Final Project?

So I have figured out that I kind of like some sort of guidelines when it comes to projects. The idea of being able to do anything is crazy to think about and all the possibilities out there. So I have come up with a few ideas, but nothing final thats for sure. I am going to LA for spring break and I figure this would be a great time for me to do something unique out there as other people probably won't be out there between now and the final project due date. I am not sure what I would do, but I plan on taking my video camera and digital camera with me so I would probably do something with that. I kind of want to just do something on my own time when I'm bored in Indiana so I may just end up doing something crazy around here. Ideas are going to keep coming up with me as I think about this so it may change day to day until I have something I really want to do.

Bliss Time

I very happy to see what our assignment was this week in that we could just take 3 hours to do whatever makes us happiest. I didn't have to worry about this, as I maybe to much time doing what makes me happiest instead of school and work. I would say going somewhere on vacation makes me the happiest but being a college student, this just wasn't possible to do in a weeks time with no money. I also love going to my lake in summer and doing stuff outside, but again the fact that I live in Indiana and it was freezing outside this took away any of that possibility. I decided I have the most fun on the weekend nights with my friends doing crazy stupid things. So even though these times last like 8 hours at a time, I'll just say this made me the happiest. It involved going to the bars and then continuing to drink back at my house with about 20 or 25 people. These nights make me love the college life and I realize this won't happen much longer as people start to get married or move away so I cherish the college weekends while I still can.

Plastic Bag

So I was unable to make it to class last week as I missed my first class in like 3 semesters. So I went to oncourse and saw the plastic bag assignment posted and of course I was way out of the loop not having been in class to see what the deal is with the plastic bag. I saw people were posting things about making music with the bag but I thought my music would've been lame anyway so I didn't try it. I'll be honest, I literally spent no time with a plastic bag and didn't even pick one up so that's documenting my time. Instead I went online and researched plastic bags and found some interesting facts about them as I didn't realize that they will be around forever in landfills and stuff. I also found some videos on youtube that were pretty funny to me and are posted below. One is a guy that finds ten stupid things to do with plastic bags and the other video is people video taping a guy dancing with a bag without him knowing it.

"10 things to do with plastic bag"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmwz9DOCWoE

"Guy dancing with bag"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-svbl9eAEf0

Making another class see sideways

So in class we decided to do something random and that was to flip all the desks in random places and stack others as sculptures. This was just to see the next class reactions to our actions. I personally felt bad as we were doing it and probably would've never done it if no one else did. After it was complete the room looked pretty crazy and I thought the next class would do nothing but laugh at the whole situation. But as we were leaving there were some students for the next class and they were mad that we were just leaving and not putting any of the chairs back in their standard positions. I felt bad as we just walked away as they were wanting an explanation. I think that since the first couple of students were upset with our actions, that their attitude spread through the rest of the students that came in for the next class and they all became very angry with our actions. I think any kind of mood is contagious whether it be positive or negative. We probably put that whole class in a bad mood and it probably wasn't the most pleasant class in the world. I think we should probably do something in a form of an apology or an explanation of our actions. I say we just write really big on the dry erase board that we're sorry or something silly like that.

Senseless

So for our newest assignment we were to take away one of our senses for 3 hours and document the experience. After the experiment is completed we are to determine what another sense could be. I chose to go three hours without the ability to hear and i did this by placing earplugs in my ears to block out as much noise as I could. I chose to do this experience in a controlled environment of my house as I was home in Fort Wayne for the weekend. My parents found this to be annoying as I did not tell them of why I was doing this and they were trying to ask me something and I had no idea what they were trying to say. I found that not being able to hear was very hard and very frustrating and at times I felt like just taking my earplugs out because of it but I stuck to the assignment. I decided that after this ordeal that I wanted to come up with another sense that could replace the hearing one the best that I can. The sense would actually use technology and would be called iTalk and would use your brainwaves to communicate to others. It would detect the vibrations and soundwaves of others and convert them to voices inside your head so you would know what other people are saying to you. And you would be able to just think of what to say to others and the voice box would communicate your thoughts exactly and clearly. It wouldn't just say anything you think of, only things that you mean to say to people because that would get somebody into some big trouble.

The What If.....Class

We started the class by finishing the words Creat....,Innovat....., Inquir..... with whatever we could think of. I was a little curious as to what this would accomplish, but soon found out it was to define the differences between similar words. I found out that these three words related to the scientific method and it very important for New Media students to think in this way to be at our best creativity. I also found that there is a bunch of different beliefs in the room in terms of religion and it really showed when creation was talked about and agnostics came up. I think that really brings a lot of different ideas to the room in terms of how people think and how their morals are. I think overall the what if questions made me think of solutions to other what ifs and helped me come up with more what if questions. The part at the end of class where we messed up the entire room was kind of cool but I don't think I would've gone to that extreme. I felt kind of bad walking out of the room and the class coming was wondering why we were putting the chairs back the way they should be.

Egg Comments
1) - What if you threw the egg up in the air and whatever it landed on, you had to do?
2) - What if you mixed the raw egg with other stuff to make a shake?
3) - What if you tried to sell this as a painting?
4) - What if nobody in the world could figure this out?
5) - What if she has an even better prank for you(which would be pretty hard to top)?


1) what if I was born into a third world country
2) – there were no wars
3) – dinasours were still around
4) – aliens do exist
5) – I chose to be a business major
6) – I was a millionaire
7) – I never got on facebook
8) – the internet or TV wasn’t invented yet
9) – I was 500 pounds
10) - I went to a different college
11) - I haven't made the mistakes I have in my life
12) - my car tire fell off on the highway instead of right when I got off it.
13) - there is a whole universe beyond the solar system that we don't even know about
14) - I hung out with a different group of friends in high school
15) - the earth was flat
16) - the colonist didn't fight the British and we were still ruled by them
17) - George W Bush never became president
18) - Obama makes worse mistakes then George W.
19) - I don't find a job after I graduate
20) - I traveled the world
21) - I became president
22) - I owned my own company some day
23) - I have kids
24) - I never get married
25) - practiced wakeboarding a lot more then I have, how could I be
26) - I didn't stay in the dorms freshmen year, who would be my friends
27) - I chose to stay with my first girlfriend(bad decision)
28) - I was an animal
29) - I was lion
30) - Had three wishes, what would they be
31) - I was able to fly anywhere for a day, where would I go
32) - I was able to be invisible for a day, what would I do
33) - you were last person alive on earth
34) - a terrible disease spreads across the US
35) - a size 10 earthquake split California from the rest of the US
36) - There was another draft, would I go or try to go to Canada
37) - the sun blew up
38) - I moved out of Indiana after college, where would I go
39) - I would've got arrested for stupid things I've done in the past
40) - I didn't do this assignment
41) - I was chronic liar
42) - I was homeless
43) - I was a rockstar
44) - I was a superstar athlete
45) - I decided to play soccer at a small college