final project

1. Who are you in the eyes/perception of others?
Intellectual
Mean
Loving
Impatient
Grumpy in morning

Picky
Carrot top 0
Silly
Lazy
Blunt 0
Lanky 0
Passionate
Loyal
Messy
Hedonistic
Self-critical
Judgmental
2. How do you see/perceive yourself?
Failure
Forever a child
Hedonistic

Smarter than average but not by much and I am stupid in mathematics
Musically talented but misunderstood
Procrastinator
Open minded

3. Why are you here? (your definition of here)
I’m still in Indiana to learn skills that will get me a job doing what I enjoy. I think striving for a job that makes you happy should be every person’s goal
DJing, producing music and using computers is why I got into New Media
4. What are the implications of your identity to others? (you decide to whom the implications apply - you or others, but be specific)
My identity determines the jobs I can get, the friends I will make or the experiences I can have. If you dress inappropriately for a job interview or if you appear lazy you most likely will not get the job. If you are lazy and you don’t finish projects no one will ever know how creative you are.
5. How are you effected by the identity of others? (are you different around various people - why might that be)
I act different in front of authority figures than I do when I think I have the authority.
6. Is identity static? (make sure to show in your project your answer to this)
Physical traits may be static, but personal choices never are.

video project link
http://youtu.be/Dzixjjfe3VI

fear experiment

Fear

I believe fear is the moment in your life when you respond to a stimulus without thought. I think of both my fear of small spaces and small creatures when I consider fear.

I will conduct an experiment where I will scare a volunteer with a box that is empty. The box has a trap door where I will grab the volunteer’s hand to simulate the shock and fear a person experiences from a small creepy animal. I will imply that the box has small critters in it.

I think my hypothesis was generally correct. My volunteer was surprised and startled by the unknown small living item in the box (my hand). I think even though I never said what was in the box that the volunteer was scared for a moment based on the assumption of a threat in the box.

I think if I did another experiment I would test multiple people in isolation, some with real small critters in the box and others with just my hand, so I can see the different reactions or if the reactions are the same.

I was very moved by the person that spoke about having problems with mental health because that particular issue is a ongoing problem with one of my loved ones and we struggle with it’s effects a lot. There is a stigma associated with mental issues and it takes guts to confront those issues in a public setting.

My hypothosis

How do you think people (your classmates) will react to what you came up with?

I think the person I choose to volunteer will be startled by the surprise I have in a shoebox. This will happen if I pull off misdirection well. I think the fear of the unknown will be my most useful tool.

5 again

For this week’s blog I was tasked with creating something with paperclips. I thought back to when I was five years old. I talked to several people about what they do with paperclips when they are bored. A lot of people like to hook all of the clips together in a chain, so people made the clips into letters. I did neither; I remember I would obsessively bend half the clip vertical so the clips other half would act like a stand. I was always interested in balancing things, be it pencils, eraser heads or paperclips. So I took this idea and I used pliers to make simple little photograph stands using only four paperclips

Intresting photo I took

I thought the artist among our class would appreciate this. Makes me think of a delta or root system, it seems very organic to me.

I remeber from class two weeks ago

I remember how incredible busy it was outside. I had an interesting conversation with a classmate about the circular nature of religions like Taoism and Buddhism. I liked the woman in class that showed extreme close ups of pine cones.

No sight class review

I thought that the women that did the beatbox project were very creative. I think the idea to utilize all of our senses is a good teaching tool to help with our creativity