What have I learned… where will I go… after all this.. do I still want to major in this… YES!
Although a few times I have gotten a bit overwhelmed.. mainly because I bit off more that i could chew in the production part of my posts.. overall I have actually really enjoyed coming up with fun things each week.
At the start of this semester I was clueless as to how I would come up with ideas, that were originally, different, and showed my ability… well, i realized the answer is, you just do it.. don’t think about how hard it will be, just start thinking about anything.. let your mind wander, go new places, try new thinks. Make things, it doesn’t matter if they suck.. odds are you probably learned something new in the process of making them.
I truly can’t wait for the journey ahead! – Next stop Story – with Scott
Oh yeah, the post… haha almost forgot. “Review”…..
I thought about how I could combine the finalization of this post, with the directive of review. Well 1) I wanted to make something and 2) I wanted it to represent closure.
I think I was actually watching Law and Order, or something like it, when I came up with this idea.. ( I know – GET AWAY FROM TV to think… but it just came to me.) – Whatever I was watching I heard them say.. “Review the case file”… well bam..I knew what I had to make… I had to make a Levi’s case… and officially CLOSE IT!
I sort of just started cutting and glueing and this is what I came up with.. enjoy!
Reviewing is on just about every college kid’s minds right around this time of year. It is time for those dreaded finals. Endless hours of reviewing material, or writing papers, or if you are like me procrastinating non-stop, even if you try not to…
Well, reviewing materials caused me to have an idea for this post..
Like I have said before, I have Levi’s on my mind ALL the time lately. I try to see where and how I could fit the jeans, brand, logo ect. Into everything I encounter.
Well It was while holding a book studying that this idea hit me, I realized that I was actually making the Levi’s arch logo.. maybe it was because I am subconsciously obsessed with it.. or maybe it was just a freak accident.. but regardless, I am glad I noticed it, because it make me think.
There are so many things that look similar the Levi’s arch stitching, things we encounter everyday.. and I thought it would be cool to play on that… How many times do you see it?
Here is a video that represents my “eureka” moment, and then a few places I found the arch today.. Its like an on going game of I Spy!
Think Upside down… interesting that this is the Golden Gate…But I checked, it came after the stich design…
Obviously when I hear the term “review” I am going to turn back and think about this project and what I have done. I thought it would be cool to go back through all of the post up until this one that I have done and look back to where we started.
While making this video below, it made me reflect on where I started, what I have learned and where I want to go. Now I know this post would probably be best suited for the last post, but… this is when I thought of it, so this is where is shall lie. I am going to go back over the past 51 posts and show a representation of them in each step of this video.
It actually took a long time to come up with something to represent each different post, which I wasn’t expecting, but it actually forced me to rethink and be creative into to re-enact my previous posts. Some representations might be a bit confusing, so I am going to list what each post has representing it below the video. Read if you would like, disregard if not.
I actually liked going back over my posts like this, and I was a bit afraid that I would become un happy with some of my ideas, but while I think some are not as good as others, I am proud of each and every one of them. They remind me of little bits of this semester, and I appreciate that.
This course has helped me go outside the box and create new things, and I am going to try to continue once it is over… all though probably NOT about Levi’s… just continue making videos and things, because I enjoy it and even if no one likes them, I have fun making them, and years later I can look back and get a kick out of myself…
Around the first week of starting this project, I stopped by a craft store and found some patchwork type demin fabric (let’s just say it was made from all Levi’s Jeans…) in the clearance bin. I haven’t really had a use for it, but I had originally bought it thinking I could use some of the different color fabrics to make something. I have thought about a chess or checkers board a few times. But kept steering away from the idea. Well I decided that the term Review, would actually be a good time to turn to this fabric, and make a chess board.
I used to play chess all the time, my dad and I would play almost nightly, but it has been about 6 or 7 years since I have enjoyed a game, so I thought that needed to change.
Chess is an amazing game because, unlike life, you have the opportunity to sit back, and contemplate the repercussions of every optional move. You know who’s lurking around every corner, and even have the luxury of planning things many moves out. ( Although that is all based on what your opponent does, so you may have a whole schemed planned in your head, and with one simple move your opponent blows it to shit, but that’s life.) It is almost like you have a little crystal ball, and can see the near future, but just like in life, with one little shift in the frame work, the path changes.
Well this luxury does not exist in life. Even though we all have some foresight, and can weigh our options about the choices we make, we do not have the pleasure of seeing many of the obstacles in our path. Instead we are forced to sometimes turn to our past, and review the choices we have made. If we had done this, maybe this could have turned out better, or maybe I wouldn’t have gotten in trouble or maybe I could have met someone, or if I had said this than…. The whole What If thing comes into factor. It is only natural for us to review our choices, but obsessing over the what if question will not get us any further in life. Instead, learn from your mistake, embrace the consequence, enjoy the failure because it will help you grow.
If life were like a game of chess, then you would always be able to see one step ahead, and would always be able to weigh the options of what you gain and loose by moving forward. By doing so you miss out on the mystery in life, and may never stumble upon that major problem that forces you to think past what you normally do, problem solving can help improve creativity, because you are forcing yourself to think differently. This is something people should make themselves do at least once every day.
Every day make it a purpose to think, react, choose, in a different manner than is natural to you, it will help expand your perspective one life, and cause you to open your thought to new patterns and eventually expand your creativity.
Levi’s Go Fourth Campaign is all about this, it doesn’t say think about every consequence that may come from every different angle and then go fourth, it just says do it, and review the outcome later.
Ok motivational speech aside… here is a video I made… it actually turned out pretty damn boring, but I took a very long time to make it, so here it is… for whoever has to watch it to grade it… I added some funny music to it just for your entertainment, it has absolutely no relation to the video.
I tried to video tape a whole game with the plan to speed it up and be able to review my moves.. but 1) the quality is horrible, and 2) when I speed it up, it ends up cutting out part of the movie and just turns out bad. – I tried video taping two games before I realized this, and then I just took some pictures of a start of a game against myself… which is hard to do! — Here is was I was left with. But I had to post it because I put a ton of time into it! — I feel that the writing above it enough to make this post valid, the video is just an added “bonus…”
Ok So I was typing this while the video was uploading, and the video won’t upload right, so I am cutting out the filmed part, to make the file smaller, the quality was poor anyways so I am doing you a favor by not making you watch it…
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