Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
the second life stuff
I tried for hours last night to post some sl stuff but my comp crashed and as for today, Iam at school using the wrong computer... and tonite I have to go to bed early... but I might have some time again. As far as I know I will be working on a sound class project until the wee morning hours. I have second life pics and vids ready to be posted on youtube... I had to do some editing to make sure little kiddies don't get an eyefull... to protect some people's avatar names. Sorry to disappoint anyone... but i will work on it asap.
Monday, November 16, 2009
"What if" Questions
1. What if I had remembered to do this assignmnet before it closed?
2. What if we had no need for sleep?
3. What if everyone had a job they loved?
4. What if we could project our thoughts as holograms?
5. What if I crawl in a cave and hibernate during Thanks Giving and Christmas and come out on New Year's?
6. What if we had no technology?
7. What if no one had mannors?
8. What if everyone had mannors?
9. What if I had $100,000,000?
10. What if humans only had sex for the sole purpose to procreate?
11. What if water had different sweet flavors, naturally?
12. What if shoes never wore out?
13. What if there were no such thing as clothing fashion?
14. What if there was no such thing as crystal meth?
15. What if marajuana was legal?
16. What if beer wasn't fattening?
17. What if dogs lived in bogs?
18. What if cats were used as baseball bats?
19. What if birds dropped great big turds?
20. What if cows dated sows?
21. What if worms lived in swarms?
22. What if horses ears calmed our fears?
23. What if every door knob tasted like corn on the cob?
24. What if boating sails were made of fingernails?
25. What if we had teeth that grew in the back of our throats?
26. What if camels wore sandals?
27. What if we could see a reality show about the dish that ran away with the spoon?
28. What if push pins committed sins?
29. What if thumb tacks had butt cracks?
30. What if the hills really did have eyes?
31. What if someone just farted?
32. What if a girly squirrely liked pickin' on a chicken?
33. What if boobs were shaped like cubes?
34. What if life was easy for everyone?
35. What if everyone's favorite color was the same?
36. What if the Big Bang was created by God?
37. What if evolution is creation (and/or vice versa)?
38. What if a completely bald and shiny head was in style for men and women?
39. What if the human race had a third gender -or more?
40. What if aliens are us from the future?
41. What if aliens are ghosts?
42. What if ghosts and aliens are demons -and the sole purpose of the demons is to destract us and make us disbelieve the Bible?
43. What if the Earth's crust was on the outside of the planet and the Ozone, oxygen, water, land ect. was the center -and gravity didn't crush everything inside?
44. What if cherries were cheery?
45. What if a cheery cherry beat up a buxom berry?
46. What if 7 did eat 9?
47. What if a woodchuck chucked more wood than a woodchuck could chuck?
48. What if Fuzzy Wuzzy was really fuzzy?
49. What if Sally sold sea shells in Edinburgh?
50. What if I had more "what if" questions?
2. What if we had no need for sleep?
3. What if everyone had a job they loved?
4. What if we could project our thoughts as holograms?
5. What if I crawl in a cave and hibernate during Thanks Giving and Christmas and come out on New Year's?
6. What if we had no technology?
7. What if no one had mannors?
8. What if everyone had mannors?
9. What if I had $100,000,000?
10. What if humans only had sex for the sole purpose to procreate?
11. What if water had different sweet flavors, naturally?
12. What if shoes never wore out?
13. What if there were no such thing as clothing fashion?
14. What if there was no such thing as crystal meth?
15. What if marajuana was legal?
16. What if beer wasn't fattening?
17. What if dogs lived in bogs?
18. What if cats were used as baseball bats?
19. What if birds dropped great big turds?
20. What if cows dated sows?
21. What if worms lived in swarms?
22. What if horses ears calmed our fears?
23. What if every door knob tasted like corn on the cob?
24. What if boating sails were made of fingernails?
25. What if we had teeth that grew in the back of our throats?
26. What if camels wore sandals?
27. What if we could see a reality show about the dish that ran away with the spoon?
28. What if push pins committed sins?
29. What if thumb tacks had butt cracks?
30. What if the hills really did have eyes?
31. What if someone just farted?
32. What if a girly squirrely liked pickin' on a chicken?
33. What if boobs were shaped like cubes?
34. What if life was easy for everyone?
35. What if everyone's favorite color was the same?
36. What if the Big Bang was created by God?
37. What if evolution is creation (and/or vice versa)?
38. What if a completely bald and shiny head was in style for men and women?
39. What if the human race had a third gender -or more?
40. What if aliens are us from the future?
41. What if aliens are ghosts?
42. What if ghosts and aliens are demons -and the sole purpose of the demons is to destract us and make us disbelieve the Bible?
