tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91259054518262534252024-03-12T15:56:13.330-07:00The Ramblings of a Mad Something or OtherDex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-7633426243969381212012-04-30T08:04:00.000-07:002012-04-30T08:04:01.848-07:00Nobody must know my secret...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Given that one of my finals was so Star Wars centered, this was what ended up in my head when I finally put some thought into what I'd present. I giggled a little at the idea of this actually being the case for this individual.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-79429826278201507072012-04-30T07:45:00.001-07:002012-04-30T07:45:11.962-07:00Class Afterthoughts 4/23The trash projects certainly a interesting take on things. For me it definitely redefined what I consider trash, as when I hear the word trash, I usually picture the stuff that was brought in with a slimy coating of soda dribbles or animal fat. I'm reminded of when I threw a Capri Sun in the wrong dumpster at school once, the one for cardboard stuff, and how not-unpleasant it was, I mean, it was just a heap of cardboard, yet still trash by technicality I suppose. Turns out when I chucked the Capri Sun in, it didn't splatter everywhere, the corner of the pouch ended up getting hooked on a rouge staple, it was pretty neat.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-20161751100222919542012-04-16T07:20:00.000-07:002012-04-16T07:20:59.137-07:00Fear and it's various facesOf all the presentations, Sarah's (At least I think it that was her name. A whole semester and you hardly know a person's name.) was probably the most unsettling to me. Spontaneously waking up deaf, or loss of any other sense, rather than having an accident or some time-bomb of a genetic train wreck to set it off is a rather terrifying idea.<br />
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Much like pretty much everyone else, sight and sound at the very least I take for granted. I play video games, a lot, and audio is just as important as the video and having one of those halves just yanked away with little to no reasoning seems unfair and would most likely throw me into untold amounts of insanity and depression.<br />
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I chose a more tame fear, something I had control over rather than something like this for pretty much that reason. The inevitability of such a situation and that it can't change course once it's set fills me with a genuine lead-stomach dread. The same kind of dread that I'd have for wondering how my family will keep together after my mother's gone. I don't like to entertain the thoughts, even though I know it could happen as soon as anything else.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-937024117353615922012-04-16T07:11:00.000-07:002012-04-16T07:11:51.576-07:00Fear and it's various science-y bits.DA OBSERVATIONS<br />
When I was relaying the story to the class, I noted some looks of passive interest, possibly recognition, and maybe a bit of unease when I showed the still of the video in question. As was rather expected at that point, laughs were certainly had by the class when I brought up the unexpected fear reaction from my door being thrown open, which was obviously the stronger reaction from everyone else. Admittedly by the time that day rolled around, even <i>I</i> thought it was pretty hilarious.<br />
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COMPARISON TO HYPOTHESIS<br />
Expected class reactions were expected. On my end, having actually read the story behind the image, the significance was... not diminished, but perhaps re-ordered. Having a reason for the image, as a show-and-tell piece to a more eerie story rather than a random video with gibberish audio and a menacing thumbnail. As I watched the video, I thought about the characters in the story rather than the image itself and by doing that the image was less intimidating.<br />
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WHAT I COULD DO DIFFERENT<br />
At this point, my only regret was that I didn't record the whole thing. Since I'd gotten over it by the time, I could've easily shared it in class. Perhaps next time, I'll set up a similar scenario with a quickie horror game SCP-87, record all the happenings and read out loud associated materials.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-54399709098591393772012-03-26T07:05:00.000-07:002012-03-26T07:05:58.974-07:00Fear and it's various facetsEXAMINATION STAGE<br />
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Fear is certainly a large grey area in the emotional spectrum. From what I've experienced, it's that lump of self-doubt in your stomach when being unable to talk to or convey emotions to that special someone, it's that jolt of adrenaline and sinking feeling you get when know what it means when a storm gets quite and you have to pop your ears <i>twice, </i>it's that feeling of paranoia and dismay at the inability to have nice things you watch <i>Final Destination. </i>It's also that weird thing where you read really intense creepypastas that you enjoy when you read them, but start fearing the dark and monsters again when you put it down and try to sleep, swearing never to do that under the cover of darkness again.<br />
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I was rather fascinated when I discovered creepypastas, how they're so obviously fake, but so masterfully penned that you get invested in the story and get instilled with a general sense of unease, which I find interesting considering I was terrified of such things less than a decade ago.<br />
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One lovely side-note of my past and childhood was that I was plagued by a creature in my nightmares, I have yet to find out what he might be or what he represented, but it was a formless, shadowy, human-sized figure. It has no discernible features except for two blazing red eyes, while I can't describe them as more than two points of red light, not unlike that thing outside the window in the original <i>Amityville Horror, </i>but when you look at it you're overcome with dread and paralyzed with fear.<br />
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Interestingly enough, a lot of 'lost episode' or 'hidden game feature' creepypasta's feature fanart including a similar setup, darkened monochrome scenes with pitted eyes that glow as if with blood-tainted hellfire. For a while, this was very unnerving for me, going to read/listen to the Lavender Town Missing Frequencies story when off in the 'recommended for you' section I see this staring back at me:<br />
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After a while, I'd gotten back into creepypastas and found the wiki dedicated to gathering them in one place and finally sat down to fully read more famous ones like "Ben Drowned (Majora's Mask)" and "Lost Silver (Pokemon)." Eventually I'd made my way into the "Lost/Missing Episodes" section and saw this bugger again. I'd decided to man up and read the story behind the image, which honestly didn't really have anything to do with the image at all, and unsettling in other ways, but it seemed to take the edge off the image itself.<br />
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EXPERIMENT STAGE<br />
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I plan to play around with the various pastas that deal with this black-image-red-eyes scheme seeing <i>what</i> about it makes it so unnerving to me.<br />
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HYPOTHESIS STAGE<br />
