For my first installment of the blog of my Pinterest project I got together everyone of my recipes for my crepe project. My friend with a car couldn't take me to get the supplies this weekend so I will be picking up supplies and working on 2 crepes tomorrow. I will post tomorrow my progress with that. For now here are all the different crepes I will be making as well as their recipes. Gathering links and making a grocery list took about a half hour so far.

My plan for the Pinterest project:

Do 6 different recipes for different types of crepes, 2 a week. And host tasting parties!

First week:

Smores crepes with nutella:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/58617232624538721/
http://www.somethingswanky.com/nutella-smores-crepes/

Herb Crepes with Eggs, swiss, ham, and browned butter

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/58617232624538618/
http://www.cookingclassy.com/2013/07/herbed-crepes-with-eggs-swiss-and-ham/

Second Week:

Vanilla Bean Crepes with Peaches:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/58617232624538649/
http://www.cookingclassy.com/2013/06/vanilla-bean-crepes-with-peaches-and-cream/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20blogspot/BfaXW%20(Cooking%20Classy)

Raspberry Key Lime Crepes:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/58617232624538710/
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/raspberry-key-lime-crepes

Third Week

Boston Cream Pie Crepes:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/58617232624538620/
http://thegirlinspired.com/2014/01/dessert-crepes/

Asparagus and chicken crepes:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/21603273185341581/
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/asparagus-chicken-crepes

Letters to a Young Contrarian Chapter 14 Analysis

"Of course if the oddballs and doubters were in majority they wouldn't be oddballs and doubters. And of course, one never has to worry about there being a surplus of such people".
I thought that this quote was very interesting. Most people go throughout there lives not thinking outside of the box and questioning authority. These people are not thought of as unique or oddballs. Oddballs are the inventors, Steve Jobs would have definitely been labeled an oddball. Without these oddballs breakthroughs wouldn't happen and inventions wouldn't take place.

Chapter 15:

"I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. Its as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book".
I totally agree with this statement. I always want to travel because I believe it is important to see other culture and the way other people live to open your mind to new ideas. You become more open minded and tolerant. Technology helps this, people that do not have the means to travel can be exposed by movie about different cultures and places. Technology is making the wold smaller in that sense.

I really enjoyed the film "Free to Play". I really don't think that gaming will become as big as sports in the United States. Sports are viewed as  the American pastime. Older generations of people cherishing sports get influenced and passed on to the generations after that. Parents distill how important sports are to their kids and they will do the same to the kids after them. Video games are looked as a waste of time in this country (even though I dont necessarily agree with that), and that idea will be passed along.

My all time favorite video game was the Sims computer game. I would play it for hours at a time through out my childhood. This game was released and got popular when I was about 9 and I got hooked when I was 10. It influenced me so much that I wanted to become an architect and interior designer when I grew up. This game was widely popular and impacted culture by became available on so many different type of gaming devices and not only computers anymore.

Glitch Art

Original Images:

 Link: http://us.cdn281.fansshare.com/celebrity/amandabynes/450_amanda-bynes-resimleri-dcc-the-amanda-show-1230797578.jpg

 

 Link: http://msnixinthemix.com/wp-content/uploads/dollys-from-holly.blogspot.com_Amanda-Bynes_04-860x1024.jpg

Link: http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1353756.1369411458!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/article-bynes5-0523.jpg

Glitches:

With my glitch I wanted to show Amanda Bynes' downfall. In the first picture there are few glitches because she was just an innocent child actor. Also notice the photo is mostly gold. The second photo is a bit more glitched and a tad raunchy to show Amanda may be taking a bad turn. Also the photo is tinted blue. The third photo is completely glitched because she is sitting in court and addicted to drugs. The photo is both gold and blue to show how the two Amandas in the before picture is being incorporated in her rock bottom picture.

In response to "How a Video made Don Draper a Gay Rights Mouth Piece"...

