Day 6 Take Away

I've learned something new yesterday.  It is interesting that it turns out that when you are not trying on your project or having fun with it that it turns out to be your best work.  When I meant by not trying, I meant trying to appease someone else.  Like your teacher or your client.  

One of the things that I like to do is writing stories.  Right now I am taking a class called digital storytelling.  I realized I don't have much fun writing stories for the class just for fun. I mean, I enjoy it a lot but just knowing that you are getting graded kind of sucks some of the fun out of it.  That is my take away from day six.

Bible Dipping

For this project we have to do something creative with the word reuse. At first I had no idea what to do.  When I thought of the word reuse, I was thinking about recycle or using something for the same purpose again.  After some research, though, I found out the reuse could also mean using something again but with a different purpose.  I noticed in my garage that there are some shoe boxes.  So I started from there by using a shoe box.

 At first I was thinking of putting some shoes in because of I'm reusing it.  I quickly turn that idea down.  Then I realize in my room that I have my video game controllers on the floor.  I don't have a good place to store them.  Thinking that I could reuse something but for a different purpose, I use the shoe box has a storage box for the controllers.  So that they won't get step on them.  That is what I came up with reuse.

Day 5 Take Away

In today's society we are expected to follow rules.  So it was interesting to see that people could create interesting things just by breaking or bending the rules.  One of the students in the class made a video but he did it in a way that it should make the audience.  He made the video blurry, blocked,  and etc. While another made a figure for one of the role-playing games.  It was cool because it made it look like that it seen battle.  I think that this shows that even breaking could lead to creative projects.

Break the Rules!

For my experiment I decide to do something simple.  I chose to skip the project.  This might not seem thought provoking to you but it is to me.  I have never skipped a project before as long as I could remember. Of course I didn't do all of my assignments in the past but the reason was that I forgot about them.

So this is the first time that I didn't do a project or assignment on purpose.  This is actually scary for me because this is a new experience.  I get to experience the fact that I didn't do the assignment.  I  felt dirty and lazy about it.  Overall this made me very uncomfortable. It is definitely something that I don't want to do again in the future. I have to admit that I kind of enjoyed doing it because it was fun to see what is like to be a student that doesn't care about his or her work.

Day 4 Take Away

At the end of class we were discussing our next project which is about breaking rules.  In today's society we are expected to follow the rules in order to make progress.  That is not always the case.  We could break a rule and create something wonderful and new.  A very minor rule by the way.  It opens the door to new opportunities, which will allow you to do something creative with it.  I personally follow the rules, within reason.  It will be interesting to intentionally break a rule for the next experiment.

50 Ideas

This surprisingly was not that hard for me to do until I got to idea forty because maybe I've done similar projects like this before.  At the moment that is where I am stuck on.  Most of my ideas kind of branch of each other.  For example,  I wrote down write on the book.  Then later on I say write down each page something that you dislike about this book.  Some of the ideas are simply destroying it or leave it in an area.  One of the ideas I said was to bury it for example.  Then I thought of some ridiculous ones like strapping it on a rocket.  I understand, though, that the point of the experiment is think creatively and actually get an idea about what to do with our books.

Day 3 Take Away

On day three of Seeing sideways we started off  by talking about our doodle project.  One thing that I like to point was that I regret that I didn't talk much during that conversation.  I think the reason was that other people were mentioning things that that I thought of also but they talked about them already.  So at the time I didn't feel like it was necessary to talk.  I talked about my thoughts on my doodle blog so I am not going to repeat myself again.

The people that did talk brought up some interesting thoughts.  One of them in particular is that while we doodle, we subconsciously doodle things that has to do what we are hearing, smelling, and seeing. Another person mentioned that he did not like to doodle and even drawing.  I kind of connected that with him.  I don't hate drawing or doodling but it is something that I don't do often.  Mainly just from lack of interest.   At the end of the discussion I realized that through certain ways when we do something at random. Like when we doodled.  That it shows that person's personality and interests.  

Doodle Project

For our second experiment we had to doodle for 30 minutes.  At first this was difficult for me because I am one of those people that like to plan before they start a project.   I remember in some English classes that I took during my high school career that I had to write a journal or a short story on that day.   That was not fun for me.  I was able to come up with a story or something at some point but it is not my best work.

Anyway, this project reminded me of that a bit.  So I drew some things that had to do with what I was thinking about at the time.  I doodled the logos of the Sea Hawks and Patriots because the Super Bowl was coming up.  There was a doodle of a face sleeping because I was tired at the time.  There were other random things that I drew too.  Really the page was random.