Final Project!

  So here it is!!! Actually it is not much different then my previous post but classmates just suggested I blur the photos more but I liked it the way it was. There is a lot of advertising done at sporting events and I felt that with the pictures as they are it gives the feel of advertisement. I am really happy with the finished product because I feel that it represents me and my four years at OSU really well. I started thinking about this idea a couple weeks ago and thought that since I am graduating this was a really good project idea. A lot of things happened while I was in college and though not all of it was good, it all made me who I am today. I have grown and changed a lot over 4 years, for the better I believe. It was kind of sad fro me to think about my college career because it made me realize I am about to embark on a new journey of my life, and I have no idea what that is yet! I remember being really stressed thinking about graduating and when I was taking a picture of my cap and tassel reality really sunk in that I am graduating!!!
    When I was working on this project I wasn't sure how I was going to arrange all of my different experiences on the background. I was going to make a path and just put pictures any where on the Shoe but then I talked to the teach and he suggested to think about random placement. After talking to him I thought about it more and how when I was thinking of the major events I didn't think of them in order I just thought about them and as they came to me I wrote them down. So thats when I decided to just put them on as random. I knew from the beginning that I wanted the Shoe to be my background and I took that picture personally so I think it adds to my connection with this project. I wanted to put my cousin and grandma in the clouds as if to show they are in heaven now. That part was super hard for me having to go back and think about freshman year first quarter when two people I dearly loved died three days apart. For my cousin his favorite color was orange, as is mine, and every time I find a feather I think of him and know that he is always looking out for me. That is why I put a little orange feather with his picture. For my grandma she used to sing us a ladybug song when we were younger so anytime I see a ladybug it reminds me of her so I added a little ladybug with her picture. I gained a lot of valuable experience in college and I added all my jobs/internships/volunteering in my project to show that. Hopefully it will help me get a good job...we shall see. I added a picture of my family because coming to college meant moving away from my parents (only three hours but still it was new for me) and my animals (who were like my kids!) that was hard for me but I knew it was necessary for me to grow up. There are two pictures of me and my friends. I added these because I thought it was funny/cool to see how we changed over four years. The four girls I am with in both pictures lived on the same floor as me freshman year. The picture on the right is all of us senior year. I think it is cool we ended up living together in the end too. It will be hard saying goodbye to them! Then I have a picture of me and my boyfriend who I just started dating senior year which is funny because I had a crush on him since freshman year of high school.. Oh yea Stradley Hall was my dorm freshman year. Then I put on my cap and tassel. In the middle if you noticed I put the word BELIEVE on the field. My parents raised me by telling me anything is possible just believe in yourself and you can accomplish whatever you want in life. This word means a lot to me and I do believe!!
   So I realized a lot of feelings went into this project. From happiness, to sadness, I realized that it was very bittersweet for me making this. I am ready to graduate and excited but at the same time I am nervous how things are going to work out and if I will still keep in touch with my awesome friends I met in my OSU experience. I am glad I did this for my project because it allows me to look back on all my experiences at once. And yes, there were other things that happened during my four years at OS but I only had so much room and the ones included on the final project were the ones that stood out the most to me. I really enjoyed this class and am glad I had the opportunity to take it. This may have just been an elective to fill up time for me to be a full-time student but I learned a lot of new things that I will take with me throughout my life. For me this class was more then just about art, it really got you to think and, for me at least, helped me grow as a person and think about things more in depth. So I want to say thank you!  Hope you like my final project!!

