User:Robertscribner

Bio
I was recently enlisted in the Air Force for the last 6 year and just gotout in June of 2008. For the last 2 years I have been shooting video, webs ads, documentaries, short film but realized that if I really wan to break into the film industry, I really should go to school. So that is how I ended up here at the Art institute. I really love to make films and edit and cant wait to make more.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic - I have always wanted to build my own website for my company. I have a really good idea about what I want it to look like but I have never start the process to make that happen.


 * Research Component -

How to get hosting How to buy a domain name How to build and design my graphic How to upload video, add text, pictures How to make pages that like together


 * week 1


 * week 2


 * week 3


 * week 4 - Buy a domain name, start designing graphics and banners, Find a hosting company


 * week 5 - Find someone how can help me learn how to construct a site


 * week 6 - Write all the info that will go up on the site


 * week 7 - Finish the graphics and banner, start to upload pics, videos and text


 * week 8 - Fix small errors on site and finalize site.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
I went down to the Olympic Sculpture Park and the sculpture I found that I didn’t like was made by Mark di Suvero. His sculpture was called Schubert Sonta, made in 1992. When I first saw this sculpture I totally didn’t get it. I thought it is was kind of ugly and noticed that it would probably move with the wind if the wind was actually blowing. The top of the sculpture just seem weird and I was trying to make since of it and its shapes but just couldn’t do it. So, I then went to the library to go do the research. I found out that the artist used to be a crane operator and really liked to think of using a crane as an extension of his body; a tool that this is very important and sometimes over looked. So naturally he likes to model his sculptures after cranes and large industrial I-beams. I also learned that he likes to build sculptures that interact with natural element, like the wind. So after learning a little bit about this artist I will admit it did help me understand his sculptures and his views. I have a lot more respect for his work now. I really did like some of his other work a lot more than this one, but it has grown on me. I guess what I like about it, is the crane like structure of it and the fact that it reacts with the environment. So yes, I did manipulate myself into like this sculpture.

How Am I Manipulated?
Video Ad:

Nutri-Grain bar commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbFLhbJRt_E

I choose this Nutri-Grain Bar commercial because it introduces a few fallacies. 1. You will feel great! 2. People will follow you 3. You get anyone to marry you and have lots of babies 4. You will be rock solid 5. Yeah!

I think this ad falls into “Proof by example. Basically, I ate a Nutri-Grain Bar and I felt great! Yeah!!! It may also fit into the “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc” as well. We all now that eating a health bar isn’t going to make those things happen but a person might believe it if B happened then A caused it.

Blog:

The next one I choose was from a blog I read. This is what it said:

I want to let everyone know that I think this is how Jesus feels at times when people shut Him out and this is what will happen if we, as children of Christ, do not continue to witness and save. There are children and people out there that feel this same way and say these same things. If they only knew the love of Christ it would all fade, all the pain gone. So remember we are not just saving eternal lives, we are preventing Depression, Hunger, Pain, Suicide, Heart Ache, Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Child Abuse, Homelessness, Disease, Suffering, Loneliness, Emptiness, Lovelessness, Hate, Biggetry, Abandonment, Destruction, Fighting, We are preventing, That little 15 yr old boy from losing all hope due to the World's pressures from ending his life, or living a life of crime. We are preventing that 28 yr old from going the rest of their lives never knowing the true Happiness that we are so blessed to feel every day as Children of God. We are preventing that Elderly Lady who may have never heard or been touched by Jesus Christ from passing on with out the opportunity of the kingdom. So please, do not fear your opportunities to witness, because it will do more than you realize.

This would fall into the “Slippery Slope” fallacy. What this person is saying is if we love god then this is what will happen, then this, then that, but we can’t prove it. It is possible that it might prevent homelessness and disease but we will never know. This also could be the “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc,” because as previously stated if this happens then we will all be saved. In the end I think it is more on the “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc” fallacy.

Self-Assessment
What did I learn this quarter? I like the parts about critical thinking. I feel that everyone critically thinks, but do they know tat they are and how to do it in the most efficient way is another thing? In this class, it thought me to critically think and what questions to ask myself as I am watching something, hearing, or being told something. The “How Am I Manipulated” assignment was probably my favorite one, mainly because we got to practice and really analyze something. Over all I feel I have improved quite a bit this quarter and am glade I had this class. It was really cool to do the, “I always Wanted To” mainly because it forced me to start and finish something I always wanted to do and I have! I think that was probably the coolest assignment I ever had and would like to find a way do keep doing projects like that for myself so I will keep starting and finishing I thing I want to do.