MELTING POT

class was fun but sad today because it is the last and finallll day.


too bad this class doesnt last through summer we will just have to kidnap beth from her forest hut and bring her to downtown fun

legal fun mind you.

interesting projects had by all, some brave, some weird, some awesome, some random.

for those who careeeee mine has been added to this blog.

hopefully ill see most of you again!

☮angie

SCAVVY HUNT

New Media is…..the implementation of creativity in some form of medium, rather it be technology, tangible, and intangible.
Innovative is……hard to define, but in my own understanding I think it is anything that was created from the idea of another idea.


The device i chose was a surprise to myself, but i liked it because its so simply innovative...take a book and electroni-size it.

BUT i also enjoy the fact that initially it seems amazing but after reading a website about this products negative points....eh.......awkward how un-innovative it is.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/25/10-reasons-to-buy-a-kindle-2-and-10-reasons-not-to/
there is the link, some points include that it's bottom heavy, hard to skim through, battery powered, etc.



* Who did it? (creator or company) AMAZONG
* How did they do it? (software, equipment, materials, etc.) Couldn't find much information on this, i know it was first the Kindle 1, and is now Kindle 2. Contains electronic screen, buttons, the whole spheal.
* For whom did they do it? (target audience or client)Mainly traveleres, business men & women, and readers of course.
* How might you be able to use what you learned about this innovative use of new media to help you when doing your final project?

I have already completed my final project but DEFINITELY made me learn that even if something "seems" to be a brilliant idea, you'll never know until you follow through with actually completing the project and getting some user interaction and moving on from there.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUw2_Srt1Jg&feature=PlayList&p=F3550832E9CE7D8B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHtXV4cHQI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCEoF2LazY&feature=channel

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=new%20touch\&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

----> the one i chose http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=new%20touch\&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=new+device&hl=en&emb=0

Cheek Hen

today's class was awesome. i am SO glad Beth came. her strength and positive attitude are seriously inspiring.

I miss Mary Ellen

loved the chicken.

I find it funny, today was my "YES" day. I took the "YES MAN" idea and used it all the day long and the outcome was:

I said yes to punching someone
I said yes to pizza
I said yes to breadsticks
I said yes to a free coca cola
I said yes to more I'm sure, I just cant remember....
I was shortly had an attempt to be taken advantage of later tonight by my best friend...damn her. lol.


enjoy the video/pictures added of our fun filled/sir fluffy butt/chicken/Beth day (this only took about 3 hours to make the video/render/upload to here and it not work/then upload to youtube)
yay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-H37eRD_20













can i just say, i truly wish this class was like a "forever" class that you had to take for the rest of time.


☮angie

YES. YES. YES. YES.

WHAT THE BLEEP IS THIS?!

My project consists of the play off of the new recent movie "YES MAN".

Jim Carrey is one of my most favorite actors, and he did an awesome job in this movie.
It's closely based on decisions and how they effect our lives. Each decision effects our lives in separate ways, and it's effects are shown well in this movie.

IF the class wants, i got the DVD in my Easter basket (yes my Easter basket) and we can watch it in class if we were to have time, or maybe a few clips.

I have included the trailer to this blog, and for my project:

I have designated a day of "YES" in which I say YES to any ethical/moral requests.

I'll let you know how the decisions effect my day. I'm not telling you what day because I don't want to be harassed by the class lol :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRv4CoXQoAQ


☮angie

what is New Media?

Quite frankly, 3:00-5:40 is entirely too long to discuss such a phrase.

I was in class today but had entirely too much to complete homework wise seeing as how I am graduating in two and a half weeks so I left about an hour into class, to complete such things.


I hope and pray Mary Ellen is feelin better and Beth is holdin up ok.


☮angie

what the bleeeeep

here is my response to class yesterday:


Class was interesting and short; we were instructed to watch "What the bleep do we know"

i hate to say it but i did stay for a few minutes, i did sign in but i have entirely tooo much homework and projects and capstone etc. to sit and watch a movie without doing homework at the same time....


SO i do hope to watch another time but sadly couldnt watch all on Monday


i hope ME is doing bettttttter


☮angie

better late than never.

i hate feeling ignored.


class was fine, ive concluded my idea.


i'm way tired, being woke up at 7am thinking the alarm went off because of a burglar isn't fun.


sorry so short. must get to work on mary ellen's birthday surprise!

☮angie

HEY!!!!!! da da da dadaaadaaaaa (said by crackhead sweet guy at TB)

today's class was sweet.
i truly was on the verge of melancholy and sadness from person things, and seeing Mary Ellen literally brightened up my day, week, month, mood. everything.
i dont mean to sound obsessed but i am. i hope Heaven is filled with people who have the same lively souls that she possesses.


another day brightener; the birthday boy himself bought my taco bell?
how nice is that.

especially when im freaking out over finances and wondering how i was going to eat dinner.

