Summer Sunblock Flow

My idea came to me when I sent out an email regarding if we had an ipod dock in our mastercraft boat. We didn't and whoever had to drive practice just had to bring a cd. I was like PERFECT! This was the perfect opportunity to make a good cd that people can enjoy.
I took my own feelings and emotions and experiences, bundled them together, and made the cd. My choices for O.A.R for many of the songs were because it is the most widely known band among skiers. Eve6-anytime was my first song because I watched a video on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6jSwociuOY. I thought of the emotions just driving the boat out to start skiing and this was the perfect song to get you pumped up. It is the most energenic song on the cd. I added some fillers due to the popularity of the songs among many people, in addition that I like the songs too. The structure at the end is supposed to resemble the sun setting and the music fading away into a slower genre. If you read the liner notes (poem) that I wrote, it is supposed to parallel the tracks if you listened to them throughout the day. Lets say at 6pm when it was still light out and you just put the boat in to go skiing. By 7:30 pm, the sun is setting and them mood is toned down. There is still excitement, but it tunes you into that it is about time to go in. This could also be applied to beginning in the morning and perhaps finishing the cd at night. My theme was overall relaxing music that you could jam out too. I think they call it surfer music. Anyways, to sum it all up, I concentrated on my audience that would be in the boat and put in a time component to make it more relevant. I left another copy in the boat for people to use. We will see the impact and if it is popular among people on our team.
It was very interesting creating a new means for 'writing.' I could definitly wrtie a whole story based on te tracklist I selected.

Muxtape, not Mixtape

http://muxtape.com/

This week I decided to keep my blog post extremely short. Here is a site, in addition to others, who offer a sort of mix tape sharing service. However, it does not let you download anything, but stream the music through your computer and then download it of course illegally. Its a pretty cool site if you are into a variety of music and like to explore outside your box.

On the bottom its supposed to say "In little Christians can still find joy drinking a giant vodka of Finland." The after that it says, "Tina Frey you tend not to hide anything you alcoholic."

The Cut Up Method: Brilliance in Innovation and Uncertainty

What it means to me. Particularly why it has been so prominent also has spurred my curiosity. For one, it breaks the linearity of the norms in which I write, or perhaps you could call them the boundaries that I operate in. It is simple and I think of it as an easier way to create something that is nonlinear. For example, try to create a piece with non linearity and new syntaxes. To accomplish this, one would need a very creative mind. Also the uncertainty is another aspect that is very intriguing to me also. Sentences that are based on no grammatical rules can be developed and sometimes, whole new ideas or phrases may develop that are perhaps within the context of the original phrase, or the new phrase develops a whole new idea within that context that the originator would have never thought of. Perhaps if done thousands of times, new phrases and ways of thinking would surface. Its almost like creativity meets simple innovation that would have not occurred without this cut up method. It seems to have a lot of potential to develop a whole new realm of creativity but has not gotten ‘track’ among academic scholars or the general population.

No synergy between Minimalism and DJ Spooky + 3 You Tube Videos

Minimalism is the based on stripping an item down to its bare elements for simplicity and to be ‘mono’. Its visualization evokes creativity and allows one to see beyond the clutter. When I look at it, I sometimes visualize it with clutter. However, I believe that Minimalism and DJ Spooky are not similar in their views of the world. Whereas minimalism bares an object to the most simplistic of forms, DJ Spooky is calling for the creation of a cluttered object such as music. To bring together constituents from this world around us is DJ Spooky’s style. Where they are similar is their view on making things easier to understand. We will not focus on this though. DJ Spooky believes in sampling from our environment to produces an item that is easier to understand by piecing together its constituents, where minimalism removes those constituents. He wants us to rethink how we write and create, opening new possibilities for innovation and creativity. Minimalism is a very creative aspect of art and is by no means simple to create. But the overall process of creating these two dissimilar pieces of work is at odds with each other. Here are two videos that contrast the work of DJ Spooky and Minimalism.




Or for architectural minimalist video copy and paste this link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N36hy8At6wo

Persona- Latin for mask

Today's discussion was really interesting. Our different persona's we possess can be very distinctive to some people. For me on the other hand is very tough to discern between two different personalities I may possess. Anyways, connecting DJ Spooky's book and persona's, I wanted to bring up a point that I thought to be his idea in his book. He has 3 personalities or so, but what he argues in the book is stepping outside the boundaries that constrain us. Just from our discussion, it sounded like many people's alternate persona's where still constrained by the boundaries of our culture, adhering to the norms of our society; business, party, ect.. He argues for a different revolutionary thinking where we are not constrained by the norms of today. Deviation. In writing or music. He takes the normal boring conventional art and turns it into something remarkable. Now can this apply to personalities of one's self also? Or are these fixed in time, adhereing to our cultural norms of how to behave in certain situations and what not?

I still feel as if my freedoms were not taken away

In my project I tried to make an argument that perhaps creativity could not rather be doomed but could be going down the wrong path towards constraining our creativity (as shown by the image of hell). By going down the road towards heaven, I tried to symbolize that creativity could flourish in an environment that allows it due to the copyright laws. Heaven also indicated the more positive environment in which copyright laws were relaxed. However, I think many people had an idea that I was only saying that they were two extremes. I was just appealing to others views that copyright laws could be relaxed. Secondly, my other creation in which I had to secure the rights to reflected more on the war between the two sides (people that want their freedoms and the big corporations) and that creativity could be pulled into the black hole (that I tried to depict), thus controlling creativity. Lastly on my remix picture I switched the freedom to the file sharers depicting that rarely does anybody get caught with most activities. I would consider my freedom to file share and download as ‘free’ as would many other people. Have you gotten caught? 1/500,000 people get caught illegally infringing on copyright laws. Also I depicted the corporate side as 'regulate' because I ask what would you do if you were in that postition? If people stole your commercially copyrighted works? It turned out to be very interesting project in which creativity was allowed to flourish (illegally!! Haha); although, I don’t really see anything constraining on this type of activity. Did anybody feel as ‘free’ as they were before? Thus is the majority of the population actually regulated. If 1/500,000 copyright infringers were punished how are we regulated?