The greatest assignment in the whole universe!

For this assignment I wanted to do something a little different. I have always been interested in the ways music styles develop and what makes a style different unique or just down right crazy.   So, here is what I did. I communicated through the devil(myspace) to a band called "By Gones You Had Better Be By Gones". They are a cray mix of grind and metal. I wanted to do something that was totally off the wall and what I would say is exaggerated music! so I dont know how I'm going to get the song up? I might just post in on media fire and put a link so it can be down loaded! I can tell you its BRUTAL!!!

HERE IS THE LINK!!! 

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e6f420730001bf4619747bd91027d4ddc1298fbc66ab9003

SOOOO, I was thinking that for my research project that I am going to do a project on music and where its going! -Bradley

Playing with the Triplets Of Bellville

This is what comes to mind when i think about the main points of exaggeration from the movie The Triplets of Bellville. The over pronounced  features of the face and body. It reminds me of characters that artist draw. But with the the movie the thing was this way. Like an acid trip at a sideshow! the riders face was great with his long nose and expressionless face. the grandmothers double chin that flapped side to side. 

The one thing that i'm having trouble being able to get out with out words is the sounds in the movie. There was lots of silence and the director only gave you what he or she wanted you to hear. There was no background clutter. The under abundance of sound also played to the fact that when there was a sound like the train of the creaking steps the sounds were loud and OVERLY done or exaggerated. 

I did like the movie though it kinda scared me. It reminded me of bad dreams I have when I get a high fever and I took me a few minutes to adjust to the Exaggerated sense of what was goin on! -Bradley 

Play (or else)

"PLAY IS NOT ANARCHY" with regards to this statement made in the video we watched, I feel that many adults have lost touch and feel that play is in fact anarchy. I can remember my father asking why i was digging holes in the ground when i was little. He wasn't mad that i was messing up the yard, he thought it was pointless. i really was making a secret cave for my G.I. Joes to have a meeting about the up coming battle of good and evil. But, if i would have hinted that to my dad he would have called me crazy. Fast forward, I now have a daughter who is getting to the age where she will begin hardcore playing and running wild with her imagination, and before we even got this assignment I had been thinking of ways that i could let her know that I'm not gonna judge her or put her down when her innocence runs wild like my father did! Seeing my  little girl play also has making me think a lot about my childhood and I have in recent months found myself (after watching her play) having vivid memories of what my childhood was and the things that i used to do. forever i wanted to be in the Army and be G.I Joe, "The Real American Hero". I used to have die cast guns that were surprisingly real looking. I would get dressed up in my Army camo and put all of my guns into a suit case and tell my mom that i was going to fight the Russians! My friend down the street had 10 acres of wooded land that had a creek and lots of under brush. We would stomp around the woods for hours and have fake war! I can remember to this day some of the scenarios that we would make up. His grandfather would take us to the Army surplus store and we would buy anything and everything we could afford. Some things that were especially cool that I remember were MRE's (Meals.Ready.to Eat) and also, we would by patches that his grandmother would sew onto our uniforms. One was a tank unit patch that said, "Hell on Wheels". Play was very important to me as a child and is very important to all children. 

That being said after watching the video a few things struck me. Ideo's van that was a conference room was way cool. Googles  complex is awesome and I'm sure thats why companies like that foster very high creativity and positive work. Also when he was talking about role playing I totally agree with him. I am a person that considers role playing to be way outside my comfort zone. I don't know why but it is and I feel that if I could learn to maybe let go a little bit more and not have the fear of my peers laughing at me then I could maybe have better or stronger ideas.

PLAY TIME:

Well, its raining so I decided to do a couple of things that I enjoyed playing as a child. I went all around the house and grab the pillows and made a huge pillow fort. and as i was creating the fort I had a strange memory of being very very young and watching my brother building a pillow fort. I remember how in awe I was when I saw this thing come to life and thinking it was like our own house!!!! I remember telling my mother that I wanted to live in the pillow fort for the rest of my life! seriously! What a concept! then I grab my daughters coloring book. When I was little i used to color a lot. and the one thing that I remember doing is coloring everything colors that they could not normally be like a purple dog or a red tree. I used to grab any color and just draw, this is exactly what I did. I found this at first feeling somewhat odd. Coloring things that a certain color is what is right. but is it? As I colored the dog purple I started to imagine cartoon dogs and that led me to think about the Jetsons cartoon which I had not seen in forever which, led me to to think about my very first babysitter. This brought back memories that i have not thought about maybe ever. She had a big front yard that was lined with fur trees and under one of the fur trees was a huge rock. we I used to take hot wheels rip offs and pretend that the were rock climbers robots and make them climb the big rock. Which i plan on driving by the house before class today to see just how big that rock really is. 