Final Project Idea

Okay so I threw a lot of ideas around for this project and I finally came up with one  that I like. Since I am graduating really soon!! (and can't wait!) I decided to to make a collage of some sorts of all of the major things that happened to me in my four years at OSU. From jobs to internships to people, a lot has changed and shaped me to make me who I am today. I wanted to show all of this in one image. At first I was going to do it sort of like a path throughout the years but then I talked to Michael and thought it would be cool to make it a little scrambled because thats often how I think of things in my mind. I'm not sure if I am done with it yet but I am looking forward to getting feedback from classmates to see what i should change and leave alone. I figured I would make The Shoe my background since that is kind of where I started and that is where I am ending my career of being a student at OSU. I doubt I will be back here for school but hey the world is a mysterious place and you can never say never!!! Its definitely a bittersweet moment for me so I feel like this project will bring all of my wonderful, and not so wonderful, experiences together as one.
Here is a link to my project so far since for some reason it won't go on here as a picture...

https://5fblug.sn2.livefilestore.com/y1p37pmVQ1EXjr0dxqe02otiC2L_f1x8Hmy4DbkKPpa8c6E-4oFW1VJ3vzseB4vXD46x5gGl2VCb5M7Rc6JZGwK2tAqIHPQ8uQ5/mylife.tif?psid=1

MP 6

  So at first I was like, "what the heck am I going to do for this project?" But then I really thought about and and I thought what is something that you use more than water? Not much!! I, being as environmental savvy as I am, recycle. But, its harder for me than it sounds because we don't have recycling where I live. I have to save all the water bottles, cans, other recyclables in a basket so that I can take them to a recycle place. So as I was looking around my room trying to think of something I can take a picture of for "to collect" I glanced down at my nearly empty recycle basket. I thought that maybe if I filled it that would be perfect because you use water everyday but don't really think too much about it. So I began my journey, I had a week to fill up my basket. I went to all my roommates and collected any bottles they had. Also, I saved any bottle I came across at work and where I volunteer. Finally I was able to fill it up all the way, it was even over flowing! I thought it would be cool to put the word collect in the picture somewhere so I put them in a way so I could write the letters on different bottles. Can you find it?? The funny thing is this basket full of empty water bottles will most likely sit in my room for a while before I empty it and bottles will continue to be added to it...

My next word, "to differ", isn't as good as my first word. I was just going to do "to collect" but since I seem to be injuring myself a lot lately this seemed appropriate too. So first I sliced my leg open and had to get stitches so I have had to use many bandaids. Then I decided I was going to get various other wounds that required bandaids as well. Now thankfully I didn't need any more stitches but I did have to go on antibiotics for my cat bite. Anyways...apparently I am a klutz! So for this picture, as I was applying new bandages to all of my various wounds I noticed the different sizes and shapes of the band aides I was using. I figure this would be a good thing to use for my words "to differ." I have been using bandaids constantly for about 2 weeks now and have gotten used to them just being part of my everyday chores (changing bandaids). I took this picture to show all the differences is bandaids I have had to use recently.

Video Project

Here is the link of the video Mike and I edited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbI2hVEGfW4

  This was a rather cool project I thought. In the first part there were guys on that machine spraying/cleaning off that front entrance of the shoe. We made the video look like it had gotten wet to add to what was happening. Then we got down to Olentangy River and found some geese to video, nothing special. Then when we were taping the geese in the water the empty bottle floated by. I thought that was cool that we captured that because it shows that, even though nature is beautiful, humans dominate over everything. It just seemed so peaceful and then garbage floats by. Then as I was taping the river alone I heard a russell in the bushes and it startled me a bit but when I looked over it was a Robin collecting twigs for her nest. I thought it was cool to be able to capture that because I probably startled her more than she startled me. Then there were just a couple clips of people running/biking on the trail. The third clip with the two guys is what really stands out though. When we were just walking and videotaping we did not notice that the one guy was holding the other guys arm while they ran. Once we started editing we saw that and wondered if the guy was blind or what. So we reversed the clip which I think gives the effect that something is different. We also put the clip in black and white to help with the effect. Then the last part is a guy directing traffic around construction. Campus is full of construction so I thought this was good to capture in the video. 