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Depending on how and who is in the class, I imagine something between silent understanding, to attempted dream interpretation, to flat out laughter if the experiment goes awry.<br />
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EXPERIMENT STAGE<br />
I'm going to present that backstory as well as introduce a few creepypasta images/idea to educate the class to make sure everyone's on the same page. What I'll then be telling about is how the experiment went.<br />
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The experiment itself will be getting into the mood by reading a few creepypastas, and then attempting to watch Squidward's Suicide, and then try to carry on with my nightly activity without running frantically to a door or light switch.<br />
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RESULTS:<br />
Well, lets set the scene: It's 2am, I've been up two hours past my bedtime, the reading's relaxed me to almost sleep, yet my mind's in a half-paranoid state from the actual readings. My room's window is open and the porch door is open in the living room because I live in a 3rd story apartment and it's been FREAKING WARM the past week. As I get to a crescendo in the video a slight breeze kicks up outside , nothing too bad, it'd been doing that all night, but the pressure difference in the rooms threw my previously-shut door open rather loudly.<br />
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I screamed like a little girl and slept entirely under the covers that evening, any regrets for doing that I had wore off over the next few days.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-60853783034337119152012-03-19T08:05:00.000-07:002012-03-19T08:05:15.590-07:00Things that have maintained perpendicular orientation.This class was certainly different from what I expected, even with the stories, tales, and recounts of previous classes. First day of class was certainly memorable, when my idea for an egg project that I'd held over from last semester had been shot down with the introduction of the bead.<br />
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Singing bowls, man, those things are something. Well enough that I find that a bowl can make a resonant tone like that, then find it could be used on any old bell? Mind = blown. A close second to this discovery being all the fun stuff I learned about large cats and their associated hybrids (and how much free time science apparently has)<br />
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Of the class so far, I can say I like how open-ended the assignments can be. (if not flat-out BS'ed) I like to be able to flex creative muscles towards other goals/assignments while not having to worry so much about how the grade will turn out. It's how I feel the educational system SHOULD be, gauged on an individual basis, not a group standard.<br />
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I'm hoping that the class finally starts to warm up to each other and be a little more social. I realize that such a large class makes this difficult, but a little friendly topic discussion beats being talked at any day.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-5501802897862134892012-03-06T08:11:00.000-08:002012-03-06T08:11:02.919-08:00Class afterthoughts: 3/5Half-sleep is interesting. Your mind's partially engaged, occasionally taking in snippets of the world around you, the rest of the time it's making brief movie clips from those snippets. Needless to say this got weird with the art critic that thinks calling an art piece phallic is a compliment.<br />
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The potter sounded like my kind of guy, doing art because he wants to, rather than he has to, and screw and ulterior motives, he's just relaxing. I like to art for the sake of art sometimes, so I can understand. However I find it irritating when, like the art critics, despite the pieces' stated purpose, find deeper meaning that's simply not there. I call this "Scarlet Letter Syndrome" since I felt especially in that novel the english teachers were reaching for meanings that simply weren't there.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">In summary it just enforced my thoughts as thus: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/W3abMUH_P1E/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W3abMUH_P1E&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W3abMUH_P1E&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Keep on art'n potter dude.</div>Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-76588611557202855872012-03-05T06:47:00.000-08:002012-03-05T06:47:01.231-08:00Something UnexpectedFluttershy reminded me that I needed to set aside some "me time" to unwind every now and again. I had other pony merch laying around, and my room is absolutely <i>riddled</i> with LEGO figures. I had the idea to do something I hadn't done since I had my Transformers all those years ago: partner them all up and have an all-out battle royale.<br />
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Pictures in <a href="http://imgur.com/a/pYBtA" target="_blank">the album here</a> show who all was at the start of the match. It took a while to get back in the swing of things, but eventually I was voicing and narrating the characters like I used to and was having a blast! However, after about a dozen contestants removed, I realized it was 4am and that I needed to get some sleep so the battle is still on.<br />
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When it concludes, the winner will be posted here, but until then enjoy the mental image of pastel ponies battling each other with (relatively) giant robots.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-22832932466488654602012-02-28T07:28:00.000-08:002012-02-28T07:28:02.633-08:00Class afterthoughts: 2/27As expected, different things make different people happy. Some certainly had a deeper meaning than others, and some may be deeper than they let on to. I mean let's be honest, how relaxing COULD brushing a pony's mane be? As stated, to me it was one of the serene moments I've ever experienced, it was just me, an empty apartment, and my pony, and everything felt <i>right</i> with the world for those few hours. I can only hope that that was the experience that the rest of the class had, for it's an experience worth having.<br />
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What really amazed me was the singing bowl that was brought in. I suppose the idea shouldn't have surprised me like it did, seeing as it's the same principal as crystal glasses, but to see it doable with a brass bell was rather mind-boggling.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-35286850907087547332012-02-21T07:53:00.000-08:002012-02-21T07:53:52.021-08:00Class afterthoughts: 2/20Times like these where I with I had a UV lamp handy at all times. It never really occurred to me that mundane minerals lit up funky colors under various UV frequencies, but I suppose the paints have to come from <i>somewhere</i> relatively non-toxic.<br />
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I was surprised at how few people deviated from the tiger theme. I'd read the assignment instructions, and saw that it was insinuated that you could draw from that for projects, so I did. I felt a pang of "I did it wrong" for a bit until someone else owned up to non-tiger themes. Luckily I'm not too worried about being 'different' in this class, since if all else fails, bullshit until it <i>does</i> fit the theme.<br />
