Onions

This assignment proved to be quite challenging. Since I had a lot of difficulty thinking of something thats more than meets the eye, I decided to use myself for this assignment. On the outside I am a 22 year old male. But inside I am filled with stories about my past, goals and ambitions, likes and dislikes, values, hobbies, opinions, and a laundry list of character traits. Probably not the typical subject for this assignment, so I thought I would go a different direction for this one.

-Kyle

Class 9/21/09

Class today was interesting, as always. Never thought I would hear the words "cardboard" and "porn" in the same phrase, but there are a lot of things I will only experience inside the confines of this classroom. Now to think of something that is more than meets the eye...

-Kyle

Assignment 2: On Fear

For our second assignment, we were required to either use the marshmallow creation, or part of a pizza box to represent fear. My idea for this project came to me much faster than assignment 1. Once I had my hands on the pizza box, i instantly thought of making a mask. Having just finished watching Halloween, I thought back to little Michael Myers utilizing masks in order to hide his face, hide his inhibitions, his feelings, and essentially hide himself from the horrible things he did to others. This to me is extremely fearful because when he hid behind a mask, he lost the one thing that made him himself.

-Kyle

Class 9/14/09

Wow, I can't believe we'll actually get credit for this class. On one hand, we tackled the subject of fear by conducting the entire duration of class with little to no light... literally. On the other hand, we went off on numerous tangents ranging from elevator music to experimentation with psychedelics, and everything in between. It's only week two and now we somehow need to represent fear with a pizza box. I know what I plan on doing, but really... a pizza box? Yeah I know, scary.

-Kyle

Assignment 1

For assigmnent 1, I decided to create a brief audio composition. I really had no idea what to create at the introduction of this assignment, so I decided to use this as an excuse to record a snippet of my guitar playing. To incorporate this project with the sky, I inserted a clip of a jetliner flying by (horrible cop out) to bring relevance to this assignment. The assignment was fun and gave me the opportunity to get back to my lost hobby or recording my musical progress. One reason I believe I have never strayed from playing the guitar, or any instrument, is simply because you're never truly finished learning techniques, styles, and how far you can push yourself. The sky is truly the limit.

-Kyle

New to this...

So i've never blogged before. Is there a specific way to blog? Probably not since i've created this for my Seeing Sideways class. I could probably pour marinara sauce on my laptop, take a picture of it, post it, and that would be a sufficient blog entry for this class. Yeah, it's kinda like that. I'm starting to realize that there's no limitation as to what we can do for a grade in this class. Sounds fun right? Monday Beth had us go outside, lay in the grass, stare at the sky, and said "create something that might be inspired by the sky...". No further instructions what so ever. WTF? You should've seen the reaction from some of the students after they realized that we really have no direction for this assignment. The look on their faces resembled that of a person who might've questioned the fact that the world is round... or is it? As for me, you could say I saw this coming. But shit, that doesn't mean I know what to do for this assignment. Good thing this blog entry is the only thing due today.