Blog 8( Hunt this)

By: Kristopher Rodiguez
Jarvis Emery
Ray Cahas
Thein Moe
Jose Pena

1. “I am not an elephant! I AM NOT AN ANIMAL! I AM A HUMAN BEING! I...AM...A MAN! “
2. 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.
3. “When you’re good to mama, mama’s good to you!”
4. “The name on every bodies lips is going to be ROXY” (not Roxie)
5. You can play the 1982 film on the arcade, that now 28 years later has a sequel.
6. Go into the 1:30 showing of the red balloon, and find the “rebel without a cause”
7. Watch your step…before you seat down to watch TV.
8. Hear her famous words…”fasten your seatbelt it’s going to be a bumpy night!”
9. “9-10 never sleep again”….guess they were right I haven’t slept in 26 years.
10. We looked like this before plasma, LCD, and LED took over.
11. “Set all the phasers to stun”
12. Can you find the running man on the 3rd floor.
13. Save Princess Peach Toadstool from King Koopa.
14. 1978 video game with vector graphics.
15. Where is the picture of the star who starred in It happened one night.
16. Watch Karen Allen in a scene from this popular movie franchise that started in 1981.
17. It never spoke English, but everyone could always understand is gargled sounding speech.
18. She turned around and through her hat up in the air for the LAST time in 1977.
19. Watch past presidents in the living room.
20. Model number H-24-37-E
21. Locate the great train robbery.
22. “Mirror Mirror on the wall”.
23. “Luke I am your father”
24. Your right arm will definitely get tired at this peep show.
25. Didn't like the lines or voices in these movies?, no problem change them.
26. Mitchell Vista Vision?
27. “why so serious” Chuck Taylor?
28. There’s a Snow White board game? Prove it.
29. Ah, damn you!, God damn you all to hell!
30. Prevent Dr. Robotnik from collecting the six Chaos Emeralds in an attempt to rule South Island.
31. Epileptics not allowed…Sorry
32. Take a picture of "your mother sucking cocks in hell"
33. Visit the Tyrell Buliding.
34. Find out when the Akeley Tripod made.
35. Listen to the first cartoon with sound.
36. A magazine that says they got Monroe's picture taking with a hidden camera
    

Blog 7 ( It's me not you )

I didn't learned anything about literature I didn't already know, guessed, or cared about . Not in anyway saying that's a bad thing, and I'm not say I know alot about the subject it's just always been hard for me to get excited a subject I'm not interested in. It was rather interesting to find out that there are different religious, and philosophical ways to interpret the Movie The matrix, but I'm not that "pretentious" so i could have done without that bit of knowledge. I will say the most important thing I liked, and learned is that you can have a class like this were your not interested in the subject and not find it boring. I feel the way I feel when I'm in my American film class all bored and tired and just want to shoot someone just to get out of there (that's not because of the teacher, I'm just not interested silent films or in the technical styles of how a film is made) should be like my English class, and in my English I’m actually wanting to be there, and not be late and interested in what is being said….. So good job Professor Smith

Blog 6 ( It's been 10 years)

What can I say about the 1999 four Academy Award Winner Blockbuster movie The Matrix, that has not already been said? Well for starters from what I can remember when I went to go see it the second week it was out was that it was a pretty cool movie (sci-fi action has never really been my thing) the actors where good, the choreography was great, and the special effects where somewhat the first of its kind. I say that (first of its kind) because I remember before The Matrix back in like 97-98 when swing for some strange reason was making a comeback the Gap had the swing style commercials choreographed by Toni Basil and that is really where the jump up in the air pause turn the camera around really came from, but because they where commercials people associate that special effect to the Matrix. The movie was such a worldwide phenomenon that it was nominated for a total of thirty six awards worldwide won a total of twenty eight awards four of them were Academy Awards. The special effects in that movie were so ground breaking not only did it walk away with the Academy Awards for best special effects it has sadly been spoofed by every type of movie, cartoon, and TV show known to man? Now has far as the plot I’m sure alot of people got confused such as when they saw they saw “Dark city, and Total Recall”….(the movie not the TV show) but it did a pretty good job of not being so confusing that you didn’t understand what was going on or where they were. The story it self of machines taking over has been told in other films before the Matrix such as ( Hardware, Maxium Overdrive, and of course Terminator...just to name a few) I thought the casting was really good even though actors such as Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Sandra Bullock, and Sean Connery turned down the offers. (I guess Keanu Reeves didn’t have much to lose so he said why not). This was one film were race did not play a part in the plot it worked perfectly fine with the cast that was so diverse in race, and culture. The Leader(Morpheus) was African American, The all knowing Oracle was not only African American, but in her sixties or seventies, The two people who knew the most about gadgets, software, and "cybertronics" where also African American, one half Chinese. I go back and forth with the Oracle great she is African American, but did she really have to live in such a bad looking neighborhood? My one pet peeve about the movie was the whole love interest thing. Is it really that hard to have a movie where there is no love interest? Neo wasn’t so sure he was “The One” but he still fought on in the Matrix, but after losing and getting shot and dying only when Trinity whispers to him (him in real life) the he has to be the one because the Oracle told her that she would be in love with him, and so since she loved him then he as to be “The One” Neo comes back to life and all of a sudden he is in full control of all of his powers. I thought not only was it unnecessary, but totally cliché. I was left feeling that if it hadn’t been for that Neo would have just died. Now I’m totally against slavery but when you have a life that is good and you don’t know that you in some kind of computer program why leave that? The only way I can see leaving a situation like that is if you knew that in the real world you would have to struggle and fight just has hard then there would be no point. I felt them wanting to free people from that life just to live in a world that has really no type of resource is just selfish on their part. I say just leave me plugged in until there is a world I would want to leave in it’s not like I’m going to know the difference.