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Admittedly I'm having a bit of an anxiety flair from the upcoming assignment. As it asks and emphasizes that the object in question be important I worry of it's fate when we bring it to class next week.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-42705709579266424612012-02-20T07:56:00.000-08:002012-02-20T07:56:37.544-08:00What if: The older gentleman's "Why?"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>520</o:Words> <o:Characters>2966</o:Characters> <o:Company>Own Mischievious Reasons</o:Company> <o:Lines>24</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>5</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3642</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.256</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Humans domesticated cats before they domesticated dogs?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> How adapted to urban jungle would big cats be after people?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Stripes were actually a barcode for genetic history?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> The internet actually <i>was</i> tubes full of cats carrying pictures of naked women?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXBNuJymo8dnc1aFZWdV-WYZbRpKKwemqdOlIRWBRI1C3HOje7mAQLepLIyzxVtZvNiCSrHujA-0rhrnNj_Oqlvxi0h2XvGSu8HxZP4-gpVkXZ8Zmq2odlzs5SW3wOGmfuOWgWvbYDjKP/s1600/Internet.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXBNuJymo8dnc1aFZWdV-WYZbRpKKwemqdOlIRWBRI1C3HOje7mAQLepLIyzxVtZvNiCSrHujA-0rhrnNj_Oqlvxi0h2XvGSu8HxZP4-gpVkXZ8Zmq2odlzs5SW3wOGmfuOWgWvbYDjKP/s320/Internet.png" width="133" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> How would viruses be coded for such an internet?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Would spam be tolerable, if only for the fact cats delivered it?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Would the connections be unreliable due to how fickle cats are?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Would the dial up noise be of cats purring or hissing, or some combination?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Nyan cat was something other than a poptart, like a bagel or something?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Would the apocalypse be less frightening if it was about the clash between longcat and tacgnol?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Would anon be a force to fear if they were more organized?</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Is it possible for such a concept to <i>be</i> organized?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -40.5pt; margin-right: -58.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Could cats rule the world if they weren’t so lazy?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Why does cat food look so much better than the food we get?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Is the Cheshire cat wrong, and that dogs are the ‘mad’ ones for growling when angry?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Could Soundwave be a good cat person, or is he too logical to do much with them?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Has Ravage ever done something very cat-like that’s silly?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> If Beast Era Transformers were more successful, would there be more cats or dogs?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> What if Transformers had a one shot cheesy western?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would the player piano be transformer or played by one?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would they all have cowboy hats or only the Autobots?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -58.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would all of the Decepticons have cheesy villain moustaches?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Did Hasbro plan for their products’ shows to be good again to draw in the parents as well as the kids?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Is Transformers making more money from younger or older people?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Is My Little Pony noticeably benefitting from it’s surprise demographic?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Was Hasbro secretly in charge of my childhood until I turned to Lego?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would other if any large corporations run an on-again-off-again long term strategy like that?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> What would a feasible LEGO car run on/with that wouldn’t melt it?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would you download/order models for said car, or just build one yourself from a large tub of parts?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> I wonder what my toys would do if they came to life when I wasn’t around.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would they act like the character they are or have they developed their own personality? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> I wonder how they clean up the mess they’d make from a full-scale battle quickly?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Perhaps they’re the reason I misplace things when I’m in a hurry in the morning?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> I wonder how these dark, gritty Bionicle characters reacted to the ponies when I got them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> I wonder what the personalities of toys without a back story would be like.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Do the toys carry some of the powers their character has?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Do they play with other inanimate toys or play board games when they’re active?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> If I let them play Minecraft overnight for a week, what would they have built?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> Would the LEGO toys make other models or enhancements to themselves?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"> I wonder if the toys could help clean up a little when they were done playing for the night.</div>Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-72138075288968799572012-02-14T07:07:00.000-08:002012-02-14T07:07:10.289-08:00Class afterthoughts: 2/13Admittedly I thought my mind's way of working was something unique. While I fully believe it still is, it's interesting to know that there are people with similar internal workings that I have. My mind works from a project-to-project basis when it's fully awake and well fed, otherwise it's all sorta in a haze.<br />
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When sitting in class and listening my mind had wandered over to the list of homework I have to do and how this week is due date free compared to the all-night weekend that I had just pulled for audio homework. Then with all immediate obligations out of the way it wandered over to pet projects that I have on the back-burner, specifically a few drawing requests that I hadn't gotten around to.<br />
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I'll openly admit that I worked on a request during class, much like how we discussed driving being an automated or background function of the mind, I usually draw when engaged in some listening and speaking activity because straight-up drawing gets tedious after awhile. Left brain was still actively engaged and still scrambling to think of 50 what-ifs, tiger idea well on it's way.<br />