Response to Carver article

   When I was reading this article I figured the guy in the story would end up liking the blind man because he kept going on and on about how there was a blind man coming to his house. He was putting this guy down before he even met him! I guess what I thought would happen did because he ended up understanding the blind man. I liked at the end when he kept his eyes closed and just pictured it in his mind, I'm assuming anyways. Relating this to art I believe that our minds are art. The blind man would have to just imagine everything he hears and learns about because he doesn't actually know what it looks like. I never really thought about it before, how blind people have to come up with their own interpretations of what things look like. Also, I believe it is different if you are born blind and if you go blind at some point in your life.
  Something I didn't like about this article was the repetition. I just felt like the author would say the same thing over and over like, "She wanted," "She said," she, she, she! Actually, I didn't really like the article that much at all. I kept losing interest and finding myself not paying attention to what I was reading. I think it was the way it was written though because the story itself has a good meaning. Had this story been written better I would have enjoyed it more, the writing style just threw me off. Not a bad meaning in the story though

MP 5

  So my original thought was talking to animals but I thought that I could make that a little better by making my power be reading minds (people and animals). I made my setting the Columbus Zoo because what other place will you find more animals and people in the same place?? I made thought bubbles for everyone so that it shows what they might be thinking. Since the guy on the left looks like he is sneaking in somewhere I made his thought be he was going to try and tame a lion. Since there is a wolf and a camel  in my picture I decided to make their thought each other since a wolf can eat a camel and a camel would be scared of a wolf. For the two girls, they looked like they were just ready to enjoy their day and see their favorite animals so I put a different animal in each of their thought bubbles. The best one, I feel, is the wolverine. Since our rivals are wolverines I thought it would be funny to make his thought bubble be brutus as number one! Then lastly, I added a picture of myself to make it look like I am thinking and added all of everything else's thought to my bubble. Then I put a picture of a mind with a question mark in the middle of my bubble to say "whats everyone thinking?" I Thought this power would be pretty good for me because I am starting my internship at the Columbus Zoo soon and I think it would be cool to see what all the animals and guests are thinking. For the wolf and camel I left their cage bars in there to get a sense that they are still in cages not just running all around the entrance. Also, I like that it looks a little chaotic because I feel like my life is a little chaotic right now. I don't know if there is anything that I would want to change but maybe that my background picture was a little better quality. It was hard though because it was getting dark and rainy and gloomy outside. I like the final picture a lot though because I wasn't sure how I would be able to show that I am reading minds but then as I was working on it it came to me. If only this was true though because it would make my life a whole lot easier!! (Thanks Vince, Rachel, and Christie for posing for the pictures!)

Response to "This is Water"

   I really liked when the author was talking about how one thing can mean two totally different things to different people. A lot of times I feel people don't take other peoples views into account but I think this is important. Everyone is different and not everyone is going to see the same thing in the same way. Also like right off the bat how he showed that people often don't ask some of the most important questions. Or they just go through the motions without actually understanding whats going on. I also like the writing style of this article because I feel as though it is similar to mine. How the author just goes on and on about one thing and how it leads into another. I recently started another blog and thats what I feel like I do when I write in it. I guess more then just how I write though its how I think. One second I will be driving and someone will cut me off and they are a jerk but then I think well maybe someone the love just got hurt or they are having a bad day or they...you get the picture. I just keep thinking of different scenarios in my head.
   One thing I didn't like about this article or I guess I could say I just didn't understand was when the author was talking about suicide. Someone pretty close to me has committed suicide rather recently so I think the whole idea that it was brought up in a graduation speech was a little weird. I think when I saw the word suicide I just couldn't comprehend the rest of the paragraph because I was stuck on that. I don't believe that people who commit suicide are dead long before hand. I don't know I guess it is still a sensitive subject to me. Another thing I didn't like was when the author talked about there being no such thing as atheism. I mean I get where they are coming from but who is he to say that there isn't atheism? He doesn't know, he may not be atheist but that doesn't mean other people aren't or don't define themselves as it. I don't know I just feel like thats me saying there is no such thing as Judaism. I may not follow those practices but other people do so it has to be real right? Okay last thing I had to comment on that I didn't really like was at the end when the author said "education really is the job of a lifetime." Now I took this as him saying that you need an education to get a good job but I know plenty of people that have really good jobs (better than some that did get a college degree) and didn't go to college. Overall i just had quite a bit of mixed feelings on this one.