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This was an interesting process that actually revealed more about my artistic personality than I thought. My video is my regular morning routine, (which I cropped down a little for interest). Then I videotaped myself coming home from the day as well, because I thought walking up and down the stairs looked cool mostly. Then as I was editing the sound I somehow turned my daily routine into a melodramatic suspense soundtrack, which makes me question my sanity. But I think it sounded really cool, despite the possibly disturbing meaning behind it. When I added the video to it, I didn’t think the plain in color video did the overly dramatic music justice, so I added the blue filter. Then I cut out some of the in-between footage so it seemed choppier. I think this added to the suspense and overall creepiness. In the end, I think that most of my decisions were the result of the happy accident that I like to make creepy music. Once I made the soundtrack I knew what type of video I wanted an deliberately made it that way. This was a fun experience because making music is not something I usually get to do, and it was nice to do it in such a creative way.  I think my final piece portrays a “What the heck” emotion, sort of a state of confusion and dislike. I know that doesn’t sound like a good emotion to have a piece portray, but I like it. 

Blog 9: Cathedral

This was probably one of the weirdest articles we have read yet. And by weird I mean more along the lines of unexpected or different. When I read I usually try to guess whats going to happen next, or to analyze what is happening and make predictions. With this article I was completely off. For one I didnt anticipate the weed smoking, that was a curveball. But I also thought the ending was very unexpected.

The narrators attitude from the beginning was a little odd. He was so against the blind man, almost condescending towards him. I feel like most people would be more apprehensive if a blind man was coming to stay with them as opposed to feeling angered or inconvieneced. He also appeared to be sliightly jealous of the blind man and his wife. He kept referencing their interactions. As I read I thought that this condescending and angered feeling would turn into respect and understanding at the end. That suddenly the narrator would be illuminated and realize he was wrong about the blind man because he said something or made an interesting point.

So I was looking for this quote that would turn the narrator into a more accepting man, and it never came. The surprise was that the blind man didnt have to explain anything to the narrator, he inadvertently showed him that he was wrong. By making the narrator draw the cathedral and then the narrator not wanting to open his eyes right away, it seems like the narrator has a new found respect for the blind man. That his condescending demeanor is almost in awe of the feelings that the blind man has daily.

Blog 8 - Commencement

This reading could not have come at a more appropriate time. The past month has been a stress filled, roller coaster ride that will hopefully end with me working at a rewarding internship this summer. I think it is easy to get stressed out about work, and jobs, and getting jobs, because these are things we are supposed to do. These are the types of things we use to value our lives, and ourselves. And that is really freaking stressful to think that if  I dont get a good internship im not going to get a good job and im going to hate my life.

This speech however, really makes you question which things in life are important, and how we should view the things we do. He talks about the monotony of day to day, routine life and how that can be something we look at so negatively, but we can choose to change that view. He talks about looking at a  situation, like a frustrating super market experience, from the central "all about me" point of view, and then switiching that view to take into account the other people around you.

As  a Catholic, this is ingrained in our brains from a little age. We were always told that people could have it worse than us, and not to complain. My parents hated whenever we complained about not having things, and would always find a way to show us that what we thought we needed was ridiculous compared to what some people actually needed. Over the years, however, I feel like I have lost some of that concern for others. Not on purpose, but I feel like everything in my life is changing and every decisision is increasingly more important, and it makes me a little self centered.

So now, after looking at this past month, I realize that I should be excited and proud that I have had multiple internship offers. I should be happy that my biggest dilemma is deciding which one to take, not trying to find one. The future should be exciting not scary and from now on im going to think about every difficult future related situation, as an opportunity that others may not have, and not a problem.

The Things We Carry..

This is an image I created  using pictures of the things I carry with me everyday.


I think the overall image is representative of me as a person because, its really crazy and fun. There are lots of different colors and things going on and I think that represents my personality. I also think the mix of items shows my love of activity and hatred of boredom.

I am not a very neat an organized person, but I still manage to make it work, and I think this is what this image shows.

I  think this picture doesn't how much I value my family or my friends. It almost seems like I am very materialistic with the phone charger, laptop, and expensive bracelets. But the only reason I like my bracelets is because of who gave them to me, and my favorite part of my laptop is that it was a gift from my grandma. Overall, I think I am the type of person you have to get to know to really understand and I guess this image is the same way.