Thursday, March 25, 2010
Blog 7 My experience in class...
Well my experience in this class hasn't changed the way I think but more importantly how I view things about my life and such. For example, we went to a museum that had stuff that I have never seen before in my life and I could never have done any of this without finding out with other people with me. The people I have met in this college are really the kind of people I like to hang out with. The teachers have told me and taught me things that I think are very interesting to think about historically and philosophically and I think maybe people have changed the way that I think in some things. When we as human beings help each other find ourselves I believe that it helps us get to where we all want to be which is to free ourselves and our minds.
Museum Trip
“I am not an elephant! I AM NOT AN ANIMAL! I AM A HUMAN BEING! I...AM...A MAN! “
Not only a popular kids character in the united states, characters, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but a well known hair style amongst African Americans in the late 80’s to early 90’s.
“When you’re good to mama, mama’s good to you!”
“The name on every bodies lips is going to be ROXY” (not Roxie)
You can play the 1982 film on the arcade, that now 28 years later has a sequel.
Go into the 1:30 showing of the red balloon, and find the “rebel without a cause”
Watch your step…before you seat down to watch TV.
Hear her famous words…”fasten your seatbelt it’s going to be a bumpy night!”
“9-10 never sleep again”….guess they were right I haven’t slept in 26 years.
We looked like this before plasma, LCD, and LED took over.
“Set all the phasers to stun”
Can you find the running man on the 3rd floor.
Save Princess Peach Toadstool from King Koopa.
1978 video game with vector graphics.
Where is the picture of the star who starred in It happened one night.
Watch Karen Allen in a scene from this popular movie franchise that started in 1981.
It never spoke English, but everyone could always understand is gargled sounding speech.
She turned around and through her hat up in the air for the LAST time in 1977.
Watch past presidents in the living room.
Model number H-24-37-E
Locate the great train robbery.
“Mirror Mirror on the wall”.
“Luke I am your father”
Your right arm will definitely get tired at this peep show.
Didn't like the lines or voices in these movies?, no problem change them.
Mitchell Vista Vision?
“why so serious” Chuck Taylor?
There’s a Snow White board game? Prove it.
Ah, damn you!, God damn you all to hell!
Prevent Dr. Robotnic from collecting the six Chaos Emeralds inn an attempt to rule South Island.
Epileptics not allowed…Sorry
Not only a popular kids character in the united states, characters, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but a well known hair style amongst African Americans in the late 80’s to early 90’s.
“When you’re good to mama, mama’s good to you!”
“The name on every bodies lips is going to be ROXY” (not Roxie)
You can play the 1982 film on the arcade, that now 28 years later has a sequel.
Go into the 1:30 showing of the red balloon, and find the “rebel without a cause”
Watch your step…before you seat down to watch TV.
Hear her famous words…”fasten your seatbelt it’s going to be a bumpy night!”
“9-10 never sleep again”….guess they were right I haven’t slept in 26 years.
We looked like this before plasma, LCD, and LED took over.
“Set all the phasers to stun”
Can you find the running man on the 3rd floor.
Save Princess Peach Toadstool from King Koopa.
1978 video game with vector graphics.
Where is the picture of the star who starred in It happened one night.
Watch Karen Allen in a scene from this popular movie franchise that started in 1981.
It never spoke English, but everyone could always understand is gargled sounding speech.
She turned around and through her hat up in the air for the LAST time in 1977.
Watch past presidents in the living room.
Model number H-24-37-E
Locate the great train robbery.
“Mirror Mirror on the wall”.
“Luke I am your father”
Your right arm will definitely get tired at this peep show.
Didn't like the lines or voices in these movies?, no problem change them.
Mitchell Vista Vision?
“why so serious” Chuck Taylor?
There’s a Snow White board game? Prove it.
Ah, damn you!, God damn you all to hell!
Prevent Dr. Robotnic from collecting the six Chaos Emeralds inn an attempt to rule South Island.
Epileptics not allowed…Sorry
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Blue or Red?