☮angie

kelp kelp kelp kelp

celebration of KELP inspired picture.
little to do with favorite idea/and word
but it is inspired by some sweet kelp thoughts.




☮angie

idea on mirrrrror

my idea on my mirror was to put the word "seat belt"

this idea came from the word law and will work as a reminder for me to always wear mine and if guests are in my car, to assure their safety too.

sounds cheesy but lets not cut our lives short people.




☮angie

day three of three (3/16/09)

LAW.

being in South Carolina, i heard on the news a story about two different circumstances where two car wrecks caused fatality because the drivers didn't wear their seat belts.
i thought of "law". i mean it is a law to wear your seat belt and honestly HOW HARD IS IT to put on a seat belt.

ironically the same day my cousin had a reaction to low blood pressure and fainted while driving and landed in a ditch going very slow but had her seat belt on.

thank god.

who knows what could've happened.

law=seat belt.
how hard is it.

law.


☮angie

day two of three (3/15/09)

LAW.

today law was on my mind in the academic sense...

just walking into the law building seems to be intimidating, most law students are very intelligent, determined, and focused.

I like to think i just as academically aware in my academics as well, but law has a more intimidating feeling.


☮angie

day one of three (3/14/09)

LAW:


i thought a lot about law in the sense that it has such a stern meaning, you cant get away with breaking it in many circumstances even if you have a substantial excuse.

ie: getting a ticket because you were speeding one mile over the speed limit, you still broke the law so some cops wont give you a break.

so in conclusion you cant "catch a break" with LAW.


☮angie

mirror mirror on the wall

law.
has been taped to a mirror. by "a" mirror, I mean not my mirror because I am on spring break at my Uncle Steve's in South Carolina.


I'm sure no one gets it but its taped. picture below.

LAW LAW LAW LAW

law

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wal

Road Through The Rain

what if i decided to do a project on the computer?
what if i copied Stans idea and did something with music and video?
what if i did something i was comfortable with instead of out of my comfort zone?
what if i didnt do anything at all for my final project?
what if i came up with an idea that was easy and required little time just to get it done fast?
what if i used a project from another class and doubled up to kill two birds with one stone?
what if someone in the class broke my final project like my egg project?
what if i do an amazing project, but turn it in digitally and never come back to class?
what if i totally wow'd beth but everyone else thought my project sucked?
what if i go so far out of my comfort zone that my project ends up changing my life around?
what if i used the project as en excuse to rekindle broken relationships with people around me?
what if tomorrow i drop out of school?
what if my project closely resembles someone else?
what if Beth never remembers my project?
what if i fell asleep while presenting?
what if i wanted to present my project by showing it first in public?
what if my project took place in the class room?
what if someone was offended by my project?
what if someone else's project offends me?
what if i keep asking what if?
what if i decided to use paints and markers to create my project?
what if i used a family member to construct my project?
what if my capstone inspires my project completely?
what if my final project became my capstone?
what if IUPUI has a fire drill during the presentation of my project?
what if my parents and friends disapproved of my project idea?
what if i fell asleep now?
what if i cant think of anything else for a final project
what if the morning of presentations, i wake up with amnesia?
what if i stole someone else's project right from their hands?
what if the class fell in love with my project?
what if it takes me 50 times to create my final project?
what if my final project ends up making me millions?
what if my project causes me to go broke?
what if i dont finish my project until the day of?
what if people noticed i cheated doing my project?
what if i change my mind on my project last minute?
what if i paid someone to do my project for me?
what if i love my project so much, i display it at my college open house?
what if my project sparks a project
what if this blog erased all my 50 questions before i post it?
what if no one cares about my project?
what if no one posts to my blog any "what if" questions?
what if my final project changes someone else's life?
what if IUPUI posted my final project in the IUPUI magazine?
what if i complete my final project but never turn it in?
what if i hoard all my talent and complete something more simple?
what if i had all year to work on my final project?
what if the project was due during the summer time?

i didnt want to mean that much to me

welp.....today was much relaxing after a pretty sad and bad weekend

i had a good time listening to other people share their thoughts, and Beth's thoughts....

