What if you helped someone with something everyday?

This was nothing like I imagined I would do but for me, this is more important than creating any new media-esque project. If you do happen to read this please try to act upon this question;

"What if you helped someone with something everyday?"

A little "secret to life" that I would suggest to anyone. It could be as simple as holding the door open for someone, a smile, letting your boss yell at you, actually stopping at marked crosswalks, or leaving a pleasant message for someone.

I try to bring this to life everyday. Here is what I did with my newspaper clipping:

What if i take the easy way out

We are suppose to bring to life one of these 'what if' questions right? My first thought (the easy way out), is to take an image and change the grass color to purple or turn the sky to red. I have ideas. Ideas that may take a while to unfold but I am working on it. I am still wondering what if they brought back Crystal Pepsi?
Currently, and oddly enough, I am sitting at a computer right now that has sign someone made about a lost pencil. I'm not sure how i feel about the last class. If I could do it over again i would have went for the pizza. I was really hungry at the time. Anyway, I am still thinking about my mother and wondering how she is doing. I love you mom.
It was nice to have people start to open up in class. I enjoyed listening to how others think or what they think or whatever. Then things got a little hectic and I had lost interest (like i am doing right now). I need to sleep more...

Questions to myself...

Very personal, very vague.
What if...

• this doesn't change a thing?
• it is terminal?
• it never heals?
• i can't afford it?
• i run?
• i already see it coming?
• i've made a huge mistake?
• she feels the same way?
• i say something to her?
• i am right?
• it would work out?
• i make up my mind?
• she reads this?
• she knows?
• i did more?
• i lie?
• i have to have surgery?
• my vocabulary was larger?
• i am wrong?
• i really forgive him?
• i do quit?
• this is as good as i am?
• i spent less?
• she is not the one?
• he didn't shoot himself?
• he died?
• i am crazy?
• she is still out there?
• things are happening that i don't know about?
• i stay numb?
• i'm busted?
• i change my mind?
• it's another person?
• my dreams don't come back?
• i'm not getting enough sleep?
• they find it?
• i spent less?
• i saved more?
• my feelings never come back?
• i am wrong about love?
• it's serious?
• i could do better?
• i have to move?
• he doesn't win?
• i can't stop?
• i peak?
• she is sick?
• i lose her?
• i don't cry anymore?
• i die sooner than what i want to believe?
• my doubts are right?
• i don't get the job?
• i get caught?
• there are consequences?
• it doesn't work?
• i don't succeed?
• i do go to hell?
• we don't get any closer?
• i listen to myself?
• i trust my gut?
• i trust my logic?
• she is the one?
• i believe?
• i can't do this anymore?
• this is it?
• it stops?

A word to my classmates

Don't take me too seriously. After class I was thinking about some things I said and I thought that I might have offended someone. I've been leaving comments too. My mind changes so much that the only thing I really believe in is change. Most things do. So I hope people see this. If not I might make a disclaimer in class or something. Mostly curious I am. I just want to know why people do what they do or think what they think. I think that is more important than what you actually think or do. To be honest, I probably don't care what you think but I am curious about why you think it. I. I say that a lot. 70% of my sentences start with I. It's all I have control over (myself). Anyway...

Intentions are often mixed up and confused. When you create something, people may never realize your real intention. That's my reflection in short. So is it about the message you are trying to get across or the experience that others have with it? I guess if you want people to know exactly what you intended you would label it somewhere but what is the fun in that right?

My intentions aren't to change anyone's mind. Just for people to stop and look at things in a new light. No one is wrong for thinking or believing what they do. Be who you are.

Time

After about a minute of watching the man tap dance in his chair I thought to myself 'this doesn't make any sense, what does this have to do about time?'. Twenty minutes later as i was driving to class and it hit me (or at least this is what i think). He was telling a story not performing a song. I thought it was much like an opera. We associate music with time. A song has structure and is usually 'true' or on time. Tempo changes may occur but there is still a melody of some sort. A steady drum beat or a bass line. I imagined that when the universe was just forming it was much like that man's tap dancing. It wasn't a song at all.

