Poem Photo

The words that came up were friendly, pen, jumps shiny pen"

I turned that into the sentence, "The friendly pen jumps over the shiny pen"

Metaphor

I decided to go with the nails for breakfast idea.
Here it is in the WASH room.

Metaphor Proposal 3

The metaphor is "drunk with fatigue". The relates to me because I tend to stay up late and a night owl. This affects me in the morning as being groggy, tired, and fatigue-full. (is that a word?)

The idea for this one is to have a beer bottle filled with Z's. The Z's stand for the "Zzz..." that is associated with sleeping.

Metaphor Proposal 2

When I was young, someone made fun of my dad for being a carpenter (a good one at that) and said that he eats nails for breakfast.

My idea is to have a bowl of nails with a spoon and maybe milk?

Metaphor Proposal 2

When I was young, someone made fun of my dad for being a carpenter (a good one at that) and said that he eats nails for breakfast.

My idea is to have a bowl of nails with a spoon and maybe milk?

Metaphor Proposal 1

When I was younger, a kid came up to me and said my drawing was perfect and that my hand was a robot.

My idea was to make a robotic arm holding a pencil, drawing. But due to being busy, it was shortened to a forearm and a hand, then to just a hand.

Some process shots

Several ideas for construction of the hand. All will articulate like a real hand.

-Use fluidic muscle, as with Aric's Arm. I will use black garden hose and arrange the pieces as the way muscles
 are on a human hand.

-Carve pieces of wood to make a hand. I will sand it smooth and paint it with tones of grey, white, and black

-Make a paper model.

Sketches From Trip to Houston

Life Map

Well, the internet at my house was on the fritz and going on and off, getting sick with the flu or something sick-like, a wedding, and having to work around the house, I managed to get some things done. Fun spring break. Still sick. But anyway, with all that aside, here is my life map. I based it on how and why I want to go in animation.

Here's where it all started. My cousin gave the game Total Annihilation and soon after, I wanted to mod it and found some programs people use to mod it with and it just took off from there.

Mark Making

The word I picked was "unknown". I chose it because on the first day of school, I did not know what was going to happen, everything seemed like going into a dark tunnel. What I'm trying to make a black hole.

Circle cut out.

Here it is upside down. That smudge on the bottom is glue joining two pieces because the spiral was too big for one sheet.

I've been having some problems getting it it stick out of the wall. I was thinking maybe more wire could work, but it would just ad weight. Another idea is to use white thread to attach to the wall to keep it from spilling over.

Mark Making

Sole of shoe

Piece of a coat hanger

Spoon

Comb

Thread (doesn't the one the the right look like an eye?)

Pencil

Uncomfortable Video

(it was my beard, lol)

Scholarship for Videogame design

Look at what Sony is doing. I didn't really read it all, but I'm sure its worth a look. Its a scholarship for girls that are going into game design. I don't know who here exactly is going into that area, but I thought it might help someone out.

https://www.scholarshipamerica.org/gamersinreallife/

Part 2: Line

1. many kids like me
2. goodbyes being said
3. the breakfast cooking
4. the pencil when I wrote my nametag
5. the lunch I ate when I went home
6. coming back home
7. the constant temperature of the classroom
8. the pain of leaving to a strange place
9. being told that "everyone does it"
10. the tress and houses that passed by when we went to the school
11. straight down the hallway of unknown 
12. the few hours I spent in class which felt like days

Part One: Mental Images

1. Fighter jet
2. Gun
3. Disk
4. Building
5. Dog
6. Beach
7. Baby
8. Broom
9. Pencil
10. Videogame
11. The Moon
12. Love
13. Dad
14. Robot
15. Grass

What I imagine

1. An F-16 breaking formation to engage a target.
2. A G36C
3. A Blu-ray Disc
4. Seeing the building being planned and made
5. My dog, Rosie
6. The perfect beach, white sand, clear blue water, perfect breeze or Galveston =|
7. Think to myself, "What will my own baby be like? Who will be the baby's mother? Have I met her? I think I did"
8. Sweeping and endlessly dusty floor.
9. A pencil being used to its eraser to make a magnificent drawing. 
10. I picture how the game was made. What tricks the game makers did to keep polygon count low, etc.
11. How far the Moon is. How far Mars is. Thinking, "Our Sun, one of billions in a galaxy that is one of billions to maybe even trillions. Someone just has to be out there.
12. Happiness
13. My dad making another masterpiece of woodworking.
14. How the robot works. What makes it work. What can I learn from it? What can be used from this robot to improve future designs?
15. How grass can grow. How plants can grow, how everything grows. How do cells work and why they do.