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For those curious, this was what resulted from said request, the pony Berry Punch rockin' the mic:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/dlypA.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://i.imgur.com/dlypA.png" width="320" /></a></div>Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-34842131429623829662012-02-13T06:57:00.000-08:002012-02-13T06:57:17.142-08:00Bringing Books into the 21st CenturyI myself still like to curl up with a good old fashioned book, hard-backed and steeped in that old book smell. Mmmmm, old book smell. Many a night when I was younger I burnt through several light-based toys and even using my alarm clock to read under the sheets when my mom had taken my flashlight.<br />
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Looking at that video, I was rather intrigued but at the same time overwhelmed. Given that I was the last person in high school to get a cell phone (A Motorola Razr that I still have. It's old enough that 'texting' was the hip and happening thing when I bought it) and a facebook page, I'd probably be the last to invest any sort of money into an electronic book, much less the money up front to purchase an <strike>iPhone for those with poor dexterity</strike> iPad.<br />
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Given what I've seen of reading and tablet tech so far, each device has one feature or another that I'd like, but not all together as one thing. I like the interactivity potential of the iPad. However my qualm, other than pricing, is that most of these devices are hard on the eye after awhile. I like how the Kindle works its voodoo magic in being readable in sunlight as well as being easy on the eyes. What I would add to this wondrous device in the making would be a soft LED light up option. Not a backlight, but put into the side of the screen like those $5 electronic card games you see in the back of the toy isle at Target or something.<br />
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As far as visuals, I much like the presentation of PDF's in Adobe Reader, how the pages flow like a contiguous whole (or if you want, flip like pages for this theoretical device) with a pull-out menu on the side for the table of contents or any bookmarks you have made. As a user-friendly feature, I'd add something that will let you highlight a word and have it's definition or translation pop up when you ask for it. All in all, this device is just a battery powered book with a search button, but I'm much a fan of keeping it simple.<br />
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Now if only I could make this device have the scent of a large library...Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-9882210521928558812012-02-06T05:27:00.000-08:002012-02-06T05:27:03.043-08:00To do list: Book and stuff<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>1148</o:Words> <o:Characters>6544</o:Characters> <o:Company>Own Mischievious Reasons</o:Company> <o:Lines>54</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>13</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>8036</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.256</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">I’ll be perfectly honest, I didn’t like this assignment because if felt like a laundry list of things to do much like that ‘silly homework’ that was given out on the first day of class back in elementary school.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Go to a library, bookstore, or your own book collection and look through the books. Please do not read any. Just pay attention to what catches your eye.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What is it that stands out to you?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Manga</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>It has a very expressive and colorful face on the spine, mixed with being closer to my actual self when observing my bookcase</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Choose a red book and open it to page 6. Close your eyes and put your finger on the page somewhere.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What did you find?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> I landed on the word ‘beneath’ in the midst of the introduction.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If your finger landed on a paragraph, how many times does the letter P show up in that paragraph?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>One, surprisingly.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If it landed on a picture, how many straight lines are in the picture?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If it landed on white space, what is the white space surrounding?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> N/A<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you imagine the white space as a sea and the other parts (words, pictures, etc.) as islands floating in white water or space?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>With great effort, yes.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Using your other senses, explain what the paper feels like.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is it slick or rough?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>I always thought this book’s paper and the rest of the series was coarse compared to most other’s</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What does the cover feel like?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Smooth plastic</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you feel the ink of the words if you close your eyes?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Part of me thinks I can, the other part thinks it’s the texture of the paper</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Do different colors feel different with your eyes closed?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Can’t say they do.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What else can you discover about the paper?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>It’s rather wrinkled where there’s text</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What about the cover?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Many creases have formed in it’s old age and many readings. Mostly from where I hold it when I read.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Without destroying the book, unless you own it and want to, see if you can figure out how the book was constructed.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is it stitched?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Nope</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is it glued?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Yes</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is there any cloth on this book or is it all paper?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>It has several ‘plugs’ of fabric in the spine going horizontally, like rings in a binder.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is it a hardback or paperback?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Paperback</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Does it have signatures? (Hint: you may need to look up what signatures are in the context of making books…)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Nope</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If it has signatures, how many pages are in each and how many signatures are there in the whole book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If it does not, look at the glue on the ends of the spine and discribe what you see.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Two very thin lines between the pages and the outer cover, I’d guess they’re what holds the binding fibers together rather than holding the book itself.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Flip through the pages and look at the end papers.