Identity Crisis

The body is a site of controversy, especially in the US, constantly shoving food into ourselves at unprecedented rates when instead we should cut down the intake and just go outside for a while.

The Exquisite Corpse

STRANGE LAGER BELIEVE SPIT LENSE

ASSULT REPORTER TANK PUSHING TIRE

JEALOUS TOMATO FACE ABANDONED NUN

lists?

1. Path of locations [birth to current]
1. Orange Co, Cali
2. College Station, Tx
3. Great Lakes, Il
4. Pensacola, Fl
5. Oceania, Va
6. San Diego, Ca
7. Iraq
8. SD
9. CS, TX
10. H-ville
1. Relational path of those lived with for each location
1. dont remember
2. Parents
3. Bootcamp
1. mostly strangers, don’t keep in touch with any
4. A-School
1. More strangers for a longer period of time, only still talk with one of them
5. C-School
1. very small group (6 people) kept up with one
6. NASNI
1. First command, hundreds of people that come and go, know where and still talk to a hand full.
7. NPDB-2
1. Combat unit, around 400 people, new family, while I don’t know all of them very well, i could still call on anyone of them for help.
8. FRC-SW
1. another big command, hand full
9. see b
10. no one




1. How those relationships changed from location to location and as you aged

The child hood friends i’m still close with, other casual school acquaintances have fallen through the cracks. Now friendships are formed based on mutual interests rather than forced interactions.

Navy friends are different, we rotate around all the time, in specific job communities chances are good you’ll see each other again but they usually fall off the earth after they transfer or get out.

1. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n

I don’t know, not much of a talker as a kid or now. It’s to the point, not one for small talk or deep meaningful conversations.

1. Educational path--schools and for each list (be specific)

1-4 College hills

4-6 Willow Branch

7-8 CS Junior High

9-12 aCm Consolidated
Bear/Matt/Mauro - lived across the street, Bear/Matt lived with in college, was in all 3 weddings - positive influences, main group of friends for the past 28 years.

Didn’t really have any negative peers, bullies, disruptive class clowns lived a boring life for the first 22 years.

1. Significant adults [why?] both p/n

Parents/G-rents/aunts/uncles all successful educated well rounded people- positive

Good leaders in navy, those who command respect through actions

Poor leaders in the navy; those who follow the letter to a fault, unable to adapt to change or criticism. those who command respect through rank- negative

You, Me and that guy

This photo was taken New Years Eve, and was kept because it was a good time with friends. I chose it because it fit the assignment. It was taken by an old friend I don't believe it influences the way I looks at the photo or the way it was taken. The photographers attitude was happy towards the subjects when the picture was taken as was the attitude of the subjects towards the photographer. The pictures was meant to be viewed on facebook by friends and family who were unable to attend the event as a snap shot of the events. I don't know if I'll remember the photo in 10 years.

This photo was taken New Years Eve, and was kept because it was a good time with friends. I chose it because it fit the assignment. It was taken by me and of my friend and his wife I don't believe it influences the way I looks at the photo or the way it was taken. The photographers attitude was happy towards the subjects when the picture was taken as was the attitude oblivious towards the photographer as they didn't know I was taking it. The pictures was meant to be viewed on facebook by friends and family who were unable to attend the event as a snap shot of the events. I don't know if I'll remember the photo in 10 years.

This photo was taken in Iraq, and was kept because it showed a different side of the war. I chose it because it fit the assignment. It was taken by me and I don't know who the kid is. I don't recall my attitude towards the subjects when the picture was taken but I do remember the kid being mean to other children. The picture was meant to be viewed by friends and family to show that it's not all bad over there. I will probably remember this photo in 10 years.

