week 2.3 class response

I found this class to be a mixture of frustration and adventure. I have never used any movie software, so this next project will be a test of my patience and ability to acquire skill. The aspect of the class that I found most enthralling was the Alice in Wonderland remix by Pogo. I cannot believe that a movie could produce such a good remix. Intrigued by this as I was, I happened to stumble upon this new movie remix of the movie "UP."

I could not have been more excited when I found this remix. The last

part of class that triggered further thoughts was the idea of DJs

creating political statements. I think I want to look into this more

for my next project.

week 2.3

New York Times Reading, "What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?"

The International Situationist's ideals advocated experiences of life that differed from the capitalist way of order. The whole of their idea was to fulfill the basic needs of an individual and follow something larger than themselves. Comparing this to the article in the New York Times, What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?, I personally see the exact opposite happening. Consumers and the individuals who are working for the credit-card companies have developed a system that has everything to do with a capitalistic society, and nothing to do with expelling capitalistic tendencies and following a purer form of life. At this point, the International Situationists could be nothing more than a obligatory counter culture, because without excessive numbers, capitalism will never be truly have an alternative.

What interests me is that there is another type of situationalist, psychology situationism. This refers to, I quote wikipedia, "an approach to personality that holds that people are more influenced by external, situational factors than b internal traits or motivations. From the article, one can see that this holds true.

The first two pages of the article are spent discussing a man's debt to the Bank of America, who is being guided by a man named Santana. Now the man, consumed by debt, is making no headway on it by himself. When coerced by Santana, not only does the man find money to contribute to the debt, but Santana also influences the man to pay more than the man initially offered. One can definitely come to the conclusion that the man would have never taken this initiative himself, and therefore his internal traits, besides moral obligations, had no effect on the man's choice, for it was the influence of Santana, the Bank of America associate.

I am now jumping to how I feel about my own credit cards and how they impose on my personal system. To start, I do not own a credit card. I do not plan to either until I am much older, because I am not in need of one. And why would I lose my values if I was a credit-card holder. The only way I would lose my self value was if I decided to live off of a credit card and by capitalist ways only, I would then lose my self identity. However, this article does change the way I view credit-card companies, and their individual cards and programs, and when I do sign up for a credit card, this article will certainly sway my decision.

week 1.26

Even though I have heard of stumbledupon, I have never really taken the time to use it or explore it, so I am interested in exploring it further and finding/creating my own stumbledupon criteria... I also feel in gokey's class I do not feel like as much of a dork as I should when saying I am interested in creating a stumbledupon character collection. Anyways, I digress. I learned about the international people... I am completely forgetting their name and it is killing me. Well, whatever cool group it was, I like how they were like the anti-of anti culture. It was really interesting, and I would like to find out more. Lastly, when the class was watching numerous things, I couldn't help but think of this new animation that I have kind of fallen in love with. Its one of those things I would prefer to keep under wraps.. but really, who is going to read this. Here it is, another humorous british animation in the making.

Week 1.20

> In listening to the introduction to time arts, I learned that many forms of art constitute as time arts, and the artist is not limited to technological processes. Before this class, I was more or less under the impression that time arts did not span over that much area. Our next project, the invisible labyrinth of time, is interesting to me. But I found the movie Blind Sight to be a really intriguing plot for a movie, and I plan to view it as soon as possible. When the class was viewing other examples of flow chart storytelling, I noticed that in the Mario video, the music used was very popular not mainstreamed music- I really like the reference to pop culture in this video. Lastly, while discussing the final project, I started brainstorming. I think I want to work with light qualities and dimensions in my final project.