Throughout this class I've posted a bunch of shit. So what really stuck with me during all of this? I'd say to set limits for yourself, and also to just let ideas come to you.
When trying to come up with original thoughts to a lot of works that I planned on doing, I'd always get stuck because I'd either come up with too much and become overwhelmed, or couldn't come up with anything at all. To fix these issues, I need to simply just say, 'this is what I want, no more' and as for my blocks, I should just walk away, and let my ideas come to me.
All in all many things were beneficial, but I think I'll remember that creativity isn't an instantaneous thing and needs to be allowed to come and go. This will help me greatly not just through college, but hopefully through the rest of my life.
Thanks for a fantastic summer course, and I'll see you again some other time!
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Final Fear - Because I'm Tired of Being Scared
Many projects presented were really cool, and all around awesome, but I think I know which one my 'favorite' was, and that was because I was an active participant.
Cooper's experiment (Last name? Probably, I sound like an incredible ass when I say that I never really learned your first) was to blind me, and feed me 3 different foods. Being a picky eater, it was hell. Of course when I volunteered, I had NO idea what I was getting into.
Feeding me the mini beef disgusting can thing, Ok.
The Olive. Gross.
Kalimari. FUCK!
I'm getting nauseous just thinking about it... But he gave me a Sour Patch Kid afterward, and things between us were just fine.
The reason I reacted so strongly, as stated, is because I was physically apart of that experiment. Had I been watching, it would've been amusing, but not terribly scary or supremely engaging. Living it though. Ugh...
My own project beforehand was also the only experiment that had gone around, so I had felt pretty good, however he really captured 'fear' where I had captured more of apprehension and unease. I did feel a little bit "wow that's better than mine" but not so much to where I was disappointing with how I did mine. I suppose it will effect the human involvement side of my creative journey, I shouldn't be afraid to talk to people and see how their involvement can affect my projects.
Cooper's experiment (Last name? Probably, I sound like an incredible ass when I say that I never really learned your first) was to blind me, and feed me 3 different foods. Being a picky eater, it was hell. Of course when I volunteered, I had NO idea what I was getting into.
Feeding me the mini beef disgusting can thing, Ok.
The Olive. Gross.
Kalimari. FUCK!
I'm getting nauseous just thinking about it... But he gave me a Sour Patch Kid afterward, and things between us were just fine.
The reason I reacted so strongly, as stated, is because I was physically apart of that experiment. Had I been watching, it would've been amusing, but not terribly scary or supremely engaging. Living it though. Ugh...
My own project beforehand was also the only experiment that had gone around, so I had felt pretty good, however he really captured 'fear' where I had captured more of apprehension and unease. I did feel a little bit "wow that's better than mine" but not so much to where I was disappointing with how I did mine. I suppose it will effect the human involvement side of my creative journey, I shouldn't be afraid to talk to people and see how their involvement can affect my projects.
What is Best in Life?
CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES!
Sorry I watched a Robot Chicken Conan The Barbarian Musical Sketch while writing this, and I thought it fit, but I carried it pretty far.
My blissful 3 hours was spent...
...
...
Playing Super Mario 3D World.
Surprise of the century right?
Anyway. While playing, you frequently hit ? Blocks to make things appear and I remembered the book and how I wanted to make that a theme. While I've already done the book, I feel as though I should mention that this did have an impact on the cover that I made. It also had a nice little play on words with the title of the book that already exists. It was perfect, and I made it a reality.
Sorry I watched a Robot Chicken Conan The Barbarian Musical Sketch while writing this, and I thought it fit, but I carried it pretty far.
My blissful 3 hours was spent...
...
...
Playing Super Mario 3D World.
Surprise of the century right?
Anyway. While playing, you frequently hit ? Blocks to make things appear and I remembered the book and how I wanted to make that a theme. While I've already done the book, I feel as though I should mention that this did have an impact on the cover that I made. It also had a nice little play on words with the title of the book that already exists. It was perfect, and I made it a reality.
THE ALTERED BOOK! FEAR IT! LOVE IT! IT IS DONE!
Holy crap I hate being the procrastination son of a biotch that I am.
Now I can safely say that my copy of The Outsiders, has successfully been Altered.
The Outside of The Box is the Title of my book. And I really like how it came out. Remember how I had stated that I wanted the ? Block to play a part in my book? Well I feel like I've made that work quite well.
The book's bio is pretty much verbatim with the Who Am I and Why Am I Here blog post. The reason I'm not going to be posting pictures of pages is because I really want to surprise this one, What fun is reading a book if you know all about it?
The next page is the egg project with an animated me focusing on what I want, but can't quite make it a reality.
The page after is all a great big doodle mess, with elements of the Fujinasim that I had mentioned in class on the day of the doodle assignment, as well as my doodle blog post.
The page after had a nice little happy coincidence, I bit of serendipity I suppose. It matched up perfectly with the sleep on it assignment, and I also incorporated the What If assignment in there as well on the same page.
