User:Jasonsmith~enwikiversity

Bio
Jason Smith

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

How to be a better, more consistent turntablist.


 * Research Component


 * week 1


 * week 2

Start a plan of what I want to accomplish and how far I want to go with "Turntablism." Since, there are so many different way's to be a turntablist, I should limit how far I should go for now. Maybe, just some of the basic scratches to begin with.
 * week 3

Research the history of the turntable. Study others who have inspired me. Watch my tutorial vids. Begin practicing the different scratch techniques. Film progress.
 * week 4

Try some battles on the vid. Practice more advanced techniques.
 * week 5

Start to record some battles and begin more techniques to practice.
 * week 6

Practice... See if I can use Editing class to work with the vids I've create.
 * week 7

Prepare for final video and freestyle battle using what I've learned.
 * week 8

Have video ready of over progress. Hopefully with a better understanding of beginning to intermediate and some advanced techniques.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I've believed that to be true in art especially. The first time I saw, what looked to me like bits of a shipwreck frozen in time, my thoughts were, what am I looking at? And why? So, it was this piece of art I had in mind when this assignment came up. "Bunyon's Chess" was the name which Berkley trained sculpture, Mark di Suvero, gave to this particular piece. After reading about Suvero's past, I found that after a construction accident left him critically injured, he learned to be an arc welder. He used what had nearly killed him to explore his interest in sculpting art with various different types of metals. It made me realize that art isn't always created for particular person, but more for the artist themselves. I also noticed that the sculpture was created in a way to look like brush strokes suspended in time (so I read) and gained a little more perspective on it. Although, not completely enthralled by this form of art work, I do have more of an appreciation for it, as well as his other pieces, and I like the symmetry involved. I will say it's probably my least favorite out of all his work. It just seems too thrown together and simple compared to some of his other sculptures.