Playing to me really helps realize that i should not take everything so fucking seriously. I see all these pencil pushers everyday that stay in their comfort zone and don't do anything out of the ordinary ever. I mean not that I do crazy stuff that jumps starts my creativity all the time but I do look out to other things that might not be so normal or everyday. I've always been somewhat different but in recent years I have let my guard down and conformed a little bit more. I do however see what I don't want to end up like and by doing the exercise today feel that I have learned a thing or two about myself.  i have had lots of memories and emotions that I have not felt in years come up. Some good and some bad but mainly I have remembered what I was like as a child and what some things I can do to not grow up. -Bradley E. Moore

Anybody ever heard the Decendents song/album called, "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"?  and yes its spelled Decendents!!!!

Take a sense, add a sense, its all senseless

Well, considering that my New Media skills are mostly based on my ears and hearing i decided it fitting to cut out all sound for the 2 hour block. I often use sound to judge the world around me. I always have and most likely always will so i put in some ear plugs that are used to target practice or hunting or whatever and  set out to find out what would or could be different! first i went for a walk. and sense alot of the time i walk and my mind races and i feel like i dont pay attention to my sight as much as my ears(say walking on campus hearing how close someone is behind me by how much louder their foot steps are getting or hearing cars drive by). I found myself having to pay much more attention to what i was doing. I also found it odd to not be able to hear the birds singing, which is something i love to hear. upon returning home I went on with the two hours by washing the dishes. I find it very odd to see the water running but not hear it. you notice things like how scummy the faucet really is or how much steam rises off the hot water in the sink. It was strange to say the least, I found myself thinking  a lot more and having to use my brain and sight. but it really seemed like my brain was working way more to compensate for not having my hearing which i rely so heavily on at all times. kind of humbling.

A new sense!

 Well being an audio buff I would love to be able to see what i hear! or at least have a visual representation of what was going on with the sound. It could and would make my life a lot better. I imagine hearing a snare drum and being able to see the sound and tweak the drums dynamics by way of tuning it or adding compression so that the sound was looked exactly the way i wanted it to look which would in turn sound exactly the way i wanted it to sound. It would sort of be like a sonar but i would get a visual snapshot of the sounds frequency and timbre. -Bradley E. Moore

Reponse to class June 1

ya know class tonight made me kind of think of some things that i have been not doing. Recently say in the past year and a half I've really been not putting much effort into what i've been passionate about. says its writers block or just plain being lazy I don't know? But recently i have felt like i maybe need a change? So I guess i feel sort of like i'm at a cross roads? I need two more classes to technically graduate but then what? Has it been the fear of being done with school thats put me off my creative horse or am i changing in ways i haven't begun to realize yet. Time will ultimately tell. I do know that i love making records but even that has taken a turn for the worse i feel. Am I going to have some eureka moment when I know what i need to do? or will continue doing run of the mill work that is neither satisfying or special to me or my audiences? Whats next? You make yourself i guess. -Bradley

What if round robbin

What if humans used 100% of their brain power?

-We would have already conquered space and all the shit that needs to be done. and then we would probably be really bored and start wars with neighboring planets that were different than us.

What if evil did not exist?

-well then some people would still say other people were still evil just because they didn't like them, and kill them thus becoming evil themselves.

What if men had menstrual cycles?

-The world would really be in trouble. I mean my GF should be in a looney bin for one week a month but men would most likely go into blind rage and the word would be a worse place. And probably a lot more nuking going on.

What if the guy always got the girl?

-Then what ever the would they make movies about?    

What if the world was black and white?-

-It would be a crazy boring place. I couldn't even imagine -Bradley

response to class 4

Class was pretty alright tonight. I mean that in a good way. Its nice to come to class and it not feel like class. It seems to be a reoccurring theme that we talk about a subject that leads into something totally different but still as exciting and informative. The ted.com videos we watched tonight were way cool. The dudes that did the music w/ only their voices were pretty awesome! It had me thinking the whole time how did they come up with that idea for the song? How did they form a group like this? Did they start a traditional band and it evolved into what we heard or what? I think that questions are another one of  the "mother(s) of invention". I mean when I am working with a band or artist I often ask "why does that sound that way?" or "what can I do to make that instrument sound more in your face?" or even "what is missing, and what could I do to make this track more of an interesting piece of music?" so, I guess I'm saying that this class really makes me question things and dig a little deeper! I now understand why the seeing sideways class is recommended and why Beth's class is so requested. I feel that maybe if the New Media program took just a tiny bit of turn towards this philosophy of teaching that the level and quality of work might just improve. But then again some people just can't handle a class that doesn't have rigid boundaries which I feel is a sad thing indeed. -Bradley E. Moore

DOOR

Door- When thinking about what a door is a lot comes to mind. Like, it keeps people out or lets people in(depending on how you feel about the person). The man is supposed to carry his bride across the threshold in a sign of good fortune. but also doors can be seen as an entry way. The band The Door got their name from the a book or poem that  said the eyes are the doorways to the soul. so, doors can be very symbolic! I mean I guess everything can symbolic but, imagine if I gave you a piece of paper with nothing on it except a door! what comes to mind? For me an image of my parents coming to pick me up from my band sitter is the first thing that popped into my head, an overall good thing. but say your house was broken into and some traumatic experience ensued then, a picture of a door might bring up very bad memories or thoughts that you have not thought about since the incident. So a door is an odd thing. Good or bad! Im glad i have a door on my house that locks. Its not that i don't trust other people because I generally do but it only takes one person to ruin a good thing if you  know what I mean. -Bradley E. Moore

