Day 10

Today was the day that we had to show the class our ten board game ideas. I have to be honest, not all ten were my best ideas, actually I only liked half of the board game ideas I came up with, the others were just fillers to complete the assignment.

It took me FOREVER to work on these ideas. My inspirations came from different moments and different things, and then came the moment in which no ideas were coming at me or to me. It was a new experience for me because for the first time I couldn’t be at home, I wasn’t working on a paper or studying for a test. I was trying to come up with ideas, and they weren’t going to come at me if I stayed indoors looking for things on-line. To get out of my rut I went out, saw the world. It was Halloween weekend, so I took advantage and went to get a couple of drinks and partied with some tranies in West Hollywood. They are very creative.

Jimmy showed us a video in class, this one was from designer Saul Bass called Why Man Creates? The video was about motion design, Jimmy gave us a brief back ground on Saul Bass. He changed the way movies began the intro of films was renovated due to his work. The video was really good at discussing 7 process of why man creates. Talking about edifice (which I just found out what it means, a large imposing building), fooling around, the process, the judgment, a parable, a digression, and the search. I guess this was more of what happens when man creates, because of all the things you go through after you create. I still don’t know why man creates, I guess it is because man has something to get out his chest and doesn’t want to use words or be oral about it.

We presented our ideas in class, Jimmy gave us about 10-15 minutes for us to go around the classroom and pick the best idea from each student. That was about a minute and half per student, we did manage to get though it, but we didn’t expect Jimmy to have us explain another students boar game. That was a little difficult, especially with my shot attention span on Monday’s. I didn’t exactly catch what all the games were about. I am still uncertain if he liked any of our ideas.