Xerox Project!!!

I was so excited to be able to do this project!! When I first was thinking about my piece I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do. I had access to my friends personal printer which had a scanner. I started off by just scanning my hands from all 4 sides. Then I scanned my face which was actually hard because I kept breathing so marks would show up on the print!! Also her scanner took 3 minutes a scan so it was so slow!!!! I would say scanning my feet was hard because I didn't put the scanner on the floor so I was just standing there trying not to fall over for 3 minutes each foot! I added in the hands and feet with the "chains" which was actually one of my necklaces!

 

I also scanned in my text books and anything associated with school. The last few weeks have been really stressful! I'm taking 18 credits this semester and 20 next semester so I've had a very full load on my plate in addition to this being the prime season for golf! School has been stressing me out so that was my inspiration. Basically this project is representing me. I am in the middle with my face pushed up against the surface and hand in color showing that it's me and I'm sort of trapped.

 

The next part of it is obviously I'm trapped by my homework and schedules!! I wanted to do something with my feet so I made the whole thing like a body. So hands go on top and feet go on the bottom. So the hands are reaching for the balloon because I want to be released from all this stress. But I am being tied down by my feet and kept grounded because my work here is not done yet. But it is definitely in reach!

 

I LOVED this project, I wasn't sure I was going to make something really cool so I surprised myself! Really really really happy with how this turned out!

Grid Art Project

 I was so excited to get the chance to do this project! Initially I was worried about the picture I chose because there was so much going on in the picture, but I am so pleased with the outcome! I used around 1300 push pins! It took about 7 hours I would say, and a lot of patience! I thought that it was going to be bigger, hence the giant board but that's okay! Super proud of this!

Video Games

On a large scale level, all of us have played some type of game. With my generation being defined as millenials, we have grown up in a technologically savvy world. With technology being so readily available, I have had access to many different games. I was definitely a tomboy when I was little and still kind of am. I have an older brother who is about 2 years older than me and I would always try to do everything that he was doing. I've always been competitive and so this got me interesting in a lot of what society would say is "guy stuff".

I'm not sure if Pokémon came out before game cube but I played both. I had every edition of Pokémon and I had a Gameboy and many versions of the handheld devise. I also played on the game cube and we played super smash bros as well as money ball or something. It was actually a really fun game because you would go through different obstacles with your money in this ball thing and you couldn't fall off the obstacle!

Then my brother upgraded to a PlayStation as well as an Xbox. I didn't really play anything on them except I did play dance dance revolution on the PlayStation if that counts as a video game?

As we grew older my brother was always into the war video games because he wanted to go into the army or marines (which he is actually in now!). I wasn't very good at them because I couldn't get my person to look at eye level while also controlling the weapons and such. Also my brother would tell me that we were on the same team and then he would go and kill me!! That did not last for very long to say the least!

Then, in grade school I really got into those online games. I played Neopets and club penguin? I'm not sure what kind of phases that was! I also played this online game called Runescape. My brother introduced me and taught me how to do it. I'm not going to lie, that game took up god knows how many hours of my life. I was completely hooked and was completely addicted to the game!!! It was so bad, I would spend my entire weekends on the internet just building up my skills and money in the game. I even bought memberships so that I could unlock other parts of the game and I just found it to be so fun. In actuality, there were a lot of skills I learned from that game. I'm probably a really efficient typer because I was on that game so much! I also learned a lot about value and bartering. So I did learn things but with hindsight, I spent way too much time on that game that it was so unhealthy!

Temporarily I was introduced to league of legends.... That did not last very long. I mainly just did that because of a guy that I liked. I found it to be confusing and dumb because you had to spend so much time on this "one" mission! It just found it to be too simple honestly. Once high school hit, I had no time to play video games and I moved into watching tv shows and movies more. Now in college, I'm the same way. My video games are over but I still enjoy sci-fi and interactive things once in a while!!

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The Honeymooners: Mind Your Own Business

I really enjoyed this episode of The Honeymooners. It was really funny and the dialogue was great! It's amazing how advanced the scripts of these shows developed after the world figured out how to add speaking to the big screen. These episodes also came out in the 50's which is really interesting because of how long but also short that television has been around. They also have the live audience which gives queues on when the audience at home should laugh. There's a lot of sophistication that these new television shows had which they previous had not. Also in these episodes they use topics that are extremely relatable to the public. Events that actually happened made these episodes popular.

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Mystery:
While reading through this section, I didn't realize that in the beginning, mystery stories were written in the perspective of the villain. The turning point was really The Detective Story and The Shadow Magazine. Later on of course one of the best well known mystery series is Sherlock Holmes. I think there are about 4 current shows on TV today that are based off of Sherlock Holmes which just shows how radio took off. When World War II ended, so did American's interest for mystery kind of ended. Also the new age that came to be with the ushering in of the Cold War kind of wiped out the popularity of radio shows and increasing interest in television.


Private Eyes:
Private Eyes is interesting because increasing popularity was moving towards a narrative perspective for crime radio airings. The characters that the authors devised were brilliant because they kind of were like awesome good guys that fought crime and didn't answer to anyone. By using first person, the public was able to hear the thoughts of the main character. This era also created the idea of a sidekick. The sidekick was there to help the main character and create more dialogue.

Pandora

I love Pandora. It is so convenient and has a plethora of songs from all different genres. It's a great tool just because of the songs that it has in it's arsenal. You can type in a specific song or artist and then Pandora was specifically tailor a playlist for you based on that preference. I have stumbled upon so many songs that I absolutely love which I never would have heard unless I had Pandora! It does have commercials but it's not that bad because you can just go to a different station. Also I do come across some songs that I don't like but I'm able to just skip them because of the feature Pandora puts on there so that's great! It does stink that it uses Wifi because that's where most of my monthly data goes! The iPhone has tried to kind of copy Pandora on their music app but I don't think that works very well and I definitely prefer Pandora!