And Then Everything Exploded!

Today's class was mildly entertaining, but I am going to be really happy once we get past all of this introductory stuff.

I learned today:

• The school's sound recorders are really fun to play with - I have so many ideas
• How to think about the sounds around me - how to deconstruct them and really pay attention to the individual sounds
• The dull but extremely important practice of checking out equipment

The challenge for me now is to actually check them out, because I am notorious for leaving things for the day before they are due. If I do that I won't be getting any equipment, and therefore no grade. All that amounts to an envelope full of sadness mailed to me when grades come this summer. So - procrastinating in time arts is impossible. End of story.

My most interesting idea for the coming project is to make a soundscape that is decidedly epic. Long story short, it is going to make you feel like a embedded reporter on a futuristic battlefield. If you are having a hard time figuring out what that might sound like, try the Halo 3 commercial for a good idea.

At the risk of being far to terse:

I learned:

• All teachers talk to long on syllabus day.
• All teachers apologize for talking to long on syllabus day.
• All teachers then continue to talk more.
• Time Arts is going to be my favorite class if challenges me enough.
  

INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS:

Please give me your name:
Samuel Kivimaki Thompson

Please give me your email address:
tangerineapple[remove this]@gmail.com

Cell phone if you have one:
(509).993.6497

Do you know what you want to major in?
Industrial Design

Rate your experience level with MacIntosh computers:
High

What programs are familiar to you?
Sound Programs: Audacity
Video Programs: iMovie, Windows Movie Maker
Others: Photoshop, AutoCad, Rhinoceros, Illustrator, LightWave, modo

Rate your experience level with digital still cameras:
High - Go to my gallery for some of my photographs.

From Winter Break

Rate your experience level with digital video cameras:
Medium - I pick up things very fast, so with the little time I have spend with cameras I know them almost inside out, so technically I know how they work, not necessarily how to use them to get what I want.

What motivates you to work hard?
I will not work hard if I am not interested in the topic. I have to be doing it myself and it also has to be a challenge.

How would you define Time Based Art?
Art that uses time as the most basic medium.

If you had to choose between being a plastic surgeon and a police officer, which would you choose and WHY?
I would choose to be a ninja. Like Dr. McNinja.

What aspect of your personality is most often misunderstood by others?
I'm the straightest gay ever.

If you had an hour to spend do anything in the world, what would it be?
SCUBA diving.

Are you more:
ACTIVE or REFLECTIVE?

SENSING or INTUITIVE?

VISUAL or VERBAL? (extreme)

SEQUENTIAL or GLOBAL? (high)

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