The thing i realized about the stories people wrote is that all the characters kinda sounded like them. Chloe's clothing choice sounded like hers and while the rest were harder to find examples of, they all gave the image of someone who was like them but alittle better. I have yet to decide if this is us being narcastistic saying "look at me im cool" or if this is us showing the image that we are trying to be.
I think are like the people who copy famous paintings. We see this painting, this image that we find perfect and we want to copy it. We want to come as close to this image as we can. So when we write these stories we are ask to think more completely about the image we want to copy.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
my story
Johny threw out his water bottle as he walked into school, earphone dangling from one ear. "Your late again" The security guard smirked. "Well I got a sandwich and i had to take time to enjoy it." The security guard blankly stared at him. "look man" johny said calmy "im gonnna be in this academic factory for the next few hours, leave then come back tomarro for the next few hours. So excuse me for not trying to enjoy the few happy moments i get." "Coming into school this late makes it seem like you dont even care." The security guard stated. "If I didnt care about school, why would i come in the first place?" The security gaurd shook his head. "how are the kids?" Johny asked with a smile. "The kids are fine, Sid in is the school play." "thats good to hear" replied johnny. "tell him i said brake a leg". With that Johny made his way up the stairs to his second period class.
Monday, November 16, 2009
#23
The desire to be cool is a quest to be accepted. It is our animal instinct to be part of a group, there is safety in numbers. To be part of a group we find a idenity and stick to it. It is rare that you will find a kid whos favorite rapper is 50 cent, but also likes ACDC. we make choices and have opinions to fit into a specific group. Even the people who go against conformity will listen to anti-conformity music and where uncool clothing along with the un-conformist friends. We decide whats cool depending on what group we are in or want to be in.
Another part of being cool, is keeping up with the cool. Once you are set into one group it is hard to change groups. If you have gotten your self into the bob marley loving rasta group, you probably cant have a sudden intrest in the lyrics of Immortal Technique. Joining a group is like becoming a puzzle piece, you can only work well in that group; you cant be the one bob marley loving person who also listens to slayer because that doesnt fit. And when you dont fit you are seen as wishy washy and not really part of a solid group. you become a loner.
Another part of the cool is preventing people who are deemed unworthy entrance to your group. By deciding what is cool, you can determine who is not cool. If you are into wearring Urban outfitters and other bright clothing, chances are you will not chill with a goth kid. By making the statement that you are a person who wears bright colors you are saying that you think that is the way to live and that anyone who disagrees is uncool. The nerd will never eat lunch with the Jocks because they are making two diffrent statements.
Another part of being cool, is keeping up with the cool. Once you are set into one group it is hard to change groups. If you have gotten your self into the bob marley loving rasta group, you probably cant have a sudden intrest in the lyrics of Immortal Technique. Joining a group is like becoming a puzzle piece, you can only work well in that group; you cant be the one bob marley loving person who also listens to slayer because that doesnt fit. And when you dont fit you are seen as wishy washy and not really part of a solid group. you become a loner.
Another part of the cool is preventing people who are deemed unworthy entrance to your group. By deciding what is cool, you can determine who is not cool. If you are into wearring Urban outfitters and other bright clothing, chances are you will not chill with a goth kid. By making the statement that you are a person who wears bright colors you are saying that you think that is the way to live and that anyone who disagrees is uncool. The nerd will never eat lunch with the Jocks because they are making two diffrent statements.
my art project response
I think my video was a mirror. I used comedy to bring a current problem to the extreme. In my video Neiville is alone because everyone is indoors on the computer. This is a clear representation of all the time people spend in doors. In my video i dont tell anyone what they are doing is wronge, i just show them a idea and let them respond in their own way.
I thought my project was pretty funny if i say so myself. By taking the main idea of I Am Legend and tweeking it abit, i was able to show an perspective in a way that was fun to watch.
I found the editting of the video the most interesting. While filming it was fun it was the editting that really set the mood. I used the captions and the music to set the mood, which help got the point across. I feel like if i had use a diffrent song alittle more upbeat the video would have a totally diffrent mood and part of the message would be lost.
I thought my project was pretty funny if i say so myself. By taking the main idea of I Am Legend and tweeking it abit, i was able to show an perspective in a way that was fun to watch.
I found the editting of the video the most interesting. While filming it was fun it was the editting that really set the mood. I used the captions and the music to set the mood, which help got the point across. I feel like if i had use a diffrent song alittle more upbeat the video would have a totally diffrent mood and part of the message would be lost.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
my art project
I did a spoof on I Am Legend. Instead of the city being empty because everyone is a zombie to a diese, everyone is inside a zombie to their screen.
