Looking at the Road Traveled

Taking a gander back at what we have already learned and experienced, I have to say that the most recent TED video we watched when the fabulous speaker Koblin shared his findings on human connectivity was probably the most captivating. Watching a music video created frame by frame by different people that shared a common fandom for Johnny Cash was extremely cool.


I also remember being intrigued by Csikszentmihalyi's video lecture wanting people to escape into the "flow" that they experience in their art on a daily basis. Keeping this in mind, the double exposure photograph seemed to give a visual to that theory: being able to blend these two elements of your life until they become one solid image. Seeing so many people contribute to this idea of blending your "art life" with your "daily life" reflects back to Koblin.

 

Exploring a concern we have, mine being "why do we smile?", led me to create this double exposure image displaying the smile of both a young and old women. Studies have found that the more we smile the longer and happier we live. I find this question extra appealing because it effects us all inherently in the most fantastic way. 

Blogging about our findings here, and more frequently on Facebook, allows us to see how each of us is interpreting the same lecture or idea with slight, or sometimes dramatic, differences. Personally, I think my posts have developed since the beginning of this class. My thoughts are more thorough and I feel like my explanations are becoming more in depth. 

START!

This is officially my second 'Blogger'. My first was a movie review blog that I quickly abandoned to pursue more offline goals and wishes of the heart's desire. Being familiar with Blogger's set up the creation time of this particular blog was a matter of minutes. The hardest thing for me was coming up the title. Which was inspired by my ever-so-graceful roommate Eliza.

Seeing as this blog was created for a class, my criteria for it is much more 'academic'. As is visible, I included a map as my background to heighten the academic esthetic of this blog. Currently my background of a map is all a have to describe my presence on this blog. I'm trying to take a more serious and educational approach to this blog. My goal is to explore how I appear online will sharing, reflecting, and pondering multiple and several different topics pertaining to humanity and the current world in general.

I think I met the terms and conditions of this assignment fully and to the best of my ability. I did design it up a little more than was asked, but whats wrong with going above, beyond, and up, up, and away!

I plan to continue to evolve my website and change it as my mood so desires. I want this blog to grow in quality as my posts grow in quantity.