My "Research" Project

For my research project, I took a project I was personally working on and turned it into my final project. I have personally been researching myself, trying to see what I can and can't do and getting myself to do things that I never would have done before. As I was taking this class I realized that I had a hard time thinking outside the box, and to try and solve this problem I decided to look in the box and see what I had to play with. As I thought about whats in the box, I realized there were alot of things in there that made me comfortable, but still confined me. So what I did was bring an actual box to class and filled it with those things that make me who I am. It contained things like a Palestinian scarf to signify my heritage, a certificate of appreciation i received while living in Saudi Arabia for 10 years of my life, pictures of my family, and other self defining objects that you will see below. I explained how these objects, my life experiences, are what keep me in the box. Though, by the end of this class I still can't confidently say I'm thinking outside the box, but I'm can say that I am that much closer to breaking free.

As for my favorite presentation of the bunch, there is no way I could pick one. From the digital spray paint to the chewy dicks, to the gorilla advertising, and many more excellent presentations, I have to admit they were all my favorite and they truly showed what a creative and diverse class we have.

Gallery

I actually went and saw Bodies the Exhibition and I thought that was pretty freakin cool, but I have to admit it wasnt quite inspiring, on the contrary it was disheartening because as I exited the exhibit i realize that I just enjoyed a museum of mutilated humans and eventually came to the conclusion that I am, as well as everybody else that thought it was freakin cool, are sick twisted fucks. Just think about what we just saw, humans with no skin, humans dissected into many small pieces. Yes it was meant to be educational but lets face it, nobody went to Bodies to learn something.

What inspires me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t25AOSxZZkI

That man inspires me, as an aspiring musician, the skill level that John Petrucci (of Dream Theater) is at the level I want to one day achieve. I know people have disagreed but I feel that his guitar parts have so much emotion mixed with incredible technicality and musicianship. Every time I watch a new Dream Theater DVD, I have my guitar with me because alot of the time ideas pop into my head as I'm watching the DVD and i just start playing them, if I feel that im coming up with something special I pause the DVD and plug in the guitar to see how it sounds and If i like it after that I try and record it.

Bliss

For this assignment I do what I always do, and that is play 2 and half hours (actually close to 4 hours) of guitar. I didn't find this assignment difficult at all because I am a person who gives myself time to relax, I will drop everything I'm doing to play guitar and just get away from it all, I think its important to always have time to yourself and not to overwhelm yourself with work. But more to the point, I've never been able to explain how guitar playing really allows me to relax but its sort of like every fret, every note, every lick, every riff is just a different way of expressing all the different emotions I maybe feeling at the time. I tend to hold a lot of emotions in so the guitar allows me to let them out and a way that is productive and healthy. It puts me in a place where i feel relaxed and content, and when I come up with something I feel is special, its really a sense of satisfaction. Its' really one of the few things I do for myself and its the best way I know to express myself.

What the bleep do we know

Seriously, this movie has been stuck in my head all week but my mind just can't seem to grasp the way their mind thinks. I agree to an extent that if you set your mind to something that it can be accomplished but to the extent that you can do all these things that defy common logic and science and what not, I dont know if I can see that. Then again it could be because my mind doesnt work the same way theirs does. I also didnt like the idea that maybe love doesnt exist, I think everybody needs something to believe in and though I was never a huge supporter of religion I understood that some people believed in it because it was a place they found hope and I think everybody needs a little bit of that. To insist that love doesnt exist, to me, is insisting that we the people of this world can't love and care for one another because it simply 'changes' when it isnt reciprocated. I also disagree with that because I've seen people fall in love with people who dont return the favor and that love isnt fake, it isnt non-existent, its real to the person that feels it and I think thats more of what quantum physics is about.

6th and 7th sense

I grouped these together mainly because i failed to post the 6th sense yesterday also I as i have been thinking about it I don't really believe there are 6th or 7th sense. I dont consider a 'sense of perception', a 'sense of awareness' or anything along those lines to be actual senses, they just seem like a combination of all of our senses. If I really had to come up with a 6th sense that I feel I posses, it'll have to be...procrastination...and these blog posts prove it! YAY!

Taste (mmmm...bacon)

Today I focused on my taste buds and what a glorious day it was for them buds. Today my roommate brought some Calzones, which was pretty much pastries stuff with cheese...mmm..how I love my cheese, it was very good. There was a low point in the day as I discovered I was out of my beloved coca-cola but i had some diet pepsi...diet drinks bore the buds, so the buds were very disappointed...that is until we ended up trying this chinese resturant at Castleton mall called Stir Crazy, where I believe i had the best chinese food in indiana (after eating chinese food internationally, I found the chinese here to be rather disgusting) what made it that much more was that they actually served coca-cola so i happily downed two cups of coke along with my rather tasty cashew chicken with brown rice. mmmmmmmm