Final Mashup-Time

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2. To me, once we are born, we are given a very large amount of time. As children we never have many if any responsibilities and we pretty much follow wherever our parents go. We are carefree and enjoying life. We have 'playdates' with friends and go to minimal school. We are surrounded by family who make time for us, we don't need to worry about making time for them. Let's just say, we had to world made for us.

3. "Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities."

4. "Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong."

6. "I am afraid it is much too long to take your precious time."

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8. From birth to adulthood, our whole sense of time is askew. When we are first born, we automatically get time. We never have any specific places to go that count on us. But with the more school we go to, and the more responsibilities that are placed onto us, we lose time. In fact, we have LESS time than when we were children. Work and school become consumers of our time and we are no longer able to get any of that time back. The older we get, in some way, the less freedom we have.

9. We have less and less time to do what we want to do. 

10. "Each person who gets stuck in time, gets stuck alone."

11. "But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness." 

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13. "One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand."

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Bibliography

1. Google Images, ‘too much time’

2. Personal Paragraph

3. Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare

4. Einstein’s Dreams

6. Letters from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. Google Images, ‘time is running out’

8. Personal Paragraph

9. Personal Paragraph

10. Einstein’s Dreams

11. Theseus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare

12. “Time is Running Out” by Muse

13. Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

14. Google Images, riandesign.eu

Curation Progress!

After earlier this week when the website, Pearltrees.com was introduced, I decided to change my site to this one. It had a funkier feel and look to it which got me to like it right away. I searched around for the best styles and templates to use on this site and so I began to curate. I did transfer a lot of what I had on my other site to the Pearltrees one now. This week I finished 'My Story' part of the site. Just explaining and organizing my thoughts and ideas of exactly why I was doing a curation on tattoos. I'm still evaluating all of the possible pictures and articles I can put onto my site that will help explain and narrate my story into all of these peoples stories.

Curation #2

     So since the last post, I have not added too much new things onto my curation site. But I have been continuing to search for new pictures and new elements to place onto my site. Again, what is difficult about this project is to evaluate the bad elements from the good. I think my next three steps will go like this;
1. I will gather as much useful information as I can, 2. Organize and evaluate all of the elements I have picked up and see exactly what is important and what will help me narrate my story on this site, and 3. With all of the information and the elements that I have and will get, I need to figure out and organize the BEST design for my site that portrays all of my information in the most clear and easy-to-understand manner. 

Curation Blog 7

Well since we didn't really get started on this project until Monday of this week, I'm not really far and I don't really have much on my site. What I'm trying to accomplish with my site, is showing that no matter how abstract or how off-beat someones' tattoo looks, it does tell a unique story. Tattoos of all shapes, designs, sizes, colors, and words mean something no matter what it is. No matter how little the story actually is, it's a story to that single person. Tattoos absolutely amaze me because of all the details the clients AND the artists put into them.

A cool thing I'm going to add onto my site will be two videos. Each with an interview of each of my parents talking about their tattoos and the meanings that they wanted to get from the art. My mom has about 4 or 5 with only one of them being not so meaningful. :) While my dad has between 8-10 and each and everyone pretty much has a story or meaning behind it. For my mom, each of her tattoos, in order, tell a chronological story about her last 10 years or so in life. I am really looking forward to doing these interviews and be able to share their stories with many others. So as I'm including their interview onto my site, I'll be evaluating what the strongest or most important pieces of their narration.

An issue I'm finding to be present all the time with making this site is searching for strong, incredible links and pictures that show the depth in tattoos that I really am trying to show on my site. I know that there will always be those people who think tattoos are ridiculous and not meaningful as well as people who do think they're meaningful but I want to find those who absolutely think tattoos are so unbelievably deep and powerful and can portray that in a picture or in text. I need to organize everything I find from most important to not that important so that I only use the very best stuff for my site design. 
What my top three steps or goals are, are making a powerful section explaining how important tattoos are to some people, showing with videos and/or photos that help that, and getting feedback from family and friends on what I could do more.

Metacognition: mashup

For my mashup I was originally going to do solitude until I realized that Letters to a Young Poet seemed to be more romantic so I then chose love. The Notebook is my all time favorite chick flick so of course I needed to have a picture from that movie. From then on, I liked pointing out the fact that love doesn't always mean between two people. It can be between anything like person-book, animal-nature. And discovering that was really quite fun because I always knew it in the back of my mind but I never really put it out there to see it and believe it. It was hard to not get plenty of love quotes that were gushy and mushy which is too boring for me. I liked searching for new unique ones instead.

