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This blog is a requirement of my MDIA203 class to post assignments and thoughts about the class.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Comments for blogs

I commented on stuff!! blog 1 a different blog 1 blog 2 a different blog 2 blog 3 a different blog 3 soundscape blog another soundscape blog song comparison another song comparison song comment another song comment visual framing another visual fram...

(10) I'm strong. I'm weak.

2. What’s my problem? No one likes to talk about his or her weaknesses. That is not something I ask friends or family on a regular basis. “Hey, so if you were to make a list at everything I suck at, what would that list look like?” But David Rendall says otherwise. David thinks that by correctly identifying and listing our weaknesses, we learn more about our strengths. I love when he talks about this in his own life. He lists his weaknesses and then shows how his life is utilizing the exact opposite traits. He doesn’t like authority, so he runs his own business. He likes talking, so he talks for a living. I think this is a great point he makes, and while it may seem like an obvious one, putting it in words that are easy to understand and showing real life examples are a great benefit. 4....

(9b) The end of the world is coming, quick, play a game to help

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(9a) Reflections on our games

     When you are by yourself behind your desk in your room, everything in your powerpoint seems very simple to understand.  But when you step in front of a classroom of students and your teacher, the words and concepts seem harder to explain.  For our group, the concept of missions seemed difficult to express.  What we were trying to explain was that each character (i.e. Greek, football player, nerd, etc…) would have specific missions that are relevant to their specialty.  Like a football player would have to go to tryouts, while a nerd would have to go to a science fair.  But also, the players would have some missions that all groups would attend (like a party or orientation)      We had a simple time explaining the layout...

Saturday, June 4, 2011

(8b) Sun v Clouds, and critiques

Critiques http://lworthington.blogspot.com/2011/05/nightnurse-vs-biohazard.html Night Nurse was a little confusing to me at first. With the creepy moon and dark lighting, I was not sure if she was a super hero or a villain. I do like the color chosen for her though. The bright pink helps to identify her as a good guy. Maybe if she would have been white and pink, this would have been more obvious. Biohazard is a very well put together villain. His red and black colors are typical evil colors and add to his look. In contrast to Night Nurse, he appears to be grungy and sloppy, while Night Nurse is clean cut and well put together. Looking...

(8a) superhuman superflight

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(7) Got some jokes for ya'll

here is the second video, I cannot embed it because it's private http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU2zdmFVxC0&feature=youtu.be Our assignment was to make two videos using the same joke.  We could not use sound recorded from our camera, so that made the assignment much more challenging. I don’t really know what “binary terms from week one are.” But I have my notes from week one so I will talk about some of the terms we learned.  Both scripts we voted on were shot in a bar, so we decided to shoot both in the same place; that would be some affinity right there.  And of course the fact that we used the same base joke for both scripts is also similar.  But because they were recorded in the same location, we had to get creative to make them look and feel different. ...

Monday, May 9, 2011

(5B) A (very) small look at Fight Club

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(5A) Perception

The image I began with is interesting to say the least. It is an image by Ben Goossens of an owl sitting on a book on a chair in a sort of nature room. I found the concept, aesthetics, and the execution of this piece very intriguing so I decided to write about this image. The original image has the cloudy walls as a background with the owl and chair as a main centerpiece that the eye is immediately attracted to. When I cropped the image, the space was shrunk, the chair moved into the background with the wall, and the own became the solo item in the foreground. The main, driving lines in the first image are the corners of the walls. They...

Monday, April 25, 2011

(4B) Song Assignment

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(4A) Brainwashed....?

I was assigned to read this article, written by Seth Godin, this week in my Media 203 class. And honestly, I am not sure that I agreed with the majority of what was said. This article was a typical "stick it to the man" type reading. That because we are taught high school math, we have been "trained to be a compliant cog"  and are being "brainwashed." I would completely negate that opinion; math teaches us persistence, how to think critically, organization skills, memorization abilities, and the list goes on. Take away math, then you take away science because "hey, thats not using your imagination, that's just reading facts." I don't believe all high school teachers are "out to get" students and make them learn geometry just to go home and have a good laugh about it. I believe that...

