007, and sales quadrupled in the United Kingdom the following week and increased by up to nearly 200% in North America for the month of October. This model was later replaced by again another remodeling, the PSP-3000, which included a new screen and an inbuilt microphone. 

The Nintendo DS  is a dual-screen handheld games console developed and released by Nintendo. The device first went on sale in North America on November 21, 2004. The DS, short for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld gaming: an LCD screen working in tandem with a touchscreen below, also with a  built-in microphone and support for wireless connectivity. The Nintendo DS also features the ability for multiple DS consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to an existing wireless network. Prior to the DS's release, the Nintendo DS was marketed as a "third pillar" in Nintendo's console lineup, meant to complement the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. However, backward compatibility with Game Boy Advance titles and strong sales ultimately established the new handheld console as the successor to the Game Boy series.

2005:

The Xbox 360 is the second video games console developed by and produced by Microsoft and the successor to the original Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation3 and Nintendo's Wii which were released slighty later than the 360 but as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of June 30, 2013, 78.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on May 12, 2005. As is typical of seventh-generation consoles, the Xbox 360 features an online service which is called Xbox Live, which can be used to download game, game demos, music, and video and media. However, unlike other seventh-generation consoles, a monthly fee must be paid for Xbox Live in order to use their online service. At their E3 presentation on June 14, 2010, Microsoft announced a redesigned Xbox 360, called Xbox 360 S, that would ship on the same day. 

2006:

The PlayStation 3 also known as the PS3 is a home video games console produced by Sony and it is the successor to the previous PlayStation2, as part of their PlayStation Series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and also Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan with international markets elsewhere following shortly thereafter that year.

The console was first officially announced in 2005, and was released at the end of 2006. It was the first console to use Blu-Ray Disc as its primary storage medium. Major features of the console include its unified online gaming service, PlayStation Network and its connectivity to the portable devices, PSP and PSP Vita, In September 2009 the updated PlayStation 3 Slim, was released. This Slim is lighter and thinner than the original version, which notably featured a re-designed logo and marketing design. A further refined Super Slim design was released in late 2012. and so far to date approximately 75 million PlayStation 3's have been sold worldwide.

The Nintendo Wii is a home video games console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006, As a seventh generation console, which the Wii competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation 3. As of the first quarter of 2012, the Wii lead the generation over PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales as in December 2009, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States. The Wii introduced the WiiMote which can be used as a handheld pointing device and detects movement in three dimensions.

2013-Onwards:

PlayStation 4 or also know as the PS4 is an upcoming video games console from Sony. It has been announced as the successor to PlayStation 3 during a press conference on February 20, 2013, it will launch on November 15, 2013, in North America, and November 29, 2013, in Europe and Australia, and will compete with Nintendo's Wii U and Microsoft's Xbox One, as part of the eight generation of video game consoles. Sony plans to place more focus on social gameplay, incorporating a "share" button on the new controller and making it possible to view in-game play streamed live from friends. The console will focus on interactivity with other services and devices, including GaiKai, a cloud based gaming service that will offer streaming video game content, also a PlayStation App, which will connect smartphones and tablets into a second screen to enhance gameplay; and the PlayStation Vita, which will be able to play a majority of the games through remote play. 

The Xbox One is an upcoming video game console from Microsoft. First announced on May 21, 2013, and it is the successor to the Xbox 360 console and the third console in the family of Xbox consoles. The Xbox One is scheduled for release across North America, several European markets, Australia and New Zealand on November 22, 2013, with later release in Japan and the remaining European markets in 2014. It will directly compete with Sony's PlayStation4 and Nintendo's Wii U as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles. Microsoft have classified the device as an "all-in-one entertainment system" and not just a gaming console also making it a competitor to other home media devices such as the Apple TV and the Google TV platform.