Old Technologies vs New Technologies

Some wild technology that was introduced in the late 1980s was the clapper, in which to turn on your lights all you had to do was clap. Back then this was mind-blowing that you didn't need to flip a switch anymore to turn your lights on or even get up from where you were sitting. This has developed over time with more wireless technologies that you can speak to turn your lights on or off or do it from your phone. An example is Alexa by Amazon where you can say "Alexa turn on living room lights" or "Alex dim the lights" and she will do it for you without you having to move. There are different varies of this like Google Home or Echo dot or even Siri on the iPhone. Everything today is become more wireless and is encouraging less movement by humans. Which as we have seen in the movie WALL-E can be a bad thing where everyone just sits all day and doesn't move. In the future, more technology will be developed where people don't have to move to cook their food or do their laundry or anything. Everything in your house will completely be digitalized and do everything for you. There are already commercials that mock this idea and show how lazy our future generation will become.

Difference Between Artist & Inventor

An Artist is someone who creates something with meaning that is meant to either please or shock people. An artist could be someone who paints a picture or writes a song and that artist has meaning behind it but the people who view it may not see it the same way. While an inventor creates something new that is used for a common purpose. Like the invention of the light bulb was used to create light in the dark or the invention of the car was to get from point A to point B quicker and more efficient. While both Artists and Inventors create something new the reasoning behind them are different. Artists create art to inspire and represent a feeling through mixed media while inventors invent to try to get something new that is to be useful for everyone. An artist can be considered an inventor and an inventor can be considered an artist each go hand in hand but the results they produce can differ in major varieties.

Spiderman Skittles Art

For my Skittles grid art I made a Spiderman face with a green background. Since Spiderman has a red face with white eyes and black outline I used the red skittles for his face, yellow for the eyes, and a dark purple as the outlines. I think it turned out pretty good especially if you squint your eyes. It was very difficult to make but a fun project overall.

Broadway Blog

I have seen multiple Broadway shows including Hamilton, Wicked, The Adams Family, and Young Frankenstein. My all-time favorite is Hamilton and I know almost every word to every song but I have to say the best performance of any one song in a Broadway show, in my opinion, is "Defying Gravity" in Wicked. It is performed right before intermission and I listen to it online all of the time. the performers are the great Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. I love Idina Menzel's vocal range and especially her performance in Frozen has made her one of my favorite female vocal artists. The song itself has a mixture loud and quite parts which keep the audience on the edge of their seat and listening to it is very powerful. Wicked is a great musical following the lives of the good witch and the bad witch from the Wizard of Oz. I think everyone should see it or listen to the soundtrack because it is very good.

Film Festival Movie

The movie we viewed was about the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a band I have never heard of before but was surprised how much I liked the music. The film itself was very long almost 110 minutes which seemed like it kinda dragged on but the band itself was really cool how it went to the roots of African American music through the use of the banjo and fiddle. The sound of the band was really fun and I can see how people would like to dance to this at outdoor festivals. I was surprised they played at such a huge event as Bonnaroo which meant they have a huge following to bring thousands of people to their show. I also thought it was interesting that the two lead members of the band were a romantically together at one point then split up and the next thing that happens she has a husband that is travelling with the band, which is very awkward. As a filmmaker that was a cool thing to make a movie about since the director actually travelled with the band for so many years and became like part of the family while with them. If I was in a band I don't think I'd want a person filming me every step of the way so it was cool to see a whole bands journey and the paths that each person took after the peek.

Animated Madam Butterfly Video

This was a very interesting video that must have took a lot of time and patience to create. The opening sex scene was definitely something I never thought I would see but it was crazy how someone took the time to create that motion by motion. The birthing scene was cool by using a fish to represent a child coming out of the womb and the way that must have been created through stop motion must have taken forever especially when the baby is being flown like a kite. The story overall is very sad about how the man took advantage of her, let her have the baby, then come back to take it and leave again resulting in her killing herself. It was very disturbing seeing her rip her body apart and something I'll probably never want to see again. I am just impressed with the person who took the time to create this which is kind of cool with it being all stop motion. It was very artistic and had good representations of the actual Madam Butterfly opera.

500 Years From Now - Tom Lawlor

500 years ago no one thought we would be as advanced as we are today, but what about 500 years from now? I think that in 500 years our biggest worry will be the environmental impacts that will change in our world. Water levels are already rising because of the melting ice caps so in 500 years I think there will be no ice caps and most of the land we have today will be underwater, I'd say in less than 500 years states like Florida, Lousiana, and California will be completely underwater from the rising water levels. What changes will humans have made? I think we will have colonies on other planets and the ability to travel in space much easier as well as being a very robotic society with all the strides we are making today with robots, in 500 years we will be completely revolutionized by robotics and environmental impacts causing human life to adapt to new living habits.