Friday, March 27, 2009

Tree Surgeons

I'm celebrating tree surgeons. I tried to upload my video to the post but it didn't had lots of lag time. You can view it at

http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~jsellmer/treeSurgeonCompressed.mov

Monday, March 23, 2009

Class of March 23

Today we did a group project. Five of us assembled a bobble head from garbage and newspaper. Other projects involved making apple sauce with the help of a policeman and bringing back trinkets from the "arson site". Hopefully our bobble head will be posted with a video.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

I'm carrying my word with me now

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

What if.........final project

What if I attached a camcorder to my motorcycle and made a video.....how easy that would be.
What if I did little segments of home-made instruments.
What if I practice the guitar enough to play a classical piece for a project.
What if I made a real frankenstein monster with old surgery parts and brought him to class
What if I did interpretive dance
What if I made sock puppets
What if I did my original plan of recording music
What if I made after effects to go with the music
What if I used the music in my portfolio
What if I did a funny video
What if I made a hologram of Sponge Bob
What if I did an underwater video while scuba diving
What if, while doing the underwater video, a shark swallowed my camera
What if I designed a quilt
What if I made pottery for the first time
What if I designed some clothing
What if I knitted a sweater
What about designing some jewerly
What about designing a piece of furniture
What about adapting Macbeth in 3-d using animals
What about writing an alternate ending to "Children of the Corn"
What about training ants to spell words with their body position
What about creating a web game
What if I made a comic book
What about designing a painting, then making a digital print of it
What about making a grayscale portrait
What if the classroom was turned into a haunted house
What if a true seance was conducted during class and Jack the Ripper joined us
What if Creature of the Black Lagoon was refilmed using stop motion graphics.
What if a creativity ceremony was performed in class involving the sacrifice of one student to satisfy the creative gods
What if I drew the short straw
What if I composed an opus for straw, garbage can lids, wind chimes, and recorder
What about writing a play for monkeys
What about pop art
What if a made a recipe for a new dessert
What if I modified my most annoying commercials with a voice-over
What about stand-up comedy
What about styling someones hair and spray painting it green
How about dying a cat pink
What about writing a children's story and using flash to tell the story
What if I filmed sky-diving
What if I filmed surgery
What if I filmed an IRS agent tax deducting his lunch
What if I brought paint to class and did color blending
What if we turned the class into a watercolor class
What if we did yoga
What if the final project was on gutter cleaning tips

Class of March 2

Today we talked about Plato's Republic and final projects. The discussion focused on how we have unlimited possibilities for a project which is making some students unable to come up with an idea. We talked about limitations and the tendency to place unnecessary limitations on ourselves because it keeps us in our comfort level