Class for 1-26-09

Mondays class was mostly filled with presentations and discussions of each of our egg projects. we went around the circle and each person showed off what they did. Later we also discussed what everyone noticed about the round things we were supposed to look out for. At the end we were then given our next assignment which will be to come up with a list of 50 what if questions with 5 of those being responses to another persons egg project. I have one right now!

What if people weren't so scared of being sued all the time and actually let people have fun at a public park?

I guess there is a story to that question... I just arrived back from being kicked out of a public park for trespassing. We were trying to sled in the fresh snow and have a little fun but we were forced out by the parks department who had called the police, supposedly. I kinda feel sorry for younger kids these days. It seems that mostly in the last 10 years people aren't allowed to have any fun anymore. Its always protect the kids and don't let anyone do anything, they might sue you. When i was younger and it made more sense for me to want to go out and go sledding I had no problem finding a hill and staying there all day till my cloths were wet as hell and I was shivering all over. Now tonight I go to my favorite place, which is a bad ass hill, but sitting on the hill was a "trespassers will be prosecuted" sign. So we then tried a public park but no longer than 30 min of sledding and we were told we had 3 minutes to leave before the cops arrive. I am guessing all of this is because of the way people are these days. If you hurt yourself it must be someone's fault so lets sue them for all they got! I wish people would lighten up sometimes and just let people have some fun as well as if u hurt yourself then its your fault... you were the one flying down a hill on a shitty piece of molded plastic. You know the risks that there are. Only thing i have to say is i am still alive and I never seriously hurt myself. I can't say i don't have scars but those are just stories to tell later on in life.

Egg Fail!

When going into this assignment I decided I wanted to connect it to what we were told to do at the end of the first class. We were told to observe and notice all of the round objects around Us for the day. The thing about most of the items observed was that seeing one side of them you could pretty much guess what the unseen sides were going to be. For my egg i came up with an extravagant plan of dissecting the shape of the egg and piecing together an image of the full surface of the egg. My plan was to come out with something similar to this known image.

As it turns out my plans were a little over my head and even with markings on the egg, it was to bare to stitch up the images easily and in a reasonable amount of time. I did not feel like spending 50 hours on an egg. So after a few failed attempts at my plans... I cheated.

First day of Seeing Sideways.

My first day of my class "Seeing Sideways" was a very basic first day of class for the most part. The majority of the class involved introductions of ourselves and of the class. Also we were given our eggs for the egg and eye assignment. At the end of the class I was asked to bible dip into the large book and I selected the page with a definition of the term wayzgoose. In response to that we were asked to meet in the lobby and once there we were dismissed after being told to keep track of everything we come across that is circular. I came across many things the rest of the night that were circular to many to even mention. I would suggest everyone to try this at some point and notice how much there really is.