Time is really just a law of physics (i would think). You can't escape it. You can't reverse age. It's much like everything else and depends on the person's perspective though. If you speed up a movie file it's usually more intense and appealing. Changing the speed of a song dramatically changes the feel. Maybe it has to do with your senses. For example, if you slip on ice, as you are falling down everything seems to be in slo-mo. 'Time flies when your having fun' and is a drag when you have nothing to do. Time is exact, we are not. If we were we wouldn't have leap year.

I wanted to do something similar to the tap dancer, tell a short story, so i used a few similar sounds and threw some stars in the back ground just for an excuse to use AE. The stars were inspired by the painting and i wanted to do something visual as well as audible.

First, impress

So. It is impossible to decide a favorite with no context unless it is just my personal favorite which i believe there is never just one. So. Max and Luke win out because i really liked the idea of personal, physical interaction of others. This mysterious object with real world ties. It got (or might get) people involved that have nothing to do with this group of people.
On a deeper level i am really feelin Pandora. A good cleansing always does the body (and soul) some good. Pandora takes the gold.

This is not a blog.

This is a series of 1's and 0's put back together to display on the screen for you to read. Before that it was a thought, a series of electrical impulses in the brain.
I love perception. What things actually are and how we perceive them are usually never the same. Everything can be broken down into two things (to my knowledge): energy and matter. If it is not one then it is the other but one can become the other. We usually don't think much about how we perceive things. We take things for face value, what you see is what you get. This can't be the case for everything though. A book for example, is nothing more than ink on paper (or wood and yes there is more to it but you get my point, right?). But a book is so much more than that. The words inside of a book convey ideas, they tell a story allowing our brains to paint a picture of complex thought. These painted pictures may not be the same for everyone though. How we experience something is different person to person. Everyone will have a different process to get to their end result.
Visualization of ideas is experienced, not deduced (taken from book). Sometimes we have a great idea that just comes to us. No research, planning, case study or what have you. Sometimes things just work. I have this conversation with my girlfriend, Tana, quite often. She is a designer and will often argue that you cannot just make something that looks good because it looks good but design with a purpose and through a process. In my opinion, we can pull from instances in our life and come to a conclusion with little understanding of how we got to that conclusion. Process is good and will work more often than not going through some type of process but what is good is good. In fact, process can produce the same results as a simple idea would.
Since I am off on a weird tangent I think I'll wrap it up. Don't take things for what they are but don't dismiss something that is not thought out. We all perceive things differently and we usually don't care how much time was put into producing something only whether it was good or bad.

The Egg

When we were given the egg I am sure we all started thinking "What am I suppose to do with this egg?" when it wasn't so much what we were suppose to do with the egg but what can we do with this egg. To me the egg did not represent anything in the physical realm but was more of a motivational or philosophical tool. We often start our days with eggs for breakfast. The egg could also be boiled to top our salad or be stuffed with some kind of mayo concoction. It could have been used by the Eggman, driving around, egging the town, always got my windows rolled down, that's right, I'm the Eggman. An egg can even raise the debate "the chicken or the egg".

To me, the egg represented a new beginning or rebirth. This summer I had done very little with visual arts. Most of the time was spent working, moving, adapting to a new life with the one I love and working on a little audio here and there. So I took this opportunity to revisit and prime myself for the semester by taking a stroll through the neighborhood with my girlfriend's new camera. It is and has been one of my favorite things to do since I got my first 35mil. If it wasn't for digital cameras, this would have been my chosen career. Now, everyone is a photographer (or so they think). Even if they are not you can still take 200 photos and a few of them are going to be ok if not really good no matter who you are. Thank you technology for killing what Stieglitz and many others fought so hard for to make photography part of the arts. Either way it doesn't really matter. There is a difference and most can tell. It's not as if I would have enough room or money for a darkroom anyway so I take back the bad things I said about you technology, I love you.

Anyway, I did take about a hundred photos on my stroll and it was nice. It is most often the beginning of my process and I thought it fit in nicely with what I thought about The Egg.