The intensive use and reliance of tools is a uniquely human characteristic. The use of tools to assist in accomplishing tasks in the analog, and now as well in digital, contexts have become essential to human existence. Furthermore the tools that we use are a reflection of our actions, our skills, our culture, and most importantly, our identity....

The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...

So... on the day we didn't have class we went to MOCA for the Lawrence Weiner exhibition. Brandon was the only one that brought a camera so we all used his to take pictures as proof that we were there. We had to be sneaky about it though because there were all these security people standing around. Hopefully there were no security cameras from...

Our teacher made us go to the lawrence weiner exhibit at the MOCA in Los Angeles, and wants us to...

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I have been working on a video that explains the history of human evolution through repetitive...

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Finally, I have finished shooting all of my scenes for my movie project! Now I am in process of...

Modifications: *New lighting: The light source will still be projected from my left, it will have more contrast and it will create bigger shadow on the back wall. *Bigger shadow: As mentioned, I will introduce bigger shadow of me in the movie. From the presence of shadow, it communicates as a universal language. Viewers will...

As a complement to my last post, which was a rubric that I'm going to use for my purposes of evaluating how appropriate my project is, this post is a succint summary of all the conclusions from my research. Like my last post, it is meant to be a quick guide to help me make decisions on how my project can best reflect what I found out through my...

all the pills connected with shy, angry, sad, and stressed.... symptoms and side effects.... and...

So, after printing out some of my photographs in color and trying them out with the overlay of...

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So...I'm doing an animation now.

for every cure, there comes a new sickness. we are over medicated. too quick to assess ourselves as...

I am taking the project into a different direction than what had been previously said. Where before...

The following are my tests of overlapping of the translucent sheets for my final project. I have...

When I look at the images of my past and the images from the present, I know there is a humanity to them, but how do I explain what they mean to me and how I relate to the rest of humanity? I find it hard to really grasp this and how I can truly lay this out and explain it. In many ways, I want to really just make scrapbook-like pages with...

After studying a book called, "Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art" by Jacquelynn...

I decided to try filming different body parts and lay them out in a grid. An original piece is a...

Here is a list of completed objectives since last update: The low touch color spectrum is complete and has been applied to the book. The colors are more subjective than that of the high touch. I'm considering whether or not that's a good thing I've decided to apply excerpts from my interviews in my book. The excepts are placed at the...

In "Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art," Jacquelynn Bass and Mary Jane Jacob see as the...

The colors associated with "low-touch emotions" are more subjective compared to the rather expected decisions for the HTS. I may go back & revise the HTS after all. It may also be wise to juxtapose the HTS & LTS on the same spread to emphasize a dichotomy. We'll see.

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These are some thumbnails of photographs I was thinking of using in my posters, but I'm not exactly...

My book will, in hope, communicate the sensation of positive and negative touch through visual color references. The breakdown: By interviewing numerous individuals about the emotions felt when one is touched vs. not touched, I have come up with a list of 19 "high-touch" emotions and 19 "low-touch" emotions that correlate...

As previously discussed, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow was initially very narrow in its application. Soon, however, other scholars started to apply this wonderful idea to other areas. One of the most important areas where it was applied was in sports. The idea that there is a mental state where a person can perform at optimum while...

Eroticism, as explained by French writer/philosopher Georges Bataille, is a very specific concept. Overall we can define eroticism as one of two (related) things: 1) a state where one is either sexually aroused or in anticipation of sexual arousal, and 2) the aestheticartistic spirit & depiction of sexual desire. Bataille, however, thought to...

Evelyn Underhill, a renowned & recognized author on Christian mysticism, as well as a mystic herself, identified five steps in the mystical process. They are listed below: 1. Awakening - Subject starts to become aware of the presence of something supernatural. Their heart is filled with joy and they have never felt this kind of joy before,...

The following is a list of moments when I have felt ecstatic, along with the reasons why I felt that way: • When I ran very good 5Ks that I felt I was in the zone. I felt no pain and felt like I could just keep going and going. I felt like I was going with the crowd, being carried by it, and that I just needed to keep doing what I was doing...

A classmate of mine was kind enough to take notes for me while I presented my research findings to the class on 17 April. Below are the notes: Deities and personal relationship with humans >> went to mysticism, and eroticism mysticism - relationship with super natural led to - 'in the zone' so concentrated on the task, rest is...

Hungarian psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has done research into something he calls flow. Flow is a state of mind in which a person is totally concentrated in an activity and is and is at an optimum level of performance. This phenomenon was initially proposed by Dr. Csíkszentmihályi to be applicable in extrinsic applications such as...

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Below are a series of images I found to be very "human" and I guess I want to add images...

Greetings Space Collective! My topic is about how tools have allowed us as humans to evolve....

Observe how our tools have evolved over time, and how this relates source: Chronology of Human Technology Age BP Oldest example of... Place Species 2.0 kyr continuous industrial worksite Bigo, Uganda Homo sapiens1 2.0 kyr grammar text Greece Homo sapiens2 2.0 kyr false tooth Essonne, France Homo sapiens126 2.3 kyr genealogy Georgia, SSR...

Since I keep referring to his ideas, I guess it would be best to post what I have been referring to. Society of Control Gilles Deleuze ( I. Historical / II. Logic / III. Program ) I. Historical Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the...

Since I keep referring to his ideas, I guess it would be best to post what I have been referring to. Control and Becoming Gilles Deleuze in conversation with Antonio Negri Negri: The problem of politics seems to have always been present in your intellectual life. Your involvement in various movements (prisoners, homosexuals, Italian...

While I attempt to map out my own life into words and images (hopefully later), I realize just how hard it is to convey an idea through text rather than through expression and movement of the body. Somehow, it seems easier to be rather than to express. Expression, or at least expression that is planned for dispersion, often involves critical...

These are still incomplete, as I have so much more I can probably add to these, but this is just a...

My final outcome will be a MOVIE A series of short clips of myself (focusing on effects of...

I am making a book of colors that correlate with the emotions one feels when they are touched/not touched by a human being. You can view my 'very' rough draft right Here

HUMAN TOUCH = HAPPINESS Positive human interaction via touch leads to a happy human being

How much of me am I? After reflecting upon how I consider myself as an individual, I discussed...

Human connections through senses: MEDITATION After thinking about what really makes us HUMAN in first place, I thought it is extremely important to fully realize ourselves and learn who we are. As a human being, we do have unique ability to use 5 senses;taste, touch, see, hear, and smell. All five senses play important roles in connecting...

In considering the idea of branding the human species, one thing stuck out to me the most, which is this idea that we are all somehow interconnected into a society of control, be it at school, home or the workplace. In researching Deleuze and Foucault's essays, I realized just how complicated the matter of "individuality" really is and...