User:Tylerbarrett

Bio
I am a product of society. I believe I am who I am, because of who we all are. I also believe that we are all connected, and I feel we should begin to realize this. I feel the most connected with the Universe while listening to music, simply because I believe the Universe unfolds itself for us to see with water drop beats, and cigarette smoke chords, if we take the time to look around. I am a wallflower, which is embodied in my passion of photography. I am fascinated with human kind, and believe we are smart but in stupid ways. We are the empire of the sunset soon forgotten. Basically.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Music Documentary, because music video sounds 'pop'


 * Research Component


 * week 1


 * week 2


 * week 3

Find out songs, and imagine it's Universe. Check out video camera rental stores, such as Glazier's, and find out prices. Look for thespians. Research history of Music Videos.
 * week 4

Practice techniques needed for the documentary, before jumping into it. Find out locations with bodies of water, near but far away from buildings. Write out the scenes.
 * week 5

Check out locations, and find a mode of transportation for equipment and people involved. Act out scenes with myself, to get a feel.
 * week 6

Rent the camera, and do the first recordings. Experiment with the music, and improvise the story line if needed. Probably will be needed.
 * week 7

Finish recording, add final touches, any last filming. Take pictures. Lots of pictures. Pay actors, and put the video together to see if it's missing anything. If missing anything, take care of it.
 * week 8

Review the video, and smile.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
There was a lot of culture involved in this project for me. There's the media culture, that kept speaking up about superficial beauty. There was my native culture, saying that everything has a spirit, and a story to tell. And, there was my spiritual culture, that told me everything has beauty in it.

The media culture, ever since we were tots, told us that long eye lashes had a sense of upper class in the beauty world, along with the spring shade of lipstick, long legs, and being relatively thin. Some code that was trying to be passed on through generations through spoken word, and magazine articles. A sub-culture where you can only feel good about yourself, if you have 'what's in' in your wardrobe, on your face, and embedded in your skin. I questioned this, and found it very untrue for myself. I believe there's a soul. In all things. And this is something you can't see from the outside. You have to close your eyes, because it's something you have to feel. Going into Sculpture Park, with that mind-set in my sub-conscience, I knew that they had a reason for making art, some, beyond that surface beauty. I had trouble finding something superficially ugly, because beauty to me is the fact that something inspired them enough to make art, to share it, to place it in a park as a birthing process, and to let others see how they saw the world. I read a sign that said "Love is sharing your art with strangers" Applying that to our project, nothing there is lacking love, or beauty.

My native culture, has a lot (a lot) of totem poles through out our history. They are ways of recording stories, like book marks in our time line. I believe this is true with any art form we come across, or produce ourselves. It may be for cultural purposes and our people, or it may be for the artists inner cathartic Universe, but the concept is the same. Walking into Sculpture Park, I found out that the head stones (ironic), along with the title of the piece, and the artist, had reasons, feelings, quotes, and stories to go along with what art they had placed here. This said to me that they want to connect, with a Universe through clips of their soul, recorded through sculptures, just as my ancestors did. They are sharing a view, a thought, a feeling, a story through elements they constructed. We were looking at the end product of a spiritual process, beading out along their life. My ancestors thought it was important enough to share their beliefs, and I have admiration for that human element.

Since I was young, I have had respect for everything. This has led me to find everything to be purposeful, and because of that, everything to be beautiful. I will forever be curious, and I question everything. I wonder why people do what they do, and am an avid wallflower. This curiosity is rarely verbally questioned, but that's because I like to day dream. At Sculpture Park I liked to wonder what they were trying to say, how they were feeling, or what they wanted us to get from it. And then realizing that it's art, and it's all interpretation, and there is no wrong answer. There is no wrong way to do anything.

I believe there is a time in your life when you do start thinking for yourself, and you build your own religion. This project helped me get back in touch with my beliefs, and rekindling a passion for my thoughts.

How Am I Manipulated?
DUBIOUS AUTHORITY A figure of undeclared or unrelated expertise makes claims about something.

ARGUMENT FROM IGNORANCE/NON SEQUITUR

The assumption made in this fallacy is that if something can't be proven false, it is true. Conversely, if something can't be proven true, it is false.

This term is Latin for "it does not follow." It involves a premise that does not relate to the conclusion. Convincing non sequiturs seem to have some relationship, though; they aren't totally random.