Meat N' Bones

What did I pull out of this semester?

* A great sense of seeing sideways
* Opening my eyes to the world that breathes around us
* Molding creativity into life
* Some soul searching

I enjoyed this class a lot, sometimes the projects too much. It's funny how absorbed a person can be in their work. We all need escapes, and this perfect for just a thing. I will certainly take these skills as my building blocks for future work!

Wow

I realize now how badly I need glasses, I couldn't read any of the what if questions posted. The final class already, but really what happened to the time? I feel like the days all just melt together anymore. One whole month has already passed, and I barely even witnessed it. My mind opened up so much during this class. Sometimes I could even say it opened up too much. Thinking alllll day long can just lead to insanity. Wow... Brandons video really hit me hard. The video opened my eyes again to reality. I was baffled after watching it, bravo. Now what projects will I have for the rest of the summer?!

Two places at once?

Sometimes the world that we live in makes absolutely no sense. The thunder outside booms and roars, but why? We can prove it scientifically, but why it exists on this Earth cannot be answered. We know so little about what reality is, because we barely know what it is. What is reality? The fact that we know only what exists on our planet, but we barely even know everything on it! I cannot keep over complicating life, my happiness depends on it. Some things can be searched for a persons whole life, and still be unable to figure out.

My 50 Thesis

So I chose the .swf video that he made!
From this URL to his blog below. This video gave me a chill of excitement, something about it stood out.
http://no-u-dont.blogspot.com/2010/06/something-something-complete.html



From Heathers 50 What if questions I chose these five.



#38 What if one person was responsible for the destruction of earth?
#36 What if after the earth was destroyed the debris created something else?
#16 What if this was focused on humans instead of nature?
#39 What if one person was responsible for the creation of earth?
#27 What if this became reality?

These five stood out because I thought they were very unique. I have a lot of space to work with.

So a few days have passed and my brain is just unable to put these to life. I figured out the question I chose, but I figured it out and proved it false.

http://no-u-dont.blogspot.com/2010/06/something-something-complete.html

1)What if this is an alien?
2)What if this could send an even bigger message?
3)What if this were easy?
4)What if nations leaders were shown?
5)What if this could be a great advertisement?
6)What if this were longer?
7)What if this was done in 3-D?
8)What if this could depict different societies?
9)What if since its so good it could make thousands by advertising products?
10)What if my computer shuts down during this?
11)What if someone could depict the entire world in a movie?
12)What if this were the window to something even better?
13)What if the world were to make sense?
14)What if the whole world was a game?
15)What if I over analyze everything I do?
16)What if my view is completely opposite of yours?
17)What if I knew the answer to this question?
18)What if I could micromanage my brain?
19)What if I just made sense?
20)What if tomorrow this file is erased and gone, all I would have is a memory?
21)What if I wanted to be everything?
22)What if this would be over after the next line?
23)What if birds flew into a large ball of fire?
24)What if tomorrow is depicted through video?
25)What if the message is already shown?
26)What if everything is alive?
27)What if what if's were endless?
28)What if we found the answers?
29)What if you didn't care about any of this?
30)What if because you don't care you're also normal?
31)What if being normal is then a bad thing?
32)What if the norm is actually bad?
33)What if we keep following bad?
34)What if that means we are backwards?
35)What if all of this could be pieces of the video?
36)What if my window just busted out and I were sucked out?
37)What if that is totally irrelevant?
38)What if everyone was happy?
39)What if we ate polar bears?
40)What if this was a polar bear eating commercial?
41)What if polar bears are ...Big
42)What if I couldn't see what I was typing?
43)What if everything is impulsive?
44)What if the video blew the fuck up?
45)What if I didn't sleep for a week?
46)What if you close your eyes and you see it all again?
47)What if dreams were reality?
48)What if reality were actually reality?
49)What if I wrote more about the actual piece?
50)What if you could not do anything about it?

Always something new

So I'm sitting here in Bloomington and my best friends house on my laptop trying to figure out what to write about. It's about 3:40 A.M and I recalled class being very interesting today. It felt good to just get up and talk about my piece. I just cant wait to rent this camera out and start on my next one. I loved that everyone had a different opinion about what I made, and its inspired me to try and better what I've made so far. I can't believe next week is the last week of class. Its crazy how time has been flying, but I've been super bored. It's almost the only thing that keeps me feeling productive through the summer.