I love the freedom we have for the final project, i am excited to branch off my normal new media mind set and do something DIFFERENT, not necessarily original because as we have discussed nothing is original.

off i go to float around ideas in my head for my final project

☮angie

by all means

it was an interesting reading, as it went from one person to another.


i will admit i had some trouble trying to focus during reading this because its an awkward format and goes so far off to the right, also it's a little complicated from time to time which also breaks my focus...

i did appreciate the message and intensity of this story and best of all the ending.

it ended so simply after all that reading into a simplistic
"there is no difficulty,he replied; and I agree with you in thinking that nothing more need be said. "

and i will end my blog with that.

☮angie

cool wHip...

today's class was fun, but i think we had TOO much time to talk about our projects, though it was nice to communicate with my classmates for once.

i do wanna say that i seriously LOVE Beth's view on taking time to just relax and collect your thoughts, i mean it's crazy to me that your body truly makes endorphins and all sorts of chemicals that MAKE you feel happy, who wouldnt want to take time to do something that makes you feel good (and is legal) and re-approach the situation that was making you stressed out.

if more people took a few hours once a week to collect their thoughts and just be, i bet things would be a lot less "lets make a drive-thru, lets take an online class to multi-task, lets find more ways to travel faster' things may slow down and be less stressful....

i appreciate your point of view Beth...rock onnnnnn

☮angie

just breathhhhhh

i cant thank beth enough for the "bliss" class time we were given.
i was seriously so stressed out and needed a break but would refuse to stop doing homework or staring at a computer screen and force myself to just breath.

i got to come home earlier, and i just sat. i watched some tv, watched a movie, made some popcorn, relaxed.

it was weird, because had we not had the bliss time given, there's no way i would have forced myself on my own to just "do nothing". I got to steal time without my self really knowing i stole :)
if that makes any sense.

stealing time is a strange approach to life, because its not stealing if its your own property, but so often i just give my time and life to school, homework, family, friends etc. and rarely do i just carve out some me time. i mean i OWN my own time after all, dont i?


as far as brainstorming a final project, its not complete yet, i promise i'm thinking, and i'm trying to take some more time to think about it and not my capstone, and purposely steer away from my capstone. i plan to do something different, and personally affect myself and have to show others the outcome.

so we will see....it's still in the making.


☮angie

....where we gonna go from here.....

when i got the assignment to document time, i couldn't think of much to do with the actual bag, but i was inspired to make short video documenting people with time, and life in general.

the video has people with all different time aspects, either super fast...super slow, etc.

this video made me think and observe a lot about time.

i thought it came out nice, its short and sweet so enjoy :)

tough your taste

today's class began with me being pelted in the face with various types of candy from none other than my teacher.

that was fun, then we were instructed to listen to some crazy music that i found quite interesting, while wearing a plastic bag over our eyes to force us to really pay attention to the music.

then we watched the "touch your taste" or something like that im not positive on the title, but it was not interesting at the beginning, it was interesting in the middle, it was boring at the end.

i left today's class being aware of E.V.E.R.Y. little sound i passed on my way home, in the car, at home, while eating dinner.
it was weird, i mean i thought i was an observant person, but apparently i've not been as observant of sound as i can be.

4-bode-ing

oh the senses.....

no wonder God created all 5

i struggled SO much to do ANY and all of them. I tried. I tried. I failed everytime, i made it nowhere near 3 hours, my body and mind are too selfish to take them away. I thanked God though everytime I took the sense back, they are all just to great and have such an amazing purpose.

BUT my new sense i would think to be is:

a sense of foreboding.

definition:

• a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
• an unfavorable omen
• fateful: ominously prophetic

the purpose: to keep/avoid from horrible situations, bad accidents, feelings of evil or something about to happen but you have the ability to make it NOT happen.

i know there is a reason this isn't a sense because life is supposed to have the good and the bad, but in a fairy tale world, this would be cool.

whoops

okey so we got carried away with choosing to disorient the entire room before leaving, giving the next class quite the mess to clean up. I do feel bad for making them annoyed or mad ....

my proposed apology:

Say I'm sorry and mean it.
and not to sound like a cold hearted person but i mean what should we do now? bad things happen to good people all the time for no reason, and i mean it was just a few unorganized desks. it probably took them 2 minutes to put them back.....SOOOO unless they are expecting more than an apology i really have no idea how we would "repay" them with something plesant?

how about we invite them to our class movie time this monday lol??

Legend Has It.....

i started this blog "legend has it" because i heard Beth say she loves when things begin like that.

today's class had up's and down's.

sometimes fun, sometimes not. but life cant always be.

im glad and appreciate beth's love for my egg, it makes me feel real good.
I cant tell you how happy it made me to walk out of the disoriented classroom of wrecked desks while the students in the hall look at me and a few other classmates and say
"dude, you guys forgot to fix the desks???" as we all looked....shrugged our shoulders...and laughingly walked away while maintaining a smile ahahahaha. i loved it.

wayzgoose.

