Blog Post Expansion 2 - It's a Poke-Party

After pouting about my Mario Party loss for a few weeks...or months,

My friends finally snapped me out of it.

So now that we're all best buds again, we decide we need to celebrate with some new activities.

"We can throw a real party," suggests Oscar:

But yeah..

I wasn't feeling it.

"We're a bit too tired, dude. Plus, it's Thursday night," I said.

Alison all of the sudden starts getting out the kitchen utensils.

"Well, I'm going to make some grub"

I see her take out the cinnamon...

"Are you making..."

"CINNAMON ROLLS?"

Oscar and I got a little crazy...

"You know the perfect activity for some warm, homemade cinnamon rolls?" Alison asked.

Oscar and I looked up.

We knew exactly what:

Watching some classic, good ole'

So there we are: Eating cinnamon rolls (which will probably form other rolls) as we watch indigo league.

But as the show went on, I see Oscar starting to get distracted- looking around all sly-like.

That's when I realized...

DOES HE THINK HE CAN GET AWAY WITH THE LAST CINNAMON ROLL?

I smack Alison to get her attention:

"Look at Oscar!"

I point to the cinnamon roll-stealing fiend:

He's already just a few feet from the rolls...

"THOSE ARE MINE," yelled Alison.

"WHAT, I ONLY HAD ONE." I jolted up just as quick.

Like the three legendary birds, we duked it out for the last roll.

Out of the chaos, chewing noises arose from the kitchen.

We look to see our other roommate, Joey:

"Mmm, those are delicious!"

F.

"...ha ha ha...". Oscar started chuckling.

Alison and I started to join.

"Oh well, I guess."

"Yeah let's just finish the show, I think the next one is the ketchup episode!"

And so, Stephanie, Oscar, and Alison settled their differences thanks to their gluttonous roommate, Joey, and are continuing forth on their adventures watching Indigo League. Where to next? Will they catch em' all? Tune in next week to find out!

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When you're unsure if this serves as a blog expansion or even a relevant sequel.

Blog Post Expansion 1- Blog Post #3

I wanted to take my analysis on Whose Line is it Anyway? skit, using Shipka's theories, and apply it to my own work. Without further ado, here is my audio project from before (if you don't wanna find it again):

1. What is the piece trying to accomplish?

This piece represents someone (myself) trying to organize her thoughts through meditation but ultimately failing against all of the noises. This serves to demonstrate the immense clutter we let our minds take in without consciousness, and how easily we let our minds gets distracted.

2. What specific choices were made to service this goal?

To represent the random sounds that appear inside consciousness, I decided to add little jingles and random sound bytes that would play behind my inner voice. This served to tell the listener what are inside thoughts or outside sounds.

To represent sounds, I kept the layout of the room in mind in an effort to center the listener (as if they're in my mind). Therefore, all distracting sounds of friends laughing or playing games were all positioned in the right ear (since that scene is right to my room).

In order to truly represent the ever-distracting stream of consciousness, I overlapped plenty of sounds to express the chaos of the mind. In order to effectively elicit this to the listener, though, I also added plenty of moments of brief silence in order to contrast it. This is representative of our minds- as if not focusing can get us brief moments of peace, but they are almost always short-lived (as mine would get distracted by either myself or friends playing Dance Dance Revolution.

3. Why did they pursue this plan instead of others?

I mentioned this in an earlier post, but my first idea was simply too out of my league. I wanted to work with data sonification, but I wasn't experienced enough working with data to give the benefits of sonifcation any justice. Basically, I couldn't sonify data and also have it mean anything other than random sounds.

The reason I'm glad I chose this idea is because it comments on much of what our audio readings were about in the first place: the quick attention our minds can give to sound in an instant. What my project aims to do, however, is to focus on how blindly (or deafly) we allow these sounds and distractions to seem through our minds.

4. Who/ what helped accomplish this goal?

As far as who, my friends helped accomplish this goal by serving as quite literal distractions (thus my muse, and source of content). Also, Sam Harris for getting me into meditation and giving his voice for me to record over.

What helped me was some experience using Audacity and the plenty of readings which gave me my theories and strategies to pull of this recording.

Blog Post #8

Okay I clearly like Pokemon:

So this is a great remix because it takes the childhood Pokerap we all know and love:

And re purposes it into a metal, scream-o masterpiece. While they are using an already existing rap that served as a jingle to end a children's show, their piece is entirely creative in it's own right. By countering the child-like genre with a full-out metal performance, it becomes entertaining in an ironic way and undoubtedly gets viewers attention (seriously check it, they earned like 3 times as many views as the OG Pokerap).

Who won? Who's next? You decide!