The Tank

The Tank was nothing that i expected! I knew that the audience was gonna participate, but I didn't realize what was gonna happen during Hamlet and R.U.R.. Hamlet was a very condensed, and R.U.R. was more of a monologue that had to do with robots. Even with all the conditions we had, (I heard we didn't have enough wires,) we still had a very good outcome with people even sitting on the floor. I even saw some of my work on the screen as all the plays were going on. It was a good experience that I was in, and with that I know that a lot of things can happen if you just keep on working at it. Knowing that a lot of people have seen shows here, and even done shows here made me think that consistency can go a long way.

transparent video II

another sketchup transparency that I worked on.

blogging

Before this year, I didn't even know what blogging really was. A couple years ago I heard about Livejournal, where friends would say what they were doing that day and their feelings. I just really wasn't into it. It became too personal for me. Now being immersed in this I realize that it's not just only for personal life but can also be used for jobs or even school as a resume. There are also many other sites other than Livejournal including Blogger what we're using now and Tumblr. Most of the time people make blogs to talk about their personal life, but recently people have been using it professionally. You can access it a lot faster. Don't have to worry about losing it (except for the password.) You can show everyone your ideas, which will make you seem more unique and creative.

My friend who goes to Boston University just recently made a blog about all the classes he's taking and all the work he's been doing. Professors have already been contacting him about doing internships or helping with research. -Doing it his freshman year is a very innovative, he'll have years and years worth of work when he applies for a job. After this class, I might even start blogging about my classes and all the work that I'm proud of. This way, even if my career path doesn't work out, I can look back on my past work and see what I can acheive and maybe from those ideas start something else.

almost over.

Putting all the projects and videos onto my flash drive for our project next Saturday, I've realized I learned so much. From sketch-up to bryce to even folding proteins, this is a class that I've learned such a variety of things. Especially since some of our work is going into this big project on December 11th it feels good to know that something I have done is actually going to the public and is not just becoming a grade.

Aside from this class, I have 3 finals; math, chem, and sociology. I'm not too stressed about most of them, it's just the times that I have to go in for. Most of my tests are at night but the last test, math, is on the 20th the last possible day at 815 in the morning. I know I'm going to dread this and hope that I don't fall asleep while taking the test.

I think a lot more people would do better if a part of these tests were more hands-on. Like doing these blogs and small projects, most of my classes can have the same structure and small projects aside from the 3 tests a semester that take up your whole grade. It can be a make or break it. Next semester I hope that I find a class that requires work, but work I look forward to doing.

kinect

By using kinect you can store photos and maybe edit them by using your own touch. This could be very good for photographers or just people who want to make there photos look better.

Using kinect can be very cool at times but to me I think it's very creepy. It's like a camera that follows you around- a security camera in many stores. If you taught it how to recognize objects, when you walk in the room would they say hi to you? To me, that is not necessary at all.

The Big Other

Earlier this semester we learned that we only rely on ourselves for 15 % of the time... maybe. This to me is very sad. We get picked where to go to college, we choose what classes to take, but someone tells us what we have to take anyways. We are chosen where we live (the salary that we achieve.) We don't even choose who we grow up with since they are put into the same school as us.

So who is the other? The other is many people and things. It's the administrators of our university. The professors of our classes. The parents and grandparents in our family. They control who we are and what we do with our life. This could be good and bad. If we are raised in a loving caring family who tells us to go for our dreams and pushes us to do our best, this is considered good. The professors who help us out and explain things, that is also beneficial. But the parents that don't care and let the children do what they please is not very good. The professors who don't explain things and tell us to learn for ourselves, that can lead down a bad path.