100 Things That Make Me Uncomfortable (or annoyed)

1. Awkward moments
2. People who don't use their blinker
3. Getting dirty after you just got clean
4. Unorganized teachers
5. Lag
6. Disconnections
7. Racism
8. Significant other being gone for 4 hours and comes back like nothing happened 
9. Bad timing
10. Getting a good idea for a project, the day before its due
11. Broken software
12. Slow drivers
13. Laziness
14. Being Lost
15. Those time where you space out for 2 seconds
16. Brain farts
17. When no on believes you
18. That feeling when you think your crack is showing
19. Clothes that don't fit right
20. Xbox fanboys
21. Wii fanboys
22. PS3 fanboys
23. Ignorance
24. Being proven wrong
25. When people think you did something when you didn't
26. When someone points at you and their pointing at someone behind you and you don't realize it
27. When you take a quick look and think you saw someone you know but keep on walking
28. Not realizing that someone needed help that you just walked by
29. Lying
30. Dirty clothes
31. Being served food that looks nasty
32. Bad chairs
33. Not sure if your wore a certain shirt yesterday
34. Not sure if people realize you wore the same shirt as yesterday
35. When you feel people think less of you
36. When you actually do your homework but the teacher doesn't take it up
37. When a teacher stands behind you while you're taking a test
38. When someone watches you draw or anything art related
39. When a song plays that you hate and people think you like it
40. When someone says a stealth bomber taking off from an aircraft carrier *cough* (they can't, unless you wanna go technical)
41. When someone is skipping through radio stations and a song you love comes on and they skip it and call it stupid
42. When someone is skipping through TV channels and skip your favorite show, THAT HAS A NEW EPISODE
43. When people diss the PlayStation 3 for stupid reasons
44. When people say Minecraft looks stupid
45. When people say LittleBigPlanet is for kids
46. When someone with dirty hands asks to use your computer, phone, controller, etc
47. When someone with greasy hands asks you to use you computer, phone, controller, etc
48. Unflushed toilets
49. Just finished your business in restroom and finding out that there is no toilet paper. 
50. Knowing you couldn't have done something great today, but pass the chance 
51. Math
52. That feeling where you think you're the stupidest one in the room
53. Being the 3rd person in line to talk in front of 50 people
54. Knowing you just messed up. BIG time.
55. When you ask you significant other who they just hugged and they say their ex
56. Metting nsignificant other's parents
57. Introducing your significant other to your parents. 
58. Showing your parents a bad report card
59. When someone says, "I have to talk to you about something"
60. Not knowing if you left an account signed in on someone's phone or public computer
61. Smelling a fart
62. When your kid or younger sibling is on the floor of the store, crying for a toy
63. When you're taking care of a kid and you don't know how to punish them
64. When people see what I type to someone
65. Being left out
66. Being ignored
67. Being replaced
68. In bathroom of restaurant and seeing chef leave without washing his hands after you hear him ripping himself a new asshole all over the toilet
69. Someone saying their mom has passed away after you say a "yo momma" joke
70. Saying a Chuck Norris joke when you find you he heard you
71. Being uncomfortable
72. Walking in bad neighborhood at night
73. Creepy looking guy boards same plane as you
74. Buying a cup with you mom
75. Not having a cup and having your mom ask you what size cup you are so she can get it
76. The "talk"
77. Watching a movie with parents when a sex scene comes up
78. Your mom or dad hands you your phone and asks who [name of opposite sex] is
79. Your mom of dad hands you your phone and says [name of opposite] sex] is cute
80. Hearing your parents having sex
81. The morning after you just heard your parents had sex and their both smiling
82. Being lost
83. When you feel everyone is angry at you for some reason
84. When a bug decides to fly/jump/ fall/land on your face or any other part of body
85. Bad timing
86. Car not starting
87. Stuffy air
88. Stale air
89. Humidness
90. Saying, "You too", when the ticket vender gives you your tickets and says to enjoy the movie.
91. Drunk people with guns
92. That creepy noise
93. That noise that makes you look behind you
94. The feel of eyeballs staring at you
95. When someone plays a song that you have and it turns out to be the WORST song ever
96. Waking up and realizing you missed 10 minutes of the teacher explaining an assignment *cough*
97. When you're the ONLY one who's out of place, tune, step, etc
98. Realizing your zipper has been down all day
99. Doing homework calmly and productively at night then look at the clock and realize class starts in 10 minutes
100. When you are told to bring, write, draw, etc. a 100 of something
101. Annnnnd, realizing that during the fiasco of the car not starting, being ditched, and not finding parking that you forgot the damn CDs to burn your monologue on!!!

