Art and Technology FA 2018

This is Mickey Mouse made from Skittles candy. What I did was I used grid paper to formulate a template for me to be able to form the Mickey outline. It was a sticky and colorful process and it was a lot of fun. Working in rows and columns is an interesting form of art. 

Making the flip book was a challenging experience. Getting all the pictures to flow smoothly was really hard and drawing the same thing over and over again was also really hard. This book is about an astronaut that fixes his rocket but then launches without him and ends up on a different planet. The astronaut then rescues his rocket but then gets into a fight which later leads to his rocket being destroyed. No happy ending here!

Our society heavily revolves around technology. People hangout together but do not verbally talk together. Social media has taken over our lives. We choose to hangout with people but are constantly on social media worried and reading about others. We don't actually focus on our current present lives but we tend to be more interested in that of others. We also choose to share about our lives but in a way that we present ourselves to be more than what we are, we post pictures that we look best in not those of which others look best in, we take pictures at famous or pretty locations to let other people know that you have an interesting life. But what is the reality? We don't really know because what we post what we want people to see. And yet, it still fascinates us. So this video represents how wrapped we are with our phones and not living in the present. Unplugged is a rare find but we want people to know who were with and what doing. And that should not be how things are

The advancement of the sending messages has changed the world. It's funny how communication started with the train and soon led to the smartphones we hold in our hands today. Back in the day the only form of getting information from one part of the country to the other started with transportation. The train would allow people to verbally communicate and deliver physical messages that would say what was happening and all the news by traveling from place to place. Soon after the Pony Express was another way for information to travel. In the late 1800s pony riders created a Saddlebag specifically designed to carry physical messages. Surprisingly enough, the Pony Express was a fast form of getting messages across, because it could take a single rider to ride 380 miles in two days. Unfortunately, this success didn’t last very long due to the invention of the Telegraph. A telegraph is a way to send messages through a wire that creates signals by breaking electrical connections usu