User:Kirkbradshaw

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic - I want to learn all the tools in Photoshop, and create something I feel is good enough to publish.


 * Research Component -


 * week 1 - learn the basics


 * week 2 - start learning what each tool icon is for


 * week 3 - learn what 4-5 tools do


 * week 4 - learn another 4-5 tools


 * week 5 - decide on a basic idea for my "published work"


 * week 6 - continue to learn tools and try to come up with a rough sketch


 * week 7 - start final work on the piece


 * week 8 - polish and prepare for showing

Why Do I Like What I Like?
Typewriter Eraser. I hate it. It looks childish, it looks stupid. I know I should appreciate everyone's artwork for at least being something somebody put work into, but this is just stupid looking to me. I tried to look at it from different angles, anything to make it look less clunky but nothing works, I simply do not like this piece of art. I did more research on the artist and even more on his type of art. After doing all that I tried to look at it from a different perspective and even tried forcing myself to like it, but I wasn't able to do it. You can't force yourself to like something, either you do or you don't. It can change over time and maybe one day I could walk by and look at it with some appeal. All in all, it was an interesting assignment, it made me think about what causes me to like something. Is it strictly aesthetic appeal? The typewriter eraser is just a blown up object, how is that art? I may not know now, but maybe one day I can understand and appreciate it.

How Am I Manipulated?
Division

This fallacy of Division is committed when a person infers that what is true of a whole must also be true of its constituents and justification for that inference is not provided.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzwHDf3NhY

In this commercial you see a group of "cool" vans from the past, you then see the new Honda van, and therefor assume it is a "cool" van as well.

Appeal to Emotion

This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4703144479201607672&ei=sTgISsPnHYvEqQKmg8zrAg&q=axe+commercial&hl=en&client=firefox-a

You see a guy that use's Axe and the girl is interested in him, your emotions(be it lust or desire?) drive you to believe that axe will make women interested in you as well.

Bandwagon

My third fallacy was a conversation with my wife on Friday afternoon regarding mother's day. She had asked me what I was getting her for mother's day and I told her she would find out Sunday, to which she replied, "are you getting me flowers?". I told her no I did not plan on getting her flowers. She then replied "but everyone get's there wives flowers for mother's day!"

Self-Assessment
So it's time for that self assessment. What did I learn in the 11 weeks I attended this class? Was it worth the time and money I spent? That seems like an easy question now, it was well worth both, I feel I learned so much. Oddly it didn't start that way. At first I had no clue what the point of the class was. I thought it was pointless at first. As the class went on, and we started doing the projects, I continued to feel like I was missing something. It didn't actually hit me until 2 weeks ago that this class had actually changed my way of thinking on certain things. I looked at art, music and other forms of entertainment in a different way. The "why I like what I like" project was the reason behind this change. It made me look deeper than just what I saw with my eyes. It make me think of the artist that created what I was seeing or hearing or even feeling. It's a profound thing to learn your looking at things wrong, it changes your outlook on so many things. Now when I see a piece of artwork I don't really think is the greatest, it makes me want to see what else they have done. Is there something of theirs that maybe I would like? I also learned that finding something, doesn't really mean you've found it. Sure you can find a story on a artist, what he's done, where he lives. But that means nothing compared to knowing that person, and understanding what they want you to see or feel with their work. I think I also learned not to judge from what I see only. I remember the first time I saw Steve walk into the class. I thought to myself "wow, look at this guy, he looks younger than me, what could he teach me?" It turns out he taught me more than most have, in a shorter time. His outlook on things gave me a different perspective on things. Even his goofy little music box(I have no clue how to spell it!) was something new and cool to learn, I had never seen that musical instrument before. I think it's funny how you notice something ONLY after you have learned about. I know I saw the singer from Plain White T's playing it on a music video, and I was like "wow, its that thing Steve plays." I would of been blind to it prior to this class. That right there was where I learned even more, I need to understand more around me, or I am just blind to it. Another profound lesson that maybe I should of learned a long time ago. All in all the class was wonderful, and I learned many things. The people in the class itself taught me many things, I mean, who knew I would learn about glass blowing or how to make cheese? Now I know to learn more, so I can see the world around me, thus learning even more. Even though I will not be attending AIS any more, I think the class was well worth the time and money I put into it, and wish I could take the class again, who knows what else I could learn?