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Collaboration Inspiration

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Part 1   Joe, FedEx employee, saw a package fall off the conveyor belt. It was a safe with his name on it. He brought it home. Part 2 Joe, a black and white minded guy, finds a mysterious steering wheel in his new safe with a simple note. Part 3 Joe picked up a note which said, "Where did you hide my Red Vines you skallywag? Part 4   , only to reappear at high velocity, hitting him in the face. This time, he knew it couldn't be ignored. "Time to act, Joe." Part 5  "After getting hit in the face by the smell, Joe finally decided to clean his closet." Artist Statement: We’ve all played the game “telephone.” A simple saying gets passed from person to person, and by the end, it’s become something entirely different. This week’s project was similar to the telephone game. We started with a twenty-word ...

Music Mosaic

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Images that correspond to "I Believe in Your Victory" Correlation from images to music:      In the beginning of the song, the tempo of the music is at a slower pace. It sets the foundation of the music or like how a beginning of a story sets the foundation. The first picture is of a man holding a baseball glove. One of his first victories in life was being a great ball player. The color is black and white to symbolize past events. The lighting is the darkest in the first picture and then as the song picks up in tempo the pictures gain more light. I wanted to have the pictures gain more light as the song went to symbolize how the man has been able to receive more light as he has gained more victories. The last picture of the man holding the award has the brightest light and is the most exposed symbolizing by the end of the song he has gained more light in his life.      In each picture the man is holding an item representing his vi...

Thinking and Writing: Do You Have Gangnam Style?

Cameron Babcock TMA 112 01/12/15 Do You Have Gangnam Style?             “Will you go to church this Sunday?” asks my mission companion to Sister Sandoval. She sits quietly in her living room chair pondering the answer. Right as she is about to reply, her youngest son, who is 5 years old, storms into the room dancing and screaming, “Hey, sexy lady! Oppan Gangnam Style!” This was my first encounter to the song “Gangnam Style” by PSY. I had no idea what this little boy was doing with his hands as he was screaming the lyrics to this song. After returning from my LDS mission in Southern California, I then found out more about this emphatic song and its influence on world culture. The world’s response to the “Gangnam Style” music video is a perfect example to show the power that film has to quick consumerism by reaching a worldwide audience, topping world music charts, and sharing a part of the Korean culture with the world. ...