FINAL

So I spent the past 9 hours working on my final. I had to reload sketch up a few times. I tried Bryce without much luck. I'm exhausted and I need to wake up early tomorrow (today) to do a bunch of things... FUN. Plus find time to study for my final THURS at 8AM! DISGUSTING! YUCK!

Anyway, I figure the best way for this project to have meaning to me is to see how I could apply it to psychology since that's my future. I decided to make a scene that could promote language development in children. (i.e. Children could be told they're taking a journey into a forest. The teacher could prompt them to speak by asking questions and having the students respond with their obersvations. "What do you see?" "Trees, bears, rocks." "Let's count the bears together.." "One, two. Two bears." "Great now let's count in spanish." "Uno, dos.")

It's Been A While...

Today is the last day of class and I am terrible at keeping up with this site, but I really enjoyed all of the skills I acquired through experimenting with open-source programs. I learned so much this semester, I want to continue these hobbies for years to come...

Terrible!

I'm a terrible blogger. Plus the weather is disgusting today and the internet in the SINC site is SO SLOW it took 10 minutes for this page to load and I need to run to Prof. Baldwin's class in 7 minutes so I'm afraid to post something in fear that it will take another 10 minutes to save & publish this and then I'll lose it all.

Notes to self--last project interview dad & add on to old project.

Draft 2 and still a long way to go

Here's at least something as a basis for my work... needs more video/audio editing.

Note to self--Email baldwin DONT FORGET
(PLUS:Amber Alert)

Almost Almost!!!!!

Soooooo I've been working for a few weeks on a song to add in the background of the video presentation thingie and I'm almost done with it.

I also keep forgetting to send Baldwin the networking email sooo when I get back to my room I HAVE TO send it to him.

PLUS--reminder to self, DL director. ASAP. And get rid of flash. YUCk.

Spring Break was a waste..

That's all. Trying to catch up on all the work I couldn't finish last week because I was running around like a chicken without a head.

I'm terrible at blogging...

I never remember to do this!!!!!

Help!!!!!!!

LOL I need mucho help with my project because it look SO corny!

Busy Bee

I'm skipping my radio show to finish up my work. :-(

Inconsistent

I am terrible at keeping up with blogging. I'm almost done with my video of my family... its kind of corny I think buuut it's alright for a first shot. I still want to work on it a lot more buuut I was lacking some of the props I wanted to use in the mpegs.

Jackpotttt

Soooo all week I've had this gross cold. Instead of going to class/work thursday I took the day off and went all the way home to lay down for an extended weekend b/c I also had a major problem with my back (which I found out later was a muscle spasm). Today, I feel much better and while I was puttering around the basement I came across a bunch of old pictures of my family that I'm scanning right now and adding to my collection.
Also, about about 2am this morning I woke up with an epiphany of a new spin on my photo family montage project that I think I want to follow instead of the language thing Prof. Baldwin suggested. Instead I'm going to discuss behavioral choices and how they lead to health issues--smoking is a major problem in my family and has lead to a number of deaths on both my mother's and father's side. I have a lot of ideas about how to discuss this through my pictures.
I'm really exicted b/c if I do this right I think my family photos could make an interesting statement.
Score.

Language

I'm still trying to figure out how I am going to incorporate the language aspect to my montage. I figure I could try to do a voice over in spanish that fades into english slowly when looking at images from my mothers side of the family and italian into english from my fathers side of the family.
The readings are all very interesting. The image that Prof. Baldwin displayed in class of Plato's cave was mind boggling. I think the aspect that most affected me was the only that was rarely discussed in class, the shadows behind the prisoners. I kept thinking about how the shadows could have been cast by the puppet showmen, but also was a combined creation by fire, the filtered sunolight and the prisoners themselves. Distortion....

I'm In A Prison...

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! LOL That's all. Way too much work and I'm run down and sick sooo I'm beginning to feel like this prison is all around me.

The reading is very interesting I wish I double majored in English

Class Yesterday

Professor Baldwin gave me this great idea for my photo essay to talk about language since both sides of my family are slowly losing the fluency their parents and grandparents had of their culturally native tongues. My father never learned to speak italian from his parents and I can barely speak spanish. Each generation of my family that has lived in America speaks less and less of either of those langauges. I'm just trying to think about how to convey that...

