DMS Blog #3

Hey,

This is my photoshop assignment, horrible by the way. I can do much better, but I was kind of in a time crunch because my boyfriend doesn't know how to mail things. Hence, I still do not have my laptop charger, sad face. So, here is my project...enjoy. :)

ORIGINAL

 BACKGROUND CHANGE

 TRUE BLUE ON B&W

BLUE EYES B&W BACKGROUND

 ORIGINAL

 ORIGINAL

MY FACE ON JENNIFER ANISTON

Signed,

Yours Truly

DMS Blog #2

Hola It's Me Again,

Well, to start with I thought that in this essay he skips around a lot. At the beginning I was not too sure what he was really talking about. Towards the end I understood more of what he was trying to say. I think it was mostly the way he transitioned from one topic to the next that threw me off. At first he talks mostly about art, so the reader gets the idea that the essay is about how art is dead, but then he switches to technologies and how they are constantly changing. Then again, he returns to art, and the reader realizes that the essay is probable more about art.

Also, I do agree a little with what he is saying. Yes, everything is changing and there is always going to be something newer and better, but just because something else has "taken over" for the "lesser" product does not mean it has to be forgotten. There is always going to be "the next big thing" and everyone who "goes with the flow" is going to drop the old model and pick up the new one. Yet, there are some people who like the older products because that is "old reliable". Things from the past are not meant to be forever, but they are meant to be remembered, marveled, glorified. "The glory days" so to speak, which most of the time they are.

If Benjamin was able to travel in time and come to the present, I think he would have a heart attack and die. Ha ha, no just kidding. However, I do believe he would be shocked. He probably would feel that no art was truly original any more. Since, now we have the ability to create, recreate, edit, and enhance. There are so many recreations of original works of art that it is hard to tell what the original is any more. I think that Benjamin would given these new technologies every one can make art, every one can be an artist. So, therefore if every one is an artist then who really is a true artist? Honestly, I feel with this question there are so many possible answers, that I feel I am putting too much of my own opinion in to it. Well, I guess it is really how you interpret the essay. I feel that art is put more on the back burner now a days because before computers and cameras people counted on paintings to be remembered (events and people, etc.). So, painters were highly valued people. Yet, now we have cameras to capture moments. We have video cameras to capture events. We have programs, computers, printers, and scanners, etc. so we can create, recreate, and share. So, where is there a place for art? It's in time, minds, people, and places. It's every where really. We are just finding better ways to make it.

Ta ta for Now,
AMT

DMS Blog #1

Hello It is Me Again,

Turns out I will be blogging again. I am writing a blog now for my DMS 121 course, and for those of you who are like OMG (again for those of you...Oh My God) I do not know what DMS stands for!? Well, DMS stands for Digital Media Studies. Which by the way is what I am majoring now (Media Studies). Yes, GASP I changed majors, but that is a longer story. Anyway, on to the real reason I started this blog today...

My reaction to reading Nato Thompson’s essay In Two Directions: Geography as Art, Art as Geography, and Trevor Paglen’s essay Experimental Geography.

Well, for one I agree with what both are trying to say. I think that Thompson is trying to say that maps are art and everything shown on a map (buildings, towns, roads, parks, factories, etc.) is what we are what we have created. Paglen also talks about maps, but he does not call them art. He simply says that maps are updated all the time by different people, proving what he is aiming at the entire time people grow with what they create/learn. Architecture is art, therefore cities are art. Also, maps are drawings, and drawings are art. Thus, I think that essentially our knowledge of the world and what it looked like was blank. When people went out and discovered the land we had maps of "blank" land. Soon after these maps begin to change as towns were made as more things began to grow. So, essentially the maps started out as a blank canvas of which the artist (map maker, architect, explorer, etc.) laid his art. Thompson says, "We are the water-treatment plant," meaning we (people, every one, every where) are the land. Since we have created the look of the land (man made land forms, etc.), and we have created the things on it such as the water-treatment plant. So, when he says this he simply means, we are what we make and what we create.

Thompson tells the reader about Paris and how it was designed to use the space that it is in. This further explains the concept that towns on maps are art, since the architect of the city designed/created it meaning it is their art. Yet, what if someone else had been chosen to design Paris? What if Paris looked different than the way it does now? It would change the way we see it. It would change the way we perceive Paris, but it would still be Paris, it would still be art, and it would still be a part of our lives today.

Space is defined in the English dictionary as the unlimited or incalculably great three dimensional realm expense in which all material objects are located and all events occur. Thomas defines space as everything that has been created up until today. Paglen defines "the production of space" as humans creating the world around them and in turn being created by the world around them. Therefore, space is not a place, but is actively produced. Paglen says that the world is simply made of stuff and only stuff mostly created and evolved over time by humans.

