Final & Research

Since the outbreak of the swine flu, I decided that I wanted to do something that would create awareness about the sickness. I had grand plans of using an interactive flash game that would educate but also be engaging. Natrually I ran out of time and had to go to a backup plan. I have seen signs around campus telling people to wash their hands, but there's nothing visual about it. So I created a sign that is more visual and gives helpful tips on the swine flu. I then created another sign which was more of a random idea. I noticed when searching for images, I never pick the first picture. So I put in and random idea, word, or person that I could think of this is what happened.

New Media Scavenger Hunt

I think new media is the exploration of new technologies to see what there possibilities are and what new inventions can be created.

Things that come to mind are those that I have experienced or a friend has told me how useful they are.

1) Iphone apps
2) New sign-in at the airports with touch screens
3) Bluetooth in vehicles
4) Those dancing or walking people downtown at intersections
5) Museums have a bunch of new media things to engage the person viewing it.

I think that the iphone apps are the coolest and useful out of everything on my list. Apple is obviously the one that created the iphone but several companies have created the apps that you can download for the phone. The amount of things you can do with the iphone is awesome from GPS to locate your parked car, to the phone acting as a level for when your hanging things up in your house. The apps are created through software engineering and are created for all iphone users. I believe that all phones in the next couple of years will have apps as well so everyone can use this great idea. I don't think I will use much of this research for my final but I may do a research project on it and use that as my final showing how some apps work or something like that.

The Bleepin' Project

As I thought about ideas, I thought about creating a game in Flash that would have an infinite number of outcomes but then I thought of a decision that could be very crucial in my personal life. This past week I was asked to stay at my internship that I'm working at for the summer. I had been pursuing other internships that would be able to give more hours for the summer. The thing is I love my internship that I'm at right now but I know that I'm not going to be offered a full time position since it is filled by the guy I'm working on projects with. So my option is try and get an internship somewhere else that may lead to a full time position and maybe higher hourly pay. I decided to stay with my current company and I just told them this last week. I decided only working four days a week over the summer will be awesome and will give me time to do all the road trips my friends and me have planned. I also already know what to expect and I know I will love it in the summer. So how does this relate to this project? Well this decision could determine where I'm going to get a full time job and even what state I'm going to live in. Lets say I make some contacts with the current job and they offer me a job in Indy, I would love that. Let's say I went and worked at a different internship and it got me to a full time job at some other company. Basically what I'm saying is that I just changed the course of my life and after thinking about it, I can't believe how casually I made the choice. It's amazing how crazy things can look once you actually go into detail about and what it's effects are. But I live my life laid back and just go with what i love to do so that's what I'm doing.

What the Bleep was that movie about?

I stayed and watched the movie for about 45 minutes before I left.  I felt like it was pretty interesting but seemed repetitive to the point that I felt like I needed to get other things done in my life.  I think it went into extreme detail about everyday objects n life.  I think it over examined things that I just don't care about.  There comes a point where I just let things happen how there supposed to and don't worry about how every little thing works or how it happens.  I think I would not be able to have fun with life if all I did was analyze why things happen, because then I think I would miss out on the fun stuff happening around me while I'm just thinking about why they are fun and why I sense there fun or what in my body causes me to feel like I'm having fun. I just let it happen and go with it.

Client Excersize

I thought what better client to have then Chuck Norris. Although I was a little worried about not being able to make him happy because he could very easily roundhouse kick me to the face. I think I was able to show everything that he stands for, and that's Freedom and Justice. So Happy Birthday Chuck Norris!

Horseshoe Handymen

The word that I found in a magazine was horseshoe and the idea that Beth gave me was "celebrating handymen". I actually typed into google, "Horseshoe handymen" and I was shocked at what all came up. I didn't realize every piece of furniture could be built out of horseshoes until I did this assignment. thehorseshoeguy.com is where I found all these ridiculous pictures but he had like a million more I could of chosen which I don't know if thats sad or just crafty on his part. I decided there was nothing more that could celebrate handymen and horseshoes then showing all the stuff a handyman coul build with horseshoes.

Random Word

Horseshoe