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.