1. Which was your favorite class so far? And why?
A class in philosophy and science, I like philosophy
2. How many pages was the longest paper you have written? Did it include endnotes and bibliography?
8 and yes
3. What was your favorite paper? Please tell us about the topic in a couple of sentences.
A paper about Alfred Hitchcock
4. Which books did you read of late - art, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel? Comments are welcome.
The idiot
5. Which artist or writer or musician or director really impresses you? And why?
Sufjan Stevens, he knows where he came from
6. What is your main interest besides writing, art, music, (i.e., the humanities)?
geology
7. Please describe briefly an article in a newspaper or a magazine that got you thinking lately.
A Washington post article on the 5 myths about Planned Parenthood.
8. Please share an event that you found out about through the media, including an on line news or blog that made you more aware of the culture you live in.
420, I have nothing against dope but, its stupid to drive to boulder to catch a buzz
9. Which cultural event has really impressed you lately? This can be a museum, a concert, or anything like that, but also a sports game (if you consider this a cultural event, for which there are good reasons). Or anything I am not even thinking of … Again, tell us why.
I went to the Boulder history museum for the first time, they had an impressive selection of fossils
10. Please share with us a thought or an idea that really widened your intellectual horizon. If possible, give a source for this idea so that those among the others who are interested know where to go to.
Animals work to survive humans work to realize, i think its marks, Communism and other political systems are interesting
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Intellectual Questions
So far my favorite class so far has been the viewings of the movie Contempt. It is not because of the fact that we were watching a movie in class; it is because of what the movie had to offer me in terms of meaning and metaphor. The dynamics between men and women puzzle me to this day and to see something that is acted out like a bad day for my parents is something that I appreciate to see without remorse.
The longest paper that I’ve to written so far I believe was in 8th grade; it was 15 pages long if my memory is correct. The paper dealt with the controversy (at the time) of the NASA program investigating whether or not it would be wise to explore Mars. Various factors had to be weighed in order to provide an honest opinion if it was beneficial to spend so much money on a program that could potentially help colonize a different planet, find a new source of water or even sling shot the human race into unknown scenarios that we cannot even imagine. Lots of research had been done resulting in a bibliography that was nearly half as long as the paper.
One of my favorite papers that I have written so far was during my freshman year of college. I had to interpret and argue the meaning of Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory. I ended up talking about how the painting ultimately suggested chaos as time was not relevant in any of the melting clocks since they were are distorted.
For my humanities class I have read Voltaire’s Candide, and Jean Racine’s Phedre. Both of these fictional novels are old pieces part of the Enlightenment period that focused on reason and passion; Candide was a coming of age tale that reinforced the optimism of humanity while Phedre was a tragedy that revolved around the passion and reason between several lovers.
One of the directors that I find to be most interesting is Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko. One of the only reasons that I find him so interesting is at the time that he helped make Donnie Darko; he was only 26 years old. It seems to me that one has to be a certain age in order to make such a good movie, which would be somewhat older than 26 years old. Most directors that I know of are at least in their 40s or 50s by the time they get the chance to make good movies.
Humanities are what I really look forward to everyday, but something that does interest me is metaphysics or even the idea of otherworldly things. To think about things in such a basic yet so complex manner is something that has intrigued me since I was a child. For instance, by looking at one’s hand you can imagine what the past of that person was from the intricacies of how the fingerprints have been altered or even shaped.
Something that ended up getting me to think lately was the United States operations in Libya. To the extent that I know of, we and the United Kingdom want to dethrone the Libyan dictator. Although this is a good idea considering the severity of his treatment toward the Libyan people, it is not our country to decide who rules it or how it is ruled. However, in order to protect our special interests in the Middle East, I guess it is a necessary act to intervene in this case.
Just recently, Elizabeth Taylor passed away. The enormous amount of coverage that has being displayed by all news medium, such as television shows, newspapers, blogs, websites, etc shows the speed at which information travels. Generation Y, as my generation is called, seems to be the proprietor of technology allowing everyone to basically know everything the moment it happens with cell phones, Facebook and the like.
