Term Project

The main concept of this lecture was how schools kill creativity. Kids first start out being super creative and not afraid to being wrong. But it seems like as we get older, we grow afraid of being wrong. Ken made an excellent point,” If you aren’t prepared to be wrong, how can you come up with anything original.” This is where the idea of us losing our creativity comes in. As we go through the public school system, we grow out of creativity. It is forced that the major subjects in this system are such courses Mathematics, Social Studies and Sciences. Why isn’t Dance or music one of these major subjects? Why are they just options and not required? Keith said that the public school system was put into place so that the students in it would produce into University Proffesors. These are people that live with their heads, and just use their body as a way of transporting their heads around.

Picasso said  “We are all born artists, but the challenge is to remain an artist as we grow up.” Teachers in education are to tell students to steer away from subjects that won’t get them a career. Such as music,  you can’t be a musician and be successful, or even artists. We are driven away from creativity as we grow up.

For myself I have experienced this first hand. In school I was never really good at the major subjects such as math, and social studies. I did take art, and music though. Everytime I would go home and talk about what I wanted to take after high school, it would be me wanting to be a musician or an artist. My dad would tell me that wasn’t a career. He told me to go into banking/business. I hated the whole banking thing and I know if I would have, I would have lost the creative side of me.

After high school, I did lose a little bit of my creativity though. It was because I was so into music, I have pretty much dropped it, well with my saxophone playing anyway. I still love to sing though. But I relized something, it is what you make of it and you can’t let people tell you how you should live your life or what you should do with it.

I am keeping up with another side of my creativeness. Being a second year student in Digital Multimedia Tech. I have been able to think creatively in all the assignments I have done, and with the career I am wanting to do. Yes, the creativen side will be lost in some ways but I find I will be able to keep it up with my own projects I come up with myself.

I learned that work should be fun, and you shouldn’t hate what you are doing with your life because it isn’t the ideal life for someone else. The creative side should not be lost with what you do. Also I do believe that not everyone can be a university professor, our world would just be one big university otherwise with lectures an research. But I definitely don’t think we were put on this earth just for that. We were given creativity for a reason, and no one should trample on it and let it vanish.

The progress has finally come to an end. I have completed my term project, plus have gotten everything ready to hand in and present tomorrow.

I feel like I have accomplished what I set out to do in this term project and am as prepared as I can be for tomorrow.

Time to rock the presentation!

The studio project is wrapping up. My progress continues, I have kinda ran into a little bit of a hiccup where texturing is taking a bit longer than expected. I will have completed that today, and it will leave the weekend to set up my presentation for Thursday, Dec 4th.

Good Morning Orest! The progress continues… I have continued on workin on my textures for my toucan. Things are going well with it. I am pretty happy with how it is turning out.

The lecture I chose was the one by Chris Jordan on behavior. Some of the examples he provided were:

9/11 only 3000 people died and everyone talks about it to this day, but 1100 people die EVERYDAY because of the use of tobacco. And no one talks about it.

213 000 visits per year for the use of misused drugs. 1/3 of the overdoses in the US are perscription medication.

384 000 women for elective breast augmentation each month under the age of 21. It is growing to be a high school graduation gift for girls across the US.

These examples are to show that us as a culture/society have lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief. The causes are, we create is the information that we have to work with. These numbers go into the billions/trillions, our brains have a hard time comprehending these numbers which makes it hard for us to understand how problematic some of these causes are. If we could wrap our head around these numbers then the situations would matter more.

For myself, I am probably like every other person with how they deal with these behaviors.  Huge numbers are very hard to take into account especially when it relates to problems in our society. I know we are aware of the problems at hand, and plan to make changes for the better to benefit our society for years to come. But if we can’t understand what we are doing without even thinking about what we are doing, how are we going to fix it?

These behaviors define us as a nation, and it will effect the well being of life for the billions of people that will enherit our decisions today, and will take these decisions further in the future.

Hello, sorry for being a little late on this post. The progess continues as I work on texturing my toucan. About 1/3 of the texturing is completed. I am hoping to get another 3rd of it done before my next post to be on track.

The progress continues. I have been able to layout my UV’s but final touches need to be done. I plan to do that this weekend and begin texturing at the beginning of next week.

I totally forgot to post for week 5, but the progress continues. Modeling has been completed, and laying out UVs for my 3D model has begun.

The main concept of the discussion in the video was the meaning and the laws of Simplicity in our lives. We seem to like to keep things simple but somehow as human beings we are faced with complexity. There are so many things that are complex in our daily lifes such as relationships, the sky, the person next to you, etc. But also we seem to lean towards trying to keep it simple too.

John Maede came up with the cookie/laundry theory found in his book. The child will always go for the big cookie while they choose the smaller pile of laundry. His theory for the child who chooses the big cookie signifies that they want more so they can enjoy more. Where as the child will choose the smaller pile of laundry  to signify wanting to work less. He quotes “Simplicity is about living life with more enjoyment and less pain.”

What I have grasped from this quote is that simplicity signifies enjoyment, where as pain comes from complexity. In this context complexity is the thing we want less of.

For myself I tend to work for simplicity, in other words work for vacation. Right now in my life, my world is full of complexity which tends to affect my enjoyment. Such problems are school, family, and money. With it being a tough time right now, I work knowing that my life will become less complex and I will be happier. I want to be able to have the simplicity of having a career I enjoy, and money coming with it.

In conclusion I would like to say that simplicity and complexity is probably the same for everyone, we are all working to get to our “Simple Life”.

I apoligise for this post being a little late, but the progress continues. I have been able to finish up the body and I have moved onto the wings. I am really enjoyin this project so far, as this type of modeling is what I want to get into. It being the type they would use in the movie industry. It is at a higher resolution so it being in the game industry, it wouldn’t work too well. It would slow down the computer if it was used in a game.