Tao

I am still reading the Tao but so far it is very insightful, although as I read it I wonder how practical it is. In a world like today, who has time to meditate and learn about deeper concepts in life like the Tao.
One line that strikes me said something to the effect that "When her work is done she forgets it, that is why it lasts forever." It sort of struck a chord with me because I'm always moving on to a new project, so once my work is done I forget it, but it doesn't last forever...

I need more Landscapes!!!!!!!!!

Everywhere I go I rush rush rush around and I never remember to stop and take landscape pictures. I have a few. I'm constantly going all around long island but since I drive myself and NOBODY ever drives me I never can just relax and take apicture. Instead I have to focus on getting myself to work on time or school or anywhere. I want to relax long enough to take a snapshot of LI.

SO SO TIRED

OK So I got home late from work, tried to finish up reading the Tao without much success and some of the Critical Media Essay. I've been feeling sick since friday AND need to make a Dr's appointment and go food shopping today. Wow, being grown up isn't fun at all. When will I find time to get the rest of what I need done? My hw for instance???
I have a few landscape shots buuut I still need more. Didn't GIMP anything last night. Was way too tired. Being a counselor for mentally ill people is REALLY REALLY exhausting.

UM, yea this blogger is becming a journal more than a class blog. Oops pardon my venting.

At Work

I feel like this semester is the busiest I ever had! Every day is jampacked. Yesterday I spent the better half of the day trying to learn how to manipulate pictures on GIMP. Even though Professor Baldwin said we should only spend an hour to get 100 photos, I was still trying to learn how to use the program and instead spent about 4 or more hours and only managed to come up with 20 photos. It wasn't until the last half an hour of playing around with the program that I figured out how to use the filters. My sister emailed me a tutorial on it and it helped out a lot. Regardless, I had planned on reading today and finishing the last 80 picture manipulations buuut I'm stuck at work. I was supposed to work 1-9:30 pm today, but I planned to take my break at 8:30 so that I could go straight to my apartment and start my homework. Unfortunately nothing goes as planned and instead I'm stuck working utnil 11pm tonight without a break--10 hours YUCK!!! And today is kind of busy. I shouldn't even been on this computer buuut I wanted to get some work done, even if its something as simple and mindless and blogging for THR 216.

Hopefully after I get out of work today I won't be too tired and I can get some work done but i have to get up EARLY for the child care center annnd soooo signs point to, SLEEP :-(

I had also wanted to get food shopping done. It looks like I won't have time to do that until tomorrow night. I'd like to eat--going 2 days without food is NOT exactly a dream of mine.

I want a nap...

Soooo since yesterday I didn't get much done being that I had class from 9:50 until 9pm today with no breaks annnd now I have to get a bunch of work done for class tomorrow.

My sister should be emailing me more family pictures within the hour, so yay!
I'm still trying to work my way through Gimp. I never had photoshop before, sooo I'm somewhat of a novice with these programs.

Blah-Blah-Blogger

I haven't kept up with this much and its' only the first week! A few days ago I went away with my best friend to what felt like the boonies without any internet connection. I fell down a hill and my hand really hurts so I think I may have sprained or fractured it.

I got Gimp on my computers and a few pictures from home on my flash drive so I need to start to figure out how to use gimp and start to play around. My roomie promised to teach me about skype so that should be interesting.

Last week we began to speak about binaries, opposites like night and day. I'm trying to stay focused on this in terms of the concept of the allegory of the cave. The first few days I'm still getting my bearings and I'm still slightly confused, but if I stay dedicated to it, I will figure it out eventually.

Anyway, I haven't had much down time in the past 4 or 5 days so let me go and get some work done for class tomorrow and try to get to bed by 12 so that I can call it an early night :-D

buenas noches.

THR 216: DAY ONE

So here is my first blog post for THR 216. Woohoo! YAY FUN! TESTING THINGS OUT.

Class seems interesting. Topic.. cool. Have plenty ideas of the cave/prison stuff--esp. being a psych major about the mind as prison/cave, buuut I guess it will be meshed and molded by the readings.