I thought that this article was pretty interesting. I liked remixing and I like how (sand the article talks about this) you can connect with your audience about something important and them not even realize it. The audience thinks this is a funny or catchy video meanwhile they have the creator's views of gay rights in their heads. I also thought it was interesting about how Youtube always wants to take down her work. I think something should be done about that because she's right, it must get very annoying as an artist having to constantly reupload your work. Painters don't have to constantly take their work back to the gallery time and time again after it being thrown out for no good excuse, why should remix artists have to keep having to reupload their work?

Chapter 11 Analysis of Letters to a Young Contrarian:

One main thing stood out to me in this chapter. When Hitchens writes "Nowadays 'public opinion' is more smoothly and easily ventriloquised" it really got me thinking. I came to the conclusion that I agree completely with that statement. Just in class when we were writing made-up facts on the Minaret we influenced public opinion. Now with the media roaring louder than ever public opinion is being manipulated more than ever. Most of the public just follows like blind ducks to whatever opinion is being broadcasted as the most supported.

Chapter 12:

In this chapter, Hitchens talks about credentials to speak on a subject which prompted me to think a bit deeper about this. Hitchens says you don't need to be able to respond to the question "Who do you think you are?". I think you do. Why would someone want to go around giving their 2 sense about things that they don't even know about? You will sound so ignorant commenting on political affairs in Madagascar when you couldn't even point it out on a map. I believe it is best to sit back and learn something. You don't always have to act like an expert about everything.

Chapter 13:

Probably my favorite point in this book so far is one that Hitchens makes in this chapter. When he is elaborating on ideas from Noam Chomsky and states "Power...quite probably knows the truth already, and is mainly interested in suppressing or limiting or distorting it," I really thought into it. I really like this quote. It is so very true because if you think about, for example,  political figures being questioned about a questionable act they have committed and they plea they had no idea about it blah blah blah you know that they did. They just never thought it would be brought up. I like that when Hitchens writes about this he writes about how the younger generation are the ones that must learn the truth, because they have no power. Their minds are innocent and ready to learn the truth. I believe that this is the only way we could make changes, for example, in our corrupt government. When the younger generation, the ones naked from power learn the truth about things they will make things better.

Chapter 3 of Internet Art Relevant People:

Carlo Zanni-

Carl Zanni was born in Italy in 1975. He investigates lives based on internet data (data including sites such as eBay). His projects are displayed in many museums around the world.

Citation for information: http://www.zanni.org/index.html
Citation for picture: http://www.artificial.dk/articles/cz.htm




Valie Export-
Valie Export's work includes the genres of videos, digital photography, installation, body performances, films, documentaries, cinema, conceptual photography, objects, sculptures, texts, and more. She lives in Vienna and has a teaching history.   





Citation for picture-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Österreichischer_Filmpreis_2013_C_Valie_Export.jpg

Citation for information- http://www.valieexport.at/en/biografie/

Internet Art Relevant Figures:

Chapter 2:
Clover Leary-

Link for picture and research citation: https://www.uclaextension.edu/pages/InstructorBio.aspx?instid=27404

Clover was noted in the book for her media project called "Gay Gamete". She is a teacher at UCLA. She is exhibited internationally for her work in photography, video, instillation film, and new media.






Prema Murthy-

Murthy left the online performance group "Fakeshop" and made a video documentary about women working in computer hardware factories in Asia.

Link for picture and research citation:
http://www.josephinebosma.com/web/node/75

Chapter 8 Analysis:
Chapter 8 was very short but still thought provoking. I agree with Hitchens that the fact that the New York Times only prints news that is "Fit to Print" is rather "idiotic". I wonder about the news that isn't "fit" to print. This news is probably the news the people need to hear. Maybe it is too scary or uncomfortable to hear or report. But this would be the news that is most important and relevant to our lives, and its not going to be reported?

