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