In order to surpass the other we have to finish schooling and become leaders of what we establish. This can happen 3 years from now or 25 years from now. The only people that we can really depend on is ourselves.

maxmsp

women and property

Looking at the pictures today in class I've come to realize that all anyone thinks is that women is their property and it has nothing to do with feelings. In the 15th centuries artists painted women nude away from the city to show that women are far away and that the biggest property of men are themselves. It definitely has gotten better since then but you can still see the line between men and women. Men usually have more political power but usually have their wife right by there side. For example, the president and his wife. She's always right by Obama's side but she has taken a stand and done things with her husband not there. Also sometimes when I look around in a restaurant or store and the couples introduce themselves, the man usually presents his woman as something of property.

There is a positive side to these paintings. Without them some artists wouldn't have been famous and the promiscious ladies of that time probably would be an even more controversy later in life. If we didn't have these differences we wouldn't have these famous pictures but would would we have a different perspective on life and even maybe a different style in paintings then?

maxmsp

Starting work with my transparency in sketchup.

Maxmsp

Here's a video that I was just playing around with.

jet machine

levittown

Living on Long Island you can see the contrast that has been happening for the past 20-30 years. Where I live there are houses that are still from when it was first built, but the house next to it would be fully renovated and just look out of place. 20-30 years ago, 25A was only a 2 lane road, and now it is 6-8 lanes. If you look at it 60 years ago there were still dirt paths where I live and farms all around it. What has changed and why? Not has changed since then. Most people are the same- gossip and beaches are still where we thrive.

What has changed is that we have become more materialistic. We now have our own mind and want to be different than anyone else and not have the "cookie-cutter" house. We have become more aware of design, and what is acceptable or not. We are moving in the right direction. More people just need to move forward and realize that our world is becoming something unique. We can make whatever we want out of our house. We don't need rectangular rooms anymore nor do we need to look like our neighbors. It's all in our hands.

Machines

This is a video that I took on a couple of machines.

name brands

-> real
->imitation
Today in class we were looking at spaces of bathrooms that were very simplistic, very "minimalistic." I mean there was bathtub that was simpler than most of our bathtubs going for at least $20000. Why is this? It's because of the name that's stamped onto the materials. This is true about everything. Watches, pocketbooks, clothes, even food.

When you walk into a food store, there's always two of the foods that you are looking for; one is the name brand and the other is the store brand that is almost 50% less than the brand name. Most people get the name brand whether they think it is better or because they don't want to look cheap. Another instance is when you're in a coach store and you see bags for $500 but when you go into Chinatown and see the exact same bag except without the stamp on it for $20.

From far away you can't see a difference at all. The material looks the same and even the texture. But usually when you look up close you see the differences and the touch of it is definitely unique. The bathtubs texture we were looking at supposedly felt like our skin, but does that really mean it should be 75% more than our regular bathtubs?

more bryce

bryce

This is some practice of the program Bryce, I'm going to need some practice since we spent so much time on Sketchpad, but this program is a lot more realistic with the shadows and textures.

rant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KikWyl1R9Zo

I mostly ranted about what we talked about in class on Tuesday what I agreed or disagreed on.

Texture video

This is mostly all of my textures in around 1:30. The textures range from the beach by my house, to our campus, to books in the library. This is the first time I used iMovie, so I'm not that great, but now that I know how to use it, I'm definitely going to be exploring all different ways. Maybe one of these textures will be in one of our projects for the rest of the year but I'm definitely going to try and play with the program that we downloaded.

Frank Gehry

I'm not really a fan of many designers of buildings, but during a lecture we were looking at all these cool buildings, and a lot of them were of Frank Ghery's. After doing some research I've learned that he is from Canada and resides in Los Angela's. He's 81, but from what I've seen of his building he's of the hippest people around. His designs and building textures are just so cool and I would never have though to design any of them.

It looks like he builds many things out of either glass or metal (titanium.) Sometimes his buildings are very round but other times, like in Walt Disney, they look almost like 100 wings coming out of a building. When I look back at my sketchups I see that I kind of took on some of Frank Ghery's designs and this is maybe why I'm so interested in him.

Textures

One of my textures,I didn't want to put them all on here, nor did I want them to be put together, it would take too long! Anyways I picked the beach because I just love the textures of the sand and ocean and sky together and especially during the dusk.