(3A) I Got 99 Problems...

watch this---><---then watch this Covering a song has become a normal thing to do in the music industry. Artists do this either because they think they can ride off the song's popularity, convey the song in a better or different fashion than the original, or because they have respect for the artist and song and want to show it.  Jay-Z recorded "99 problems" in April of 2003 and released it short after. It reached the charts in the US as well as the UK. In 2010, Hugo Chakrabongse covered the song in 2010 with Jay-Z's approval. Both songs have very a very different sound and some lyrics, but the same chorus.  The easiest thing to notice is the difference in musical quality. Jay-Z's original song has a sort of hybrid rap rock type feel. A strong drum and beat driven rhythm...

Sunday, April 17, 2011

(3B) My Unbelievably Exciting Soundscape

Last week, my class was assigned a project to create a soundscape that expressed emotion. Out of all the exciting, horrifying, suspenseful categories I could've been assigned, I got Boredom. So, ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy my excessively boring soundscape and the picture that inspired it all To view this music player you need to have Flash Player 9 or newer installed and JavaScript enabled. PodSnack is a flash MP3 player that allows you to create music playlists and integrate them into your website or bl...

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

(1B) Ways to get breakthrough ideas

Mitch Ditkoff recognizes the fact that this world revolves around innovators. Around people that take the familiar and make it more economic, affordable, usable, versatile, efficient, whatever have you. But how does one do that? How can one get themselves in that creative state where their juices are flowing and they are truly thinking out of the box. Ditkoff believes that there are actions we can take to get us in this state of mind. Tangible acts that can be put into words and sentences. Fourteen sentences, if fact. And he has them to share with us. FASCINATION Mitch’s first point in this paper is the idea of fascination.  That things make us think for a reason. What I find interesting, others won’t. And I will still have no idea why some people are fascinated by ancient history....

(2) That poor tiger...

Y'all should read this. Forreal. Nick Thompson was a fifth grader that was assigned a simple writing assignment. Most of his classmates struggled to reach the five page limit, I mean come on, they are ten years old. But Nick went over the minimum, and in doing so wrote about something deeper than he may have realized at the time. Nick wrote about a tiger that was caged in a zoo. For months this tiger planned his escape; he would jump out of the top of the cage and be home free in the wild. The night came, and the tiger jumped with all of his strength and made it out of the top of the cage. But, when he landed, he found that he was just in another cage inside another zoo. This process went on and on and the tiger could never escape the series of cages that seemed to be always waiting for him. To...

(1A) Me and people who inspire me.

I have always had a strange fascination with graffiti; the aesthetics, the meaning, the reasons behind it, and the secret nature of it. While it is often viewed as destruction and vandalism, it is also beautiful art that I believe should be taken more seriously. Graffiti artists often have a subtext to their art. That is, there is often a meaning to their pieces. They often speak the artist’s opinions on the world, society, and the people that surround them. They often contrast and challenge the world around them. And because graffiti artists often paint anonymously, it is often said to be one of the purest forms of self expression; no critiques, no one to impress, no agenda, just telling people what you believe and how you feel in any way you want to express it. Since I was able...

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

8AM media class? Really?

If you were to come and find me at 8AM on any other Friday of the year, I guarantee you I would be cozy, cuddled up, sleeping every week. Needless to say, it was not my choice to take MDIA203 at 8AM. But alas, all the other classes were taken but the 8AM and 2PM. So in no way am I looking forward to this early morning class, but with some early morning coffe and a quick reminder to myself that all I have to do is play with computers, I'm sure I will make it through the quarter with minimal complaining....

Friday, April 1, 2011

Test, test, 1 2 3, testing

Creativity is the overflow of inner feelings. Be it through music, dance, writing, or art. Creativity is all around us. But we are too busy to noti...

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