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

Biocultural evolution is a means of describing the influence of both biological makeup and cultural...

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The union of the other is a perpetual bridge formed by the person once they cross over and...

The Dark Night is, unsurprisingly, represented by a cobalt blue & its tints, which give both a...

Illumination, represented by a fierce dark red to signify an ecstatic moment full of vibrancy &...

Purgation, represented by vomit green. The body rids itself physically & spiritually of...

Awakening, represented by bright yellow and its tints, to signify morning. The darker tints are...

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....

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...

The five steps of mysticism visualized for your viewing pleasure & knowledge. Photographs...

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...

The other night I was reading Naomi Klein's No Logo hoping to bore myself to sleep (it didn't...

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...

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,...

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

My project was totally massacred this past Thursday by my instructors. Part of the reason why things didn't go so well is because I didn't have a clear way of telling them how I arrived at my conclusions. They asked me questions and I just sat there blankly without good argumentative responses. Indeed, it could have been the best, most appropriate...

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

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...

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...

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

Getting ready to finalize my project, which I know in some way will involve juxtapositioning text...

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...

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled posts to bring you examples of other projects that either...

It was recommended to me that I go out and photograph the mundane, and one of the suggestions is to...

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...

"As a very tangible real but also shocking example of this relation between fear, supplication...

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...

I've been asking people what has been their most ecstatic moment in their life, why, and how they felt both physically & otherwise. This post is meant to be a repository of their responses, and nothing else, i.e. you will not find typographic experimentation in this post. That will come later on in other posts. There are also...

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...

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...

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...

Knowing my research up to this point I want to now concrete how I am going to be visualizing and...

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