I Was 5 Once.

I distinctly remember one winter when I was a child... It was almost Christmas and like every year, my Grandpa had his glorious tree up, covered in lights and ornaments and all that Christmas jazz.  Like most little kids, I was very curious and like most little kids -- I didn't know what was good for me.  I remember being in the living room while my mother and her sister talked about who knows what and I remember going through my Grandpa's random crap on his book shelf where I found the perfect example of a paperclip.  Excellent, I thought.  I remember having the overwhelming desire to to stick said paperclip into whatever I came across and what I came across just happened to be a power outlet.  Luckily before I could do any serious damage I was apprehended by The Mom, probably for the best.  Shortly after I was caught pulling dirt out of one of the potted plants... I got in trouble a lot.  :]  There's a picture of me throwing the dirt everywhere somewhere around my house, will post it if I find it.

EDIT:  Yeeeah, I'm gonna have to throw in a small edit here.  When I was young-er (maybe not 5, but bare with me) I would try to pick the locks around my house, odd right? I thought it was really cool/I wanted to be like James Bond who was always breaking into places.  I used credit cards and occasionally...!!! paperclips.  That it is all really.  This assignment was hard, however I felt like I could, ya know, spice it up a little and tell a few stories from my past.  So I did.  :D?

Stuck Out.

Something that stuck out today in class, in my opinion, would be Chris' story of his friend's death and it's anniversary.  It was definitely very serious and sad, quite different from how the class usually is.  What happened was tragic, and it reminded me of how fragile life is on this planet.  Everything is vulnerable almost all of the time and it's very easy to take life and everything it offers for granted.  When you think of how old the Universe currently is (~13.7 billion years) and how short the average life span is for a human being... it really puts it into perspective of what we are and how lucky we are to even be alive at all.

No Eyeballs, Please

For this assignment I created a short, creepy song in the spirit of Halloween which is in the not-so-distant future.  Enjoy, or don't.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jomodzj9s63xlse


:D!

Genies Era, You Wad Ye Sis

I created something!  :]

Here is a sound clip I made:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ay84mgjnvf1lmb2

Now here is the same sound clip reversed, sped up by 25% and de-echoed.  Are you seeing sideways?
http://www.mediafire.com/?lz33ibe28ark3bc

Chairs and Such and Whatnot

Class today was crazy, as usual.  However, something I really enjoyed was the opportunity to roll around the building in those awesome alien chairs.  I wasn't so sure at first, but after realizing how nice and almost liberating it felt to roll around so smoothly, I quickly jumped on board.  Going as fast as possible was the first objective, obviously, and I was happy to see my fellow peers thinking the same thing while obnoxiously smashed into things and *AHEM* some people too.  LUUCKILY, nothing was damaged (this time) so ultimately the experience was a complete success.  Nicely done Beth, all according to plan huh?  EHH?

Annual Egg Mating Journey 2011

For this assignment I have been given an Egg (it's given name) for which I can do whatever I want with.  For quite some time I simply could not think of anything to do with the Egg, nothing worthwhile.  Finally, after making the Egg a small, temporary bed out of a Styrofoam cup cut into the shape of a nest + some toilet paper, and of course -- watching a few episodes of Deadwood with it, the idea came to me.  My mother is in fact going on vacation this week to Michigan where she will camp out near the dunes with two of her sisters.  I figured that it would be a fantastic learning experience for the Egg if it, I dunno, maybe tagged along with them; got out for a while.  Now, it's my ultimate goal that this egg has a good time and then returns safely in three days, so I have made sure to bundle it with my mother's luggage as snug as possible... I'll wish it luck when it's time to ship off and I sincerely hope it meets a Fem-Egg to maybe shack up with, it is that time of year after all.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I also drew a really stupid looking face on said Egg.  :]

EDIT2: Here are some pictures of Egg taken while enjoying himself in Muskegon, MI.

My Course Expectations...

...for Seeing Sideways.  Quite frankly, I'm pretty darn excited to be in this class.  I don't want to jump the gun, but I'm expecting to learn quite a bit about myself and about some of the silly conventions of our lives as human beings.  I really feel as if I'm going to enjoy this class and hopefully in the end, be able to see things a little bit more clearly.  To get through every day life I rely on the fact that just about everything is silly and ridiculous if you think about it hard and long enough, it really helps get you through the week.  Pondering, realizing and laughing at the superficialities of mankind's handiwork is one of the few things that'll always be true tomorrow, and the next day after that.  However, I am aware that this class isn't JUST about poking fun at the silly things and I am just as eager to explore new outlooks as well as old ones.