Rock, Scissors, Cardboard...claw

Sucess! Cardboard claw complete. There were a few glitches, dirty glue spots, minor perforation showing. But all in all I like the way it came out. The claw teeth I'm especially proud of, they're symmetrical on top and bottom, and think they made a home-run pass in the 3rd period. (sports metaphor, FTW) I would pay slightly more attention next time on the way i attached the individual pieces together, but cardboard is notoriously unruly and there would be some great thought involved.

w w w word word word. word is the word

This project threw me for a loop. I had a hard time breaking out of the thought process that words needed to be read. Text is text, unless you make it not...text?

So, in order to make them non text, i rotated, cut, and all around de-text-ured (get it).

and here we have them

cut into strips and revolved around a point, using the text-rivers to make lines that also revolve. and to top the whole thing off, "REVOLVE" cut into individual letters and...you guessed it, revolved around the center. Harmoniously named...Revolve. Weird.

Here, large print words cut in half and upside down. Gradient-ing upwards into smaller words. This one contrasted with the words "Top heavy"

On a side note, I believe paying to have things matted is tooootttallly worth it.

The ants go marching

down to the ground, to get out of the rain.

The kitchen infestation!

the only one that made it out.

I felt the piece went well, and seemed to be well received by the majority of people in class. It could have been longer had i not bought out all the similar green colors. I do however, enjoy that I didn't need any glue and that the army men stayed on their own accord. Prep time took longer than the actual construction, the base of the army men had a extra plastic around the edges that needed to be trimmed off.

World of pat-herns

Our assignment was to find patterns in our every day lives, and a quick tour of my apartment today before the power went out. About 100 different pictures of different patterns resulted. Here are 8

Texture, informal. Microwave rotator

Pattern, Formal, Rotation, (dirty) Stove burner

Pattern, translation/rotation, bike spokes

patter, formal, rotation/translation, spiral stair case

rhythm, formal, translation, drawing pad spiral

pattern/rhythm, formal, translation, piano

texture, formal, translation, office chair

texture, translation, informal. Fleece blanket

Pictures based on dots based on adjectives

We recreated a few of our dot compositions using people, I chose two that were based on adjectives.

Giant: I don't think the little Me is intimidated.

and

Far

Everyone else looks all cool, I'm not sure what i'm doing in the back, weird things happen when you use the timer.

Crabby Up-Date

Made a few changes, threw out the "ribs" and replaced them with internal supports

Holy molded cardboard, Batman!

We started a new project today, taking an small object; magnifying and duplicating it with cardboard. There were lots to choose from, bananas, potatoes, bones, cacti, and claws. I played with the cardboard for a bit, seeing how easily it could be shaped and pealed apart and have decided the best approach is to build a frame and then "skin" it, akin to paper mache. I've sketched it out but my experimentation took most of the allotted time so I'll begin work on it soon.

sketches of each segment of the arm, upper/middle/claw and how I might frame them (subject to change)

Our second task for the day was to find different 5"x5" compositions in randomly placed dots. There were a few sized dots to play with (I didn't know they made 2" hole punches) Afterwords we arranged groups of them into what ones had the most depth/flatness, then we made a "pretty" one.

Brick of Despair

Your challenge if you choose to accept it, elevate a cinderblock off the ground as high as possible using newspaper and glue.

With no reference to making a ground-up structure I set off to suspend the mini-block. My first though was to make a loop, but that would involve me hogging the brick all day and having to glue and hold the already suspended brick. The second design was a section of paper folded long ways into a 1 inch strip, sandwiched between two sections folded shortways into 3 inch-ish rectangles. I cut a small rectangle hole in each end and folded the whole thing in half. I made a "pin" to thread through the holes by tightly rolling a few sheets together and folding it in half. Upon testing it turned out the paper wasn't long enough to allow me to hang the block and still get the pin in. Sooo...I slid the 3 inch parts further down so the whole thing resembled nunchucks but when i tested again, the "chain" part pulled away from the others under the weight. A quick fix to the design, I threw out the 3 individual parts, kept the pin and just used one long 2 1/2 inch wide band with the holes.


Sucess!