My camera is broken so the video is choppy but visable
http://www.vimeo.com/7633234
My camera is broken so the video is choppy but visable
http://www.vimeo.com/7633234
Thursday, November 5, 2009
kevin outline comment
kevin. your main ideas are good. in your outline you should include what quotes or evidence you should use. You have the word ipod that shows that you will talk about ipods but you should be more specific.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The first Tv was invented in 1934, and ever since then we have been on a slippery slope. What the television aloud us to do is create a world outside our own. We could stare at a screen and still feel feelings such as happy, sad, and scared; with out having to do anything. It was like we had emotions on demand. more then 70 years later, that world has becomes alot more complex and luxurious. We can now enter that world and do alot more then have emotions. We can now talk to people, send mail with in seconds, read the newspaper, and so much more. It has gotten to the point where the digital world has begun to slip into the real world. Now basic things such as sending mail, listening to music, and readding news articles are being done in the digital world. What this means is that we have become dependant on the digital world. We can no longer understand a world where there is no digital technology. We are trapped in the digital world because we know of no other world.
the movie WallE tells the story of a clean up robot stuck on whats left of earth. The humans have moved into outer space, till the robot is done cleanning up all the trash that they have left all over. Up in space their whole lives are digital. The are carried around on floatting chairs, with little screens infront of their faces, while robots serve them. They spend 24/7 in the digital world. When WallE, the robot, goes up there he accidently bumps into a womans chair, which turns off her screen. For the first time she finally sees the non digital world and she is amazed but what she sees. "we have a pool?!". This is what our lives are becoming. We no longer look at the real world. We come home after school do our homework (or not) then jump on the computer. some people even do their homework while on the computer. We spend so much time in the digital world that we dont see the real world as much. The other day I was watching my step sister play her Gameboy. She was sitting on the window still and on the other side of the window, not even 6 feet away was a hawk. This hawk was sitting there eatting a squirll, but my step sister was clueless. She was so wrapped up in her little game that she didnt see the hawk. We are losing touch with the real world because we are spending so much time in the digital world.
I mentioned in the beginning how digital technology, such as the tv, can bring us emotions when we want them. These days it has gotten behond that. We how take emotion we feel in the real world, and bring them over to the digital world. There is a site called tumblr where afew of the students go to blog their feelings and events. If you fallow these peoples blogs, you realize that they are pretty up to date. It is clear that the days of personal journals and dairies are over. We now take what has happened in our real life and bring it across the line to the digital world. We now use the digital world to help deal with our emotions. This was also true in the book Feed. In the end of the book Violet is pretty much dead, and her dad informs titius that it was his fualt. In responce to that Titius sits in the middle of his floor naked and buying the same pair of pants over and over. He is used to having the feed make him feel better, expect this time it isnt working. After buy the pair of pants he doesnt feel better, so he tries again and again. He no longer knows how to deal with real world feelings because he is use to dealing with them in the digital world. The digital world has become so big in our lives that we are losing the ability to deal with things in the real world.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IFCAoth0080/SsVbnrqTv4I/AAAAAAAAA-s/vD_cAY89BkA/s400/dan_page_igeneration.gif (technicall difficulties, fallow the link)
It has gotten to the point where parts of our real life are dictated by aspects in our digital life. Recently the government announced that there would be a switch from analog signles to digital and that our tvs would stop working if we didnt get the little converter box. With out question millions of people went out and got the box. People bought the thing because with out it their Tvs would go blank, and that just couldnt happen. This was also seen in Walle. While the people sat in their chairs advertisements told when what to buy. At one point the big screen told the people that the blue suits were the new fashion, and just like that everyone pressed a button to change their suits blue. We have given the people who lead the digital world so much power. We accept what they say or do because they are the amazing people who have blessed us with sites like google and facebook. When they tell us to jump we ask how high. President Obama was praised for his use of technology while running his champain. He was twittering and always on his blackberry. Most of the things we knew about the canidates we found out over the internet. We are letting the digital world dictate the real world. We have become use to find out how to live our lives with articles and videos, it has gotten to the point where if the internet shut off we would not know where to get the same information.
Another huge problem with the digital world is that even though we know what bad about it, we cant stop using it. Recently in class we did a expirement were we had to change one aspect of our digital lives. Some people got off the digital earlyer at night and said that because of it they had better sleep. I am willing to bet that only weeks after making that discovery, they are back to texting and instant messaging all night and their sleep patterns are back to being screwy. The problem is that we dont want to leave the digital world because it is too convenient. The digital world is an easy way to feel emotions that you wouldnt feel at ten oclock pm right when your about to go to sleep. Before the digital world took over 10 oclock pm was a peaceful hour. People were probably readding or getting ready for sleep. There wasnt much excitement or crazy emotions. But now at 10 we can watch Tv, talk about the latest gossip, or play a game that puts us in world war two. There is no longer anything stopping us from getting the stimuli that gives us these emotions. Who wants to read a book when they can watch what happens on One Tree Hill. It has gotten to the point where if we lost the digital world, we wouldnt know what to do with our time. The digital wold has taken over the real world by making stimulus so easy to come by.