The Boombox concert that I went to at the end of February was pretty awesome. I found it a little funny that the son of Keith and Donna Godchaux of the Grateful Dead was one half of the band that played such appealing psychedelic music to my generation. Since the Grateful Dead were mainly a 70s and 80s band, Zion Godchaux grew up with his parent’s music and gave it a new feel for today’s culture. I would be interested to see old music make its way in today’s culture in a sort of reinvented way.
An idea that popped into my head recently while I was not really thinking about anything in particular was the concept of which time really mattered. The past does make us who we are. The future we cannot tell which we end up preparing for. The present is where we are and what we do. However, not necessarily a place in time, just being, or existing, is what I find to be the most important sense of time.
The longest paper that I’ve to written so far I believe was in 8th grade; it was 15 pages long if my memory is correct. The paper dealt with the controversy (at the time) of the NASA program investigating whether or not it would be wise to explore Mars. Various factors had to be weighed in order to provide an honest opinion if it was beneficial to spend so much money on a program that could potentially help colonize a different planet, find a new source of water or even sling shot the human race into unknown scenarios that we cannot even imagine. Lots of research had been done resulting in a bibliography that was nearly half as long as the paper.
One of my favorite papers that I have written so far was during my freshman year of college. I had to interpret and argue the meaning of Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory. I ended up talking about how the painting ultimately suggested chaos as time was not relevant in any of the melting clocks since they were are distorted.
For my humanities class I have read Voltaire’s Candide, and Jean Racine’s Phedre. Both of these fictional novels are old pieces part of the Enlightenment period that focused on reason and passion; Candide was a coming of age tale that reinforced the optimism of humanity while Phedre was a tragedy that revolved around the passion and reason between several lovers.
One of the directors that I find to be most interesting is Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko. One of the only reasons that I find him so interesting is at the time that he helped make Donnie Darko; he was only 26 years old. It seems to me that one has to be a certain age in order to make such a good movie, which would be somewhat older than 26 years old. Most directors that I know of are at least in their 40s or 50s by the time they get the chance to make good movies.
Humanities are what I really look forward to everyday, but something that does interest me is metaphysics or even the idea of otherworldly things. To think about things in such a basic yet so complex manner is something that has intrigued me since I was a child. For instance, by looking at one’s hand you can imagine what the past of that person was from the intricacies of how the fingerprints have been altered or even shaped.
Something that ended up getting me to think lately was the United States operations in Libya. To the extent that I know of, we and the United Kingdom want to dethrone the Libyan dictator. Although this is a good idea considering the severity of his treatment toward the Libyan people, it is not our country to decide who rules it or how it is ruled. However, in order to protect our special interests in the Middle East, I guess it is a necessary act to intervene in this case.
Just recently, Elizabeth Taylor passed away. The enormous amount of coverage that has being displayed by all news medium, such as television shows, newspapers, blogs, websites, etc shows the speed at which information travels. Generation Y, as my generation is called, seems to be the proprietor of technology allowing everyone to basically know everything the moment it happens with cell phones, Facebook and the like.
The Boombox concert that I went to at the end of February was pretty awesome. I found it a little funny that the son of Keith and Donna Godchaux of the Grateful Dead was one half of the band that played such appealing psychedelic music to my generation. Since the Grateful Dead were mainly a 70s and 80s band, Zion Godchaux grew up with his parent’s music and gave it a new feel for today’s culture. I would be interested to see old music make its way in today’s culture in a sort of reinvented way.
An idea that popped into my head recently while I was not really thinking about anything in particular was the concept of which time really mattered. The past does make us who we are. The future we cannot tell which we end up preparing for. The present is where we are and what we do. However, not necessarily a place in time, just being, or existing, is what I find to be the most important sense of time.
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