Sad Story

Well I broke my camera so doing the project I wanted didn't work. I really wanted to do something with photos, so I'm renting out a camera from the tech department. I will be able to pick it up tomorrow! So this project is once again delayed, but do not fret! I want to show my other project today!

Opening my eyes

You know I never thought that there was a difference in life in the approach of how I see the world, but there definitely is. I feel since after tinkering in this class that I have finally learned to see outside of the box and more like an artist. I really enjoyed yesterdays class, and nothing was better than to learn more about the piece I was working on. Everything is just flowing along now; I finally got the gears turning. As for class, I feel completely comfortable now in my environment, and the search yesterday was fun for me. I found that creating art takes an open mind, a plan, and then letting yourself loose from that plan.

Ghosts oooOooOooo

At first sitting in the dark was very cool, but it's a shame that I could start seeing everything after my vision adjusted. I noticed that while sitting in the start I definitely cannot focus on a certain point, nor could I focus on questions. It feels as if I'm floating when it's pitch black. I remember being deathly afraid all the time when I lived at home with my mother. I felt like something was always watching all the way up to the point of me moving out. Almost like a bad energy within the whole house, that's all I could think of while sitting in class in the dark. I remember all those nights I'd stare of in the black abyss of my room and feel as if something were right there with me all those years. Unfortunately sometimes it still feels that way, but I just keep it to myself, I try to push it in the back of my mind....No more of that new topic. The tunnel that we sat it, yes yes! As I sat there I could feel all my senses tingling. My back was hot from the hand railing, and my body felt beyond baked in the sun. I remember hearing the noise of society. It's almost always the same no matter what city I go to, the cars, voices, and airplanes overhead. Odd how humanity, regardless of the language, always speaks ultimately the same language. The humming of cars, sirens, or construction all gives the general voice of humanity, without any individuals saying a word. Tune into your surroundings, and you'll find beauty anywhere, regardless of the location. The rays of sun through the clouds, or even the crazy arraignment of cloud textures and colors lately. Life make sense...but if it did I do not believe I'd want to live if I knew everything. I try to escape the darkness, and sometimes on a rare occasion when I close my eyes I see his face, the way he was left on the road that frightful night my life changed.

A poster with unlimited possibilities

I really felt connected today in class, and for once I felt pretty comfortable to go up to the front and just shoot the shit. I'm super excited about blowing this project up into a poster and seeing what everyone will write down and see how they interpret it. It's always a high talking about something that purely interests me and another person. So to recap the class I felt a lot more open and comfortable, I wonder what awaits next time. Look forward to this poster!

Play-Toe

What could I do to make a super cool project? I'm limited for time considering it's 2:42 AM. All I have to do is make sure the right sort of music is on. I cannot begin to be creative if there is no music. I completely believe that the music you're listening to while doing a project alters the project itself. You'll honestly find pieces of the music within the piece you're working on. Odd how it is possible to fuse music, a sound, into imagery. Anyways that's all just blab, the guts of the story is that I picked a random book out of my bookshelf.(I was blindfolded, I thought it would make it more interesting) The book is The Republic by Plato, and I took my blindfold off and began figuring out a random approach to picking a page. So I just picked a random post it noted page which spoke about the Myth of the Metals. The post it note then read a different page number and then I went to that section called the Philosopher King.

So now what the fuck do I do? Let's review the process.

Step 1. Wait until you're slaphappy tired.
Step 2. Reset your brain, and blindfold yourself
Step 3. Pick random book from shelf, only feeling with your hands
Step 4. Put chicken pot pie in oven?
Step 5. De-fold yourself, and choose random post-it note wedged within the pages
Step 6. Make sense out of choosing everything so randomly
Step 7. Theorize, make connections, and ask why?

Rough Overview:

The Myth of Metals is a theory created by a Greek Philosopher Plato to where society is broken into a three "classes" so to say. These classes consist of Gold, Silver, and Bronze, each portraying a different responsibility. Gold are the leaders, silver are enforcers/protectors, and bronze are the merchants, farmers, and specialty jobs.

