Grid Art

I wanted to make a 3d grid art that was square in shape but had and organic element. So, I used the idea of water droplets to show the organic element alone side the wood I used too. The wood used is all one kind of wood cedar to be exact. The wood has a change of color based off its natural coloring in wood. I feel like hand cutting the wood was the hardest part with them all begin a little different compared to each other. I did use the tester of the wood to give a more organic and texture look to the final product. There was some problems like when the glue dried it moved and twisted some of the pieces around. Overall, I think I achieved what I wanted to with the design.

Smartphones

                                         Smartphones

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I think one of the greatest and the worst technologies made in the 21st century is smart phones. I have mixed feelings with them, they can help in everyday life. Also you can just get stuck on them every second of your life, because they offer so much to them.  I find it interesting how many other technologies influenced the creation of the smart phone.

I would say the first thing that influenced the smartphone is easy to guess the phone. At the base of the smartphone is the phone itself. The phone was created to just keep in contact with other people. The phone made it a lot faster to keep in contact with other people. Before, the phone you would either have to use the mail or you could use a telegraph. Just to have instant contact for the first time must have been amazing.

Then the cell phone came out, I think that would be one of the other biggest influences to the smart phone. At first I think cell phones were just kind of a novelty for the rich. They were in no way practical at all at first. The car phone would seem more practical in my eyes for the time. The first cell phones are like carrying around a huge old laptop to today’s standards. If it takes a whole briefcase, and it weighs 25 pounds then I think it is not practical. Over time they got better and smaller, making them more user friendly. Smartphones are mobile so it would make sense that the cell phone would have influenced the smart phone.

I would say the internet would be the final major influence on the smart phone. Almost every single thing you can do on the internet you can now do on your phone. The internet in the beginning was very limiting with not everyone having a personal computer or the skills to use the internet. It was sometimes challenging for people just to pick it up and being able to use the internet for the first time, because of the user interface. Very quickly it got better and better, and now I can’t imagine not having the internet. All most everything that we all do today has the internet involved with it one way or another.

What I think the smartphone will influence of future technologies would be fully integrated life with technology. Meaning that somehow it would become use in some way or another. I think we would get it implanted or somehow we would want to be fused with technology to extend are life and capabilities. Is this a good thing, yes and no like everything else in life? I feel like it maybe a little scary at first, (the doomsday people). Overall, I think it would be perfectly fine in a way, meaning it would not really hurt anyone. Here’s the problem I would find with it one, I think we would lose more personal contact with other people. Second, I think we would loss most if not all contact with nature. Many people now do not like going out into nature and being one with the earth. I feel like being 100 percent integrated with the network would remove the last bit of being able to connect with nature.

Overall, I’m not scared of human progress like some people are. I hope for change all the time in technology, but in that pursuit we should still remember our past. I feel like this keeps us balanced in life, and all life is a balancing act.

Flip Book

My flip book is going to be based off a typography element. I feel like using typography makes this flip book a little different compared to others of its kind. The story behind the flip book is kind of like Tweety bird and Sylvester the cat. These two animals will chase each other and kind of have this old school animated feeling to them. No, they are not the same two animals, they are different but have the same kind of theme to them.  Basically its a kind of a game between these animals, and its just kind of fun like an old school cartoon. The typography part just makes it have a kind of weird different style to the overall, a refreshing feeling to a classic.

Broadway

My favorite Broadway show would be Hair. The west coast 1968 one to be exact, and I like it because its 100 percent 1960s. I like this showing the best, because it is from the 60s and the actors already have the mind set in the 60s. It seems better than the newer shows of the same thing, because new actors have to act like they are from the 60s and you don’t get the same feeling. Somehow it seems a little fake compared to the older showings of it. I like the 60s part about the show, because it seems like a whole different world to me with their cultural values. Also, the 60s seems to me to free a little freer and more loving than now. The Broadway show of Hair just reconfirms that freeing feeling of the 1960s to me. Overall, it just has this strong sense of love to one another and a connection too everyone and everything.

In terms of the shows technology behind it, had a lot of lighting techniques.  There was a lot of different colors that kind of changed each time the mood in the show changed. The colors were kind of mixed with the cool blues and for the more emotion elements they used warm colors like red and yellows. This gives you a wide range of feeling, with the blending of the lights, and the tone of the Broadway songs. Most of the songs have a bright feeling to them, but with underlying tones of unsureness to them. It’s more like a feeling of unknowing for the future rather than being a depressing feeling.

The camera work was also done really well too, with the very close up shots on key characters at the right time. Making the show feel like it was always moving and never static in feeling. The stage was kind of lacking in technology they just had props, but I like this because it makes you focus on the actors themselves.  I think this Broadway was every well done over all and is kind of a classic to all of the Broadway shows.