Life Map Idea

Ok, quick post.

I have somewhat an idea of what I want to do for my life map. At ach age, I will have pictures of various thing that I like, people I loved, event, etc and they will either fade into or be a part of the next age's events.

Mapping Life (unfinished)

Step ONE

Generate a series of self reflective/life lists for the following (post to blog or if of a private nature email to your professor). Due Friday, February 24

Lived locations [birth to current]
    significant memories of spaces in or around your different homes

I lived in Conroe my whole life in2 houses and 1 apartment
  My parents lived in an apartment when I was born. I have only two memories from that apartment. One being when I was still a baby. I can remember being in my crib and everyone looking at me. My other memory is always trying to get a home video to play on the VCR. It was an old home video of family. It was me when I was younger and trying to walk.
     We moved to a house and my littlbe brother was born. I have various memories from getting bit from a swarm of mosquitoes to having to turn the shower on with a pair of pliers.
     After that house, we rented a house that we later bought and renovated. We have lived there over 17 years. We have put a large amount of money fixing up the house.

Significant relationships in each location
    The nature of the relationship

1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Spiritual

    How those relationships changed from location to location and as you aged

Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head.
    Both positive and negative

Educational experiences--schools
    considering early childhood, late, pre adolescence, adolescence, early adulthood –
    may project into your future – adulthood, old, not dead yet, dead

1. Significant peers [why?] both positive/negative
2. Significant adults [why?] both p/n
3. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n
4. Significant objects [why?]
5. Significant cause [why?]

Pre-K-4th grade- Sam Houston Elementary (original building)
     My first day of school was filled with uncertainty. I made somewhat friends with Jordan the first day. I later made friends with Dashaun and Treshaun, both twins that we could NEVER tell apart. I made a friend in the class next door named Jerri. Me and her rode the bus together. My teacher for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten teacher was Mrs. StVinge. Mrs. StVinge and I formed a teacher-student relationship and kept in contact with her till my senior year in high school as well as Dashaun and Treshaun.
     My 1st grade teacher was Mrs. Flippo. In first grade, I showed that I was smarter and wanted to learn more than the rest of the class. Because of this, she showed and taught me more than the rest of the class. After the school year, she sent me videos on how to do math so that I can be prepared for the 2nd grade.
     My 2nd grade teacher was actually 2. We switch classes in the middle of the day. Ms McCormick taught math, science and history, Mrs. Henderson taught Language Arts. I HATED 2nd grade. Both teachers were just flat out bitchy about everything. But then, salvation, a new teacher was hired and students were needed to  form her class. I was picked to be in Mrs. Nelson's class. She was a much nicer teacher than the other two.
   My 3rd grade also had 2 teachers.Mrs. Nicholson taough scienece, math and social studies and was a kind teacher. I forgot my language Arts teacher's name. =/ She was a bitch anyway, haha.
     My 4th grade ALSO had two teachers. (I'm guessing this is why transition to Jr high and high school wasn't much of a change for me) Mrs. York & Mrs. Pugh      

5th grade-6th grade Reeves Intermediate School
-Most of my friends in Sam Houston Elementary were Hispanic and because of residential zones, they all
  went to a different intermediate school and we just pretty much stopped being friends which led me knowing
  few people when I went to Reeves.
     5th grade-
     6th grade-

7th and 8th grade Peet Jr High School
     7th grade-
     8th grade-

9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Conroe High School

College level Sam Houston State University


My parents rarely let me go out. Because of this, I gradually started losing friends one by one becasue they all went out to places and I had to stay home. My weekends consisted of watching Comedy Central and working outside while my friends partied and saw movies. it wasn't before long that I just got stopped getting invited to go out with friends. As you can tell, this had an impact on my social skills a bit. I haven't suffered the death of a family member, a friend, or someone close to me yet, and I hope it stays that way. I sometimes get made fun of by my cousins for saying things or jokes or by using a word that has more than 6 letters. I didn't want to deal with bullcrap so I kept quiet. But then I got made fun of for being quiet. I know they're family, but how can I talk to them when they laugh at anything I say? Yeesh, I can't even say I'm in college without them saying, "Oh, so you think you're better than us?"

