blog 1.5 not related to class stuff, just some random thoughts...

Good morning ya'll,

(not that anyone actually reads this thing.)Anywho, it is now 5:36am, depite what the posting will say. Well I woke up about an hour ago for biological reasons, and just couldnt/cant fall back asleep at the moment. Its ok though, I just started watching some Dvr'd things I have from this past week i havent gotten into watching cause i've been so busy with my 6 classes finishing things up. Which i've almost gotten everything off my list of things to do, i think i have like 3 things left, and to study study study. Anyways, so on to the Dvr thing, I love this, I just go through the guide schedule for the week and look at whats on, well besides my usual shows through out the week, but i will talk about those at another time, but lately i've been watching alot of the history channel, man i love this station, its so informitive. I watched a thing the other day about the real battle of the '300' it was pretty neat and i've had on this program about the surrender of the south to the north at the end of the civil war at richmond and appomattox, va. and all the events leading up to this surrender. Its interesting. And later this weekend i have dvr'd a program about Greece and the Acropolis. I'm pretty excited.

So i just wanted to say as well, mostly because this is an informal blog, i know I randomly decide to use my writing skills at random with my grammer, but i just cant make up my mind and dont really care too much about that along with spelling, i'm not a dictonary and this isnt graded on its spelling but on its content. So i am sorry for those of you who do/will read this for that inconsistancy.

I am listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtracks right now, I really enjoy that symphony by Howard Shore. Along with the books and the movies. The score is just beautiful in every aspect. Only a few sountrack/scores from movies really get to me, that of : Gladiator ,Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Superman of corse. but pretty much all the themes from John Willams, Howard Shore and Danny Elfman i find delightful. A funny thing is there is something fun about driving to the theme song from Back to the Future and the Superman theme that just wants to make one speed.
Well i should go lay down and attempt to fall back asleep sometime soon i'd love to get another 3-4 hours of sleep. So on that thought, I hope everyone has a nice friday and a great weekend.

Peace and Love,
MY

Just a question non related to class

Dear Classmates,

I am just curious if anyone else is going to keep their blog up and running just for fun. I have been toying with the idea of keeping my blog for personal enterys and what not, updates on my life and random thoughts that may happen to pop into my head. I have kept online journals for quite sometime ending with the 'LiveJournal' website which i havent updated in quite sometime now. So a blog is in place already on this website therefore i am going to try my best to do a few enterys every once in awhile. So if you are reading this and plan on keeping yours up and running please feel free to let me know and we can add eachother to be 'friends'. Thanks

Peace, Love and Applesauce- MY

Response to Seigo's blog

Well Seigo was talking about the differences of American cultures and Japan. I think its really interesting how people of the world have different ways of teaching and how he said that the teachers in japan, from what i understood, just want the students to understand the information and how in the US we have a discussion about the material and how we feel.
Its just interesting that anyone visiting another area that they are not familiar with has pretty much the same adjustments to go through, Like even going to a place like England i'm sure, they speak english and so do we, but its a different kind of english. But then again we can encounter that in our own country as well just by going to a different part.
I think what he was saying ties into the Middle Eastern photographs we looked at.

MARCEL

Well I really wish we had some background information about this guy and what he did/does. I was really confused about some of the things he spoke about. And all the names he threw at us from people who were big in like the 60's and 70's. Like we were supposed to know who he was talking about. So in that sense i was just listening.
I did however also think that some of the things he was talking about was quite interesting. I liked that video alot. It interested me because it was so...prehestoric? or brand new that this was a big deal back then. I think it defintly paved the way for things like the fax or even email. I mean in the corse of like 30 years technology came up with websites like YouTube where you can upload any video you want and post it for millions to view. Also sites like MySpace and Facebook, are global networks with people from all over the world linked into it.
So even though i didnt really understand half of what he was saying i still appreciated what he was doing with the Marcel project.

about LaChapelle not to be confused with the comedian.

So i really like the work of this photographer. I think that he puts lots of detail in his sets and then as much detail into his models. Some of his pictues are just odd works. I looked at that book going around and thought it was very interesting and noticed their were a few celebrites thrown in their with some interesting poses like manson and barrymore. the fairy tail/pornish looking pictures are really interesting as well. And i think the guy just may have an obession with breasts possibly.
I think some of his fashion statments are really quite odd and interesting also. The outfits these people wear are out of some scifi film or something like "The Fifth Element" movie. They are very bright and colorful images so the images are very pleasing to look at.

Blog about that movie dvd made in china..

Well i really enjoyed what segment we watched of the dvd. I think its facenating that these people werent allowed to go into certian areas and i think its even funnier that they ditched their translater/guide to go venture off on their own. Although im sure it would have been nice to have someone with them who spoke the language. So they could have gone and for example ate with the family who invited them in.
I really like to people watch, in a noncreepy way, i find it very interesting the way people act in different environments. Like just sitting in the cfa cafe area watching all the people react to their names being called or going to the mall and walking around. When i'm at work , which is at a movie theater, whenever i take tickets its just fun to stand their and guess what movie people are going to see and whatever else they do.
Well enough about that rant, but the point is i think these people from what we saw just walked around a city and filmed people. And how they acted, it seemed like a soical commentariy more than anything to me, but i enjoyed it.

So my thoughts on the whole Fashion thing...

First off i want to say that i think that the statment about all people who read vouge cant think for themselves is a kind of harsh statment. It may be true for some people, but i really highly doubt that there are people who let this magazene run their life. Just because i watch alot of tv doesnt mean i cant think for myself. Heck i get my news from the Daily Show sometime.
My reaction is are the fashion photographs of models or the clothes they are wearing. I doubt that the clothes are there to show off the model. They just need someone to present the items/products in a professional manner. Now I am guilty of watching a certian show on the CW/WB called Americas Next Top Model. i find it really interesting and pay attention to the photo shoots. But its just funny how someone like Tyra Banks and Fashion Icon Twiggy can have such an effect on these girls futures as models. Girls from the show get kicked off and im sure find work right away because they were on tv. But i mean who is it to tell me what is in fashion and what is out of? idk. I might be just blabbing about nothing now though.