Blog 5 (What was the point)

English 101: Blog Series (600 points)
Encounters (200 points)
Final research project (200 points)
All assignments are due on the due dates. Late assignments will drop 10% each day it is late.

American film: 04/06 first test (35 points)
04/15 second written assignment (25 points)
04/27 second test (25 points)
05/25 third test (35 points)
05/27 Oral film analysis (25 points)
All assignments are due on the due dates, no late papers or make-ups will be accepted. No make-up exams will be given.

I don’t remember a syllabus for my Mass Media & Society class. If I’m wrong please tell me so.

The only thing I can really think of that would be a problem for me and getting my assignments done is time. I have very little to do anything. Sunday thru Monday, if I’m not in school then I’m working. I’m at school from nine to two; I have to be at work by five. I get off at one am and wake up at six thirty to do it all over again. The only day I have off from work and school is Saturday, but by then I’m so tired it’s hard for me to get up any energy to do my laundry let alone read books and write/type papers, but I will do it, it won’t be great work but it will be passing (hopefully), and that’s really all I care about.

Blog 4 (Truman Syndrome?)

I do not feel that the Truman Syndrome is a real condition in the way it has been described in my readings (wisegeek.com, Wikipedia.org, and cnnhealth.com). Of course that might be because to the best of my knowledge I have never met a person who thinks in that way, but I feel that you do have people who think that all eyes are on them for a number of different reasons.

1. Could be that they are just looking for attention because their a bit insecure, so they my themselves look a certain way by wearing certain style or brand of clothing, do something that is really –out –there with their hair, or just carrier themselves in a certain way…. For example I work at Barnes & Noble, and we have a woman who comes in who is already tall, has bleach blonde hair, wears big dark shades(at night) and the way she walks around you would think she is some type of German super model and she is always being difficult on purpose because she waits until there is a line and then she will complain about one of the bills we gave her is to ugly and wants another one she stands there with a big small on her face looking at other customers stare at her and talking about her. There have been times where she had to be escorted out because her behavior got to erratic.

2. A person who is extremely paranoid and mentally unstable and thinks that people are watching them just because they make eye contact or a person happens to look at them while they are talking to someone else, or on their phone.

3. Another reason the one that I’m come across the most, would be a person who suffers from drug abuse. They commonly think that everyone is watching, and talking about them (nine time out of ten people are).

In all there are legit mental conditions that cause people to think that they are being watched, but when it comes down to the Truman Syndrome it’s all about attention.

Blog 3 (Reality Bites)

