December 2007
14 posts
going beyond the everyday
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2007/12/18/intv.gupta.ear.cnn I thought that this story was really interesting and about something that goes beyond things that we see everyday. The video is about a surgery that can now be performed when people are born with a numb of skin where there should be an ear. For the surgery they take cartiledge from the ribs and are able to make a mold and an...
news
Today i read in the news that the rate of using the death penalty has hit a thirteen year low. After reading this, I was glad to hear that many states are rethinking their methods of punishing criminals. Although I do that criminals should be punished, I do not feel that the death penalty is the way to handle it. The death penalty has become too much of an everyday thing, something that people...
thinking about leaving..
While thinking about the everyday and events that normally occur I also have the idea of going home tomorrow on my mind. To me the idea of going home seems strange. Since I have started college it seems like I now have two homes, which I previously thought to be somewhat impossible. It almost seems as if while we are at college we have one life and while at home there is another. Although this is...
everday pictures
the pictures that i posted below are the first three pictures that appear after searching the word “everyday” in flickr.com. It is amazing to see all of the different ways that people interpret the everyday. When asked to think about the everday each person will give a different response. all of the different pictures shows that the everday means something different to everyone.
routines
today i was talking to one of my friends about the difference between college and high school routines. I think that one of the reasons that it’s difficult for people to become adjusted to college is because your daily routine changes dramatically. in high school every weekday is the same as the next. you go to the same classes everyday, go to practice or the gym, eat dinner, do your...
random thoughts
Although I’m not completely sure of what I am going to do for my project I am getting a better understand of how to make everyday nonsense into sense & how putting random objects together can create something surprising. In general the class has been hard for me to understand. I have never experienced anything like it before or have I ever thought on this level. I never questioned the...
final project
For my final project I am going to do the construct a life option. I think that I’m going to use and L.L. Bean catalog and construct a life of one of the models in there. I’m not definatley sure I’m going to do that because I’m getting catalogs mailed to me today and I’m going to pick the best one.
November 2007
1 post
weathermap of feeling
With a collecting data at random for two weeks, no one would think that these random everyday occurrences, news headlines and pictures would be able to connect. Surprisingly, all of the data collection did have some connections. Each day seemed to have the same amount of fluctuation. The same amount of happy news and sad news, the same amount of happy images and sad images, happy blogs and sad...
October 2007
2 posts
midterm.project
i think that the midterm project was interesting…i feel that out of all the projects so far this one connected best with the material in the book. it was very difficult for me to make and it didn’t come out exactly how i had imagined it to. Overall though i liked the final product and listening to the observations that other people had about Second Life and what they feel it is in...
September 2007
17 posts
repeat, repeat, repeat
For this assignment we were required to take picture of our refrigerators, desktops and shower stalls three times in one day. I think that although was repetitive it was a good representation of the everyday and the mostly monotonous events that occur. Generally my desktop does change the most often and minimal rearrangements are made to my refrigerator. The shower probably has the least...
walking in poughkeepsie...
For this assignment I choose to walk down Washington Street partly because I’m a freshman and don’t have a car. The beginning of the walk began with my friends and I witnessing a car accident on Route 9 between a teenage girl and an older man. We continued walking and noticed kids playing and swinging on a playground and many people going out for a walk. A variety of cars drove by...
my top five...
Top 5 interests in my life now: photography - i love to take pictures, especially black & white ones, and since i’ve gotten to college i haven’t had as much of an opportunity to do so but i plan to soon. writing - writing has always been a pastime of mine and i do it whenever i am stressed or confused. becoming involved at Marist - i currently joined many clubs and organizations...