Going back to what Thompson said about water-treatment plants, we are what we create. Similarly, humans create the world around them and in turn are created by the world around them. Therefore, both have the same point, in my opinion, without humans' creations we do not evolve.

Signing Off For Now BBL,
AMT (is back in black)

English Blog #10

Welcome to The Final English Blog,

I might have told you already but if not, I will tell you now, I started this blog for English and will end my English blogs with ten. So, this will be my last post. As you all know my first year of college is coming to an end, and it's turned out to be a pain in my ass. Luckily, I have no more Tuesday and Thursday morning classes, thank you world civ. teacher. If only I was so  luck in English class. I am just hoping the Monday (May 2nd) class will be canceled or maybe the teacher will do the surprise route, "OK class, thank you for all showing up and handing in your papers...now you can all leave. Have a great summer." Then I think to myself great couldn't have had us hand the papers in on Friday now I got up at 9:00am to hand in a paper.
Honestly, I quite enjoyed English. I just write seemingly bad things about the class because I know that my teacher reads them and I like to see her comments ha ha; I'm such a horrible person. Anyways, I do have to put something in here about the last essay. One, why, why did you have to make it the longest essay of the semester, why? As if you thought the first essay were hard to write, here write an essay that's a page longer, ha ha got ya there. Two, I really enjoyed watching the movie and even discussing the movie, but I am really not enjoying the assignments and essay that go along with it.
As much as I love English, and that's pushing it, I really hate writing essays. Well, I guess no one really does like to write them even the teachers. So, I guess I'll just take my medicine and finish the final essay. It's really not worth getting upset over. (330)

Signed For The Last Time,

AMT

English Blog #9

Hello All,

Well, it looks like my English blogging is coming to an end, this being my second to last blog. I promise I will come back with other blogs once I have finished my English work, that way you can actually learn about my life other than English class. I guess that's one positive thing that came out of this blog is that I actually like blogging ha ha. I have actually always wanted to make a blog I just didn't know how to do it lol. Anyways, this week has been a fail, big time. I've been having issues with my credits and scheduling for next year; none with English though that's like the only class I don't have to worry about. I just think that the last few projects are kicking my ass. I have two essays underway in english...God Bless Me, two projects in progress for American Diversity, and a huge ass project in studio. Thank God I'm getting a break form my World Civ. class otherwise I might explode. I guess I'll explode later when I have all these projects plus my World Civ. final to study for. Most people would say, oh, it's college it's supposed to be hard. But, it shouldn't be thins hard, it must just be me. I'm off my game and I'm panicing. Where's an easy button when you need one. I'm hoping it will get easier from here but maybe not. Honestly I'm looking forward to my next English class, I just hope to have an awesome professor like I had this semester. I knew I told you that she scared me in my first blog, but she's really a great teacher and a fun person. She just scared me because she's so enerjetic at 9 o'clock in the morning when she's sick as a dog lol. I guess it did make the class a little less boring. I'm just hoping not to get an old boring guy that believes English is so important that an English book is his Bible. I've heard from people that they have had English or Math teachers that were that boring. So, I really hope things get better because I'd rather not have anymore problems I've already had enough. (375)

Signed,
The one and only AMT

English Blog #8

Hello World,

News from yours truly, as you all know there are about four weeks left at University at Buffalo, or if you did not know that you do now because I just told you, anyways I am so excited for summer. One thing I am not looking forward to is having to take calculus over the summer. On a positive note we are almost done with the last essay in English. I am not saying I did not enjoy writing some of the essays but ironically I hate essays and I am so glad this is my last one. Now I just have two more to do for American Diversity and Design and I will be done with essays for the semester.
So, in all honesty the rest of my post today is doing to consist of what I am hoping is going to happen in English for the rest of the semester. One, I really hope there is no final I mean I wont be angry if there is one but I heard that we do not have one. Two, I am hoping that my professor has something fun planned for us. Since we are done with essays there is really nothing more we can do. So, (hint, hint) movie for a week lol. Well, it is worth the try maybe my professor will read this and be inspired ha ha, a girl can only hope.
Okay, I lied, I have one more thing to talk about. And yes, I know it is not about English but I just wanted to say it. I can not wait for summer, one I really miss my family and friends, two, I am sick of college, three, I really miss work (sadly), and four, I really hate college it is stressful and I am scared I am a failure I do not want to fail out of college. I just hope that all this college will not be for nothing. I hope I get what I came for and what I paid for because college is a lot of time and money that I will never get back.

