SPY~WARE

(WHAT I DID)
For my research paper I chose to do the topic on Hacking and hackers. I spent the night before class googling and facebooking classmates and gathering as much information on each person as I could. Once I had found a photo of a classmate online and some useful information I documented their information on my computer in a word document.

(WHY I DID IT)
I wanted my classmates and everyone to see just how easy it is to GAIN information off line. I wanted everyone to see how much the internet can harm or invade peoples privacy. I didn't expect to gain some of my classmates phone numbers or addresses from the internet.

(HOW I PRESENTED)
I chose to dress in all black (except for my shoes) with a black hat and eye black on my face. I was trying to go for the spy guy look, which I had bought little gear the morning of the Final such as the magnifying glass, the flashlight, and camera.

I ULTIMATELY JUST WANTED TO MAKE EVERYONE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE lol

UNFORGETTABLE

During the course of this class I have seen a lot of cool projects from many of my peers. I have seen some rough, ugly, really sad to look at projects and I have seen projects that blew my mind. My personal favorite project I have done would have to be the FEAR project, when I asked everyone to blow up a balloon and I had to pop them all. I thought it was funny how cheap the balloons were and how I couldn't pop some of them on the first try.

Honesty my mind right now is so mushed up I can think of anything that I could do that would be unforgettable to me or to others. My mind is feeling like mushed up cheese, so I just hope to have something in mind before class today.

WhAt THE HELL iM doIN HeRE??

Last Monday was enjoyable, it didn't seem to be so dreadful like the beginning semester. I like that a lot of my classmates focused more on the topic of "who am I" rather than why am I here. My topic was focused more on who am I. I just felt like before we can ask ourselves why we are here we have to build up our own identities.

Why AM I HeRE? BiGGeR QuestION WHO AM I???

When I heard that our next assignment will be to answer the question why am i here I instantly knew what I wanted to do for this assignment. Before I can answer the question why am i here, I feel I have to answer the question who am i first.

INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
We need to first find out who we are and explore our importance and individuality before we can discover why we are here. If we feel less important we will feel as if there is nothing for us to do here on Earth and we dont know why we are here. I have put together a video that shows the struggle I have constantly about my individuality and in discovery for my purpose here on Earth.

FEAR DAY TWO

I personally liked the second class of the fear day project. I enjoyed it more because it had more emotions behind the fears and the presenters just wasn't up in front of the class b.s-ing. I actually liked being in class on this day, I personally didn't like the first day for many reasons. One being my ass was hurting from being on the floor along with I felt some of the fear projects were too long. I don't mind a good ten to fifteen minutes fifteen being the maximum but thirty minutes up in front of the class talking and talking and talking.

FEAR: DAY 1

To be honest I sat there on the hard, cold, uncomfortable floor wondering for many of the projects "What the hell they afriad of". A lot of the presentations wasn't clear to me what they was afraid of, while a lot of projects from people was trying to create fear from others and not from their own fears. I thought one or two presentations were creative. I just wish some fear projects would make me uncomfortable like the seating on the floor did lol.

MANKINDS GREATEST WEAKNESS

What is FEAR to me?
=>To me FEAR is a series of events that include external or internal stimuli's that triggers different responses within us or to our bodies which creates the emotion we can FEAR.

->FEAR is set by thoughts that we implant within our minds. It's usually created by negative reinforcements at different stages in our lives.
->Although a lot of people view FEAR as a bad thing, FEAR is actually needed in the world to keep ORDER and prevent CHAOS.

=>A man without FEAR wouldn't obey the authorities, nor would he experience any anxiety. A man without FEAR would openly speak his mind since he wouldn't FEAR what others think, feel, or say. He would live RECKLESSLY everyday of his life through unsafe tasks such as unprotected sex, speeding, drugs, and murder. A man without FEAR would have no boundaries in life.

FEAR is mankind's greatest weakness. FEAR limits man from reaching his full potential, his goals, and confrontations. We Fear what we are weak of or is out of our control.


