The Dada movement

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"...dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing" -Dada Manifesto, Tzara

I don't know how i feel about this. It contradicts itself. One can't give a label to something, saying that label names it nothing.

"...it draws no conclusion, no pride, no benefit. It has even stopped combating anything, in the realization that it's no use, that all this doesn't matter." -Dada Manifesto, Tzara

One can't say that Dada draws no conclusion, or that it doesn't combat anything. The act of giving Dada a name, and saying 'this is Dada' is drawing a conclusion, and Dada would have to combat anyone that said that is not what Dada is. It is contradictory.

I do agree with what he says about it being a state of mind, about it being a movement where philosophy doesn't matter.

I have always asked my friends something and tried to make them understand this, why was an elephant named an elephant? Is it because the phonetics of the word give us a feeling of size and weight, thus fitting the animal that is named elephant? What if a child was raised being taught that the name of "an elephant" was actually called a mouse, and vise versa. The child might have an elephant infestation, and might ride a mouse at the town zoo. To this child, these words would seem totally normal because that is what he was raised to know them to be called.

The Dada movement suggests that this is folly. That our world is only defined by these words we can place on it, and that if we can remove the prison bars of language that we have placed on our culture, that we will be able to be more creative, and that real art, born solely of the artist himself, can be made.

Okay, now I'm scaring myself...

Watched this video, i had just posted that if something could vibrate, and send out pulses, that would vibrate something else, and that something else would use the vibration to create, or convert the vibrations to electrons, then we would have wireless electricity. In this video, about halfway through, he explains how WiTricity works, and i must say, it's pretty much exactly how i thought it would :) yay me!!

Click Here for the Video

LOL - I'm a genius...just not fast enough...

MIT beat me to the punch, lol...oh well...let's just say others had the same idea and the resources and brains to actually flesh it out. I always mention wireless electricity to friends, and they look at me and laugh. But when i explained how i think it would work, their laughter turns to curiosity. Looks like MIT's working on it, according to CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/02/wireless.electricity/index.html

The Invention of the Computer

So, the Apple II was the first personal computer. Steve Jobs took much of his ideas from the Atari game system which was out before the first PC (personal computer). Also, Microsoft's Graphic User Interface, as well as Apple's, were ideas taken from an In-House computer system that was operating at Xerox, but Xerox never capitalized on it because the big wigs at corporate did not agree that a GUI (graphic user interface) was the future of the personal computer. And so Apple and Microsoft both became famous from using other people's ideas.

I think that it's hard for someone to know what the future will bring. I can't imagine being 50 or 60 yrs old right now, seeing how far we have come with technology, through gaming, war, and a technological revolution. From computers the size of houses to computers the size of my palm. It's crazy, however, there isn't much new technology coming out, bluetooth, wireless internet, mainly things are just getting smaller, but not new.

What else can we do?

Wireless electricity-convert electrons into some sort of wave that travels through the air, then the receiver uses those waves to vibrate something that creates, or converts back to electrons??

Teleportation? 3-D Projections; Holograms? Computers controlled fully by our brain? Robots controlled by our brains? Hovercraft cars?

Whatever we come out with, I hope my lifetime brings something new, not just something smaller.

My Grid Art Project

I'm not done with it yet, but this is the update post, i'm trying to decide what to put on the white square. Any suggestions?

Flip Book Animations

Dylan's had a creative use of words. He stressed the importance of words and was the only one to do this, i feel, successfully.

Ellery's was very colorful and fun....well....the drawings were done clean and lighthearted, but the content was that of destroying a tree, not so fun. It was cute.

Andrea's was the life of a twig. Her images moved smoothly because there wasn't a lot of change from slide to slide, i liked this.

Gina's puppet was superb. The ability and time it must have taken to recreate the puppet so accurately was astounding. The story was the shortest, but it was smooth and clear.

Cheryl's represented a dream world, almost as though she was Dahli, but as an animation.

Maria's was very different, looked like an old movie, using the images of the kids walking. Would have loved to had it taken to the next step and had her color the slides.

Lea's was very fun and interesting to watch the orb transform from tree twister, to tree, to boat.

Brian's was creative with the bleeding heart motif, interesting idea/take on a relationship.

Kasey's ant story was prolly my favorite, watching it collect the pieces. The story was cute too.

Mike's was like mine, having someone escape from the page, fun!

Jessica's seemed backwards, full page drawings must have taken forever, it was cool idea and story, loved it.

Cara's was weird...a storm of stoves and then it falls on her head...

...Missed Class...

So i know it's totally an excuse but i missed class this morning because i couldn't fall asleep last night. I went and saw this movie, "Paranormal Activity"...and last night i was up all night, didn't fall asleep till it was sunny out and slept till 12:30...