Question!

How does any of this random information tie into the world I live in? What do I know about classicism or inequalities in human history?

1. The Feudal Age- Peasantry, Nobility, and Clergy.
2. Ancient Rome- Plebeians, Patricians Secessio plebis
3. Present Day- Lower Class, Middle Class, Upper Class

So we have a pretty set of three classes. What does a class mean?
Reference.com defines it as a "Group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status"

1. Each class has more power than the other
2. People tend to feel more open towards those in their own social group
3. The groups as a whole crave political, military/religious, and economical dominance.

So we have all these characteristics in each group, but majority wins the vote right? Surely the smallest group has the least about of power!

1. Upper Class 1% of the population
2. Middle & Lower Class 99%

So how does the smallest class have the most control?

1. Media
2. Political Influence
3. Funding
4. Decades of passed down tradition

What does any of this mean to me then? Well understanding the building blocks of how humanity works could...maybe... just maybe... eliminate the possibility of history repeating itself.

What am I going to do about this?
I'm in the process of making a poster that will depict the image shown in an earlier assignment. Obviously I'm not going to rush and ruin something I feel has a lot of potential in. I must make it memorable, and making it very memorable may take more than just the due date today. Although I sizzled up my brain waves in order to further this poster.

It's very odd that I chose The Republic of all the books I had on my shelf, because I've been working on the poster I wish to blow up and hang. The poster will depict all of societies pressures and attempt to touch everyone on some sort of level. More or less "OPEN YOUR EYES". This topic is very interesting to me, because I feel the world is so mysterious and unjust, you simply have to think outside of the box. This interests people, because they too want to know more about the world they think they live in. Various people go on each day not even second guessing what the world is really about.

So as for the discussion aspect I will briefly discuss the image I created in an earlier project, and future of what I want to do with it. I really want to finish this, and doing this spontaneous direction gave me the spark I really needed. So don't fret, this project will finish itself up come Monday.

The whole jest of this project is to ask various people their opinions of the piece ,and attempt to see society from another persons "lens". Instead of deeply debating a topic, I will simply portray our societies truths through images, and see how an individual can even interpret it as a whole.

So. Finish the poster, note what the individuals say about the piece, and for my own personal interests I will learn a lot about how various people interpret their environment.

*This chicken pot pie owns

Parking tickets anger me beyond belief.

So I'm sure someone was wondering why I even bothered coming today. Well after last class I received a parking tickets for $30 because I didn't know it was a 24/7 hour parking lot. If anyone has noticed....the whole IUPUI parking system is now 24/7, no more after 4PM etc. So I came to class and I sat for a bit then realized...Hey..Wait a minute...If I leave my car out there any longer I'll get another ticket, so I went to go print my parking pass off, that's when I left. So I go to buy the pass andddddddd NOW I have to pay off the last ticket first before I get my pass!!! I appealed the pass right away though so I have to wait until they give me the go. Thank god class isn't until next Wednesday, that is more than enough time. I really fucking wanted to present the photo I've been working on to see what ideas could be thrown at me. Ha its funny how I'm being punished to go to school. Forgive my rudeness Side Seeing Queen Beth.

Inspiration Palooza

I've been working on this photo now for a day, I have a lot of work left to do on it, but I'll give you a sneak peak and go ahead and leave any comments about changes or ideas you have on it. I spoke with my friends all night about politics and history, so that was my inspiration. I'm always trying to figure life out so here is some imagery!

This image is not even halfway finished!!

I'm distracted outside

I thought I felt pretty opened up to everyone after today. I just have an extreme difficulty trying to focus outside. I enjoyed walking around today though in shorts. Something was just missing in class though, we lacked that extra umpfff that we needed. So I can't really write much, because I will admit that I spaced out the whole time. I'm ending it at this then!

