Pickles

For the last assignment for the semester I decided to revisit one of the projects I did before. I'm doing this because I enjoyed it last time and I noticed there were some nice things around town that I never noticed. This time I took a bunch of pictures of a park near my house that I haven't went to in a long time but I see all the time. I looked for things that I didn't really pay attention to but for the most part I did have seen everything from when I use to play there. There was one thing though that I never paid attention to. I will show the picture in class.

9/22/10 Assignment

I decided not to do the inspiration assignment because what inspires me is always different. What I mean is that one of the main thing that inspires me is courage, but I'm bias on that. When courage inspires me it is when soldiers going into fire fights knowing what could happen, having family they want to go back to and still going through what they signed up for. When people conquer their fear of something like animals, germs, heights, etc. that doesn't inspire me because it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me, although it's good when people conquer their fears.

What I did do for my assignment for this week was take a bunch of pictures of the area downtown. The reason I did this was to see what i could make out of all those pictures and to see how creative I could get and this is what I got.

Who Am I?

So for this project I was a bit confused on what I was going to bring to class so first I had to think who I am. What most people who know me know that I am a pretty nice guy who like to make people smile and be happy. On the inside though I can be really mean and aggressive if you give me a reason to be. So to represent that I will bring.... something to class.

Bliss

I'm honestly not 100% sure what I'm suppose to be putting in this blog so I'm going to ramble about what I think it is. When I first read that need to decide what our final project is it made me nervous. The reason for that is that I have a hard time thinking of good assignments for myself in this class. So I gave it some thought and what might be an idea worth doing is just going about my day then finding some random object that peaks my interest then writing a fake story about how it got there. The whole point of it is not to just say hey theres a trash can it got there because someone put it there. It would be something like a meteor came down to earth that wards off ninjas of something like that so they put it there because that area was know to have many ninja sightings. What I'm trying to accomplish is to not state the obvious as to why something is there and make it interesting and maybe improve my creative thinking.

Response to class 11/1/10

Well when I first read the assignment I thought I read it wrong so I reread it and was excited. Then I realized I could have stayed home then was a bit annoyed but overall it didn't bug me to much. I didn't do other homework in that time either. I just hung out with my girlfriend until my next class started. As for the assignment it will be tricky for me because I'm not that good at thinking of my own work to do unless I know there is a purpose to it.

What is it?

From first look I thought it was just a bunch of mail but then it seemed like just a bunch of jokes. This assignment was probably so we would have to think outside of the box. It is like a parody of actual items like advertisement and rules. Another reason this was assigned was probably to mess with are heads like usual. Other then that I'm not sure what the point was.

Response to class 10/25

The class was OK today but not as good as usual. It was cool to see what some other people did for there assignment like the i pumpkin and the website. The discussion about why the one female didn't want to show her project didn't seem important to me. The best thing about class was the moving book until I realized how simple it was and the junk mail or whatever it was annoyed me because I couldn't figure out what it is all about.

Whats Up

For my exercise it was kind of like the walking backwards exercise. What I did was simply look up where there were other people. The point of this was to show how people are curios of what is going on around them. One of the times I was at Camp Atterburry and was looking up for a good while. After a while people came up to me and asked what I was looking at. I didn't say anything for a while and they started to look up to figure it out. I then walked away and one person called me stupid, I think that person realized what I was doing. Another time I was downtown and basically the same thing happened but there was only one person who asked me what I was looking at and I told him up he kept looking and then walked away. This experiment was to just show how people are usually wants to know what is happening around them. I also noticed that some people just looked up for a second and just kept walking so I'm guessing those people were semi curious but didn't really care or just figured I was crazy.

Whats Really Important

Whats really important to me is to become an officer. It is only one thing in order to make me into a better person. The thing that makes me want to do this is so I can help others become better people. After seeing countless people making bad decision and having no clue on what to do, I hope to be a person to show people what they are capable of.

My belief is that are classified because really I find them to be vague and hard to think of. Religion has no part on my beliefs because I'm not a religious person at all. There is no fear in this assignment for me. Me being an atheist might offend someone but I don't care because I'm ok with being one.

