Future Artifact

3/13

man i don't know about movies and special effects much but man this movie was realistic. it was such a well made movie. i knew it wasn't a documentary but i wasn't sure if it was real or not.
what this movie made me think was how US uses every issues that disbenefits americans and turn it around to aim at some country that is in bad terms with US. it's clever, but mean. I thought when president cheney ordered carrier to the eastern mediterrainean sea to see if they can pick a fight with syrians. that's what happend at iraq too right? i do believe Saddam was a menace to the iraq people but look at the civil war that is going on in iraq right now, it's just as bad or even worse then when Saddamn was in charge. video was definitely something worth watching.

minutemen march1308

Videos we watched in class today were really interesting. I like the way they were all presented. 'Death of a President' created a believable scenario for one future which could have occurred following the death of George Bush. I agree that I dont know how i would feel if someone made a movie about my death; but i'm pretty sure i'd be more flattered than anything. The idea that government possibly uses tragic situations as reasoning to engage in any type of agenda they have been trying to pursue makes me ...sad. And, on another note, the movie kind of reminded me of 24, the television show. (really good!)
Class was good though; it made me think.

Minute Paper 3/13

I thought the movie that we saw today was really well done. I don't really know if i felt happy or not that he was gone, but its a fictional story and it showed you what could happen if he got assassinated. I am still wondering though what our final project is going to be for this class.

3-13 minute paper

I enjoyed watching the movie today about the possibility of our president being assassinated. Not that I get some sick enjoyment out of the possibility, but it was intriguing to actually see a film that portrays "what could be" in a very realistic manner. Like mark, I agree that it was tastefully done, and I believe that many Americans missed out on a great film. Although, I can't help but think about how I would feel if a film was made about my assassination, already knowing that many.....many people have a problem with the way that I do things. I think that these last few classes have helped me to realize that it is crucial to see "outside of the box" of things and to see past the intended biased scope of subject matter. Good class... as always.

Re: 1 Minute paper 3/13/08

The future i say that word everyday and everyday it has a different meaning. IN a way that such every day is the same but is different. I f you can understand that than you can understand what i think when iam in Candy's class. I think future values is a good thing, to sort of predict what is going to happen or what might happen .  but i feel that if you make positive asumptions than you will get positive reactions. And vice-versa with that being said how can we make the future a better place , and the answer is change like the video about the President getting blasted. It funny because all those actors were in a way kinda of convincing but the reality was still the same when i left the class room . So , but I never voted for that cat and bush is  a cheater . he cheated in 2000 he didnt have to cheat in 2004 though Kerry just sucked at talking about the real issues but im going to make sure that or Generation does it right!!!

Minute Paper (3-13-08)

The first video was a fictional movie entitles "Death of a President"
and to me it was very stimulating. The idea behind the movie's name
itself does not depict it literally, despite the fact that it contains
more documentary principles than to be on a more dramatic and scary
situation. Another idea that relates to this the way I viewed it is
that it is like a political oppression. The idea of political
oppression that Professor Dator discussed in his lecture the other day
and speaking in this sense as shows in the video how activist voiced
their opinion by actions of violent and forceful. Then there were two
small videos that tied back to future jamming, one of them was your own
and this one was very entertaining and lively. The topic is something
that I wouldn't think about it but this is why future jamming is very
unique and special if we constitute ideas that bring out originality
and creativity. Last video is about robotics the background was a total
chaos of environmental destruction and humanity logic.
ruta...

Andrew's Minute Paper 3/13

There was something in class today that I didn't end up saying. While numerous people seemed dissatisfied with the approach taken by the other teacher, with the specific complaint that the media she presented appeared to be biased, I think that an important factor was being ignored. These videos from GNN were not standalone real news pieces, but instead reactions to the biases of the mainstream news. Thus, in a sense, they didn't show both sides for the same reason one doesn't show the opposition's side in a debate, it has already been shown. It seemed to me that these were not meant to be objective so much as a rebuttal or counter argument to the mainstream coverage of a given issue.
One aspect of the video/news story shown in class today that I found particularly interesting was the clear connection to a current issue facing the video game industry. As comes up so often someone commits a violent crime and happens to own a video game, someone brings up the idea that video games are brainwashing people, which this potential future showed a less violent representation of.

3/13 bush is dead?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQOvyGbBtY

speaking of controversial... haha everyone should watch the video above. i think you will get a kick out of it.

along the same lines, i had never heard of the "death of a president" before. i am going to agree with everyone and say that i think it was remarkably well 

done. i do feel it is a shame that more people didn't get to see it because of various reasons however, i don't think that it is the radical ideas that need to change. if these ideas were expressed so well everyday from such an uncensored point of view, they wouldn't be such a big idea.

is there a way to make things less invasive to maximize the impact of an underlying theme? i think the controversy should increase, then maybe it wouldn't be that controversial anymore.

with the movie that we watched today, i am thinking maybe they should have just called it something else and slipped it into the mainstream more. i mean, what cinema is going to show "death of a president"? what if the film was dubbed as "george falls" or something like that... it sounds like a story about a curious monkey riding a yellow bike.