Response to class 3

I feel like a prisoner of my own home. I haven't left the couch in 3 days besides to go to the med check.  I kinda feel like im going crazy. SERIOUSLY! These fucking antibiotics arent  even  coming close to working and Ive had to use all of my bill paying money to go see a pointless Dr. and listen to him tell me what I already know! I never thought i would get tired of laying in bed all day. But, I have, and trying to come up with 50 what ifs while your head feels like a pumpkin isnt that cool. My head feels like took 4 hits of white blotter a few days ago. Ya know the feeling where nothing seems right and everything feels like deja vu? erf -Bradley E. Moore

Questioning structure

1 What if there were no rules of engagement?

2 What if there was no structure in the brain?

3 What if there weren't any social barriers?

4 What if we weren't able to hate?

5 What if we weren't able to love?

6 What if humans all had the same belief system?

7 What if structure wasn't a concept of human thinking?

8What if size wasn't an issue with in the animal kingdom?

9What if there weren't any rules for how we are supposed to live?

10 What if there aren't any rules for how humans are formed?

11 what are the main goals of rules?

12 why is structure involved in everything that we do?

13 why is structure so important to some more than others?

14 What do children supposedly need rules and boundaries?

15 why following rules lead some to great success and some to total failure?

16 what if we followed no rules when designing cars?

17 what if we followed more strict rules when designing cars?

18 why does structure occur naturally in spiders webs?

19 why is structure a learned skill for some things but a instinct skill for others?

20 why are rules said that they are there to be broken?

21 What if art only had structure?

22 what if there were no structure in art?

23 what causes us to follow rules?

24 what causes us to stick to structure?

25 what is geometry wasn't involved in structure?

26 what if there were no rules known or unknown in geometry?

27 why do some follow rules and some don't?

28 what makes a rule right?

29 why does structure involve following rules?

30 why do we like music that has structure?

31 what makes structure the same for a building and music?

32 what is the definition of a rule?

33 what makes structure and rules similar?

34  What if computers all had different structure?

35 what is they broke all the rules when designing the next generation of computing machines?

36 what if that changed our lives?

37 what if that caused computers to be a able to think for themselves?

38 what if style didn't have an opinion on the rules that governed building structure?

39 what if that would cause us to find new forms of energy conservation?

40 what if there were new strict rules that had to be followed in building code?

41 what if that saved energy?

42 what if all rules were thrown out when considering the building of solar cells?

43 what if the man made structures physical or mental were broken down between the world?

44 would that make a difference of would we all kill each other?

45 what if we all followed rules on how to care for world we live in?

46 What if big businesses were held accountable for the rules that they broke?

47 what if computers could change their structure for computing by way of software that acted like hardware, making no limits for computational work?

48 What if that lead us to figuring out what everything is all about?

49 what if all this structure is god or a god?

50 why does structure govern everything around us?

Response to class 2

I wasn't at class tonight. I've been suffering from the flu. If i'm not feeling any better at all tmrw I'm going to go to the DR. office and try to get some Tamiflu. I really wish i could have been in class to hear the egg stories but, I'm going to try to read some of the blogs. -Bradley

EGG PROJECT!!!

Well as I said in in my last post I thought that i wanted to do some crazy media presentation with the egg. As a New Media student I tend to focus a lot on technology. But, when i saw the egg and the dirt that was still on it I could only think was that I didn't want to waste the egg. So, with that I started to think about the best way to use the egg. At first I thought i would just eat it but came to the conclusion that it could be going bad and I was starting to already get a cold so I decided not to go there. Finally I decided that i would cook the egg and give it to the raccoons that my grandfather feeds in his backyard. I also decided that i would put the egg shell into my compost bin for my garden. 

Needless to say my grandfather didn't understand what i was doing and thought i was crazy. But, he's the one who feeds the raccoons in the first place. I went to their place(my grandparents) and fried the egg and mixed it in with the scraps of food they keep for the nightly feeding. I then took my egg shell home and broke it up into smaller pieces and mixed it into my compost tumbler. 

Usually I would have made a video or something of the nature for this project but, for some reason when I saw the egg and it gave me weird feeling. I didn't just want to ruin the egg for the sake of a grade or a project. I wanted to do something that at least might give back. Maybe my tomatoes might be more red this year from adding the egg shell to my compost. Or maybe the baby raccoon in the belly of his mother might have gotten some better nutrition and as a result might be stronger and better suited to survive. -Bradley E. Moore

may 13 th 1st class session!

Well I dropped all conceived notions about what i thought i was going to get from this class! When talking to other students who had already taken the course I made a grouse assumption on what was going to happen!!! Well I was wrong. I did hear about the egg assignment and I had already started to think of the coolest ways that i could use technology to make an awesome presentation whether it be audio, video, or flash. But, now after meeting w/ Beth the I know that a "show off tech. project" isn't what this is all about! Its about being outside the box and outside of your comfort zone.