This is my song, yo. Deal with it.
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This blog is a requirement of my MDIA203 class to post assignments and thoughts about the class.
Monday, April 25, 2011
(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
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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...