Signed,
AMT ;)

English Blog #7

And Welcome,

Well, I'm back from spring break that is and not happy, but hey it has to end sometime. Anyways, I enjoyed break and was super glad that on the Monday back I got to sleep in. Yes, that's right no English class this week and loving it. OK, so I'm being a little over the top on how much I "hate" English, but the truth is it's not that bad. Actually, I like English this year. College English is so much better than high school English because we don't have to do the same old boring things, like poetry or Shakespeare, we get to do whatever the teacher feels like throwing at us. That means the topics are better and more interesting. Plus, I think I have connected to the teacher more than I thought I would have. I mean it's not like we're pally or best friends, but I definitely have a closer connection to her than with any of my other professors. I think it's because I have talked privately with her on so many occasions. I just feel the need to ask so many questions because I am really bad at English and I want to do the best I can on the papers.
OK, on another note, I feel like such a nerd talking about how I like English. Even though English isn't even a subject that "nerds are good at." Well, I guess it's because of reading that I associate nerds with English...no offence English teachers. I guess I should stop myself while I can don't want a mob of angry nerds coming after me, ha ha. So, actually lost what I was talking about there. I think I should stop writing this before it gets bad. Lol. But, sadly it needs to be longer. So, having written all this nonsense, back to English. I guess my point really is that English is tough but it can be fun too. So, it's best to just let it happen and maybe express yourself to make things fun. It's writing really, that's all it is so why not put you in it and make something great, you never know you just might like it, I did. (367)

Until Next Time,
Yours...what I always write.

English Blog #6

Hola,

I actually enjoyed the last assignment. I think I did fairly well on my paper. It took a lot of research and a lot of refining but it was worth it. I thought it would be a pain to have to finish the essay in such a short amount of time but it wasn't. The only thing I wish I could have had was more feedback like we had on the first paper. On the first paper we had had both the teacher's feedback and the students feedback and I like that. They were both very helpful in completing my paper I used both sets of feedback to correct my first paper. But, with the second one I kind of just had to ask questions and figure out what needed fixing on my own. But I guess it was better that way. I like that the teacher gives us formats and stuff but gives us more freedom on writing the paper. It's more of a learning experience for me if I figure it out on my own rather than being shown everything. I kind of have to fail first to be able to succeed on my own if everything is shown to me or handed to me than I tend to forget it or not remember all the important details. So, honestly I think this is the first time I have really enjoyed English writing assignments and all, and the first time I have really learned something about writing that I didn't already know. Also, I think I learned something about myself; that yes I can write if I put my mind to it. I may think that I am a horrible writer but in a sense aren't we all horrible writers who need time and time again to reread and rewrite or works? I guess it's just the way you look at it, and read it, and write it. The fact is some people just know how to do it better than others. It's all how you look at it. (330)

Choa,
AMT

English Blog #5

Hello Again,

Well, I finished my essay and wah wah wah. I was a little upset because I had stayed up all night to do the research and finish my essay only to have slept through the class. Being and architecture student I don't like the idea of all-nighters. Plus, I had finished my essay a couple hours before I had to be up to go to my class, so I decided it was a good idea to get some shut eye before I went to class. Even though I am a heavy sleeper and wont get up for anything when I'm in a dead sleep, I thought setting every alarm possible would be enough, IT WAS NOT! I ended up sleeping five hours instead of the intended two and slept through my class. I was so upset because I could have slept for nine hours instead and had the same result. LOL. Oh well, I guess it happens to everyone. The good part is that my professor was understanding and I was able to hand in my essay on time. I guess I wont be doing me essays last minute anymore but we all say that and it still happens. The only thing is I have one more absence and then I'm out, so I'm crossing my fingers hoping this wont happen again.

Signed,
Yours and Mine Deep Do-Do

English Blog #4

Well, Hello There,

These past few weeks have been interesting. I think I'm doing well; english isn't as hard as I thought it'd be. The only thing is I can't wait to get off the topic we're on. I really hate talking about men and women and the differences between them. Considering there are only three girls in the class, when everyone comes, we are saverely out numbered, and it makes me uncomfortable. I know that the guys are going to bash on the girls and yes, I will speak up on the girls' behalf but it doesn't really help much. I just don't like stereotypes because honestly most of the time the stereotype is right about a lot of people and it just makes you feel bad about yourself. Another thing is, even if we don't want to admit it, everyone has their own stereotype in their head and going in to the new assignment that's exactly the way I was looking at it. With my own stereotypes in mind I thought that my research would come out completely different than the way they did. Having done my research and realizing that none of the people I had interviewed fit my stereotype I realized that I would have to write an essay based on the facts not my oppinions. So, good luck to me, right. Ah, FML!

Signed,
(sigh) Yours Truely