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is there any writing in the book, other than the printing?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Yes</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If so, what does it say?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Other books in the series, where it was printed, and that apparently without a cover when purchased the book is considered stolen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Why is it there?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Legal, where the work has been, advertise for the rest of the series<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Who wrote it?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Can’t say for sure.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If you do not know, then imagine who might have written it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Most likely the author did not put it there, but the team of people and editors that see it before it ships</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If there is no writing in the book then how does it make you feel to know you are the first person (possibly) to think about it?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Examine the book more.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Are there any stains on the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>No</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Are there any fingerprints?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Nyet</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What do they look like?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">How might they have happened?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>If I ended up missing them, I’d wager they’d be there from whatever snack food I was eating while I read it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Look at the pages of the book.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What is the color of the pages? I bet they are not really white.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Off-white coupled with the beginning of yellowing.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">How would you describe the color? Is it warm or cold? Bright or dull, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Very dull, like being in an place where everything’s tinted by a weird colored light bulb.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What other visual things can you explore with the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>There’s a greyscale add at the back of the book. Oddly enough when viewed with my indiGLOW alarm clock, my brain seems to fill in the color for it.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Think about the history of this book.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you see any other evidence that someone else has handled this book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Many creases in the middle of the front</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What are the edges of the pages like? Describe them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>The edges are still ‘sharp’ but curve inwards towards the top</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you imagine what someone else might have been thinking as they read this book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Had they not read the series, I’d imagine confusion, if they had, probably that the main character is quite the badass</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Do you think anyone else has used this book like you are right now instead of reading it?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Doubt it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Flip through the pages quickly.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you hear the sound? If so, describe it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>I’m reminded of the softer flap of a flipbook or a well worn Animorphs book.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If not, what is your experience like?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you feel the breeze?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Yes</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Can you move something with the wind generated from the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>With some effort I could blow receipts around.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Could you use this book to win a game you created using the book's wind power?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>If the goal was to have minimal impact on the game field, like NOT moving a house of cards, perhaps. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Drop the book on the floor.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What did you experience?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>The interesting experience of not knowing where and how the book was going to land.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Did you sense the vibrations the book made?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Yup</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Did you feel it in your feet?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Actually, I hit my foot. >.<</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Take your shoes off. Now drop the book. Was there any difference?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>I felt the vibration in the floor, rather than my foot</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Hold the book between your hands with one hand on each cover and the book closed. Close your eyes.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Is the book cold? Hold it like that for at least one minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>The book is neutral</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Now feel the cover. Can you feel the temperature change from where your hands were to where they were not?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Yes, never really noticed it before.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Have you ever been aware of this before when you were holding a book to read it?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Nope</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If your heat transfers in this situation and you noticed it because I asked you to, why do you think you have never noticed it before?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If you have noticed the temperature of a book you were holding before, describe why you noticed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Smell the book.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What does the smell make you think of?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Many other books from the series it’s in</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">If you can't think of anything, describe the smells you can sense. (Interesting fact: Did you know that I have friends [many librarians, actually] who choose their books partly based on how they smell? Honestly.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l13 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>N/A</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">I do not recommend tasting the book for health and safety issues… :-)</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><br />