☮angie




i included the badass classroom picture and a pretty sunset from on the way home...ya know why not :)

Fi Tahw

1. What if he would have stayed in United States?
2. What if I would have changed my major?
3. What my hair was short?
4. What if you changed your mind?
5. What if you did everything for a whole day for someone else?
6. What if you tried to be silent for a whole day?
7. What if you could choose your death?
8. What if you were going to Hell?
9. What if you could know when you will die?
10. What if Coca-Cola had zero calories?
11. What if dogs could talk to humans?
12. What if the snow was made of sand?
13. What if you could grow an ocean in your backyard?
14. What if you knew who framed Roger Rabbit?
15. What if God is trying to talk to you everyday?
16. What if you could transport into a movie?
17. What if there was no such thing as cavities?
18. What if college was made of cotton candy?
19. What if all food was free?
20. What if your dreams were in black and white?
21. What if I didn’t do this assignment?
22. What if half of these questions had no answers?
23. What if I sent these questions to whom I was asking them about?
24. What if women had the right to vote from the start?
25. What if tomorrow never came?
26. What if you chose me?
27. What if he believed?
28. What if Adam ate the apple first?
29. What if I said no?
30. What if I said yes?
31. What if this assignment was fake and I wrote these questions in a dream?
32. What if I was bilingual?
33. What if she said no?
34. What if you were still here?
35. What if you could birth children through your armpits?
36. What if this were the last thing I wrote?
37. What if George Bush cried in public?
38. What if the Nazis came in 2000 instead of 1940’s?
39. What if the Titanic never sank?
40. What if you believed me?
41. What if there was no such thing as cancer?
42. What if health could be bought?
43. What if love was just a song?
44. What if what?
45. What if what if didn’t exist?
46. What if you were forced to eat one of those eggs everyday for a week? (Matt)
47. What if when you left the egg in the car it busted? (Fred)
48. What if someone offered to pay for your egg paintings because they liked them so much? (Patrick)
49. What if your girlfriend broke up with you over the egg joke? (Marqi)
50. What if your video worked in class for everyone to see?(Stan)

naked in class

when i passed my egg around that bared so many emotions and feelings [that for the most part] i wouldnt even bother telling friends or family just because who wants to sit around explaninig how you feel everyday>

I felt n a k e d.

but there's more....when i noticed the class mainly made up of guys i was even more uncomfortable with the idea of all these guys reading how i have felt in the past 14 days, guys i dont even know but the cool thing was that from what i saw, everyone [the two girls in the class included] they held the egg so gently....and "cradled" it like Beth said. it was weird to literally watch all these strangers hold my emotions- let alone so carefully.

it made me feel
vulnerable. very vulnerable.

but in a good way. it was weird.
i dont mean to sound like a sappy girl with tons of emotional baggage and "feelings" but this experience was unlike no other and very interesting to see the results...

i knew. i knew it was going to break. but that's life, even when we know something may not work out we do it anyway. we still do it.

eggsactly how do you feel?

well.....i did "something" with my egg. rather its quite what you were looking for or not at all, i found the experiment both entertaining and interesting. I took the egg home. sat thought about it; couldn't really grasp what to do, and BOOM popped an idea but...eh....wasn't liking that.
then i begin thinking of ways to ensure i take this assignment seriously and involve myself as often as possible which leads me to my final idea that involves me with the egg literally everyday.

i took the egg and grabbed a permanent marker and decided to define my feelings for the day each night on the egg using only one word per night.

i am a "journaler" so i am used to describing the thoughts and final comments for each day in my notebook, so after writing in my journal every night i went to my egg and wrote down one word describing how i felt after that day had ended.

this was interesting, it gave me an idea of how many different emotions i go through each day/week whatever

it shows highs, lows, mediums, etc but the kicker is that is bares my feelings to whomever sees the egg.

something i dont necessarily broadcast for the whole world to see- this took me "out of my shell" and really made me involved in an assignment for literally 14 days.

so thats that.

☮angie

wayzgoose y'all

I loved Beth's reaction to I think a Matt opening the book and saying "ummm...wayzgoose?" and to Beth's surprise she had no idea what that was......which ended us up in the Lobby of IUPUI IT building downstairs with Matt screaming "WAYZGOOSE 2009!!!!" in which we were all directed to pay attention to "round things" the rest of the day.

This all makes perfect senese. (at least to the fun mind of random people) like myself. :)

I would sum this day up as energetic, interesting, and thinking outside the BUN..... BAM!


☮angie

test test....

this is my official first blog. enjoy!



☮angie