The page after, Well let's say Fear and Rule Breaking are the present forms here. I'm not going to say another word because, well that would be complete BS if I ruined that.
The page follow the fear and rule breaking assignments still. I'm going to continue being shut up about it.
The page after is a follow up on the two above assignments, as well as a little something for the reader.
The final pages relate to going back to the fear pages and seeing how they've changed over time. Thus exploring the "Taste the sound of a second" assignment.
Finally we have the back cover featuring an author's portrait, and bullcrap famous quotes.
So my opinion on tech and the human body? I feel like in some degrees, we need it to live. Say we lose a lung, and we need some artificial lung from technology to live. Or perhaps the same could be said with fake limbs. It seems important to some degree, but when you get to the real crazy stuff, I'd stay away from it just because I want to remain more human than machine.
My opinion on a MAS project with my own body? In a way I suppose I did that. I made this book the embodiment of me. I took everything that I did, All my creative talent, and revamped something that already existed, and added myself to it. It felt pretty good. I'd say I'm ok with combing myself like this on an emotional level and less of a physical level. The day I have to sacrifice my brain for a machine that I'm building for a capstone is the day I stop playing video games forever.
In a way, I feel like the book becomes a part of me really, and It will be hard to let it go. I find that when I'm proud of a project, I don't mind presenting it, but leaving it for a month? That might be tough. Either way, I've made something unique, that represents me, and will probably be one of a kind for a long time.
Now I can safely say that my copy of The Outsiders, has successfully been Altered.
The Outside of The Box is the Title of my book. And I really like how it came out. Remember how I had stated that I wanted the ? Block to play a part in my book? Well I feel like I've made that work quite well.
The book's bio is pretty much verbatim with the Who Am I and Why Am I Here blog post. The reason I'm not going to be posting pictures of pages is because I really want to surprise this one, What fun is reading a book if you know all about it?
The next page is the egg project with an animated me focusing on what I want, but can't quite make it a reality.
The page after is all a great big doodle mess, with elements of the Fujinasim that I had mentioned in class on the day of the doodle assignment, as well as my doodle blog post.
The page after had a nice little happy coincidence, I bit of serendipity I suppose. It matched up perfectly with the sleep on it assignment, and I also incorporated the What If assignment in there as well on the same page.
The page after, Well let's say Fear and Rule Breaking are the present forms here. I'm not going to say another word because, well that would be complete BS if I ruined that.
The page follow the fear and rule breaking assignments still. I'm going to continue being shut up about it.
The page after is a follow up on the two above assignments, as well as a little something for the reader.
The final pages relate to going back to the fear pages and seeing how they've changed over time. Thus exploring the "Taste the sound of a second" assignment.
Finally we have the back cover featuring an author's portrait, and bullcrap famous quotes.
So my opinion on tech and the human body? I feel like in some degrees, we need it to live. Say we lose a lung, and we need some artificial lung from technology to live. Or perhaps the same could be said with fake limbs. It seems important to some degree, but when you get to the real crazy stuff, I'd stay away from it just because I want to remain more human than machine.
My opinion on a MAS project with my own body? In a way I suppose I did that. I made this book the embodiment of me. I took everything that I did, All my creative talent, and revamped something that already existed, and added myself to it. It felt pretty good. I'd say I'm ok with combing myself like this on an emotional level and less of a physical level. The day I have to sacrifice my brain for a machine that I'm building for a capstone is the day I stop playing video games forever.
In a way, I feel like the book becomes a part of me really, and It will be hard to let it go. I find that when I'm proud of a project, I don't mind presenting it, but leaving it for a month? That might be tough. Either way, I've made something unique, that represents me, and will probably be one of a kind for a long time.
Monday, August 4, 2014
The FEEEAAR! (Enough with the game references right?) Part 2
Therein lies the joke in the title. Ha! I'm the only one that gets it...
Anyway my Random 2 Minute Draw Experiment (working title) was a rounding success in my opinion. I had predicted that students would be fearful of public critiquing as well as having to deal with stress.
Stress was present in the 2 minute time limit, and in the unintentional side effect of having defective writing tools. I told them to draw this specific thing within this specific time, thus they felt slightly stressed to get it done. Evidence of this existed with the comments of the pens not working, and the groans and or victory cheers at the end of the time limit.
When I asked to briefly show their drawings to the class, the public critiquing came into play. While almost know actual critiquing took place, there was quite a bit of hesitation on quite a few faces that I noticed when they held up their drawings. Heck even I was hesitant. I went through 5 pens for god's sake.
Seeing as how I perfected this experiment, would I change it? Yes, I would. I feel as though the ending presentation was a little weak. At the end I simply had a show, and then collected them. I feel like I can do more with this, perhaps leave it on the desk for more students to find, or have them give a small speech over it. The actually execution of the experiment was fine, perhaps having working pens next time would help. I also believe that coming up with the subject to draw on the spot is important, as I didn't formulate what I'd be drawing beforehand, I was going to say the J.W. Mariot that was not far from the IT building originally, but I realized how dumb that sounded as I was talking about the reason behind the experiment.