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<b>Now, finally, read the first page. If it is just pictures, read the story of the pictures. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What is the title of this book?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>BIONICLE Adventures #10: Time Trap</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Based on the first page, explain why you think the book was titled that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Can’t really say, but as the chapter is titled ‘Introduction’ I’d wager I’d be explained rather soon.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Reflect back on this entire exericise.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What is your experience like with the book now that you have experienced it differently?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>It will likely be added to the many shreds of memories I associate with particular parts of a book, like where I was when I read certain chapters and so forth.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Do you still find books to be boring, assuming you did in the first place?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>I never found the books I owned to be ‘boring’ exactly</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What, if anything has changed for you in regards to books?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>I feel like I should have taken this book out to dinner first. :\</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Now think about this class.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">How did I "fishbowl" this assignment?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>By giving a laundry list of things to do with a somewhat specific book.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What do you think the point is of this exercise?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Seeing how ‘out-of-the-box” we could get with many constraints as opposed to few.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;">What can you take from this exercise that might help you with future projects?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.0pt; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <i>Eloquent and unique wording can be as much a freedom as being able to do anything</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><!--EndFragment-->Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-33862784899842019882012-01-28T13:10:00.000-08:002012-01-29T23:40:20.693-08:00Crashing through the vault of heaven with my determination. During last semester there was an idea that had stricken me as I was driving back to Indy after a weekend up in Muncie, make a crossover of two of my favorite animated series, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The thought had struck me that many of the characters from Gurren Lagann had personality traits almost entirely in line with characters from My Little Pony, both canon and fanon. When I’d gotten back to my apartment I feverishly wrote down the characters that were most like each other from the respective series and realized that I could do an entire cast substitution with ponies in a giant mecha anime. Driving from that I spent many all-nighters screen-capping, drawing and coloring a scene from Gurren Lagann substituted with ponies and eventually <a href="http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/278/7/c/tengen_toppa_pony_lagann_by_deoxys413-d4b0b62.png" target="_blank">this</a> was created, signed, and finished.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Originally I had thought I lacked the artistic ability to make such a thing a reality, merely postulating with friends how cool the crossover would be and hoping someone else in the vast world of the internet would do it. It wasn’t until that drive home I’d decided I’d take the idea upon myself to do. Despite family emergencies and crappy pencils, I doodled it out on paper over a sleepless weekend and posted my results on the internet, and got a decent review, and thought myself done. Later on I had gotten the urge to dust off my tablet and go add some color and fix all the minor line errors that require finer erasers than I have on hand. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> When I was working on the emblem during break time in a class, a rather eccentric gentleman of 35 looked at my progress so far and commented that my design looked “Damn sexy.” I later learned that this man had done a brief stint drawing for Marvel Comics, so regardless of how little he was to them, that meant a lot to me. When I was finished fully I was getting comments from everyone who’d seen me feverishly coloring over those previous weeks and even thought they may have liked only one or even none of the shows I put together, they did complement me on the effort I poured into it. In the end, I suppose, it was an exercise in getting back into drawing as a whole and learning the various ins and outs of being an artsy type like know full well most people won’t notice those tiny details that you mess up and getting the same amount of congrats overall.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Seeing as I had not imagined making that project two moths earlier when it was proposed, I have no idea how it may have turned out in the hands of more capable artists. The first limitation was the fact I don’t like making things from scratch on computers, I like having pencil and paper to work on and the freedom of workspace that it allows for, since I’m a fidgety individual I don’t like sitting in a chair for several hours while my ideas come to life. Ever tried spinning a laptop around for a better view on what you’re drawing? Though so. As you look at that image I linked you to, keep in mind I’ve never drawn a mecha that well, if ever, in my life. I like straight lines, but I can’t draw them to save my life, and I never had a sense for where all the little doodlebopers would go on the robot. Over that weekend that I had physically drawn it, my brother had had his first (and hopefully last) seizure, leaving that night to be somewhat unproductive due to the trauma of the whole thing. Next limitation came from the fact I had never really gotten used to Photoshop and my tablet, yet I felt I could do so much more with what I had made, I later manned up and did it anyway once I found a scanner. And lastly, I did the unthinkable, I posted it on the internet hoping it would do well. Granted the My Little Pony board on Reddit is self-advertised as the friendliest place next to it’s stoner board, it’s very nerve wracking when you don’t know if you posted at the ideal time to get it noticed, nor if you’re going to get anything more constructive than “I leik dis art.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;"> In the very least, I hope me and the electronics can get over out various issues, because I feel that if we can set out differences aside we can create much good art. I've expressed this to my computer while simultaneously testing out my new tablet.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xqTzLR14ZB796jmDRiPy2CBXZO8RYTRSUQsq-PZhVbvTrEry_K7uYZ9kHg_n7vNC1IarsFMRJ6hVw3eu1Fxbw6nExf5nh7GWZBpB4lhskH5iamTxrE4OxLU10bLEG2tq6T5QYe6UOxK1/s1600/Letter+to+laptop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xqTzLR14ZB796jmDRiPy2CBXZO8RYTRSUQsq-PZhVbvTrEry_K7uYZ9kHg_n7vNC1IarsFMRJ6hVw3eu1Fxbw6nExf5nh7GWZBpB4lhskH5iamTxrE4OxLU10bLEG2tq6T5QYe6UOxK1/s320/Letter+to+laptop.png" width="96" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span>Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-12052644154498076672012-01-24T06:25:00.000-08:002012-01-24T06:25:07.603-08:00Group One and its various doings.Group One was mostly myself and another member talking back and forth with each other, she'd propose an idea and I'd suggest a spin on the idea and see what the reaction was. From what I gathered from Group Two, many similar ideas were tossed around such as "Other group does the proposed activity first" or "Simply do nothing for 15 minutes" On our side of things we had come to these conclusions, but wanted to try to make the other group DO something because we felt those options were a bit of a cop-out.<br />
