Class Response

Unfortantly I did not make it to class again on Monday due to parking. The parking situation is IUPUI is rediculous and is soo frustrating! It is so crazy in fact my professor in business law was very upset about it last week. He went and checked all over the campus and saw many of the "A" parking spots empty while student parking were over loaded and not to mention the parking lot that the constructions workers are taking up which gives us even more space to park at, NOT! lol. And not to mention those who dont have a parking pass and can nly park on the street (NOT BETWEEN 4-6pm OR VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED!) I dont know what else to do and I dont want to get my car towed again either!

Well im off to start reading for the next class assignment, and hopefully Ill make it to class one of these days!

BLISS, SWEET BLISS!

Bliss! A wonderful gifts life grants us! There are several activities that I would consider blissful, some I practice on a regular basis and others that I have yet to experience! The bliss that I decided to do for this assignment was to spend some time recording music with my keyboard and computer. I have been playing the piano since middle school, but I am not really that great by any means. I have just been studying it trying to develope my skill. I can spend all day long playing if I had the time! The program I use is called garageband. usually when I record a song i feel that I have broken an unspoken rule: that you do not use all the tracks given to you. IN the software you are alloted a certain number of tracks. on each track you can record a differnt instrumnet or sound. When i create music I usually hear one sound after another of another and many times end up using ALL 50 some tracks! wow. most produers and musicans only use about 20 or so, but no matter what I always end up using all of the tracks and get the message on the screen: "the track amount has been maximized." Its frustrating sometime because there are other ideas I want to add to the song but I can. That m broken rule! : )

Ill have to find a program that allows unlimted number os tracks so that my ideas and creative juices will not be stifled or hindered during that time of creative BLISS!

2-08-2010 Response

Class yesterday was def out of the box ! I dont think I have ever had a class in the dark, EVER in my years since I was a kid. I appreciate the approach the last is taking, really trying to expand our minds to think more creatively. I want to try and think more "out of the "box" I think by doing that it will help me in other areas of my life, in my designs and music primarily. The world of creativity is a place I want to dwelve and get lost in. I love to create something from a thought. The next assignment does seem like a bit of a challgene, and Im not to sure what I will come up with next!

CROP CIRCLES

CROP, CROP, CROP CIRCLES

Wierd, strange, beautiful?

Crop circles....WOW!! AMAZING! Honestly, I didnt even know what one was until i pulled up a pictures on googles, the day this assignment was posted. I didnt even know that they existed outside of the movie that Mel Gibson played in call "Signs".

In this blog im going to just talk about the top 3 thoughts and the two strongest emotions/feelings attached to that thought, that come to my mind when I look at the picture of the crop circle:

First Thought:

1. The movie "Signs &$6#@(" with Mel Gibson.

a. An Eerieness b/c of aliens in the movie.

b. A deep Sadness b/c of the movie's dark tones.

Thought #2:

2. The video "Legend of Zelda: Orcarina of Time".

a. I love, love, LOVE that game, its my favorite game

of all time, so my first emotion would be LOVE for the game Zelda.

b. Fascination. Because the game centered around an object known as the sacred Triforce

(a mythical triangular object created by the three Golden Goddesses Nayru, Din, and Farore;

composed of three triangular golden shards representing: wisdom, power, and courage)

Thought #3:

3. The outer ring designs makes me think of the Mayan Culture.

a. Inspiration. I really admire the design of the mayans, I like the look of the

drawing, symbols, and styles used in their culture, their art, etc.

b. Greed. The mayan design also makes me think of the movie "Road to Eldorado", the disney movie.

It was about discovering the city of gold!! Everyone was after the GOLD!!!! and wanted as much of it

as they could get, GREED!

02.01.2010 Recap

FALLEN

Again, I did not make it to class. I had fallen behind in some other classes and had to get an assignment in that took a little bit longer than I had anticipated. I finally am getting caught on my assignments and I def will plan on being in class next week! Not to kiss butt but the teacher sounds really fun and out of the box just from the assignment post ad such and kinda makes me wanna to come check out the class cause it sounds fun!
I also have a small pro with parking. I park along the street by the madam walker theatre but there is no parking there between 4-6pm and the class is from 3-5:45! Ive had my car towed once before and had to pay like 170.00 to get it out of the impound lot (which is 10.00 shy of my car payment! YIKES!) but Ill have to figure something out cause I really dnt wana miss anymore classes and Im really interested to seeing what this class is like in person! G

p.s I hope this will count toward the assignment 2.10.2010 class recap??

Class 1 Review

Class 1 Review:

I unfortunately did not make it to the first class :-( so I'm not even sure that this blog will count for the points! LOL BUT since the assignments tabs have been re-opened I decided to take a shot! Hope this works and by next class recap Ill have something to say about class on my blog!!

Im out!