43. What if the Earth's crust was on the outside of the planet and the Ozone, oxygen, water, land ect. was the center -and gravity didn't crush everything inside?
44. What if cherries were cheery?
45. What if a cheery cherry beat up a buxom berry?
46. What if 7 did eat 9?
47. What if a woodchuck chucked more wood than a woodchuck could chuck?
48. What if Fuzzy Wuzzy was really fuzzy?
49. What if Sally sold sea shells in Edinburgh?
50. What if I had more "what if" questions?
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Humor
It's Mime Time!
Isham dressed up as a mime and I recorded it. There was a lot of footage and it took a long time and a lot of eding to get it to a decent presentation time. I am having trouble, though, sending it. It's a MOV file and it is only about 6 1/2 minutes long. I have even tried to send it in halves. That didn't work either. So, I am bringing it in so we all can watch it.
Isham dressed up as a mime and I recorded it. There was a lot of footage and it took a long time and a lot of eding to get it to a decent presentation time. I am having trouble, though, sending it. It's a MOV file and it is only about 6 1/2 minutes long. I have even tried to send it in halves. That didn't work either. So, I am bringing it in so we all can watch it.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
creepy commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-O-tLsCDo
This commercial always catches my attention becaue it is so creepy.
This commercial always catches my attention becaue it is so creepy.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Seeing sideways 10/12/09
Class discussion was interesting today. I thought we were going to present our projects today. The first TED.com video that we watched was interesting... except the giant flying media ball. I think that was rediculous. What I thought was wrong is the room with all those floating balls. Now, I enjoy art and I really like what he did there... but DAMMIT! Take a picture and let someone have the real fun of running around in that room. I want to know what would happen. Would all the balls bunch up and drip? Would they go bouncing and orbiting around eachother like atoms? It's like setting up a bunch of dominos in a long line and not letting anyone start the line. In my opinion, I think art is most beautiful when it is functional... even if it is just for the sake of having a little fun.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
contribution to society
I don't know playinh dress up with my skeleton ic a positive contribution to society, though. I was just completely confused about this one.
seeing sideways open assignment
wow... there was so much freedom with this assignment. It was hard for me to decide what to do. I finally decided to play dress-up with my halloween skeleton. -I want to use a program to put text and stuff on the pictures.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
cool commercial
Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m56F4EKN9hg
The viewer actually has to use their imagination in order to see what the makers of the commercial wants them to see. I had to see it a couple times because I couldn't see all the faces the first time I saw it. There was a genius/geniuses that saw faces in everyday things. I wanted to share this with the class because it really comes into our category.
The viewer actually has to use their imagination in order to see what the makers of the commercial wants them to see. I had to see it a couple times because I couldn't see all the faces the first time I saw it. There was a genius/geniuses that saw faces in everyday things. I wanted to share this with the class because it really comes into our category.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Seeing Sideways 10/5/09
Class was interesting today because there were not very many people that showed up. It felt a little more intimate because everybody was not trying to talk over eachother. I was able to follow a conversation. That is it! I am bringing my strobe lights to class next time... I never know when the lights are gonna go out. Damn... I shoudda took pictures when we had the lights out. That would have been cool. I was just worried about getting the light in my eyes. I know it probably wouldn't blind someone by just looking at the rocks but I didn't want to take any chances. I did catch a glimpse of the light scattering, on the first one... it was really cool. I just wish i would have thought about taking some pictures.
Anyway, I am racking my brain right now, trying to think about what I want to do for the next assignment... ANYTHING, huh? Wow... there is so much freedom, I don't know where to begin.
Anyway, I am racking my brain right now, trying to think about what I want to do for the next assignment... ANYTHING, huh? Wow... there is so much freedom, I don't know where to begin.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Breaking the Rules
My neighbor is a musician. We have been hanging out a lot more lately and I told him that I have been learning sound editing programs at school. Today, I brought my computer over and my drums. We have been practicing on a song. We wanted to record it on my computer, using Sound Forge. He has the equipment and I have the software. Well, there was a problem either with the microphone or the way I have my computer set up. I did some troubleshooting and we couldn't figure it out. I will have to ask investigate more about what the problem could be. But that was the first time I tried to record on my computer. We didn't get very far, I was only able to get a really rough recording with the internal microphone on my computer.
