Thursday, July 19, 2007

Creative Webbing


Today, while walking through Walmart in Florida City, in Florida, I found a pair of shorts. Are you still reading this? You are easily entertained. Other than that after talking with my sister about needing to come up with a twist to the already existing web media, which is what she recommended I do, I came up with the idea of doing interactive creative adventures.

First, I would need an audience, so to build an audience I would do things like Blog, because this interactive creative adventure is going to take place over the web. My sister warned me about using the word Blog, so I will call it Creative Webbing because it isn’t about writing you innermost secrets, but it is about catching flies.

It is like saying, hey come here! Help me do with; share your time with me. Why…? Why would I want to create an interactive adventure? I want to show the world just how creative, strong, and independent thinking a person with a mental disability can be. I would not be doing it just for show though. I will put muscles behind my Webcasting. I use a variety of writing techniques.

It is true that I am in Art school and am not an English major like two of my siblings, so will I add illustrates as I feel they are needed, and if I feel they are proper I will draw makeshift comic books.

This is how it will work. I will start out with a story, short and simple, and ask people comment. I will read the comments and be inspired by them. I will do this until the very last part during which I will pull one Tarot card, and base the ending around it.

The question is, how does a person comments?

When there are on Comments I will use Tarot cards for my inspiration. Hopefully I will not have to do this for long.

Swam, Swam and Sing


Whereas before I had put my feet into the ocean this time I swam in it. I felt the flow of the water around me, as it crashed into me, and put silt into my mouth. It had been a long time since I had been in water with my sister, and another sister with me. I remember when I was young during the summer we would all go to swim at Eagle Lake. One of my brothers used to throw me up into the air. It was so much fun. I have no fancy or funny way to look at this. It simply was.

Perhaps, if I cannot put a spin on this memory I will never make it as a Blogger. It’s like I’m talking to air.

The last few days


My Mom always has to have sound around her when she falls asleep; it keeps her thoughts from wondering and keeping her up. It is annoying to share a room with her because the TV always has to be at night. I have to be up at three tomorrow to get to an early morning flight. I was going to type a lot, but my energy is disappearing, so good night, or by the time this is posted good morning.

This is the next day.

The flight went well. I slept through the whole thing. So far I have had Jamba Juice for the first time (I’ve never heard of it before but my sister says it is going to be a big chain like Starbucks). Right now one sister is sleeping (I thought I said I would never say any of my sister names…I guess I will stick to it, My another sister has just started a nap, and another is seating around thinking while almost everyone naps.

So far I have been to the beach and put my feet in an ocean for the first time. Somehow I could sense the vastness of it all. I almost said the gravity of it all, which would have been from Wolf’s Rain, a wonderful anime that I have seen a very little bit of.

My Mother thinks that doing a Blog for my Senior Project would be washed up and overdone. Its just that there are so many Blogs out there, but imagine this. There are three Blogs that seem unrelated, no links to each other or anything. The viewer is told this in the about page and asked to guess what other two Blogs belong to the same person.

Sound like an idea? I still have over a month to figure out how to present what I am doing.

As you have noticed I do not talk about being Bipolar or my Tarot cards that much, now that I have gotten started. I am flying out into Alaska (I wish) without a map, and without a router. I am counting all my pinecones before they are smashed to pieces and put over a salad, in the book, Over the Tuscan Sun, there was something about some sort of pinecone being used as food.

We have big plans for our trap to Florida, but so far our hotel that said it had Internet access, does not have any at all. That is right not a single bar. I am unable to do my Tarot readings, I hope my patrons will understand.

We are going to the Everglades, Key West, the Dolphin Research Center, Swap Shop, and so forth.

OK, I went to McD. Where it said Wi-Fi, and you have to pay to access the Internet, I even bought something first too because I was going to be using there Internet. I always capitalize Internet because I always type in Microsoft Word, and they decide that Internet must be capitalized and I cannot stand having too many green or red lines under my words. (If you use Word you know what I mean.)

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Another Blog! Ben and Jerry's, Senior Project

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I used to live at a place where there were many Willowtrees. It was only a 20-minute walk into school each day. Now ! live at place by a park with a river running by it, and it is only a ten-minute walk into school. I like my new apartment much better.

There is so much I could tell you about my life, about how foolishly I mistreated my body by only eating pasta for every meal for a year, or for using my extra meal credits, that would have gone to waste on Ben and Jerry’s every week. I didn’t exercise except for walking everywhere and I round and about deserved the weight that I gained.

