Roommate Problems

This video project was most definitely my best video.  It was very funny to not only make, but to watch.  I am very happy with the outcome of this video.  The video may be a little bit confusing because you may think that Ryan is my roommate, but the video has a bunch of clips of things that would annoy you if it was your roommate.  The editing was really well done thanks to the help of Ryan.  I did it on a Mac this time and I found out that windows movie maker is easier, but IMovie offers so much more things to do.  This video was very funny, and it had the time amount down.  It included many examples of things that would annoy another roommate and it also includes two ways of how you can solve this problem.  The weaknesses of this video might be that it is hard to follow.  Do not think that it is a story, because it is not. Enjoy!!

Where is all the Creativity?

This weekend I was continuing to read Twyla Tharp’s book “The Creative Habit,” when I found an exercise that I could really find useful in my life.  On page 205 and exercise twenty-eight, Twyla gives us an example on how we can continue to inspire ourselves to be creative every day.  I for example have had great ideas and worked long and hard over them to exhaustion, and when I try to continue the next day I find myself not interested anymore.  On the other hand I have done something where I was so interested I found myself doing it more than important things like homework.  But overall Twyla recommends that we stop before we get too carried away in one days’ worth of things.  In one of Twyla’s chapters she says that you must identify the concept that isn’t working so you can be creative.  It is really important for us to find this so we can let free and be who we really are.  I believe that we all change, and it is never for the better when it comes to creativity.  When we are young we want to make friends and be “cool.”  There is always that one kid who will make fun of you for doing something out of the norm, and forever they might be changed.  It’s bad because some of these people that might change could have possibly created something no one has ever seen, but because they were turned off of their true creativity at a young age nothing will be created at all.  Also there creativity may be gone forever.  

Campus Safari

The Fitness center is located on the second floor of the Adanti Student center.  To work out there you must pay sixty dollars which covers one semester of school.  It includes things like yoga and any other program they offer.  The hours that they are open are as followed:

Monday-Thursday           7-10

Friday                               7-8

Saturday                           9:30-4:30

Sunday                              2-7

The Fitness Center at Southern Connecticut State University is a great place to go if you are looking to get rid of that freshman 15, or just trying to stay in shape.

The Creative Habit

Twyla Tharp did not grab my interests in her first chapter of her book.  She talks about her interests that are completely different than mine.  She creates dances for ballet recitals and although she has created some famous performances, it is not what I am into.  I was glad near the end of that first chapter when she said the entire book would not be about ballets.  That was a positive for me, and it kept me still reading.  The second chapter she talks about rituals and how they keep us going on in life.  Twyla has a ritual that she gets up incredibly early like 5:30 or maybe even five, and she catches a taxi to the gym where she has gone for the last 14 years with the same personal trainer.  I can relate to the rituals talk with that I have maybe one ritual that I can think of and that is taking a shower.  Taking a shower right when I get up in the morning wakes me up and I am ready to start the day.  In the last chapter she talks about creative DNA and how it is our personality.  Overall the book is okay and I will continue to read.  Even though it is my homework to read.   Twyla does repeat her points a little too much, or she has too many examples which may turn a reader off.  I did skip over some pages because they repeated too much of the same things.

Creativity

My video did not come out as good as I wanted it.  Unfortunately time management came into play while doing my video.  There was a storm last week and I did not get anything done while home.  This week I rushed to get it all done.  Its not that the video is bad though, I just believe it could get boring to watch after a while.  There are a lot of pictures in my video.  I was trying to put a youtube video into my movie, but I could not figure out how to convert a video from youtube into my movie.  Like I said pictures take up most of my video.  They are good quality pictures that I got from different websites.  The music in the very begging is “Can I kick it” while the main theme song is “My oh My” by newer rap artist Mackelmore.  The song by Mackelmore flows with the theme because he raps about his favorite Major League Baseball team the Seattle Mariners, which Seattle is where he is from.  The movie gives a list of all the sports teams that you can join.  If you are awarded scholarship money or you are asked to play on the team you are playing D II sports.  If you want to have fun with your friends you can join the club, or intramural teams.  I hope I learn from this video in that I have better time management with my next movie.