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What we settled on, and personally I'd have preferred the idea of making karaoke videos, was having everyone listing their favorite movie quote and making it into a relevant script. What we ended up settling on was dramatically reading those quotes that we wrote down.<br />
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I feel now that the goggles are going to be a new look for me, even taking Jacques' likelihood to exaggerate that SOMEONE was curious as to why I wore goggles today. It started out as a mix of my birthday being this week, and the fact they can make a bad hair day actually work, but now I think I'm going to wear the goggles to Seeing Sideways just to serve as way of being unique. It's not often you're in a group of people that know nothing about you, so I'm taking advantage of that to be me as I am currently rather than having to stick to a two-to-three year rut of expectations the group I normally hang out with has subject me to.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-52587434451772030062012-01-24T06:05:00.000-08:002012-01-24T06:07:27.682-08:00Reflections of the Class 1/23Well, today was certainly interesting in regards to fishbowls. That is to say, rather, that someone(Jacques, I think, nobody's really been on a first name basis so far) was attempting to force a meme, but all in all not a <i>terrible</i> one.<br />
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What I really took away from the class was a reaffirming of what I had already discovered as far as excess of choices leading to an increase in self-depreciative behavior, thought I probably would not have worded my conclusion as eloquently. Especially on the bead assignment, I had come up with what I thought was a nifty little idea, only to have someone show off their assignment in Intro to Sound that was a well-produced video. I would have been distraught over the difference in perceived quality of our two projects had it been only six months ago, but recently I've developed the confidence to say that my projects aren't the best, but that's no reason to not be happy with the end result as well as having faith that Beth meant what she said of anything goes.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-35465591547076616122012-01-22T16:05:00.000-08:002012-01-22T16:05:44.674-08:00Ponies Play Beadball So here I was, day before the assignment was due, thinking that I would cop out with a silly comic telling of the bead's loneliness staying in a pocket of my backpack for the past week. When I got about halfway through the rough draft, I looked up at my toy adorned entertainment system and realized that the bead was about the size of smaller volleyball for my pony figurines. So in true MacGyver fashion I took some paperclips and tape and set up a volleyball net for my ponies to play with.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> This was certainly an interesting feat to color balance in Photoshop while one of my eyes was out of commission due to allergies.</div>Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-73319339179014201432012-01-10T06:52:00.000-08:002012-01-10T06:56:55.954-08:00Initial Hopes and Expectations<div class="MsoNormal"> Today (yesterday) we went over the syllabus for the class, pretty standard. What wasn’t standard was how informal and laid back the class was. I’ve had Beth for a class before, and despite her insisting it was strict it seemed very lenient and allowed for creativity, so I have high hopes for a more fun and enjoyable class in Seeing Sideways because of it’s sole purpose being dedicated to fostering that creativity.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I’d found the drive to get in touch with my artistic side over the summer, found almost entirely in the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Laugh if you will, but given the fact that I had not wanted to pick up a pencil or pen for two years until then, I took the opportunity and ran with it. What kept me going up to this point was the community based around that show, getting praise and constructive criticism on your work, even anonymously, really helped me believe in my ability as an artist and has created a loop of wanting to give back to these people via art to keep me going for these past eight months.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Even so, I’ve found myself either bogged down with too many ideas or burning myself out on a project I dumped 40 hours into. All the same, I also realize the pony kick will most likely die out, which would leave me dormant again unless I'm able to adapt to a wider variety of material to art. That being said, I'd like to develop my own style of doing things so my creativity can be self sustaining. I’d also like to learn how to manage that creative impulse and keep my work flowing in a more steady instead of having it come out in spurts, that’s my hopes of things to take away from this class. </div>Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125905451826253425.post-32109174584049881922011-12-05T13:31:00.000-08:002011-12-05T13:31:22.509-08:00Okay, so to start things off, massive dumping of images and calling it a final.Vectoring, Gods I love vectoring. 90% of this final was done with Illustrator and the faithful Pen Tool over scanned drawings.<br />
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#1 The Re-Do:<br />
I re-did the Mome Rath picture, reigned in the text and re-colored it to be more visible, and for the background I enlarged and focused on the path in the woods and vectored that whole background. Rather happy with the results.<br />
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<a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/mome_rath.png" target="_blank">Before</a><br />
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#2 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/stopwatch-pony.jpg" target="_blank">The Adjective</a>:<br />
Couldn't think of a good adjective off the top of my head, so I looked up a random word generator and got the word "Quadruped" so I drew a pony. The style itself is based off of the art style of the recent show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, a new and loud muse to me, so a lot of pony-related materials have been cranked out of late<br />
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#3 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/speaker.jpg" target="_blank">Da Musics</a>:<br />
Was listening to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUMqPF1ooVc" target="_blank">this</a> hoping to draw inspiration from it. I originally thought that I would do a DJ manning her stand about to drop a bass, but my thoughts drifted to the speakers that make that bass happen. Also got some work in on the perspective tool, and I must say it's a temperamental little so-and-so.<br />
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#4 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/octi-text.jpg" target="_blank">Typography</a>:<br />
Octavia was a character in a show I once saw, her theme distinctly musical. I like making things like these, and I tried my hand at merging writing with music. Rather happy with the results.<br />
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#5 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/squidbowl.jpg" target="_blank">No Words</a>:<br />