Here's another one... My boyfriend came home with a turn table that converts records into mp3's. He brought it home 2 days ago. He couldn't figure it out. He said: "Isn't this what you're in school for?" Well... he doesn't understand that I have not been educated on that particular program that came with the turn table. SO I had to spend a while just getting to know the program. We recorded some Grateful Dead and we had some problems getting the sound to come out of the speakers. I fixed that problem. Then I got a little bored because the program was soooooooo simple it was nothing compared to ProTools. Some of the words were different but he didn't know what I was doing and I was just messing around -now that I had fixed the problem. He thought I was still trying to fix it. haha.
So I thought I was going to change the pitch and make it go faster to make him laugh... ended up that it was some kind of sound effect. Like a triangle or little symbold... haha ... in the middle of the song. The song was playing and then *ding* then the song resumed. It was not what I was expecting. It made me laugh cause I was cought off guard but he almost freaked because he thought the sound was something recorded off of the record. I got two laughs out of it.
Here's another one... My boyfriend came home with a turn table that converts records into mp3's. He brought it home 2 days ago. He couldn't figure it out. He said: "Isn't this what you're in school for?" Well... he doesn't understand that I have not been educated on that particular program that came with the turn table. SO I had to spend a while just getting to know the program. We recorded some Grateful Dead and we had some problems getting the sound to come out of the speakers. I fixed that problem. Then I got a little bored because the program was soooooooo simple it was nothing compared to ProTools. Some of the words were different but he didn't know what I was doing and I was just messing around -now that I had fixed the problem. He thought I was still trying to fix it. haha.
So I thought I was going to change the pitch and make it go faster to make him laugh... ended up that it was some kind of sound effect. Like a triangle or little symbold... haha ... in the middle of the song. The song was playing and then *ding* then the song resumed. It was not what I was expecting. It made me laugh cause I was cought off guard but he almost freaked because he thought the sound was something recorded off of the record. I got two laughs out of it.
Bliss time
There is an addicting game I am addicted to... it's called Whizz Words.
http://www.addictinggames.com/whizzwordz.html
When I play it, it is like a form of medication.
I concentrate on it and don't think about anything else. Sometimes I will break my concentration to look up at the tv every so often. I will be playing that game and hours will go by and I barely notice. By boyfriend hates when i play it because I am in my own little world and don't pay attention to anything else. It is my bliss time because I can forget about all my troubles. I have been playing it more lately because I am a little stressed out and discouraged with school right now. I probably should have been doing school work while I was playing that game but instead of getting frustrated and stressed out but my school work has suffered.
http://www.addictinggames.com/whizzwordz.html
When I play it, it is like a form of medication.
I concentrate on it and don't think about anything else. Sometimes I will break my concentration to look up at the tv every so often. I will be playing that game and hours will go by and I barely notice. By boyfriend hates when i play it because I am in my own little world and don't pay attention to anything else. It is my bliss time because I can forget about all my troubles. I have been playing it more lately because I am a little stressed out and discouraged with school right now. I probably should have been doing school work while I was playing that game but instead of getting frustrated and stressed out but my school work has suffered.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
sharing my dragon
I think my dragon was born simetime when I was in high school. I was made fun of A LOT. I didn't have any friends to turn to when I was feeling bad. So, I started drawing dragons. It was a way for me to escape my troubles for a while. The 2D picture that I draw is the one that I seem to draw the best. But whenever I draw certain parts of the dragon, certain things come to mind. For example, when I draw the chin, I think of my mamaw's chin. When I draw the beard, it reminds me of the burly guys I used to work with and date. When I draw it from head to toe, I take myself on a ride of memories and stories. Each section I draw, it is like peeling away a layer of myself, or turning a page in my book. To other people, they are just drawings of dragons. To me, the dragons reprepresent me, my soul, my memories, my history, my knowledge, my life lessons that I have learned. Though the 2D dragons look a lot alike, I never draw them identical. Sometimes I draw them with a crystal ball, or a treasure. These things represent my heart -like it's protecting my heart. Sometimes, I picture my dragon being that voice in my head telling me that someone will let me down or disappoint me or that I shouldn't trust someone. I know this is not sane... but I am sane enough to stay within the realm of reality. I'm not crazy. I got my head checked once... the person said I was fine... just a "little odd". Well, i'm cool with that. haha. Anyway, I just thought I would share some pictures.
Monday, September 21, 2009
seeing sideways
If Beth don't like that pic, i will bring my flash drive to class again, next time... for better.