Chapter 9 Analysis:
 I didn't like this chapter at all and found myself disagreeing with the author throughout it. Hitchens put down religion and even alluded to the fact that people that practiced religion were arrogant. I don't think he has the right to do that at all. If someone wants to practice a religion, let them. I thought about some of his points in the chapter and though I can't explain my reasoning for believing in a Supreme Being, I do. And thats fine because I am allowed to do what I wish. Reading this book so far I would assume that Hitchens would support the fact that people will do what they want, however, he is being very diminishing.

Chapter 10 Analysis:
As much as I disagree with the many statements about religion of the author in chapter 9, there was something that I thought about and do agree with him in this chapter. Hitchens makes the point that some people believe that without religious beliefs they would have no moral compasses. I'd have to agree with Hitchens when he attacks that statement. Humans as a species have compassion and a natural willingness to do good in life.

I liked when the author writes, "what really matters about any individual is not what he thinks, but how he thinks." I think that this is such an accurate point. If you think up an idea but don't act upon it its like the idea never existed. Everything that has come to be (McDonalds, Apple Inc, etc) is because of HOW the creator thought and his/her willingness to make it happen.

Chapter 5 Analysis:
When the author makes reference to Jimmy Porter's statement, "[that there are] no more good, brave causes left" it got me thinking. The author talks about the "brave" and "good" causes of the 1950 and 60s era with the civil rights movement, thermonuclear statism, and the ending of war in Indochina. But it got me wondering what are the "good" and "brave" causes that we can use our first amendment rights for in this era? I came to the conclusion that Christopher Hitchens leaves out the fact that we DO in fact have issues worth speaking up and fighting for. For example, the unequal pay between sexes in the workplace even nowadays, or the fact that gay marriage isn't recognized in all 50 states. I feel as though Hitchens could have included that there are things to speak up for and being "brave" isn't a thing of the past.

I also found the part of the chapter when Hitchens talks about the "as if" lifestyle compelling. Living life "as if" something that hasn't happened in fact has happened is a pretty smart idea. This gives you the optimism to make it happen. However, you are living in a illusion which isn't very healthy or productive.

Chapter 6 Analysis:
In this chapter one thing stood out to me more than the rest. When Hitchens states, "[it] need not mean that we do not reserve the term 'absurd' for the self-evidently irrational or unjustifiable", it got me thinking. Just because something is unexplainable or even irrational does that make it "absurd"? I got to thinking about religion. Many many people believe in different religions. Isn't the thought of, for example, a higher power that watches our every move and loves us dearly (no matter the terrible things the human species does) and will decide where we spend our "afterlife" rather "absurd"? But many people believe it, I believe it. So I would have to say I disagree with Hitchens on this one, I wouldn't consider something unjustifiable absurd.

Chapter 7 Analysis:
In chapter 7, the word "counterrevolutionary" stood out to me. At first I didn't really understand what it meant so I looked it up. By definition it means someone who opposes a revolution or tries to overturn it. This was just interesting to me because I learned a new word that I haven't seen or heard before and because of all the people I can now think of as "counterrevolutionary".

Hitchens cites Orwell in saying, "very often the hardest thing to see is what is right in front of your nose", I think that this is a pretty interesting observation. What makes it even more interesting is when Hitchens supports this by saying: "[that there is] a considerable social pressure not to take note of the obvious". I agree with these statements. Everyone (teachers, bosses, etc.) are looking for the ideas that are "outside of the box", but what about the ideas that are right in front of you? We are trained to look for things that are deep in the picture but maybe sometimes we should just look at the picture as a whole and see it for what it is. I think sometimes people make life more complicated than it needs to be and sometimes its just the same task to look at what is right smack in front of you.

Linked in Public Link:
www.linkedin.com/pub/madeline-lewis/92/983/2b/

Minaret Post:

Link: http://theminaretonline.com/2013/03/27/article27237#comment-6521

With my remix I wanted to capture the USA's problem with fast food and obesity. I did this by displaying many different clips of people eating food that is bad for them. Its crazy how much fast-food people eat and the way which they eat it. My video displays just this.

I believe my video is classified under a super cut. I would assume this because it has many clips with a similar topic. These clips all flow together to make one finished project.

Remix Project Final