Response to class 10/4

Class was pretty interesting today. There were some cool and touching presentations. The snake war really nice, I don't think I have ever had the chance to pick up a snake before so that was cool. I'm pretty excited about peoples opinions for the next class since it will be a touchy subject.

Fear

What makes me fearful is drowning and spiders or worse, drowning in a pool of spiders. Fear to me is something that when I think about I dread it to the point I get freaked out. Fear stops you from being rational and making sound decisions. The purpose of fear is to make sure you stay away from something that could potentially hurt you. Fear doesn’t affect my life to much except for the rare case where there is a big spider and I don’t want to get near it. When it comes to drowning I don’t let that fear affect me when it comes to swimming. I can swim the only problem I have is staying under water for more than about 10 seconds.

My experiment was to light my hand on fire using hand sanitizer and a lighter. I did this because it only makes since to be scared of fire or at least be caught on fire. So I did it in class without warning, and it seemed like only one person was really freaked out by it. Everyone one else seemed to think it was cool. I expected some people to think it was cool but I would have figured more people would be freaked out that a person’s hand was on fire. The only thing I can think of to make the experiment work better is to tell someone to put a little bit of hand sanitizer on then I light there hand on fire and they freak out. I would of course have this person picked out with their approval before class.

The experiment I responded most to was the mouse(not sure what the guy’s name was). I responded to it because I hate mice. There rodents and there nasty. Although I did pick it up I still would have preferred if it wasn’t alive. The thing I would take from his experiment is to get people involved.

Expectations

The reaction I expect in class is people saying are you crazy and freaking out. Others might think that what I do is cool and might try and do it.

The 6th Sense

The sixth sense that I thought of is absorption. By that I mean that you can absorb knowledge from anything that has it, but it has to allow you and they have to be at least 3 feet by you. Someone would use this so that they could learn without all the hard work. Example is if I want to learn how to fly a helicopter I would just stand next to someone who know how and ask him if I could learn it from him, he would then say yes and within a few minutes I will have learned it.

Response To Class 3

Last class was pretty interesting, since people had pretty funny and cool ways of doing there egg assignment. The assignment for the sense I think is a really good one to get the imagination going. The backwards discussion I didn't really get into because I still couldn't get a fell for it.

Inspiration 2

I was at the park at Fort Benjamin Harrison on Friday the 10th. While I was there I thought man this would be an excellent place to use that virtual reality helmet to play a shooting game. There is plenty of space and many tactical locations. The way I would imagine using it is by having a bunch of actual people with you and the enemies being part of the simulation. That way it would be more dramatic and fun because you will be able to tell when they die. If it were people they would still be standing and walking even though they died.

Inspiration

When I was walking backwards I felt really awkward. I walked to the store backwards and although I have walked to that store for years I still almost tripped to many times. There were some people who looked at me weird which made me feel kind of weird. Overall this exercise wasn't really for me I just couldn't get used to walking backwards, I have to see whats in front of me or it just makes me feel unsafe.

Dropped Egg

So I was going to do something more interesting with the egg but when I was showing it to my freind it cracked. Only the clear part came off. I didnt want to put it in my bag so I put it on a ledge and I guess the wind blew or something because it dropped. I first thought what a waste of an egg but then I figured hey why not take a picture of it sideways like what the class is called.

Class 8/23

The first day of class was pretty weird but fun. The best part of class was the break when we were rolling in our chairs. What got me thinking in the class was the Seeing and LOOKING on the boards. I was surprising that I didn't even notice all those differences in the words besides the actual meaning. So hopefully I will be able to notice things like that by the end of this class.

