YOU CALL IT- HALLOWEEN EDITION!!

So I was thinking about what in the world I was going to do for this project and I decided to do something halloween inspired. Then I thought, "why don't I carve a pumpkin and write seeing sideways on it." Well I know what your thinking, boring right? So I thought, how can I put a New Media twist on a classic tradition? Then it hit me, carve a pumpkin and use my iphone screen as the face of the jack o lantern. So I got to carving and found a cool jack o lantern video on youtube, and I think it turned out really cool.

Class Response 10/11

Unfortunately I didn't have the resources to complete my project.

Altogether today's class discussion went really well. I think people presented very intellectual thoughts and ideas even though I didnt agree with everything. However I never felt compelled enough to fully disagree with someone and vocally dispute them.I saw pretty much everyone's side. Actually I didn't really feel anyone really conflicted too much. I actually really enjoyed today.

What's Really Important to ME.

I spent a lot time thinking about my what was really important to me. I was raised in church my whole life. I attended church 3 times a week until I moved out of my parents home. I recently started attending church again. I never lost faith with god, I just didn't attend church. So I would have to say the thing that does mean the most to me would be belief in god. I have always held it close to my heart.

For my creation I was thinking about creating a cross from wood and carrying it with me on campus. It would sort of be a symbol of my faith and a way of witnessing to other people about god. I really think it would be a very strong, almost extreme testament to my faith.

Class Response- 10/4

Today's class was a lot of fun. I feel like we all had very good discussions whether it was about fear, religion, or just current events. All of the Fear Presentations that went today turned out really good, however there were a couple that I think could have maybe tried a little more to make their project better. Overall it was a very good class meeting.

FFEEAARR!!!! muhahahaha...........................................

For the fear assignment I started by exploring the idea of what makes me scared and the idea of using fear against someone. One of my greatest fears would be food. We really have no idea what goes into our food or what we consume everyday. I am especially fearful of this because I am such a picky eater. I have had countless times where I bite into a huge chunk of some undesirable something inside my sandwich and I wanted to lose my lunch. So this brought me to my experiment, which is the fear of the unknown.

For my experiment I think the class will be very apprehensive to go along with my plan. I think some of the people will very willing to go along with what I ask them to do, but others will be very scared.

AFTER EXPERIMENT:

For my experiment I blindfolded 3 volunteers and made them stick their hands inside something they had no idea what it was.

Just as I suspected of my three volunteers, they all acted about the same. As soon as I blindfolded them, they became a lot more apprehensive to reach their hands into the creation. This is actually a very scary thing. The fear of the unknown is very scary.

The results I came up with were very close to what I had very much predicted.
If I were to change the experiment I might have made them eat it without looking and see how squeamish they really are. If I did change it though I might have had three puking volunteers.

Class Response 9/20/10

                I have heard that today's class was a very good discussion. Unfortunately I was unable to make it to the discussion due to unforeseen circumstances and I had to cover a shift at work.
              
               On a better note I am really looking forward to tackling the fear assignment. Fear is definitely one of our most powerful emotions and I know this first hand from an experience I had over the summer break. I really do not want to share the details but I can definitely say that it was a life changing experience.  

I sense a change on the wind...............

      For creating my new sense I really had no idea what to do. So what I did to think of something was just think about things that cause me problems in real life. The only thing I could think of was on Friday I wrecked my bike delivering for my job at Jimmy John's because I clipped my handlebar on someone's side rear view mirror. So this gave me a really good idea for a sense.
      My idea was to have a one or two second inkling into the future if something is about to cause you pain or danger. This is sort of like Spiderman's spideysense. I really think this would be a very useful sense and could help people live a much longer and happier life.