-I'm surprised that there were so many different points of views for my project. I appreciate the input. Anyway... I showed my boyfriend my pics and told him about class today and about other people's projects (that shared). I showed him the iMovie thing that was submitted earlier on Beth's blog... (which has nothing to do with class today). He liked the dude's video and John (my bf) was inspired to go find and buy the music online. (Epica) He's doing it right now. I think... I will bring my video cam to class next time -hope ppl are ok with that. It's not like I'm going to post anything from class online or anything. But I just want to share with my bf. I can't really explain very well. I think he would enjoy seeing that this is such a different class. -Also, I am looking forward to this next project.
-see y'all Monday!
-I'm surprised that there were so many different points of views for my project. I appreciate the input. Anyway... I showed my boyfriend my pics and told him about class today and about other people's projects (that shared). I showed him the iMovie thing that was submitted earlier on Beth's blog... (which has nothing to do with class today). He liked the dude's video and John (my bf) was inspired to go find and buy the music online. (Epica) He's doing it right now. I think... I will bring my video cam to class next time -hope ppl are ok with that. It's not like I'm going to post anything from class online or anything. But I just want to share with my bf. I can't really explain very well. I think he would enjoy seeing that this is such a different class. -Also, I am looking forward to this next project.
-see y'all Monday!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Fear Assignment
I was going to mention something about a nightmare i had a few years ago with the pice of cardboard that had the red on it. And with the plain one I was going to refernece to the fear/frustration that some artists get when they see a blank page.
-But it just didn't seem good enough. So, What I did instead is demonstrate change in the pieces. Many people are afraid of change. So, I took pictures of what they looked like when I started.
-Next, I changed them a little bit and took pictures and kept doing this.
-Eventually, I made the two pieces become one -likemarrage. Some people are afraid of that.-After that, I decided to pour some jam over the top of them. Some people are afraid to get dirty.
-But it just didn't seem good enough. So, What I did instead is demonstrate change in the pieces. Many people are afraid of change. So, I took pictures of what they looked like when I started.
-Next, I changed them a little bit and took pictures and kept doing this.
-Eventually, I made the two pieces become one -likemarrage. Some people are afraid of that.-After that, I decided to pour some jam over the top of them. Some people are afraid to get dirty.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Class in the dark/dreams
I thought the idea of having class in the dark was interesting. It was sort of fun, at first. I just got burned out after a while. It started with group conversation but eventually there were many conversations going on. I hope i don't sound like a bitch but there were moments i wished it was completely silent.
-I am the kind of person that likes order. I tried to jump in conversation(s) but i was unsuccessful. (I think because i was across the room) I didn't want to be annoying and yell... i didn't want to trip over anyone trying to get to a conversation... so i just sat there being uncomfortable. I couldn't keep track of any conversations, they were going too fast for me. (I wished i had brought my bongos and toca drums)
-I was being such an introvert that i was one of the few people who didn't get to play with the marshmellows. I wanted to.
-Just to be clear, this is not a complaint. It was a "different" experience. I just didn't have very much fun and i was not very interactive. This is my own fault for not being more extroverted. Maybe i got PMS or something cause i was more irritated/frustrated than anything. There were things i wanted to say that were related to conversations but it seemed like no one could hear me. So i just kept my mouth shut after a few attempts.
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-Once the lights were on and everyone was taking pieces of the pizza boxes, i saw them ripping big pieces off. I was wondering where i would store a big piece of cardboard. in my computer bag. When i walked up i saw the two most perfect pieces. Immediately, one piece reminded me of a dream I had -a nightmare! The next assignment is about "fear" so i snatched up the little piece of cardboard. Right under it was a nother little piece the same size. I snatched it up too. It was so plain. I had a great idea for that on too.
-I have to say that Samantha's dream and the other discussions about dreams made me have a dream last night:
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We all had some assignment that was a phisical thing we had to bring into class. We all went out to the parking lot across from the IT building and Beth took someone's project and held it up. A GIANT, slimy, gross worm/paracite-looking thing came out of nowhere... i mean this thing was bigger than a fire truck! It squeezed itself between two trees. Beth threw the project up onto the air and the worm cought it in its "mouth"/teeth and ate it!! We all panicked! The rest of us tried to hide our projects from her so she wouldn't feed them to the worm. -end-
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This was not a lucid dream. Maybe feeding the project to the worm was a good thing because it was worthy of the worm... or maybe the project was crap and disposed of by the worm.
I dunno... but it is cool that Samantha had her dream. -It is like a domino effect... cause i had a strange dream about our Seeing Sideways class.
