12. Emoticon Exercise

14. Clothing line

Max has a rough life. Nothing really ever seems to work out for him. Socially, Professionally, Romantically, Max just never gets any luck. The only thing that he has going for him is his white hat. He cannot remember how he got it. But no matter what happens to Max, as long as he wears the hat he is able to be blissful about what happens to him. Instead of being negative and down, Max is happy. This allows Max's life to have a Ying/Yang aspect. The white hat offsets what happens to him on a daily basis. Max cherishes this white hat because he knows that if it disappeared one day then he would be nothing. Without the hat there would be nothing to motivate Max to keep pushing himself to make it through the day.

13. Identity For Sale

Video Camera
High end video camera that can record 2k resolution videos. Very film like images are able to be produced from the camera.

Blu Ray of Blade Runner
Heavily used copy of the greatest sci-fi movie ever made, Blade Runner. Also includes the directors cut on the blu ray.

Pillow
Very soft pillow. Has seen lots of use. At that point where it is broken in so much that it is almost the perfect pillow in terms of comfort.

10. Response to Hope Poster

I feel as though it is wrong for Shepard Fairey to be accused of copyright infringement. To me he clearly took an image and altered it so that there was a completely different meaning/message from what was intended. This in itself is good enough reason for him not to be accused of copyright. If you take something and then give it a new meaning then I believe you are not copyrighting the material. You are remixing the material in a way that should be accepted by the general public. Instead it seems as though right away fingers are being pointed, rather then sitting down and thinking about the matter.

9. Response to April 19 and 24, 1905

The first thing that popped into my mind was that in life we often come across “a fork in the road” where we have two choices to make. Both choices can lead to very different outcomes. Oftentimes it can be difficult to make a certain choice because of this. Small little details can have a huge impact on the outcome. Similar to the butterfly effect. The second reading connects the two pieces together with the common question “Are we in control of our own fate?”. It compares the two different type of people, the ones who take action and control of their own lives, and the ones who live life as though it is a routine. By having these two types of people the outcomes can become different as seen in the previous story. I think that this is a very interesting topic that I wish was more commonly brought up in movies. One of my favorite movies is Adjustment Bureau and I believe that it was so successful because it directly addressed the question of us being in control of our own fate. 

8. Response 14 April 1905

When reading this I felt it was a remind and metaphor for the way life works. It reminded me of the whole circle of life idea. The imagery reminded me of this. How everything we do is a circle. I feel as though this short story had a similar message that the movie Cloud Atlas had. The whole we repeat everything and when we die we come back as someone new but still repeat certain aspects of our previous life. I almost feel as though Cloud Atlas was directly based off of this story. This does also make me think of why it is important to learn the history of anything because since we are in the constant circle it will eventually come back around. So learn from your past to figure out where you will be heading in the future. 

7. Response on Prologue

This short story felt very much like a jumbled together version of what goes on in a persons head as they go about their day. By saying how all of the random objects start appearing out of nowhere I get the impression that these are similar to things that are on the person’s mind. The quote from the story that really struck me was “Ten minutes past six, by the invisible clock on the wall.” I think this speaks strongly about our lives. No matter what we do time is always moving forward and we cannot stop it. Everything is in constant motion. 

11. Survey Response

I thought that the Can you read faces? survey was a little pointless. The title was misleading as it really did not have much to do with your ability to read faces. It was more focused on what personality type (introverted or extroverted) you prefer by analyzing two different faces. My result was that I prefer extroverted such as the general audience does. I do agree with this result but I thought that the way it was calculated was weird.