Best of Today: Project Build

Today February 22nd in class we began our new projects based off the reading we had in class called Cathedral and the movie we spent time watching in class about Frank Gehry. My team was selected to design a homeless shelter for a small town. We decided to be creative with it, while still making it seem like a homeless shelter.

I liked this project a lot because it made my group and I work together as a team instead of just individually, like in the mindbooks, where we would be creative on our own. We had a plan from the beginning to make it simple, but still a friendly looking place for people to enjoy and feel comfortable with being there. We all agreed upon this, and that really opened my eyes to something I have been trying to figure out for quite some time now. I have been recently trying to write my own scripts for several videos I plan to make, to show future employers, friends, families, and complete strangers on the internet. I realized that a lot of time these script writers, directors, and producers I idolize do not work a lone on these projects. Although they may have these titles that show they are in charge and undoubtedly they have control over a lot that happens they still work with other people. In the Frank Gehry film it was mentioned how the ideas were not just his, but collective. Frank had partners too, and although they were not the front man they were still a participant in the group.

I have a full understanding that I can no longer just sit on the sidelines while the world is passing me by. I have to find things to inspire me and to help me create amazing works of art.

Blogging Around

In Malcolm Engel's blog he talked about how his band Zaramela and the Nike commercial we watched in class. He compared them based off the postmodernism and modernism details that we had learned about during class. He tried to see how his songs that he made can be described by these methods. He describes how his music style is constantly changing and the band brings many different view points.

I next read the blog by Alyson Krueger, like Malcolm's she talked about a band although she is not part of the band she is a big fan. The band she is talking about is Walking off the Earth and the song and video she is talking about is called Red Hands. She spent two hours watching it and because she feels it relates to modernism in a way that it is primitive and chaotic.

iMedia: The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is a hit TV show on AMC. The show is about a man name Rick Grimes, a former police officer, who wakes up from a coma after a serious incident when chasing a criminal only to find that all the people of the town have been turned in to zombies or "Walkers" as they are called on the show. Now living in a world filled with a constant threat of survival he has to find his family and figure out a way to keep them safe.

With the return of season 3 on February 10th, Rick and the others are faced with some a very new form of postmodernism. With the whole world in anarchy people are not trusting each other knowing they are only out for themselves. They each you use there own experiences to teach and help the group. Recently a infant have been added to the group, with the loss of it's mother, the infant is still able to live with the group and is has many of it's mothers characteristic. The truth gets very fuzzy for the group and they still do not understand anymore about the infection or the walkers than that it will try to kill the people. Imagine a new way of living straight from scratch. Now imagine having to fight as well. It was the beginning of the end for these people and although it is just a television show the decisions they make are serious and critical whether objective or subjective.