flipbook

My flipbook is of a rocketship taking off and landing on the moon. 

Xerox art

My project depicts thoughts and feelings that people who struggle with depression sometimes have. The piece shows how the words they tell themselves can be just as hurtful to their mental as a physical hit can be to your physical health. 

Art and Technology at the same time?

If I take away one thing from this class it would be that technology has created several new platforms for artists to create art. It is 100% possible to combine art and technology. Technology has been able to create more possibilities and opportunities for art to grow. I think this class made me realize that artists that use technology as their medium have just as much technique and discipline as those artists that use more traditional mediums. I never realized how much time and effort it takes to create things on the computer. There is an amazing amount of skill that goes into coding and creating something amazing from nothing. The most interesting thing I have learned has been that technology has been incorporated into clothing design. In class, we watched the video of the designer with the dress that changed colors based on the movements of the person wearing it. I thought that was an amazing use of both art and technology.

The Universe a simulation?

The Universe being a simulation initially seemed like a pretty crazy and unrealistic concept, but as I watched the video I learned that it might not be so crazy after all. I think this video made me realize that I shouldn’t reject a theory before I even hear it. I think that when information is presented that conflicts with previous knowledge it is quickly rejected without being given a fair chance at consideration. I honestly felt like the video made a strong case for itself. The video actually made me give some serious thought to what it was trying to say. We run realistic simulations all the time to predict outcomes and test hypotheses. I don’t think it is too far fetched that a more sophisticated species could be running a simulation to figure out the different possibilities of what happened to our planet. You can’t reject a theory unless you have evidence that proves it untrue. To my knowledge, there has not been evidence to definitively suggest that this theory is incorrect. The things that we run simulations on don’t know that they are part of a simulation, so we wouldn’t know if we were part of one either. I still think it is a pretty crazy concept and I don’t believe the universe is a simulation, but I did at least give it a fair chance of considering it as a possibility.

21st century tech

A very important technological advancement of the 21^st century has got to be the various types of medical IDs. I am studying to be a healthcare professional and I think this advancement has done a lot for society as a whole. Originally there were only medial cards that had your information on them. Today there are various forms of medical IDs. One example would be a medical bracelet. These are bracelets that have your health information inscribed on the bracelet. You can have information such as blood type, allergies, diseases, and even emergency contact numbers. They have a wide range of styles and choices when it comes to the medical bracelets. They even have ones for kids that are made out of plastic and look more like a toy than a medical bracelet. Medical IDs can also come in the form of a watch, necklace, or even cell phone case. I believe that this is just one step to further technological advancements in the future. I think that one day in the future we will not even need to have any form of physical medical ID at all. The medical IDs will be chips in our arms or some other body part. The chips could be scanned by police or other professionals that typically are first responders to emergencies. The chip could hold all of your medical information in order to give the people that are helping you the best idea of how to help you. This would also eliminate the need for people to remember to wear their medical bracelets and they could never lose them because they would be a part of their body. I could definitely see this being an advancement that occurs sometime in the future because technology is progressively getting smaller and more effective as time goes on.  

Grid Art

My project is a pumpkin and it took a little bit of problem solving to figure out how to maintain the round shape of the pumpkin. Overall, the grid art project was more difficult than I thought it would be because it was very difficult to keep the column and rows straight. This project gave me a lot more respect for the amount of time and effort it takes to put pixels into screens. The process was very tedious but the end result turned out well and it turned out very well. Even with the process being time consuming, I really enjoyed the lesson that this project taught me. 

Broadway

The performance of Fifty Percent was by far my far by favorite performance to watch. The song was very emotional and it made you almost have sympathy for the mistress in the situation. Usually the mistress is always portrayed as the villain in tv shows and movies, but you can hear the love in the performers words ad it almost makes you feel bad for them. I think that the performance by Michael Feinstein was my favorite of all three of the renditions. He brought a different type of emotion and perspective to the song that really stood out from the other renditions. However, I did enjoy the music in the Barbra Streisand version. I think having all the instruments really added a new layer to the song. I especially like the detail that she brought to the song. She had her husband use his voice for the lovers voice on the phone and I thought that was a really awesome detail to add.