I don’t feel that there are really any similarities between the Truman show, The Bachelor, Survivor, the real World, and other “Reality shows”. Truman was born only for the purpose of the show. He had no choice; he didn’t even know that he was being filmed for over thirty years, and because of that it is very possible that majority of his rights, especially his right to his on privacy was extremely violated. Truman was just an average Joe man, but the people around him were actors. With shows like The Bachelor, Survivor, and the Real World, almost all the cast from those shows, are looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, whether it’s to be a Singer, actress, model, or just to be on camera. They signed off on everything and they are fully aware of the cameras, the production crew, and the consequences of their action. From what I’ve seen some people are actually comfortable with what they let millions of people see no matter how embarrassing their action may be. Although the Truman show was in some weird way tastefully done I still feel that the public who watched the Truman show where just as wrong for watching Truman than the producers for making it, because they knew that Truman had no idea that he was being filmed. It may have been fun and exciting to watch, but I’m pretty sure that they would be singing a different tune if it was them being filmed and they were completely unaware. As far as “reality shows in are world being similar to that of the fictional Truman show are shows that pull pranks on unsuspecting people like… Candid Camera, Punk'd, Girls Behaving Badly, Just For Laughs Gags, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Boiling Points, Trigger Happy TV, and Howie Do It. The people on those shows may not be aware that they are being filmed, but by the end of the prank they find out that not only are there cameras everywhere, and the people are actors, they also have to sign off on them being filmed, which means that if they don’t sign the release form then the company cannot show that segment in any public form, if the studio shows it without that persons permission then the studio can, and most likely will be sued. Another show that is slightly close to the Truman show (only because of the time it’s been on the air) would be the “Real World”. The Real World started in 1992 on MTV, about seven strangers picked to live in a house (that does not belong to any of them) that is the basic plot of the show and is not only in its twenty second season it’s already scheduled for another four years, and is the longest running Reality show in TV history. That fact that people had no problem watching The Truman show knowing that he did not know he was being filmed, and that we in today’s world love to watch the Reality Shows that will have the most negative drama, where are we going as a society?

Blog 2 (Your Reality)

:Reality Bites:
I feel that what Socrates was saying is that your reality is what you make of it. For example I’m sure that everyone has heard or has even said themselves that “rich people don’t live in the real world because they don’t know what goes on out in the streets”. My thing is if your rich and you like your life and the surrounds that you have, and the people that you associate with then you are living in the “real world” as you see it. Same goes for people who live in the streets, or who are on welfare and or dealing with baby daddy number three. That’s your world, that’s your life how you seem fit. Now if you live in a life of luxury, and you know that it’s not meant for you and you don’t change it then you are living in the life of reality , but it’s not your reality. If you live in a life of poverty and you know you can do better, you feel you should be doing something better then you too are living in a reality that is not yours. If your not going to step up to the plate and say your are not meant to be here in this life style may it be good or bad then you are right where you deserve to be which is nowhere.

Now I’ll be honest I have never read the whole book in any of it’s titles, or never really heard about it, honestly I don’t intend to read it or really care about it in any shape of form so I could be really wrong in my take on what Socrates meant, but judging from the synopsis I was giving it sounded as though they never really tried to break free. It sounded like they settled or gave up before the even began. Do they deserve to be set free…absolutely not because they just excepted what was giving to them, they where comfortable not know what else is there to life. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but you can’t get upset because your not able to be involved of the things and opportunities of others if your not willing to at the very least ask for help. You can’t expect people to help you if your not willing to help yourself.

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Are we cyborgs?

AS of 2000, I feel that at least ninety three percent of the world’s populations are cyborg’s.
This assumption as to do with the way I feel that technology is forcefully taken over the world. Not just by the usage of credit cards, but with the fact that if I call any type of company I’m going to spend at least ten minutes on the phone with an automated voice before I get to an actual human being. Going to the supermarket, or even the pharmacy there are the self checkout stations. The two most important items in the world that makes us cyborgs would be the ever growing internet and cell phone craze. I don’t think a person could rest without checking up on there myspace, facebook, or twitter account, and how many time have we all been late to work, school or something rather important all because we had to find or go back to get are cell phone. Don’t get me wrong I’m very grateful and so happy that these things are in existence, but because of them (internet and cell phones) we have gotten so lazy as a society. Instead of doing real research and taking time to look up information to find out more about a topic for school, I can just google it. You can go to sites like youtube.com and look up all kinds of fights and many other forms irresponsible behavior. For me the cell phone is the worst. It has such power or people that people forget all about their own safety. I’ve seen so many people trip, run into something, or almost get hit by a car all because there were either talking on the phone, texting on the phone, or looking for the phone. Because of the cell phone people lose their manners. It’s more important to have a conversation on your cell phone than to pay attention to a person who is ringing you up taking your money, or your credit card information at the checkout counter, it’s more important for people to be texting or checking up on their facebook status than to be paying attention in class or at work. Because of cell phones people can’t really remember any phone numbers, and because of cell phones “parents” (I use that term very loosely) haven’t got a clue about what is going on with their own children in and or out of school. Before cell phones to over everyone’s life if you wanted to give your child a message you had to call the school and you spoke with an administrator and that we be the perfect time for you do get caught up on if your child was doing good or bad. Now they just called the child directly during school, and the child actually picks up the cell phone while in class with no thought of how inappropriate they are being.