I would choose to take the red pill, because of the fact that if I was told that the world I had been living in for all of my life was just as I expected it to be a relly big fake lie then I would not choose to live in a world where I am part of a system that control's me as a person. Human's weren't ment to be controled by anyone we have jsut as much right to live here as any other organisim on this earth does and I would think it's unfair that a computer system can decide our fate in a micro second just because they wanted to. I'm not saying that our actions were any better (if this were the secnario were true) because it was us who struck first blood when we decided to not let them be recognized as equal's.
Equality I think is the main focus here in this story for if the human's welcomed there creations like civilized people would and appreciate the art of living with such an advanced species of beings such as the cyborg's, then we wouldn't have the war that is brewing with the human's and the machine's. We take for granted a great deal of this earth for us to claim we are superior to any other race on this earth, and I believe that this one factor will be the down fall of us all as a race and the black stain on our culture in the years to come because whether we want to admit it openly or not we are a very greedy race indeed. We take advantage of everyone and everything just to make sure we as a person have a peace of mind at the end of the day, and it sickens me to know that we can't even change for the simple fact that we might be able to save the planet as well as ourselves.
Equality I think is the main focus here in this story for if the human's welcomed there creations like civilized people would and appreciate the art of living with such an advanced species of beings such as the cyborg's, then we wouldn't have the war that is brewing with the human's and the machine's. We take for granted a great deal of this earth for us to claim we are superior to any other race on this earth, and I believe that this one factor will be the down fall of us all as a race and the black stain on our culture in the years to come because whether we want to admit it openly or not we are a very greedy race indeed. We take advantage of everyone and everything just to make sure we as a person have a peace of mind at the end of the day, and it sickens me to know that we can't even change for the simple fact that we might be able to save the planet as well as ourselves.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
My life in LaGuardia
Well it looks like I will be having so much to do when I’m here. A lot is expected of me from my teachers. For example we have a research blog every single week from Louie, a movie we must watch for American Film and we must do a blog for our English professor. Basically I got to get my head together if I want to pass and get myself out of this school, and that means no matter what just do what I have to do to get the work done. Most of it is on the computer anyways so I should be able to do this without any sweat. I don’t have a plan to get stuff done I just do it and get it done. People have told me that isn’t how you should get stuff done because it might fry me out. Well I might be fried but at least I am getting to do what I need to do for me. A while ago people told me I should only worry about me, and I didn’t listen but this time I will listen because it worked last semester pretty well, so something must be working. When I was in this school a while ago, I used to be the guy they needed to get stuff done for them. I was the one they needed for all those projects they needed. I can’t be that person again. Not here. It won’t work here for me at La Guardia.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Truman Syndrome
Truman Syndrome is a form of psychological delusion in which the patient believes that he or she is trapped inside in a reality television show, or that people are monitoring his or her every move. The name for this syndrome is a reference to The Truman Show, a 1998 film which revolved around a character who was living his entire life on camera without being aware of it. To those of sound mind, Truman Syndrome might sound a bit ludicrous, but not dangerous, although this is not, in fact, the case: this condition can actually be very dangerous for the people who suffer from it.
The above is the definition of the Truman Syndrome. I found the information on www.wisegeek.com and I believe it is a trust worthy site only bearing to the fact that it gives such a great analysis of what the movie was about and how people have taken into effect of how we think we’re being watched by the government or the media both in my opinion is true.
I think people feel they’re on T.V. because there is a constant state of security when it comes to a powerful country as ours with the military present almost all over the place even in private sections of Manhattan, so even I a New Yorker I feel like I can’t even turn my head in this town anymore with the fear of being followed or watched all over by people. Maybe not to the extreme that has been presented by the Truman show but it was enough to open my eyes to certain truth’s in my society and the one we are living in right now.
The above is the definition of the Truman Syndrome. I found the information on www.wisegeek.com and I believe it is a trust worthy site only bearing to the fact that it gives such a great analysis of what the movie was about and how people have taken into effect of how we think we’re being watched by the government or the media both in my opinion is true.