I'll be honest, this started as a freebie image, but when I was drawing balls in a bowl I saw what looked like two eyes peering off to the side. I couldn't decide if they were being sneaky, accusatory, or otherwise so it seemed a nifty idea to let that be open to interpretation.<br />
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#6 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/fluttershy-pikmin.jpg" target="_blank">Scratch Image</a>:<br />
Made this start to finish in Photoshop. I wondered how the meeting of the nature-loving pony Fluttershy from aforementioned cartoon would react to the plant-animal hybrid Pikmin from the game of the same name. The mental image seemed too adorable to pass up.<br />
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#7 Based on a Photo:<br />
I felt that I was a bit to new at things to do an earlier image I had justice so I redid it. It's a skeletal creature creeping in the depths of a forest, with a trail of corruption in its wake. Results turned out much cleaner and overall nicer than the original.<br />
<a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/dark_first.jpg" target="_blank">Before</a><br />
<a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/darkened_forest.jpg" target="_blank">After</a><br />
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#8 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/lunamin.jpg" target="_blank">Color</a>:<br />
I like the color blue, blue is somehow an invigorating color for me. I drew inspiration for this from an artist I'm following on deviantArt who does minimalist styled pony wallpapers.<br />
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#9 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/pony-lagann-emblem.png" target="_blank">Based Off a TV Show</a>:<br />
I liked My Little Pony, I liked the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the mash-up that spawned therein was a glorious sight to behold. The image itself is an equine styling of Team Gurren's <a href="http://pogomonster.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/gurren.png" target="_blank">emblem</a>.<br />
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#10 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/rbyblspiral.jpg" target="_blank">Based on a Famous Work</a>:<br />
I hand-vectored one of Piet Mondrian's works ("Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black" I think, internet had issue pegging <i>which</i> of his many similar works it was) and noticed the spiral tool in the toolbar. When I overlayed it I was surprised how well a perfect spiral nestled itself into the work, almost like it was intentionally a fractal. I went back and make the spiral negative to the fields it overlapped.<br />
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#11 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/cataclank-scorpion.jpg" target="_blank">Something Masculine</a>:<br />
I don't really have a solid definition of either masculinity or femininity, they can be both and the same for all I know. What I made the image after was more towards how you see toys marketed towards boys and girls respectively. Here, the boys take, I usually see sharp, pointed, hard painted plastics such as with Transformers or Lego. Next we have...<br />
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#12 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/bloby-ponies.jpg" target="_blank">Something Feminine</a>:<br />
Avoiding the obvious Barbie pitch, I see a lot of softer materials and edges, but in contrast bright colors. Plushies seem to be universal barring 'boy' and 'girl' colors, but there always seems to be that awkward period in a boy's life where all things even remotely not manly are shunned. Admittedly it could be the exact same for girls, but plushies still strike me as feminine-neutral.<br />
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#13 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/pizza-os.jpg" target="_blank">Aimed at Children</a><br />
Brightly colored cereal boxes, what else to cause a major scene in a grocery rivaled only by the toys and electronics aisle? The color and the title is what's aimed at children, the subtitles read more as a parent would see them.<br />
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#14 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/vector-mech.jpg" target="_blank">Vector</a><br />
Did I mention I love vectoring? Dug through my wares and found this beauty of a mech that I'd recently done in Photoshop and went over it in Illustrator. I suppose that it's only fair seeing as I used PS's pen tool to keep my lines straight, I just did the next step.<br />
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#15 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/pinkiesells.jpg" target="_blank">Something that Sells Something</a><br />
In a few ways it seems that Mr. Mays had never left late night television. All the same, though, it seems that this was the general message those infomercials were giving me in the wee hours of the morning as I scramble to adjust the volume. Pinkie, the pony pushing the product (say that 5x fast) seems like the kind of pony to have the voice to do Mr. Mays some justice.<br />
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#16 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/burritocat.jpg" target="_blank">Freebie 1</a><br />
Cats wearing food as a costume, it works with cats and pop-tarts, why not comically elongated cats and a burrito wrap?<br />
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#17 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/f-zeromachine.jpg" target="_blank">Freebie 2</a><br />
F-Zero, wonderful non-euclidean racing game. Racing in vehicles that can break mach 2 while going upside down and sideways being held to the track buy this wishful thought called 'magnets.' Made a generic vehicle build, made more after the style than a particular vehicle. First brush with gradients on this one, the Tron-esque contrail was fun to make thought.<br />
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#18 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/grimlock.jpg" target="_blank">Freebie 3</a><br />
Toyed around with the path alterations, squiggly, slanty, so forth. I imagined a simple-minded Transformer named Grimlock trying to draw a picture of himself. He has this verbal tick so his sentences flow like "Me, Grimlock, no like you." but he does have a wit about him. Drawing with T-Rex arms limit artistic ability, though.<br />
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#19 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/deku.jpg" target="_blank">Freebie 4</a><br />
Legend of Zelda had a game come out recently, I'm unable to play until Christmas, but I drew one of the universe's many interesting creatures to pass the time. Deku Scrubs are a plant species, for some reason their recent appearances have made them seem adorable, despite being a frequently annoying enemy until lately.<br />
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#20 <a href="http://www.majhost.com/gallery/deoxys413/randomstuffs/stopthetop.jpg" target="_blank">Freebie 5</a><br />
A band I listen to, called The Megas, takes music from the Megaman games and puts lyrics to the stage themes. For Topman, the robot master with the top motif, the title they gave the song was "Can't Stop the Top" Didn't quite feel that it was worthy of "Music Inspired" but at the very least I got to fiddle with making text go along a path. Not as easy as initially expected.Dex_NAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844921767916568693noreply@blogger.com0