MY FEAR EXPERIMENT

(The situation and the experiment)
In my past I have had a lot of fears. Some fears were longer lasting than others while others were short-term. In my situation I used one of my little tangible fears, the balloons. The balloon pack came in a variety of colors, so I decided to associate each past fear of mine with a color of a balloon. Red= Mom(ster) Black= Afraid of the dark Blue=drowing and etc. By popping the balloons I wanted to release all those past fears along with the tangible of fear of popping balloons.
(The reaction)
The reaction from the class is exactly what I thought it would be. A lot of laughs and giggles came from the classroom as I popped those balloons. Laughs came when I didn't pop the cheaper balloons.

BUNIFA LATIFAH HALIFAH SHARIFA JACKSON N A PROCRASTINATION DUMMY

Bliss Day
Last Monday I decided to hang out with a friend for the rest of day for my bliss assignment. My friend had just moved to Indianapolis from TN and was hating the weather, the city, and the people here so far. I chose to introduce my friend to BUNIFA...JACKSON. Bunifa is fictional character on the hit television MADTV. We sat at his house watching BUNIFA clips for over an hour in a halve laughing so hard.
Bunifa Clip

Stuff Animal
From the day we received the stuffed animals my Gumby has been riding in the BACKSEAT of my car for the last two weeks. The Gumby doll represents WORK and not just any work but school work. I have had the doll for two weeks and yet I waited till the day before the assignment is due to do something with it. Over the past two weeks I have received a D on a speech that I practiced for a day before I had to give it. The worst part about receiving the D is that the teacher had put I would of gotten a B if I didnt go over my time by two minutes. If I would have studied more I would have knew I had too much info in my speech. This last sat I had a midterm exam I knew about for two weeks, but yet I waited three days before I had to take it to start studying over 8 chapters. I believe I did okay on the exam but not my best.

Mr. Gumby represents my PROCRASTINATING attitude over my school work. Gumby is so FLEXIBLE (or at least suppose to be since he is like all stretchy) maybe I should try to build a flexible schedule around my school work, work, and free time.

WhAT HaPPeNEd 2 MoTIVaTIoN???

DEFINITIONS

INSPIRATION=>A feeling that is usually followed by creativity.
IDEA=> The thought of doing something. (e.g. How am I going to get this to work?)
CONCEPT=>The meaning behind anything. (e.g. What am I trying to go with this?)
TRIAL=>I'm thinking this term refers to trying different ideas out to see what the outcome will be.
REFINE=>Reshaping the idea to better it for the audience or self.
PRODUCT=> The finalized idea with the included concept.

FLOWCHARTS 4 ME

Cartoon Ideas
Inspiration>Idea>Concept>(More than over the majority of the cartoon ideas doesn't make it passed the concept)

Homework 4 New Media
Concept>(Inspired)?>Idea>Trial>ReDoing>Product

Music Videos
Inspiration>Concept>Idea>Refine>Product

I was thinking lately about how there is one topic we never discussed which is missing from the flowchart and that is MOTIVATION. At first I categorized motivation with inspiration until I realized those two terms are different.


Motivation is an emotion that enables someone to keep going and sometimes push pass there mental, emotional, even physical limits.

Inspiration is an feeling that we all feel that arouse our intellect but a lot of times this feeling isn't long lasting.

Personal Views

I was born with a short attention span, so my best work is done when I cram the process into a short time such as less than a week. Just this pass Valentines Day I spent a total of three days creating a booklet from scratch for a very special person that has been out of my life for six months. I wrote down all the songs that would remind me of her, wrote down the specific lyrics in each song that stuck out to me and on the other side of the page wrote how I was feeling at that particular time in my life. I also made a CD so she could hear the songs while reading the book.
Inspiration> Was the girl Was making physical items (booklet) and CD to show
Concept>I wanted her to know what I was going through the last six months without her
Product> A good V Day present lol

V-Day LoveStrukk Field Trip

I had a date last Monday around six, so I didn't care for the field trip. I was going to leave early, but we were dismissed earlier than expected. For the things we saw during the field trip I have seen three years back when I was given a tour of the IT Building as an incoming freshman to Informatics. There wasn't anything that I saw last Monday that I hadn't already seen before.