Reinvent the wheel

I am describing my Rules who needs them project. It's a video that is about 57 or so seconds long. The summary is that a man drives through an apartment complex breaking several rules without a second thought. I really enjoyed making this and seeing the final product. I made this project for class, but in the end it was more for fun. I like a lot about this project so it's hard for me. I enjoy the music selection and the scene with the man hitting a pedestrian the most. Although I have a few dislikes, such as the car pulling into the spot is choppy, the scene with the driver driving with his feet could have been more free-flowing, and the credits and intro could involve more design. After completing this project I learned a lot about camera shots and attempting to make the stop motion have a higher quality. A fresh approach could possibly be, splattering blood all over the windshield upon impact, or investing in a tripod for more consistent shots. I chose this particular project because its the one I have put the most work into since beginning this class. I want to see if maybe I can make the credits and intro a lot better or even fine tune the video after looking through it a few more times! I will post the project with a better intro and credits. I'm afraid that if I mess with the shots within the video I will end up working a lot longer than planned. I want to fix the shots, but it will take a few nights.

Here is my edit!

Sailing away.

So it was around six to nine o'clock where I began my adventure. I'm sure most people spent their time doing something unique and exciting. I on the other hand did what I absolutely love to do when I have some free time, sit on my computer and space out. I usually have some music playing or turn a few lights on that set the mood, or maybe even some candles. I would have to say it's the most relaxing thing to do out of my whole day. Come home, set the mood, and then sit and escape. So on that day I sat back and did what would be the most pleasurable for me, I played a new game and listened to music, utter euphoria.

Vacation....

So you would think by me saying vacation that I meant something exciting and new, but that's not the case. My vacation consisted of me doing what I do best, surf the internet and playing a game on my computer. Aside from going out to bars or clubs, what is there to do in Indy but sit? I wanted to do something amazingly cool and fun, but the weather outside was horrible. So all I have said is buts, and buts are excuses so maybe next time I'll get out and have an amazing post about what I did on my free three hours. Honestly they were no different than most of the day. I was actually disappointed that class was canceled, I wanted to present my video from the last assignment. Thus concludes a night of normality.

Rules, who needs them?

I decided to make a stop motion video about a guy breaking several rules. He commits a hit and run, speeding, running a stop sign, parking in a handicapped spot, and reading instead of driving..

Recapping the chairs

I really saw a lot of good work out there, which made me feel the urge to do more on my next project. I would have to say the music video about eating the egg hit me at home the most. Ha I loved how a simple egg could be portrayed so dramatically and intensely by everyone's videos. I actually tried a little social experiment of my own. I made it a point to sort of break the social rules during our assignment presentations. Instead of following the norm and being very in depth and speaking about the emotions you felt while doing the assignment, I acted like I just didn't care and there was no depth to my project. Everything I do every day has depth and meaning, and I swear every day I'm living a new experience. When I took the picture of the egg covered in wax I was trying demonstrating another way of me fighting lust and obsession, but I severely downplayed it while talking to the class about it to sort of break a social rule. So I can't say I just don't care, because I do. I pay attention and over analyze everything in my life. I enjoyed the class, and scooting around in my chair in the hallway. I'll admit there were times I spaced off, but I'm only human. So I'm ready for next time, I wonder what will happen. It seems regardless of this class that I'm always going through something odd or people are coming to me with the oddest of problems. I'm always experiencing something, be it a robbery, or someone having some crazy event happen to them and it effecting me in some way. I'm glad to say I've lived a very eventful life so far.A person has to open their eyes, because something crazy is always happening to us, we just have to open the window to the box we live in.

Egg like wax fetish...

What else is there to do with an egg other than dousing it in wax, and letting it enjoy the painful sensation of this new found fetish? Eleanor is only a few weeks old, but she is enjoying every second of the future. She barely knows what it holds, and nothing more excites her!!!

Duct tape, say what?

Who would've thought a college class could finally be interesting? I'm just ready to start the duct taping! I thought that was the most interesting part of the whole lecture, and honestly I hope we encounter something like that soon. This should be a very interesting few weeks. Honestly I almost threw the egg against the white board after she handed to me, but cleaning it up would've been a hassle I wouldn't want to deal with. Seeing the expressions and the reactions from the room would've been very interesting though. What is to come next? So those are my thoughts on how the first class went! YOOOOOOOOOOO