As I watched the TED talk of Lucy Mcrae and her combining technology with the human body, my first thought was she's trying to turn herself into a robot or cyborg. Watching the video I saw more of an art than a human transforming into a robot. Her exploration of technology became a beautiful art, and I found it quite fascinating. I really liked the photo of her in the safety pens and tack needles. It's not something that I would do to myself because I'm not into doing such things, but it was still fascinating. I wouldn't exactly know how to go about merging a new media science project with my body. It would depend on what that project is. If I were trying to create a 3D world and immerse myself into that world wearing virtual clothing from that world, then yeah I can do that; it's called cosplay. What would be really cool is if you had to put on some 3D glasses to see the effects of birds or butterflies flying around the costume. That would be interesting.
Looking at the "what ifs..." of my classmates, I found a lot of similarities to my "what ifs..." I found the top most common what if of many of us to be burning the book we did not like and turning the ashes of the book into something or using the ashes as fertilizer. I also found a lot of picking and choosing selections from the book to turn into something such as a story or a phrase, and painting sections of the book was popular too. I've been trying to decide for the longest which idea of mine I want to go with, and so far I'm down to two ideas, which is painting parts of the book or selecting a few story problems and turning them into a full story. Some of what stood out to me from two of the three "what ifs..." posts from my classmate's was that they did want to burn the book and use the ashes to make something positive such as jewelry or fertilizer. It put me in the mind of a negative being turned into new life, which I found interesting. The "what ifs..." post that stood out the most to me of all three was about self-confidence. I have been in that situation before, and am still trying to fight my way out of it. I could relate to mostly everything that was in that post because I'm still working on myself to get out of that darkened area of life. I do my best to think positive about myself, and it works so much better when you hear positive things said to you about you from other people. Surrounding yourself with positive people who are willing to do anything in their power to remind you of how awesome you are and what you need to do to achieve your goals is the best thing in the world because they know how to push you to success. Never forget the naysayers either because they help you too. The naysayers are one of many challenges that you will face throughout life. They're there to teach you how strong of a person you really are, and keep you on your toes so you don't stray from the strength within you. You don't have to be physically strong because you're spiritually strong. The hardest thing we do to ourselves is doubt ourselves, and let the naysayers hurtful words and actions get under our skin. It's hard to stop doubting and easy to be pushed around when we doubt ourselves, but once we remind ourselves that we're awesome, nothing from those who hurt us can stop us from being awesome. I hope the person who posted about having an issue with their self-confidence read this, because you're awesome, and never forget it. I think the reason we were to read each other's "what ifs..." was to see how much our ideas relate to one another, and to help us with our own ideas and refurbish our ideas into better ones, kind of like getting help from a teacher, but your getting assistance from a fellow student.
I am going to paint the front cover and see what takes off from there. What I expect this project to do for me is to help me be more creative and use up some of the paints I have lying around the house so I can get more paint and other art supplies to draw and make more paintings.
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