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Anyway... hopefully, i can be a little more open in class and have more fun with it in the future... i'm sure i will :)
-I am the kind of person that likes order. I tried to jump in conversation(s) but i was unsuccessful. (I think because i was across the room) I didn't want to be annoying and yell... i didn't want to trip over anyone trying to get to a conversation... so i just sat there being uncomfortable. I couldn't keep track of any conversations, they were going too fast for me. (I wished i had brought my bongos and toca drums)
-I was being such an introvert that i was one of the few people who didn't get to play with the marshmellows. I wanted to.
-Just to be clear, this is not a complaint. It was a "different" experience. I just didn't have very much fun and i was not very interactive. This is my own fault for not being more extroverted. Maybe i got PMS or something cause i was more irritated/frustrated than anything. There were things i wanted to say that were related to conversations but it seemed like no one could hear me. So i just kept my mouth shut after a few attempts.
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-Once the lights were on and everyone was taking pieces of the pizza boxes, i saw them ripping big pieces off. I was wondering where i would store a big piece of cardboard. in my computer bag. When i walked up i saw the two most perfect pieces. Immediately, one piece reminded me of a dream I had -a nightmare! The next assignment is about "fear" so i snatched up the little piece of cardboard. Right under it was a nother little piece the same size. I snatched it up too. It was so plain. I had a great idea for that on too.
-I have to say that Samantha's dream and the other discussions about dreams made me have a dream last night:
-
We all had some assignment that was a phisical thing we had to bring into class. We all went out to the parking lot across from the IT building and Beth took someone's project and held it up. A GIANT, slimy, gross worm/paracite-looking thing came out of nowhere... i mean this thing was bigger than a fire truck! It squeezed itself between two trees. Beth threw the project up onto the air and the worm cought it in its "mouth"/teeth and ate it!! We all panicked! The rest of us tried to hide our projects from her so she wouldn't feed them to the worm. -end-
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This was not a lucid dream. Maybe feeding the project to the worm was a good thing because it was worthy of the worm... or maybe the project was crap and disposed of by the worm.
I dunno... but it is cool that Samantha had her dream. -It is like a domino effect... cause i had a strange dream about our Seeing Sideways class.
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Anyway... hopefully, i can be a little more open in class and have more fun with it in the future... i'm sure i will :)
Thursday, September 3, 2009
class on aug 31
I was unclear of what we had to do... i thought we had to actually make something that we had to show the class for next time.
-When we were all on the ground looking at the sky. I saw all kinds of stuff. A seahorse, a bunny... but that was lame. I opened my mind and remembered of a story in the Bible. (I'm not a very religious person) I thought of the story of the Tower of Babel. The guy wanted to make a tower to Heven. We were talking about the eggs from past classes. I thought, "What if, instead of scattering the people with language berriors, it would be funny if God threw a giant egg and hit him in the head.
-Since i thought I had to actually do a project of some kind, I wondered how would I put this idea out there in media of some kind. I imagened a short film:
-The opening shot would be a mid-close up of green grass.
I would lie down into the shot and look up at the sky.
-Cut to the sky (blue with some clouds).
-(Audio) (me thinking) "Hummm... what do I see?"
-Fade out
-There would be a story board/comic strip of the Bible story. My boyfriend would provide the voice of the guy in the story. (The story board would be b/w it would resemble something like Reading Rainbow because it would be a video of the story board/comic strip)
I stopped there except I went on to think about including when I turned over and the bee was around my feet and I yelled! (during class) haha... I was so embarrassed.
-Anyway... I guess this is all I have to do. -for now
-When we were all on the ground looking at the sky. I saw all kinds of stuff. A seahorse, a bunny... but that was lame. I opened my mind and remembered of a story in the Bible. (I'm not a very religious person) I thought of the story of the Tower of Babel. The guy wanted to make a tower to Heven. We were talking about the eggs from past classes. I thought, "What if, instead of scattering the people with language berriors, it would be funny if God threw a giant egg and hit him in the head.
-Since i thought I had to actually do a project of some kind, I wondered how would I put this idea out there in media of some kind. I imagened a short film:
-The opening shot would be a mid-close up of green grass.
I would lie down into the shot and look up at the sky.
-Cut to the sky (blue with some clouds).
-(Audio) (me thinking) "Hummm... what do I see?"
-Fade out
-There would be a story board/comic strip of the Bible story. My boyfriend would provide the voice of the guy in the story. (The story board would be b/w it would resemble something like Reading Rainbow because it would be a video of the story board/comic strip)
I stopped there except I went on to think about including when I turned over and the bee was around my feet and I yelled! (during class) haha... I was so embarrassed.
-Anyway... I guess this is all I have to do. -for now
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