GreeN DooRS, PeNis N Bible, GET OUT EARLY? WHAT!!!

I thought last week class was interesting. I liked the effort put into that guy who did the green light effect for this bathroom door, I thought that was cool. It was funny hearing Jason talk about penis's in the bible and all the words he spelled out. The best part for me was when all of a sudden the teacher made the statement to go home a storm is coming. I was too happy to be leaving cause I had a date to make it to anyways only didn't make it to the date cause of the weather lol.

BrEAKiN My OwN RuLES (What's mine is mine)

Okay so today in my first class of the day I was damn well falling asleep when the teacher was given a example of different ways of telling a story. The teacher had forgotten one of this photos for the example so he had grabbed the first pen he saw, which unluckily was mine. I have a rule if i let someone borrow something (in this case grab without asking) I almost immediately want it back. I guess I have a possessive personality. I was feeling generous today and let him use it the rest of the class even after he was done using it....

AS A RESULT I witness him rubbing it throughout his fingers and putting it in his mouth, I think I forgot to mention this is one of my favorite pens, so I was like "he can keep that SHIT" lol.

AS A RESULT OF THAT RESULT I ended up penless for the rest of the day doomed to use a mechanical pencil.

Lecture Bout EGGS??? WTF??? lol

My thoughts on last week lecture hmmm. I'm looking into my reflection right now on my laptop looking at the BLANK expression on my face. I have not a word to express the lecture last week, so therefore I'm moving forward with the question about rules.

I work at a warehouse that does processing on recalled items manufactured by other companies. I like the job don't get me wrong because it's an easy job, but the rules there suck. Entering the working area we aren't allowed cell phones but managers and some team leads can have access to them. We can't bring bottles unless with a unique cap on it. We can't have candy inside the work area. This rule has to be the dumbest of them all, we can only have one earphone in during the shift. I'm saying this rule is stupid because the supervisers talk about how loud we are, but if they would let us listen with both ear pieces in we wouldn't have any reason to talk so much.

Man N The Mirror (Stole My Soul)

I chose to do "Look at myself in the mirror". When we look into the mirror we see something totally different than what others see of us. Others may see a figure as confident, independent, and strong-willed while the figure see themselves as weak, dependent, and easily influenced. I don't KNOW WHAT OTHERS SEE WHEN THEY LOOK AT ME, but when I look at in the mirror I don't even recognized the person I have become. A lot of times I don't feel like I'm really myself I feel like I'm just seeing someone who LOOKS like me, TALKS like me, and WALKS like me. Once last year I was using the bathroom in the library at IUPUI and I had saw this light-skinned, green eyed boy in there, but it didn't hit me till after I got done using the bathroom that that boy was my reflection in the mirror.

My eGG & mE (VIDEO)

MY EGG & ME VIDEO
(click on link above to watch)
I had a lot of fun shooting this video for my Seeing Sideways class. At first I didn't know what to do with an egg that my teacher gave me, but I thought to myself since I like making videos making a funny comical video shouldn't be hard. The funniest part about this story of me and my egg is that the ending to the video is actually based on a true story. It was a week ago and I wanted to make some brownies but realized that my household has no eggs in it other then the egg from class, so I had to end up using it.

FIRST DAY OF CLASS

I personally thought it was too long for the first day of class, but it was somewhat enjoyable. At times the classroom's discussions became HEAVY. What I mean by me saying heavy is that the discussions were at times deep and took a lot of thought. Topics like "What is Art?" was HEAVY. Art is something that differs from person to person, so nobody really would see or think of art in the same way.

I did like the break we had taken in class when all the people came running into the classrooms in their rolling chairs lol.

WHAT I THOUGHT BOUT SEEIN SIDEWAYZ

I honestly forgot that I had let Gloria talk me into signing up for this class back in the end of fall entering winter season. I had no idea or any clue of what to expect from this class based on everybody that I asked about this class would have different responses. Gloria herself couldn't even explain what the class was she just said it was cool, so I was like what the heck sign me up.