Xerox Project

orbit gum and one finger circle at top right spin......bottom left corner depicts hands ripping off black to display the signature initials written from the change in my pocket.......the rest is up for you to decide....

Its time to do some catching up....

ok so there is never really a good excuse to not keep up with your blogging but im gonna try anyway.........so as the swim season came down to the last couple weeks, i was forced to miss a lot of classes and more importantly a lot of work.....Im not complaining though because I had the opportunity to compete in Houton, Texas at NCAA's. With that said, once I came back to real life I realzed that all the work had caught up to me. Oh and by the way.....nationals was during spring break so its not like I was out partying instead of doing work :(   

Anywayyyyy.......swimming is over, im back to being a dedicated blogger and I will get to commenting on all your grid projects and xerox projects once they are all up. 

Grid Project(FINALLY!!)

Flipbook

These are just 3 pics from the flipbook i made. Being a swimmer i thought it would only be fitting if i did a guy during a race......hopefully i figure out how to put all the pics together to make the quick video clip and you all can see that this isnt your ordinary swim race.

kids do the the darndest things...

who would of thought a bunch of MIT students would come up with something as incredible as a wearable computing system?? I was just talking to my friend about how the itouch and iphone have really set the standard of what is expected out of new technology but after reading the article, that certainly takes the cake. I have heard recently from another friend that the new features that are expected in cell phones will be the capability of them to have a built in projector in it. This seems as if it would be very similar but with this device, it is just so interactive and so revolutionary that when you watch it in action, it just bows your mind. What i thought was an interesting issue was what happens when you start writing and drawing or doing whatever on other people's things? Although you are not truly leaving a mark, would that be considered temporary defacement? Could you go to jail for drawing a virtual smiley face on the white house? I guess we will have to wait and see what this crazy world comes up with next....

I knew that sounded familiar!

OK! so i just heard an opera that we listened to in class last week in one of the commercials during the super bowl. I wasnt paying attention to the commercial but once I heard the tune I knew it sounded familiar. It took me a while to find out what the name of it was but thanks to my great memory and the help of youtube i found the orange video from sesame street and realized it was habanera. I thought it would be cool to blog about it because like we discussed in class, the operas of the past still have a significant impact on us today. Anyway, back to the game....

The picture says it all.....

When we watched parts of Amadeus in class I thought of two things. 1) This guy is absolutely nuts. 2) This guy is an absolute genius. But like all great minds of the past, insanity usually comes with it. 

I have seen this movie before for other classes and I truly enjoy it. I played the bass clarinet in my school band from 3rd grade to 12th grade so music has always been a big part of my life and I recall playing many works that he had composed. What he did in the short life that he had is incredible. The amount of symphonies that we can easily recognize as Mozart are still being played and his place in music history will always be apparent.

This time period is a very interesting one. Like we are discussing, the only forms of entertainment besides church was to go to these operas and dress nice and socialize. It is amazing to see how they used such little technology that they had in order to make the play or opera look right. Obviously they do not compare to what we can do now, but for the time period, the use of the 4th wall was incredible.