Apparently this optical illusion is the best of 2011. What do you think?
This reminded me of that exercise we had in class about optical illusions and thought I would share. It's also funny because the article quotes Obi Wan Kenobi who once told Luke Skywalker: "Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them."haha
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Farewell
Goodbye to everyone. It was wonderful having you all in class with me. I really enjoyed listening to the conversations and all the activities we did together were fun (especially this last activity; who doesn't love drawing pretty pictures in place of an exam?).
i hope my Western Thought II class next year is just as fun. : )
i hope my Western Thought II class next year is just as fun. : )
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Ta-Da!
We made it! Congrats to Drew and Lance on their excellent presentations! You both chose very challenging angles and maintained grace under the pressure of public speaking. It was very clear you both allotted a great deal of thought to your ideas. And especially congratulations to the whole class! I really enjoyed this little glimpse into the minds of my classmates: each presentation seemed to reveal a bit of the inner-workings of the presenter. Now, here we are, our first year of college over, and, for most of us, another one soon to begin. I look forward to seeing what all of you will create in the coming years!
It's Over!
It's all finally over. The only thing left is for the people now to edit their papers, but the presentations are all over. How wonderful.
I enjoyed how Drew's ideas changed and how he showed us that they changed, from what is reality more into a what is knowledge type of adventure. It was interesting to see the process he went through in order to make these changes and realize that he himself didn't believe in what he originally set out to prove.
As for Lance, well, that accent was fabulous and amusing, I almost hardly paid attention to the presentation... Just kidding. The flow of coherent ideas was nice, and the interaction he put into us, the audience, was also nice as well. Even if I had to sip coffee, I thought the little experiment was fun in trying to deceive our senses and this preconceived idea we might have about some object.
I enjoyed how Drew's ideas changed and how he showed us that they changed, from what is reality more into a what is knowledge type of adventure. It was interesting to see the process he went through in order to make these changes and realize that he himself didn't believe in what he originally set out to prove.
As for Lance, well, that accent was fabulous and amusing, I almost hardly paid attention to the presentation... Just kidding. The flow of coherent ideas was nice, and the interaction he put into us, the audience, was also nice as well. Even if I had to sip coffee, I thought the little experiment was fun in trying to deceive our senses and this preconceived idea we might have about some object.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Hey, presentations are over!
Good job, everyone.
It's cool how what we think we believe in changes so much with a little bit of deeper contemplation. I wonder what other of our beliefs we would change if we took the time to really think about it? I also love that, no matter how wide the range of our topics, you can see the common threads and thought patterns.
I wonder how different our presentations would have been if we had done them at the beginning of the semester?
Good job, everyone.
It's cool how what we think we believe in changes so much with a little bit of deeper contemplation. I wonder what other of our beliefs we would change if we took the time to really think about it? I also love that, no matter how wide the range of our topics, you can see the common threads and thought patterns.
I wonder how different our presentations would have been if we had done them at the beginning of the semester?
Sunday, May 8, 2011
It's really interesting how the nature of a paper/presentation changes from the beginning to the end. It's so easy to start out with a plan to prove a specific point, and in the process of writing, you end up arguing something else completely. In some ways this could be a good thing, but in a few cases I think it wound up working against the speaker. While trying to write out the thinking process, there ended up being contradictions, and thoughts that disproved the original point.
After the presentations are over, there is enough time to revise the paper, to either steer it in another direction, or to edit out the contradictions. I hope the class provided enough constructive criticism for any possible improvements to be easy to reach.
After the presentations are over, there is enough time to revise the paper, to either steer it in another direction, or to edit out the contradictions. I hope the class provided enough constructive criticism for any possible improvements to be easy to reach.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Was Late
And because I was late, I missed out on a good chunk of Brock's presentation. I felt really rude coming in and disturbing his presentation and rather sad because from what I heard, it was very interesting. An alternate universe? How exciting. It made me remember an episode of Futurama when they deal with alternate universes and how everything was the opposite from the 'normal' universe, just as Brock was saying. Except that, of course, the basics were still the same, it was merely the colors and people whom were different.
Jordan, to me, had a very sturdy idea to me that I found I could hardly argue. I think it was interesting the different break down of knowledge type and how we obtained information from it. What I really appreciated was how she never said 'knowledge is always true', because as the discussion was circulated, it seemed that two bits of knowledge could be in conflict, such as the formulate and emotional knowledge. But I suppose even if one or the other was wrong to someone else, it'd be true to oneself.
Sarah's paper to me presented an interesting topic, mostly because we as artists heavily rely on sight. Not to mention, I need to wear glasses/contacts at all times otherwise I can't see and everything becomes blobs of colors. I think it's a good point to say that sight isn't the best but that it's one of the more important factors to obtaining true knowledge.
Issac presented a topic that I found enjoyable but slightly controversial. I really, really enjoyed that God is a being created and sculpted from our own experiences. However, I disagree with the idea that we have to have an experience to know God. I feel that even if we don't have an experience with God, that would still shape an understanding of him a bit.
More food for thoughts. Yum,
Jordan, to me, had a very sturdy idea to me that I found I could hardly argue. I think it was interesting the different break down of knowledge type and how we obtained information from it. What I really appreciated was how she never said 'knowledge is always true', because as the discussion was circulated, it seemed that two bits of knowledge could be in conflict, such as the formulate and emotional knowledge. But I suppose even if one or the other was wrong to someone else, it'd be true to oneself.
Sarah's paper to me presented an interesting topic, mostly because we as artists heavily rely on sight. Not to mention, I need to wear glasses/contacts at all times otherwise I can't see and everything becomes blobs of colors. I think it's a good point to say that sight isn't the best but that it's one of the more important factors to obtaining true knowledge.
Issac presented a topic that I found enjoyable but slightly controversial. I really, really enjoyed that God is a being created and sculpted from our own experiences. However, I disagree with the idea that we have to have an experience to know God. I feel that even if we don't have an experience with God, that would still shape an understanding of him a bit.
More food for thoughts. Yum,
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