We are trapped in the digital world because we know of no other world. We are live a hamster in a cage. The cage can be big and fancy with all those crazy tubes, but it isnt the outside world. It has all the things the hamster likes food, water, toys, with out having all the basic struggles of everyday hamster life. As time goes on the digital world gets more and more complex and we get sucked deeper and deeper into it. When will it end? Will we realize what we are missing and begin to limit our digital life? Or will it get to the point were we no longer have to get up and everything we do in life will be online? We are letting ourselves be sucked into a fake world, and we arent doing a damn thing about it.
The arguement could be said that we are fully aware of the outside world. People will say that we only spend part of our time in the digital world and that most of our time is spent living life free of technology. While we dont spend all day on the computer and we do spend a considerable amount of time moving around and "living life", we are rarely ever fully disconnected. If you are out in the park with your friends playing a pick up game of soccer and your phone rings; will you keep playing or will you stop the game to pick it up. The average person would stop what ever hes doing to pick up his or her phone when it rings. The ringing of your phone can bring you your whole day to a pause. So even though we dont spend all day in front of a screen, we are rarely 10 feet away from a digital device; and when that device calls for our attention we will stop almost anything to give it that.
Now that it is clear we are plugged in enough to be called neo, the question is why does it matter? The more you understand what the problem is the easier it will be to decided what to do. The fact is while the digital world has made things easier, it has began to make things to easy. This does not mean that young people today are worse or shallower than young people in the past. It does mean they get less help. People once lived within a pattern of being, which educated the emotions, guided the temporary toward the permanent and linked everyday urges to higher things. The accumulated wisdom of the community steered couples as they tried to earn each other’s commitment." (David Brooks. New York Times). Understanding the kind of world we live it will help when we try to live better.
the movie WallE tells the story of a clean up robot stuck on whats left of earth. The humans have moved into outer space, till the robot is done cleanning up all the trash that they have left all over. Up in space their whole lives are digital. The are carried around on floatting chairs, with little screens infront of their faces, while robots serve them. They spend 24/7 in the digital world. When WallE, the robot, goes up there he accidently bumps into a womans chair, which turns off her screen. For the first time she finally sees the non digital world and she is amazed but what she sees. "we have a pool?!". This is what our lives are becoming. We no longer look at the real world. We come home after school do our homework (or not) then jump on the computer. some people even do their homework while on the computer. We spend so much time in the digital world that we dont see the real world as much. The other day I was watching my step sister play her Gameboy. She was sitting on the window still and on the other side of the window, not even 6 feet away was a hawk. This hawk was sitting there eatting a squirll, but my step sister was clueless. She was so wrapped up in her little game that she didnt see the hawk. We are losing touch with the real world because we are spending so much time in the digital world.
I mentioned in the beginning how digital technology, such as the tv, can bring us emotions when we want them. These days it has gotten behond that. We how take emotion we feel in the real world, and bring them over to the digital world. There is a site called tumblr where afew of the students go to blog their feelings and events. If you fallow these peoples blogs, you realize that they are pretty up to date. It is clear that the days of personal journals and dairies are over. We now take what has happened in our real life and bring it across the line to the digital world. We now use the digital world to help deal with our emotions. This was also true in the book Feed. In the end of the book Violet is pretty much dead, and her dad informs titius that it was his fualt. In responce to that Titius sits in the middle of his floor naked and buying the same pair of pants over and over. He is used to having the feed make him feel better, expect this time it isnt working. After buy the pair of pants he doesnt feel better, so he tries again and again. He no longer knows how to deal with real world feelings because he is use to dealing with them in the digital world. The digital world has become so big in our lives that we are losing the ability to deal with things in the real world.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IFCAoth0080/SsVbnrqTv4I/AAAAAAAAA-s/vD_cAY89BkA/s400/dan_page_igeneration.gif (technicall difficulties, fallow the link)
It has gotten to the point where parts of our real life are dictated by aspects in our digital life. Recently the government announced that there would be a switch from analog signles to digital and that our tvs would stop working if we didnt get the little converter box. With out question millions of people went out and got the box. People bought the thing because with out it their Tvs would go blank, and that just couldnt happen. This was also seen in Walle. While the people sat in their chairs advertisements told when what to buy. At one point the big screen told the people that the blue suits were the new fashion, and just like that everyone pressed a button to change their suits blue. We have given the people who lead the digital world so much power. We accept what they say or do because they are the amazing people who have blessed us with sites like google and facebook. When they tell us to jump we ask how high. President Obama was praised for his use of technology while running his champain. He was twittering and always on his blackberry. Most of the things we knew about the canidates we found out over the internet. We are letting the digital world dictate the real world. We have become use to find out how to live our lives with articles and videos, it has gotten to the point where if the internet shut off we would not know where to get the same information.