I think people feel they’re on T.V. because there is a constant state of security when it comes to a powerful country as ours with the military present almost all over the place even in private sections of Manhattan, so even I a New Yorker I feel like I can’t even turn my head in this town anymore with the fear of being followed or watched all over by people. Maybe not to the extreme that has been presented by the Truman show but it was enough to open my eyes to certain truth’s in my society and the one we are living in right now.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Truman Show
Blog 3
The Truman show was a real eye opener for a lot of people including myself. When I first heard of this movie my friend Jose said it was a great movie. What I didn’t expaect was that he wasn’t bull shitting. This was a great movie that I enjoyed because this movie has a lot to do with the matrix in a way. This director took a little kid from an adoption agency and put him on an island and made him live there with out him knowing that everything on this island was fake for him to believe in this world. This has a lot to do with how Neo percieved his world until Morpheous took him in told him the truth. So my question as I am always filled with whenever I see a great movie is this: Why is it that we human’s except the “truth” right in front of us from the begining of our birth right up til we die? Why is it that when we look at the society around us we see it as a safe haven of some sort like we’re free from the powers that be?
The Truman show was a real eye opener for a lot of people including myself. When I first heard of this movie my friend Jose said it was a great movie. What I didn’t expaect was that he wasn’t bull shitting. This was a great movie that I enjoyed because this movie has a lot to do with the matrix in a way. This director took a little kid from an adoption agency and put him on an island and made him live there with out him knowing that everything on this island was fake for him to believe in this world. This has a lot to do with how Neo percieved his world until Morpheous took him in told him the truth. So my question as I am always filled with whenever I see a great movie is this: Why is it that we human’s except the “truth” right in front of us from the begining of our birth right up til we die? Why is it that when we look at the society around us we see it as a safe haven of some sort like we’re free from the powers that be?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Blog 2(Understanding "The Cave")
This blog will focus mainly on the “Allegory of the Cave”. What is being described in this passage is basically the whole of the human race blinded by the things we see as truth or “the real”. What we define as real are things that we feel, taste, smell, things our brains interpret as electrical signals that we define as real. When we feel a chair or touch a woman or like in the story see shadows on the walls and make a reality of it, we define that in our society as “real” things that happen in “real” life.
Now Socrates brought up an interesting theory: What happens when someone is brought out of that cave to the sunny plains of the world? How would he react? Would he define this new reality of his “real” or not? What happens when he actually gets used to this “new world” he was left in? Would he depend on the other world’s views to guide him? Would his eyes be blinded by the radiant light of the sun, or would his eyes adjust in time?
The reasons why he asked these questions are simple: if you live your life in a cave with other people and all you see all day are shadows on the walls made by people who walk across the bridge lit by fire then your reality all your life will be those shadows. Now others take you out of that cave and you discover a new reality that is far different than the one you knew from below. Now the question is how would you react to such a new reality? Could you tell the difference between what you thought is “real” and what you know is “real”?
Now Socrates brought up an interesting theory: What happens when someone is brought out of that cave to the sunny plains of the world? How would he react? Would he define this new reality of his “real” or not? What happens when he actually gets used to this “new world” he was left in? Would he depend on the other world’s views to guide him? Would his eyes be blinded by the radiant light of the sun, or would his eyes adjust in time?
The reasons why he asked these questions are simple: if you live your life in a cave with other people and all you see all day are shadows on the walls made by people who walk across the bridge lit by fire then your reality all your life will be those shadows. Now others take you out of that cave and you discover a new reality that is far different than the one you knew from below. Now the question is how would you react to such a new reality? Could you tell the difference between what you thought is “real” and what you know is “real”?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jack In
Kristopher Rodriguez
Blog 1
Well my whole idea about how are we so linked into the matrix is that when we depend on technology so much in a way that we live with electronics and constantly becoming more advanced with this new software we forget how we are human. We live in a world where we are surrounded by nothing but computer screens computers in offices computers outside on walls hell even on bill boards that people used to work on painting an advertisement that has been outdated by this 57 foot television screen. I see it all the time in Times Square all the time and I mean that is the motherland of LCD screens, I mean literally 47 television screens, and that is only one block for crying out loud I mean how many T.V.’s does this city need to let you know that Sephora just came out with a new perfume?
