Epilogue 12-13-10

The purpose of this blog entry is to explain to future students what I think the class named Seeing Sideways is all about.

I think that Seeing Sideways is a class intended to teach students to explore and create new things, free of whether it's "right" or "wrong". Basically, anything goes as far as assignments go...as long as the assignments are not pornographic in nature and as long as they obey school rules. I guess this class is preparation for future projects within the workforce.

Assignments include doing whatever you want with an egg, doing something that involves your identity, creating something that inspires you, and analyzing your beliefs, be they in God, in another deity, or lack of belief, and creating something from those beliefs.

You also have to make blog entries presenting such projects, and justify said projects(how it works, why they created it, etc.).

That's pretty much it from me.

Response to today's class 9-13-10

So what can I say about today?

Well, today, we discussed our walking backwards, egg ideas, and AVL application blogs. When I discussed my egg idea, Beth saw what I didn't see: that I made a metaphor out of freezing my egg. The metaphor was freezing something in time, at that moment. She also discussed the phrase "I meant to do that." I was pretty surprised.

Also, we discussed limitations and that it's OK to have limitations, but not to let them limit our ideas. I have my own limitations. In fact, here's a partial list:

• Impatience
• Indecisiveness
• General Laziness
• Worrywartedness
• Jumping To Conclusions
• Impulsiveness
• Introvertedness

We also discussed the concepts of "why?" and "because..." in class. We also made up our own "why"s and "because"s on the writing boards.

We also discussed senses and were encouraged to come up with our own "sense" and create a device that appeals to that sense. Either that, or to combine answers to "Why?" and explanations under "because...".

That's all I have for now. Ta-ta!

Egg-sicles for Everyone! 8-27-10

Sorry if the picture is low quality; I uploaded it from my cell phone. I don't have a digital camera.

Hey, guys, this is my egg blog for Seeing Sideways.

I had been thinking about what I couldn't do with it.

1. I couldn't just draw on the egg, because like Beth said, it was unoriginal and had been done previous times before.

2. I couldn't incubate the egg, because I didn't have the hand puppet that animal professionals use to feed the chick.

3. I couldn't cook or eat the egg, because it was unpasteurized and also because of the current salmonella scare.

4. I couldn't pour laundry detergent on the egg, because it had been done before.

5. Throwing the egg against anything and smashing it is a sign of giving up. It has also been done before by a very angry individual.

6. Sketching the egg is too simple and would've taken 5 minutes, including shading.

7. Designing characters around the egg had been done before(see Dr. Eggman/Robotnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog series)

So I decided to freeze the egg. I left the egg in the freezer for about 3 days and then took it out today. I couldn't open it conventionally, so I had to use a serrated knife to cut it open. The yolk was completely frozen. Then I took a picture of it.