Bottom line, Keep Experiment the same, change presentation. I feel like I could conjure up a more long lasting 'fear' from that kind of method.
On a final and somewhat fearful note, I've seemed to have misplaced those drawings. I'm sure they're around here somewhere, or... maybe not. Either way, it's not like it was anything too valuable. I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Anyway my Random 2 Minute Draw Experiment (working title) was a rounding success in my opinion. I had predicted that students would be fearful of public critiquing as well as having to deal with stress.
Stress was present in the 2 minute time limit, and in the unintentional side effect of having defective writing tools. I told them to draw this specific thing within this specific time, thus they felt slightly stressed to get it done. Evidence of this existed with the comments of the pens not working, and the groans and or victory cheers at the end of the time limit.
When I asked to briefly show their drawings to the class, the public critiquing came into play. While almost know actual critiquing took place, there was quite a bit of hesitation on quite a few faces that I noticed when they held up their drawings. Heck even I was hesitant. I went through 5 pens for god's sake.
Seeing as how I perfected this experiment, would I change it? Yes, I would. I feel as though the ending presentation was a little weak. At the end I simply had a show, and then collected them. I feel like I can do more with this, perhaps leave it on the desk for more students to find, or have them give a small speech over it. The actually execution of the experiment was fine, perhaps having working pens next time would help. I also believe that coming up with the subject to draw on the spot is important, as I didn't formulate what I'd be drawing beforehand, I was going to say the J.W. Mariot that was not far from the IT building originally, but I realized how dumb that sounded as I was talking about the reason behind the experiment.
Bottom line, Keep Experiment the same, change presentation. I feel like I could conjure up a more long lasting 'fear' from that kind of method.
On a final and somewhat fearful note, I've seemed to have misplaced those drawings. I'm sure they're around here somewhere, or... maybe not. Either way, it's not like it was anything too valuable. I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Poor Little Classmates... You're In MY World Now
I hope the toxins have been perfected by now...
This experiment's hypothesized outcome will be more than likely fear of being critiqued especially in public in front of everyone. It will also probably stress out certain students.
What could it be? I guess you'll find out.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Memory and Media
In relation to the Video we watched near the beginning of class, our memories really aren't to be trusted all that often. The video was about people who had been shown photographs of themselves as a child, 3/4 are real, and the 4th was them in a hot air balloon. A good portion of the people actually believed that they did indeed ride one, when they really didn't, and even if they didn't believe the photo, they'd make up the feeling that they've done it before.
I can safely say I've experienced a similar situation with dreams. A long time ago, I remember having this group of friends that I saw every now and again. One time we all decided to go outside into the woods surrounding our neighborhood, just for the heck of it. While we were there, we found an old box with nothing in it. One of my friends picked it up. After that we must have come back home.
The issue here amongst all of this? There isn't any woods surrounding my neighborhood that I know of. Yet this dream has stuck with me forever. This begs the question, did we walk really far until we found some woods, or did I just imagine it all?
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This in relation to my field of study, was mentioned in one class period, but I don't remember when exactly. The field of New Media is manipulative. We can alter peoples' realities. Sometimes it can be so drastic to the point to where they think that whatever we have created as entertainment, can deceive them to be apart of their memory as something they have lived and experienced. Games, Movies, TV, Art, anything that can be immersive can be considered dangerous on this level.
Keeping this in mind, we can use this to our advantage to help people with memory loss, people with Alzheimers, any issue with memory might be able to be addressed and or fixed using media.
It's a give and take in this field, knowing what you design will probably manipulate people, but not in a terribly inhumane way. The point in creativity is to make sure that whatever you might design that's new and innovative, it should be safe for people.
I can safely say I've experienced a similar situation with dreams. A long time ago, I remember having this group of friends that I saw every now and again. One time we all decided to go outside into the woods surrounding our neighborhood, just for the heck of it. While we were there, we found an old box with nothing in it. One of my friends picked it up. After that we must have come back home.
The issue here amongst all of this? There isn't any woods surrounding my neighborhood that I know of. Yet this dream has stuck with me forever. This begs the question, did we walk really far until we found some woods, or did I just imagine it all?
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This in relation to my field of study, was mentioned in one class period, but I don't remember when exactly. The field of New Media is manipulative. We can alter peoples' realities. Sometimes it can be so drastic to the point to where they think that whatever we have created as entertainment, can deceive them to be apart of their memory as something they have lived and experienced. Games, Movies, TV, Art, anything that can be immersive can be considered dangerous on this level.
Keeping this in mind, we can use this to our advantage to help people with memory loss, people with Alzheimers, any issue with memory might be able to be addressed and or fixed using media.
It's a give and take in this field, knowing what you design will probably manipulate people, but not in a terribly inhumane way. The point in creativity is to make sure that whatever you might design that's new and innovative, it should be safe for people.
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