Another huge problem with the digital world is that even though we know what bad about it, we cant stop using it. Recently in class we did a expirement were we had to change one aspect of our digital lives. Some people got off the digital earlyer at night and said that because of it they had better sleep. I am willing to bet that only weeks after making that discovery, they are back to texting and instant messaging all night and their sleep patterns are back to being screwy. The problem is that we dont want to leave the digital world because it is too convenient. The digital world is an easy way to feel emotions that you wouldnt feel at ten oclock pm right when your about to go to sleep. Before the digital world took over 10 oclock pm was a peaceful hour. People were probably readding or getting ready for sleep. There wasnt much excitement or crazy emotions. But now at 10 we can watch Tv, talk about the latest gossip, or play a game that puts us in world war two. There is no longer anything stopping us from getting the stimuli that gives us these emotions. Who wants to read a book when they can watch what happens on One Tree Hill. It has gotten to the point where if we lost the digital world, we wouldnt know what to do with our time. The digital wold has taken over the real world by making stimulus so easy to come by.
We are trapped in the digital world because we know of no other world. We are live a hamster in a cage. The cage can be big and fancy with all those crazy tubes, but it isnt the outside world. It has all the things the hamster likes food, water, toys, with out having all the basic struggles of everyday hamster life. As time goes on the digital world gets more and more complex and we get sucked deeper and deeper into it. When will it end? Will we realize what we are missing and begin to limit our digital life? Or will it get to the point were we no longer have to get up and everything we do in life will be online? We are letting ourselves be sucked into a fake world, and we arent doing a damn thing about it.
The arguement could be said that we are fully aware of the outside world. People will say that we only spend part of our time in the digital world and that most of our time is spent living life free of technology. While we dont spend all day on the computer and we do spend a considerable amount of time moving around and "living life", we are rarely ever fully disconnected. If you are out in the park with your friends playing a pick up game of soccer and your phone rings; will you keep playing or will you stop the game to pick it up. The average person would stop what ever hes doing to pick up his or her phone when it rings. The ringing of your phone can bring you your whole day to a pause. So even though we dont spend all day in front of a screen, we are rarely 10 feet away from a digital device; and when that device calls for our attention we will stop almost anything to give it that.
Now that it is clear we are plugged in enough to be called neo, the question is why does it matter? The more you understand what the problem is the easier it will be to decided what to do. The fact is while the digital world has made things easier, it has began to make things to easy. This does not mean that young people today are worse or shallower than young people in the past. It does mean they get less help. People once lived within a pattern of being, which educated the emotions, guided the temporary toward the permanent and linked everyday urges to higher things. The accumulated wisdom of the community steered couples as they tried to earn each other’s commitment." (David Brooks. New York Times). Understanding the kind of world we live it will help when we try to live better.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Intro
-invention of elecrity = starting point
- hamster in a wheel
- Theis: we are trapped in the digital world because we know of no other world
Pharagraph 1
We have become oblivious to anything besides what our digital world tells us.
-WallE: fat lady in the chair "we have a pool?!"
Pharagraph 2
we rely the digital world to deal with our emotions
-tumblr
-the ending of feed when hes trying to make him self feel better by buying shit
pharagraph 3
we can no longer imagen a world where we dont have digital
-peoples expirences digital free. even after they got more sleep, they are back to textin
pharagraph 4
-converter box, we had to buy something to continue with our lives
conclusion
-invention of elecrity = starting point
- hamster in a wheel
- Theis: we are trapped in the digital world because we know of no other world
Pharagraph 1
We have become oblivious to anything besides what our digital world tells us.
-WallE: fat lady in the chair "we have a pool?!"
Pharagraph 2
we rely the digital world to deal with our emotions
-tumblr
-the ending of feed when hes trying to make him self feel better by buying shit
pharagraph 3
we can no longer imagen a world where we dont have digital
-peoples expirences digital free. even after they got more sleep, they are back to textin
pharagraph 4
-converter box, we had to buy something to continue with our lives
conclusion
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