Sure, it might have been gained due to depression, but it had been so long sense I had been on a scale that who knows.

I could tell you about deeper stuff, and I am now making available another one of my Blogs that has few posts, but long posts called Dreaming of Men that you might find interesting, and because my family might read it, I have taken down some posts, but it is still interesting. Go ahead take a look!

Perhaps for my Senior project, if I do the Blog one I will create several Blog identities, and it would be about typecasting. What do you think? I could do one comic blog about Dreaming and Men, and another Blog about discovering Tarot, and another about being myself as a person living with a mental illness.

Three Blogs, one person, what do you think?

Space, and cells


The ocean rippled like a piddle hit by a rock. The splash was so great that the creatures of the water were washed up miles beyond the shore. It is too sad to think of the earthquakes, other disasters that happened on land, it is safe to say that life had to start all over again.

What would the world look like this time, did the earth have the ability to hold life and flourish once again or was it going to be an empty shell.

Would all the life in the world escape into space through the hole left by the rock. Space the great nothingness of being. Life escaping to from balls of energy, which attract matter to form other big rocks.

You see space and everything in it is all a part of a great big cell that divides over and over again. Each division is like the big bang of life.

We as people are a natural part of this cell; I don’t know exactly what part. If we find a way to exit our cell's natural death, and move to a new cell we can became one of two things: a cancer or a viruses. Which we become depends on the technology we invent.

It is much better to become a viruses then a cancer, because one only impacts one body whereas the other can expand to many, and even become beneficial to an organism.

Do not be upset that we will be hurting another beings life to live, but look at it from a certain kind of ethical point of view, benefiting only one life, verses allow zillions of human lives (much more than zillions) to live and be happy.

Right now, we impact the tiniest part of a cell, but we are growing. It is only a matter of time before we take the next giant leap for man/woman kind, and each step after that will increase our standard of life tenfold. I heard once that it would take three hundred slaves in ancient times to have the same standard of life we have to day.

So do you think we will ever make it to the viruses stage?

Yesterday's post


After experimenting with some HTML and CSS I decided to give in and decided to figure out how to make a pre-made template work. I haven’t been able to post much today because I am going to Florida to see my sister on Wednesday. I am taking my cards on the road.

There is a Fly flying around my room and it isn’t nearly as cute as that quiet little fruit fly.

I am at my parent’s house for the summer, lame I know, and they turn off the internet at midnight, so I will be posting this tomorrow. Sigh.

I’ve been thinking of Europe at lot more lately, how much I walked, how deadly some of the trails I walked on were, (I could have slipped and fallen down a cliff into the Sea) how expensive everything was, how amazing it was to have trains that went so many places so fast, and how wonderful it was to have so much culture around everywhere.

I will keep this a short post, and only one for the day, how disappointing, bye.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Ideas for Senior Project


I am very good at starting a story and not that good at developing one. I guess I have never really tried to do more then a start, for the last post I had more, but than the program froze and I lost valuable information.

In order to write a book you need to get a feel by reading so many books. I think that I would do much better as a comic writer, because I am a highly visual person. I, however, never took that comic course I had planed on taking. Sigh. Some people do online Comics; there was a Senior in this last school year that made an online comic. It was beautiful.

As for me and my website, well… I’m thinking of greener pastures again. I am picturing a Blog/Art/Information on Mental Illness site. Where I fight the stigma against mental illness by being seen as a person and not just a person, but also one that can go to school and do artwork. On this website there would be audio interviews for anyone I can find who is mentally ill/wants to tell a story/is willing to go to the Dude (a building on our campus) with me.

I chose Blogging as a media because it can excess the masses. I have to be boring you by now. As for the Tarot part of this website, I think I would drop that and make it a whole separate idea.

Ideas as of Today

1) Master plan of website to combat the stigma of mental illness and to provide information on the many forms of mental illness. Use self, and artwork.
2) Develop my inter energy so I can center my powers and be a better Tarot card reader. To study each card one at a time, and do artwork based on each one, than to pick out the elements that are most essential in the piece of artwork, and use that as the symbol for the card. Lay out spreads and do artwork mixing the symbols together in the way that in indicated by the spread.
3) Forget all this serious stuff and Blog! Discover and rediscover the meaning of the word Blog. The goal is to keep reader happy without resorting to talking about celebrates all the time. What is in a Blog? A Blog is the very essence of art. How? I have two semesters to show you how. This Blog would include artwork, don’t worry. This Blog will make you smile, and it might fit in a little bit the other numbers because these are interesting things.