Day 16: I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date.

     I got no excuse for been late no matter the reason. I got to class 45 minutes before class ended. When I got to class they were talking about the John Coy presentation. Only a few students had already given their thoughts. Everyone complained about how the projector didn't work and that some were bored. I didn't get to tell my opinion I guess I get that for been late. But here is my opinion, I think that the change he lived from going from hand making designs to using a computer is something that we have to learn from. Who knows there may be a really extreme change in our lifetimes. Also, how important it is when you can't do something there is always someones experience that you could team up with. Finally we also talk about our final projects and again I am still afraid on what to do it on.

Day 15: Dreamy Movie Day

     Well class started by moving the desks around in order to watch a movie. We had to choose between two movies, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams or What are Dreams?:Nova, at the end we choose to watch Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. I watch to many Japanese movies in my normal time so I wanted to watch the documentary just because I like to give my brain new info. But like always the class doesn't think like me oh well. The movie was not bad but it was too musical for my taste. To my taste it would been better without the music. The stories were good and it was obvious that they came from actual dreams. But how many people dreams in the musical form? But like I said before the stories were good. I will not get into describing the stories that way you can watch the movie. But I will say that 2 of the stories are way too creepy. At the end of the movie I stand up and got in trouble by Moss for not watching the credits. I do watch the credits sometimes after the movie, but the was no way i was going to remember Japanese names.

John Coy

    I was the one of our little group of students that knew the right time for the John Coy talk. Everyone though that it was 7 pm, but I knew it was at 7:30 pm. We had to wait outside till 8 pm. I wonder from what time did the rest of the class waited. There were some problems with the projector, but I really didn't care I really enjoyed the talk Coy did. It really inspired me because I am also really into the other arts. I like doing stuff by hand and them applied to my computer generated designs. It's really interesting how he went from hand making design to learning to do them in the computers. It still gives me hope to be a better designer. I mainly like the works he did for books and catalogs. He showed an image of a bitten apple on a book, but I am not sure if he did it or if it was an image from the ones that wrote the book and he designed the rest.   

Day 14: .....Where is Moss?

   There is not much to say about this day. Moss didn't show up for class. We were told by the secretary to at least stay for 10 minutes to discuss the final project. We decided to make our videos from 3-5 minutes long. Also, we talk about some ideas we had. The thing I could say I learned was that the class actually stayed to talk about our final projects longer than 10 minutes! It seems that we all had that little Jimmy voice in out head....Our  conscience. 

Extra credit: Japanese Calligraphy

    Well one think I noticed from being in the class was that the Art majors did better than the rest. Well that was what the instructors pointed out by accident. Everyone the instructors pointed out and told that is really great, was to us. The rest of the students in the class were Japanese students and others. We were told to choose a kanji to practice over and over. I choose to do the kanji for Ki/soul. I really like doing kanji, but I would like to practice some more strokes.

This is just something funny I found

I wanted to show you guys a game I found on the internet. This is just a random post.

Day 13: Brief Briefs

   Ok people lets seat by heights! Come one more way to seat. When are we going to seat on top of the desks? Well it wasn't as easy as everyone though. The students went by actual body height. But just like said this was wrong. Because no one took to consideration that those measurements are without shoes. Shoes are a big factor because some girls use heels and not all tennis shoes have the same soles. But no one listens to me hahaha. After the fact we started to talk about creative briefs. Moss pointed out what a creative brief looks and sounds like. He read the brief for Winchester Mystery House website. I like haunted and paranormal stuff I have to look this site up. He told us that they targeted many audiences and how they did a background for each one. He then mentioned RIO (representamen, interpetant and winchester) I still don't understand this 100%. I understand some parts but not how they work together. Also we talk about how to charge for a job. That is completely up to you and your expenses, but keep in mind to charge the average. If one under sales their job then it affects everyone. If you want to give a work away do it for a non profit organization not for a cheap ass customer. Pro Bono makes you feel good and is good experience.  

Day 12: Presenting and Posture

    Moss talked about the syllabus and how to still earn extra credit. He also mentioned that we are not ready for college right after high school. But no one is ready after high school, only hard work will help you during your college years. I graduated with a 2.25 GPA from high school and I currently have 3.45 in college. The high school system is concentrating on giving tests and getting money from the state. They don't care what students think because they see them as little kids. If they would listen to the students needs kids would do better in high school. The early education system is a mess.
     Then we presented our game ideas. Well actually not every one got to present, only a hand full did. A few things where noted. Those who had the game board, instructions and game play on the presentation boards were the good ones. Also, we talked about body language and how it affects the viewers. One thing that I got from class it to never give things to the viewers specially if they are men. As men we can't multi task. Men can not drive and put make up on while texting.   

Day 11: 9 games?

    First of all I thought we needed 10 game ideas not 9. I spend extra time coming out with the extra idea, but it was fine my ideas were not that great. Well I tried my best to come up with ideas that makes my proud. Not everyone got many of their ideas approved. Some students turned in ideas that were just random chance game with dices.
    After the showing of our game ideas Moss talked about the portfolio day. He mentioned that the people reviewing the portfolios mentioned that students needed more diversity in their work. That we should do work other than the class work. Because everyone is doing the same kind of projects. Presentation cards, logos and the school work is just not good enough. I knew this already, but some how I have to make a better use of my time. I am afraid that I will not have something good for graduation.

Sixth Response to the Reading

    Sketch, sketch, sketch is the best advice I ever got from one of teachers that I admire. In this chapter it confirms the advice given by him. The is no better way to get ideas out than to write down everything that comes to mind and sketched. That is way sometimes I just start sketching in class before I forget.
    The same way that this chapter focuses on how kids draw. They draw because they like to sketch. Kids have the mentality to draw objects as they are experienced and not seen. Some times what we feel is better than what see. I one pays attention a drawing by a kid could be a great masterpiece. They kids even see them as works of art, then why can't we? In the chapter is gives the advice to leave a sketch as a sketch and not over do it. Is better to my opinion to try to make a better version on another page instead of ruining something that if look at later it could be great!
     Always work with different mediums and try different styles. I think this should be applied to or ongoing mandarine project. Another advice from the book is to not show your sketches to others. But I think this depends on the sketch. Sometimes you could have something good, but because you drew it might not realized.

Day 10: GAME DAY!

    There is actually not much to say. We played all types of games in class. There was one game that we game up on and just turned to regular Pictionary because we couldn't figured out. We also played old fashioned Scrabble which is always fun. The only thing that got me kind of sad was that no one tried my game Blokus. If someone would just tried the game. Now for homework we were told to make 10 games. Lets see what happens next class with that.

Day 9: Sins and Games

     We started Monday's class by sitting facing the windows instead of the boards. In what new way will we sit in class this next Monday? I got my guess that we might end up on the desks our selves. Finally I think maybe I have figured why Moss is doing this exercises and that is to used it as an example with the mandarins. Just think of how many ways we can come and sit in class!
    Then we got to see everyones images regarding the 7 deadly sins. Some people in class mentioned that for the first time they saw Moss mad, but I actually think the best way to described was disappointed. Because it seem that most people just typed the name of the sin in Google and as a result many got repeated images. I only got one image repeated and one just not good enough. Five out of seven images wasn't that bad in my head.
     After the images we ended making a big list of games we could think of. It seem that no one knew Blokus the board game of strategy. But that's why I decided to bring it for next class as a game to play in class.