WestLake FREEZE

This is just raw footage of the Westlake Mall freeze. This project was really fun to do. The original idea of freezing for about 10 to even 15 minutes did not happen because as a group when we were doing our practice, we barely could make it all the way through our frozen position for more than 5 minutes. That day was a bit cold and breezy and during the freeze I know my eyes were watering but we endured it all the way. As we were going to the location, the thought in my mind was are we even going to get any reaction at all. But after watching the different footages, it was really awesome that we got that kind of a reaction to our project. The classic double take reaction, to people taking pictures, and even giving comments like "I've seen this on Youtube before" were very good reactions from people. I would say it was a successful class project.

yoshi exhaust

http://www.archive.org/download/yoshi_509/idlerev_0001.wma
I recorded my motorcycle starting up and idling and then revving it up. a few times i revved it up then i just looped the revving sounds a few times. Most of the time the motorcycle is idling.

Graffiti

Random video I picked out from youtube about graffiti, well actually I really liked the background music. All the videos about graffitis that were shown in class were very informative and also one of the groups did their project about graffiti as well. I was aware of tagging but did not really know about bombing and splashing, these were new vocabulary for me. Graffiti in the form of markers, brushes, spray paint, and even stickers...I see graffiti as art. One thing that stuck with me from one of the video that we viewed in class was that graffiti should remain in the streets for all to see. It should not be restricted to museums and art galleries where you have to pay to see it. Another video I remember was the graffiti removal video. This was also a form of art. I agree with this also. Who is to say what art is or is not. Art is everywhere.

shop shop shop

Buy something at a shopping mall everyday
Starting the day after Thanksgiving
All the way to the day before Christmas

Go shop without any money
Shop 30 minutes after the mall opens
Leave 30 minutes before the mall closes

Don't leave until you have bought something
Return everything you've bought the day after Christmas

novels in three lines

LIFE

2 teenagers arrested in killing of 16-year-old. Two of them get a life in prison and the other goes to the after life. (Seattle Times, 11/8/2008)

BOMB

Belonging to a retired Deputy John Decker, Quincy, a black Labrador, a renowned bomb dog, graduates and gets certified by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) then he departed. (Seattle Times, 11/8/2008)

River Rage

Dozens of emergency workers jammed the usually quiet two-lane road, two missing boys are presumed dead, “We’re grateful to have the kids we still got, and we just want our baby out of the water.” (Seattle Times, 11/8/2008)

Ups and Downs

More bad news sends Wall Street reeling, jobless rate grows to 12 year high, Barbie maker to cut 1,200 positions and Fidelity to cut 1,300 jobs this month. However, premium services boost DirecTV and profits increase for Adidas. (Herald, 11/7/2008)

REMAINS

It took 44 years, but military officials have finally found the remains of a member of the Army Air Corps whose bomber went down over Hungary during WWII. The remains will take more time to be specifically identified, and a few more years to be able to take back home to US soil. (Herald, 11/7/2008)

400 Pages of FBI Files-- Kit Bakke

On Thursday, November 6, 2008, I had the privilege of listening to an author by the name of Kit Bakke. She talked about her book "Miss Alcott's E-mail". The book is about a correspondence between Kit Bakke from the present time and a Civil War era woman named Louisa May Alcott. Mrs. Bakke was inspired to write about Louisa because their lives were similar. Both were activist in some ways, both were nurses, and both women wanted to contribute to try to make a change. The hour or so of time was spent talking about three topics, Louisa's World, Kit's World, and the Writer's world. The one thing that struck me about Louisa was during the Women's Suffrage, she was the first ever woman from her area/town to register to vote for a school board election. Also the fact that she grew up in the neighborhood, or practically neighbors with many great literary minds like Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne she became a writer herself. In fact they were all close family friends. She also had to deal with mercury poisoning. With the life of Kit Bakke being a political activist (Vietnam War) back in the 1960's, she accumulated 400 pages of FBI memo. (I would say she was a pretty important person for the FBI to have that many pages about you.) Writer's world--She talked about how she came to be an author and what inspired her to write about Louisa. Mrs. Bakke learned to love her country instead of fight with it when September 11, 2001 happened. She finished the session with reading a sample from her book and answering questions from a room full of students and professors.

LIFE SUSTAINER!

http://www.archive.org/download/BIS318H2O/H2O_0001.wma
My recording includes the sound of water from my kitchen sink, bathroom sink, and the shower tub. First part and the end of it is me doing the sound of water dripping with my mouth, then there are the sink water flowing and also draining. I tried to repeat some of the dripping and draining sounds which I thought was cool.