Seriously toys r us is the one where most people breathe electricity more than oxygen. I should know I spent half my high school career there playing video games. I mean we see enough of this on T.V. mostly we sit there and watch all this stuff and we want to get it and then because we saw it on T.V. we think it’s going to be just like the picture. In the end they will let us down like always and rip us off in the end. I saw it all the time when I was kid whenever I saw this new toy that I had to have I begged my mom to get it for me but in the end I got so bored of it I threw it away the moment it was clean up day. I expected it to be my every need in my room whenever I played but it was just a stupid electronic just like everything else it was never enough for me.
I think a lot of the time people aren’t satisfied with electronics is because they know that in the end there is always a new model that most people are going to want in the future. When we see something and we think we want it we need it I think do we really need all of this? Even my own ipod I look at it sometimes like do I really want all of this music in this one little device everywhere I go? This thing used to get me into more trouble than it’s worth at high school. I used to get sent down to the dean’s office and never get to hear one song at the end of the day because I was so angry that I couldn’t listen to it now. I wasn’t a really clear thinker back then, but still I was a kid like everyone else. Maybe that isn’t an excuse I don’t know. All I know is that this little thing has taken up my life in so many ways. I buy cards for it I buy cases I buy upgrades I live on the computer so much that I’m getting sick of looking up new music for my playlist. It just goes to show me that this world we’re living in is getting more plugged in everyday and I am sick of it.
Everyone saw the matrix. I get that. So why hasn’t anyone seen what is happening to our world? Am I just living in a dream? Or is this the reality that I am faced with to live in?
Blog 1
Well my whole idea about how are we so linked into the matrix is that when we depend on technology so much in a way that we live with electronics and constantly becoming more advanced with this new software we forget how we are human. We live in a world where we are surrounded by nothing but computer screens computers in offices computers outside on walls hell even on bill boards that people used to work on painting an advertisement that has been outdated by this 57 foot television screen. I see it all the time in Times Square all the time and I mean that is the motherland of LCD screens, I mean literally 47 television screens, and that is only one block for crying out loud I mean how many T.V.’s does this city need to let you know that Sephora just came out with a new perfume?
Seriously toys r us is the one where most people breathe electricity more than oxygen. I should know I spent half my high school career there playing video games. I mean we see enough of this on T.V. mostly we sit there and watch all this stuff and we want to get it and then because we saw it on T.V. we think it’s going to be just like the picture. In the end they will let us down like always and rip us off in the end. I saw it all the time when I was kid whenever I saw this new toy that I had to have I begged my mom to get it for me but in the end I got so bored of it I threw it away the moment it was clean up day. I expected it to be my every need in my room whenever I played but it was just a stupid electronic just like everything else it was never enough for me.
I think a lot of the time people aren’t satisfied with electronics is because they know that in the end there is always a new model that most people are going to want in the future. When we see something and we think we want it we need it I think do we really need all of this? Even my own ipod I look at it sometimes like do I really want all of this music in this one little device everywhere I go? This thing used to get me into more trouble than it’s worth at high school. I used to get sent down to the dean’s office and never get to hear one song at the end of the day because I was so angry that I couldn’t listen to it now. I wasn’t a really clear thinker back then, but still I was a kid like everyone else. Maybe that isn’t an excuse I don’t know. All I know is that this little thing has taken up my life in so many ways. I buy cards for it I buy cases I buy upgrades I live on the computer so much that I’m getting sick of looking up new music for my playlist. It just goes to show me that this world we’re living in is getting more plugged in everyday and I am sick of it.
Everyone saw the matrix. I get that. So why hasn’t anyone seen what is happening to our world? Am I just living in a dream? Or is this the reality that I am faced with to live in?
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