I couldn't really go out much, so I don't have much experiences of belonging. I did have a good friend named Matt that lived on the other side of the street that I ate over and slept over when I was younger. HIs family treated me like I was their son. My half-sister liked taking out with her friends to places like Six Flags and movies. Fun times, yo. But dispite all this, we all have a sense of belonging when we talk to people that have the same interest as us.  It just takes one, "Wanna come?", and you know you belong.
    
    

Experiences of loss or absence
Experiences of joy or belonging
Career

1. Significant peers [why?] both positive/negative
2. Significant adults [why?] both p/n
3. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n
4. Significant objects [why?]
5. Significant cause [why?]

Spiritual evolution/path. Changes over time? [why? who influenced changes?]
Sexuality or gender evolution/path or relationship to the body
Achievements
Pain or crisis or losses
Dreams, hopes or desires
Other threads to possibly also explore in terms of the evolution of these things in your life
1. Character
2. Limitations
3. Passion
4. Strengths
5. Abilities and competencies
6. Fears
7. Calling
8. Understanding of people
9. Understanding of culture
10. Understanding of heritage
11. Ancestral heritage
12. Materialism
13. Goals
14. Why do you want to be an artist, animator, designer
(when did that desire begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going)
15. Within your field what specific things are you interested in?
(when did the desire or compulsion begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going)
Are these changing? How so?
16. Personal narrative, quotes, journal entries, poetry, song lyrics, etc

Line Story and revised

Original

 I was woken up early and forced to get ready. "I don't want to go. I'm scared", I said. "You have to go" the voice behind me said. I am being sent to a known, but unknown place. I saw it on TV many times, but still did not know what to expect. Once I was ready,  I was given breakfast. "Today is your big day", the voice said, "Are you excited?" "No", I muttered. I was given a hug and assured that everything will be ok. Once I finished, I brushed my teeth and before I knew it, I was heading out the front door to the car. We pulled out of the driveway and we were off to the place of mystery and uncertainness. Houses passed, trees passed, like the sands in an hourglass, they counted the time I had left before we arrived. "We're here", the voice said, "Let's go" I got out of the car and saw other people like me being forced to go. I saw a girl who was ever so excited to be here. "Why is she excited?", I thought to myself, "She's the only one who's happy" I walked down the sidewalk with my head down watching my feet drag across the concrete. I came to a door. I went in. I saw other people bidding farewell and being left behind. Alone. With other people they do not know. I was walked to my classroom up to the door. It was open. I could see other people in there. "Time to go", the voice said, "I love you, have fun" I turned around and looked at the floor. There was a black piece of rubber that marked the transition from cold, hard tile, to hard, but softer carpet. To me, it was a line of uncertainty. I was told to go on, to walk in the room, to cross the line. The nervousness slowed me, the fear stopped me, the anxiety made my stomach uneasy. In other words, I was terrified. I crossed it and went on walking. There was a woman inside who asked me what my name was. "J-Josh", I stuttered. "The woman said, "Have a great first day of school, Josh, please have a seat"



Revised

 I was woken up early and forced to get ready. "I don't want to go. I'm scared", I said. "You have to go" the voice behind me said. I am being sent to a known, but unknown place. I saw it on TV many times, but still did not know what to expect. Once I was ready,  I was given breakfast. "Today is your big day", the voice said, "Are you excited?" "No...", I muttered. I was given a hug and assured that everything will be ok. Once I finished, I brushed my teeth and before I knew it, I was heading out the front door to the car. We pulled out of the driveway and we were off to the place of mystery and uncertainness. Houses passed, trees whizzed by, like the sands in an hourglass, they counted the time I had left before we arrived. "We're here", the voice said, "Let's go" I got out of the car and saw other people like me being forced to go. I saw a girl who was ever so excited to be here. "Why is she excited?", I thought to myself, "She's the only one who's happy" I walked down the sidewalk with my head down watching my feet drag across the concrete. I came to a door. I went in. I saw other people bidding farewell and being left behind. Alone. With other people they do not know. I was walked to my classroom up to the door. It was open. I could see other people in there. "Time to go", the voice said, "I love you, have fun" I turned around and looked at the floor. There was a black piece of rubber that marked the transition from cold, hard tile, to hard, but softer carpet. To me, it was a line of uncertainty. I was told to go on, to walk in the room, to cross the line. The nervousness slowed me, the fear stopped me, the anxiety made my stomach uneasy. In other words, I was terrified. I crossed it and went on walking. There was a woman inside who asked me what my name was. "J-Josh", I stuttered. "The woman said, "Have a great first day of school, Josh, please have a seat"

Monologue Final