Day 9

Where are you guys???

I have to be honest, Monday’s class was not the easiest to sit through. I was completely out of it. All I wanted to do was to go to sleep, and It kind of doesn’t help when Jimmy ask us questions that are irrelevant to the subject. I would like to say that the class picked up after a while, but it didn’t. I guess I wasn’t the only one that wasn’t feeling like talking on Monday cause we were all pretty quite.

My home printer isn’t working, so I spend a lot of my time in the morning at school trying to print out the ten images for the previous assignment. Due to the videos and al the things Jimmy was talking and giving us his insight about we didn’t get a chance to go over the images.

Jimmy showed us two videos in class, both were TED talks so you can only imagine how intense the speakers were. The first video was by John Maeda’s message to the audience was simple, keep it simple. He made comparisons between simplicity and complexity by showing us some images of a day in which simplicity was trying to send him a message. Simplicity is about enjoying life, you could tell that he was a man that enjoyed his life and all the moments and things he was able to find. Maeda mentioned that it is important to be observant, to see things that the worlds and to pay attention to all the details. He also advocates the idea of exploration, and through creation we could explore all the things and all the possibilities.

The second video was a little more intense. The talk was done by Scott McCould, who is a well-known comic book artist. He had a lot to say and talked very fast that I really didn’t get a chance to write down some of the things he was saying. He used a lot of visual, similar to how we do in class by changing the meaning of the image by what he said. His main message in the video was to learn from everyone, follow no one, and to watch for patterns. There were two more thing, there was actually a lot more that he talked about that I wish I could have written. I’m going to have to look at the video a couple more times.