Mashup-Love: Letters to a Young Poet

LOVE:

2. "Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete." 



3. "It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation." 


4. "...they must learn to love."


5. Young lovers think they really know what love is. We all want it and feel that we all deserve it. But what about those cruel and unforgiving people? Do they deserve it? Or is it because they didn't receive it when they were young and they are who they are now because of that?

6. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

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8. "It feels good to be in your arms, to feel the warmness of your touch...it feels good to have someone like you..." 


9.Sometimes I feel like everyone wants to discover something new within themselves and they want it so bad that they subconsciously fabricate it into a story they can share. We need to learn the patience and calm of waiting it out to see what it may become.


10. "Wisest is she who knows she does not know."


11. "Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. -Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to augmentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort..."


12. Emotion has so many values to it whether negative or positive. These emotions and feelings can be channeled to do great and better things, while for some it destroys them completely. But it seems that the most important of all is, LOVE. Without it, people grow up to be a mess and people with it, become great. 

13. "Live for a while in these books, learn from them what you feel is worth learning, but most of all love them. This love will be returned to you thousands upon thousands of times, whatever your life may become-it will, I am sure, go through the whole fabric of your becoming, as one of the most important threads among all the threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys." 



14. The way we see ourselves and the way we see each other reflects on what we are as a human being and who we are individually. 

15. "...but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside." 


16. Love, whether for a book or another person, your pet or your tangibles, there are all sorts of love and ways people explain it. 

Works Cited

1. Google Search. Love
2. Urban Dictionary-Love
3. Rilke , Rainer Maria, and Franz Xaver Kappus. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1954. Print. (68).
4. Letters to a Young Poet (69).
5. Personal Reflection
6. Robert Fulghum, True Love
7. Youtube Video-Stand By Me, 
8. Short Love Poems familyfriendpoems.com
9. Personal Reflection
10. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy. New York: Farrar, Straus and             Giroux, 1994. Print. (58).
11. Letters to a Young Poet (23).
12. Personal Reflection
13. Letters to a Young Poet (17).
14. Personal Reflection
15. Letters to a Young Poet (43).
16. Personal Reflection

360 Degree Thinking: Frank Gehry

I have never truly thought about special architects or their philosophy to their buildings what-so-ever. I always do see the beauty in some buildings and some ugly parts in others, but that's the extent of my thought on architecture. Recently, after learning about Frank Gehry, I started noticing little details in buildings and I'm trying to think what the architect was thinking and trying to accomplish. What their motivation was and what keeps them to continue making new and improved designs.

Obviously I never really come up with the correct answer to those things but I do like to think, how do they keep making these buildings similar to each other but yet so different. How does that imagination and creativity never really blow out like a flame? It's an outstanding thing to think about because I do understand that if they truly love what they do, then they will try all they can to keep the blood flowing in their brains and the ideas moving in their minds. But what REALLY fascinates me is how no matter the number of architects and buildings there are, none will look identical to the next. That's astounding to me because it can easily relate to people. We all are made of the same stuff, but none of use look absolutely identical.

But coming back to Frank Gehry, although each building is a different shape, he likes to use the same metal material for the outside. I don't really like the material but it lets people know that it is a Frank Gehry building and he is proud of it.While watching the film on him, I liked seeing he and his teams' phases on creating these buildings. They throw ideas out there, start making small models and if there is something he or they don't particularly like, they take that part out and add something new. But everything has a different texture to it whether there are curves or straight edges. To me, that adds a different perspective to these buildings and I really do like that.

But, what if he changed the materials? How could that affect his designs either negatively or positively. It can definitely add new perspectives and views to his work, or it can make his buildings harder to accomplish due to the complexity of the materials. But if that were the case, then he would possibly have to choose easier materials which he may not like. But I would find his buildings to be even more enjoyable to look at if there were some sides with that bright and shiny metal material and then some brick type stuff along with a softer material to soften up the entire building. In my opinion, it could even enhance the complexities of his buildings and bring a potential new meaning to his work and his buildings.

I honestly believe that if he were to try new materials that weren't too difficult to work with, it could only be an advantage to him and I really don't think there is any potentially detrimental sides of this process. I have really only seen good stories of people who try new healthy things, that it works out well for them, so if he would be okay breaking out of his own comfort zone, then I think he should take that first step to trying new materials.