Baby Elephant!

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Baby Elephant plays Harmonica. 

Shoutout

Even though I did not use it for what it is meant for, held my camera in a position that I could not. 

Working on Idea

Not really sure how I thought of the little wooden mannequin but it gave me inspiration. 

So ever since I  got back surgery I kind of felt like this little mannequin, stuck with a rod up my ass (though mine in my back) and it limits you. You can't do everything you want weather it is just moving or dancing. So I was thinking of doing a stop motion short film of this guy wanting to dance but not really being able to because of being stuck but in the end he finds a way off the rod. 

I like this idea, but I want to hear you opinion about it. I'll talk to you on Tuesday about it!

Final Project

Been thinking a bit about my final project, I really want to do it off my fear or what I am most self-conscious about. Haven't completely decided yet. But at least I have ideas this time!

I am a robot. 

That's me as a robot, or at least how I view myself. 

I got metal in me!

Tick Tock Tick Tock

People always look at their watch or phone to see what time it is. We constantly let time be the cause of what we do and produce. But if we take away the idea of time, and do the cause at when it comes to us, then we are following Descartes way of thinking.

Time and cause are completely independent from one another, though we treat it dependently on each other. Technology has made it so we do what we want at a time, and not when it appears.

So for my video I made a human sundial showing one of the earliest forms of figuring out what time of day it was. I spent a total of 6 hours outside doing this, but the clouds starting to come in and cover up the sun so I stopped recording it.

Blogger Wouldn't Upload It

(Sorry for the floggy part of the video I must have touched the lens when I was switching batteries and didn't noticed until I had to switch them again...)

Descartes

Descartes believes he can persuade anyone who "attentively considers the nature of time." If I understand this correctly, it seems to be one thing for the parts of time itself to be independent, and another for the temporal stages of things that exist in time to be independent. He is trying to explain that time itself can be independent but so can the stages of things. They do not have to relate to one another. While people believe that we have to have a cause at a certain part of the day to produce an outcome. 

"The natural light does not establish that the concept of an efficient cause requires that is be prior in time to its effect. On the contrary, the concept of a cause is strictly speaking applicable only for so long as the cause is producing the effect, and so it is not prior to it. " (Descartes)

What he is trying to get across is that the natural light does not cause the person do it something, it is the cause that makes the person do it producing the effect. 

"Now I regard the divisions of time as being separable from each other, so the fact that I now exist does not imply that I shall continue to exist unless there is a cause which creates me afresh, as it were, at each moment of time."

Descartes is saying that he is exists but unless there is a cause he does not need to exist. This would create the moment of time. Not time creating the cause and the production.


This Helped Me!



Philosophy is hard...

Got Three Ideas...but Only One is Related to Technology...

Heeeeellllpppppp.


1) Get a bunch of old computers keyboards and wire. Then have the wire all connected to the computers/phones and then have the wires be in my mouth. This would represent our use of technology to talk and not be able to talk in person. I would set up somewhere on campus and just video tape people looking at me.

2) Drawing a massive mandala. I would get paper like 12 ft x 12 ft and set up and use my body to draw a mandala. Somewhere in public. Not sure how I would relate this to technology. Yes. That is right, I will be talking to you about this!

3) Last idea would be to set up a mini kitchen up in plant park, dress up as a 50s housewife, and make sandwiches. Just to see people's reaction to the view of women belong in the kitchen.