Strange big eyed alien

Genre Sci-Fi

GENRE

Sci-Fi



William Wallace
N190 Spring 2010
1-23-2010
Target Audience and Attitudes










Target Audience Analysis


Gender: Male and Female

Age: 16-35

Interests: Gaming, Internet, Movies, Facebook, Aliens, Action figures

Habits: Eating junk food, Fighting with a light saber

Other things they like to watch or read: Documentaries, SciFi channel,
Star Wars, Star Trek

What they do in their spare time: Hang out with friends, Play World of War Craft,
Card Games, SciFi Conventions

Things they buy: Fast food, Electronics, Music, Movies, Action Figures

Where they live: With their parents, College dorms, Apartments, Houses, Subdivisions

Income level: 0 - $75,000

Maximum education level: Bachelor degree

Anything else that is relevant: May like to have alone time (loners), May think
that aliens exist, May like astronomy, May love Star Trek or Star Wars









The Sneaky Alien


Tom is an ordinary man who lives in Nevada. Every day at 7:00am he takes his hyper dog Glen for a walk around the lush green park that is close to his house. As he is walking Glen, he suddenly runs off into the dense vegetated part of the park. Tom goes running after Glen wondering what got into him.

As he is looking for him he stumbles across an incredible UFO. Tom can’t believe what he is seeing and despite all his common sense to just leave he decides to check out what is inside. He creeps inside with caution and discovers his dog sniffing what seems to be a dead green alien. He realizes nothing good could come of this so he puts the leash on Glen and runs out of the UFO. But it is to late the Government has already caught him at the scene. He is now surrounded by what seems to be about 20 men with guns wearing strange uniforms. One of the men shoots him in the chest and passes out. He wakes up in a cell wondering if he is going to die but he doesn’t feel any wounds. He thinks to himself that it must have been a tranquilizer. A man walks up to the cell and asks him what he saw. Tom replies that he saw a dead alien in a UFO. The man replies “Well get comfy because this is your new home”.

Three days later Tom gets a surprise visitor, the big eyed alien he thought was dead. The alien says “You have to help me I just want to go home; if you help me I will help you out of here too”. Tom agrees and the alien throws some guard cloths to him. He puts them on and Tom pretends to take him to an experimentation lab. Once Tom gets the alien to his space craft he thanks Tom. They both get on the UFO and the alien pulls out some weird device and vaporizes Tom. The alien laughs manically and blast his way out of the secret base destroying as much as he can along the way. He then shoots up into space to join the rest of his fleet bringing with him new information on the worlds defenses.

Obituary of Tom "Gullible" Smith

Tom smith died in Nevada June 7, 2009 after being vaporized by a dangerous alien. All that was found left of him was dust stuck in the air filter.

Tom Smith was born March 19, 1985 in a small town in Nevada. Tom graduated at Nevada University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He now works for a programming company as a computer analyst.

He has been married to his wife for a year and they have no kids. They do have a dog named Glen that they have had for two years. He hasn’t achieved any great achievements besides being tricked by an alien trying to destroy all humans. He will not be having a funeral because the world is mad at him for have so many people die.

Short Story

Tom is an ordinary man who lives in Nevada. Every day at 7:00am he takes his dog Glen for a walk around the park that is close to his house. As he is walking Glen, he suddenly runs off into the dense vegetated part of the park. Tom goes running after Glen wondering what got into him. As he is looking for him he stumbles across a UFO. Tom can’t believe what he is seeing and despite all his common sense to just leave he decides to check out what is inside. He creeps inside with caution and discovers his dog sniffing what seems to be a dead alien. He realizes nothing good could come of this so he puts the leash on Glen and runs out of the UFO. But it is to late the Government has already caught him at the scene. He is now surrounded by what seems to be about 20 men with guns wearing a uniform he hasn’t seen before. One of the men shoots him in the chest and passes out. He wakes up in a cell wondering if he is going to die but he doesn’t feel any wounds. He thinks to himself that it must have been a tranquilizer. A man walks up to the cell and asks him what he saw. Tom replies that he saw a dead alien in a UFO. The man replies “Well get comfy because this is your new home”. Three days later Tom gets a surprise visitor, the alien he thought was dead. The alien says “You have to help me I just want to go home; if you help me I will help you out of here too”. Tom agrees and the alien throws some guard cloths to him. He puts them on and Tom pretends to take him to an experimentation lab. Once Tom gets the alien to his space craft he thanks Tom. They both get on the UFO and the alien pulls out some weird device and vaporizes Tom. The alien laughs manically and blast his way out of the base destroys as much as he can along the way. He then shoots up into space to join the rest of his fleet bringing with him new information on the worlds defenses.