i don't know... 

the futures artifacts that were displayed at the end of class were frightening. the idea of robotic armed soldiers terrifies me. that idea made me wonder though if eliminating human error would help a warring country, or if without that human element of passion, compassion, or rage it would work so well.

anyways, really--watch the video its funny.

minute paper

Today we watched the movie "The Death of a Presdent" which was a highly controversial movie about a possible future involving the assassination of our current sitting president george w. bush. I really liked the storyline of how the actual assassin was a disgruntled g.i. from the gulf war and cheney addressed the problem as another muslim extremeist terrorist. I truely believe that lies like this are fed to us on a regular basis so that they(governments) can manipulate their own desired future. Anyways the way they interviewed the witnesses and presented everthing in past tense was perfect for a seemless future. It reminded me of the geico commercials that talk about "jed clampett" from the beverly hill billies, when they interviewed this guy who was "skeptical of this whole texas tea theory."

Minute Paper 3/13/08

The film we had seen in class is something that I had never seen before. There were so many scenes in the film that were so impressive and tastefully done that I had to remind myself several times during the film that it wasn't real and that it was just a futuristic scenario. The film "Death of A President" was a bit controversial to me because it suggests the idea of the assassination of our current seating President. Aside from the controversy, this film was definitely really interesting to see and it did keep me on the edge of my seat. I remember hearing something about this film in the media and the controversy around it, but I never got the chance to see it until today. Now that I know that this film is out, I'm definitely going to see this film again from beginning to end.

Minute Paper 3/13

Wow, I have been meaning to watch “Death of a President” for some time now just to make my own judgment on the film and I must say after seeing it today I am really impressed. The movie somehow took an extremely controversial storyline and created something that was interesting, non-abusive, and not insulting. The clear cut, obviously fictitious, and sometimes even sensitive approach to a fictional assassination of the President allowed for a viewing experience in which the audience could take in the filmmakers ideas without feeling like having someone else’s ideology pushed in their faces which made for an engaging and believable film.

Mark Alexander

I have seen Death Of A president a few times before. Each time I watch
it I pick up something new. I think it's a great movie, but it is also
a perfect example of how useing material that causes too much
controversy can drown out the points the peice is trying to make. Like
we were talking about in class, many people didn't get to see the movie
or chose not to because they believed making a movie about the death of
a president, that is alive and in office is wrong.
The way many people reacted to this movie, by boycotting it, is a
shame. The death of the president is an acute part of the film. There
are many current issues that are brought up that were addressed other
than someone killing the president. The American attitude of Muslims is
represented well, and the part when they show Dickhead Cheney's desire
to tie a muslim to the crime so he can rally patriotic support for war
is an interesting point.
So, I believe that if you want to get a message across to a mass
audience, it is important not to be so controversial that people won't
even listen to it. It is good to have controversey in your work, but
there is a line that shouldn't be crossed if you are making a movie or
anything that is intended to have an impact on a lot of people.

Minute Paper 3/13

The movie we watched in class today was quite impressive. The actors did a great job and the whole movie seemed real and came together perfectly. I see all of these creative projects and it discourages me a little because it is hard to see how I could do something similar. What I learned from the movie is the government can do things that suits their best interest and we will not even know about it. It is scary that wars can be started because of some kind of conspiracy. I am not saying that the government is doing this now, but it is definitely possible.

mintue paper

The idea of making future artifacts is a good one. It lets you open up
your mind to what is going on in the present. The movie today Death of
a President was very well done. It makes me so angry that people can
just use a middle eastern anything to say they did _____ and its all
their fault and anyone that looks like them they must have know about
it. Say that a whole country and anyone that is or was from that
country is guilty and hates what we stand for. It just makes you
think. What our government can do , with out any of the citizens input.

My late blog

I really think the wide range of professors helps in showing the different aspects of politics and the media. This class was helpful because we focused on the ideology of media , like news paper headlines or magazine clippings which always are persuasive and try to captures as many people as they can in their false and biased advertising. Also the GNN media clip was put together really well but its hard to fully take it seriously because its just clippings of what people said and somtimes its taken out of context completly. For example if someone said The man said to me" I want to shoot you" and then taking only the "I want to shoot you" part turns the entire thing around. So its hard for me to even take that seriously....it was diffrent from most news casts and internest sources so that was pretty cool. It was an interesting class...See you Thursday ( sorry for being late)

3/11/08

professor talked lot about the media portrait of stuffs, especially war, giving me the impression that what is media feeding us? are they giving us misleading infos to shape our minds the way they want? or is it something they need to do because people can't handle the 'truth' well as they think they can handle, or is it just plain truth? i would say only very chill and laid back ppl would think that media is giving us truth and nothing but truth. because if i do just little bit of research you can see that there is whole another side of the story to the events on the news. do i think the US is doing the right thing by moving in to iraq and 'freeing' its' people? do i think that iraq is axis of evil and US is the hero of the world? i don't believe it. to iraqi ppl, there is probably nothing eviler then US. they came in and iraq has been in worst shape ever. ppl die every single day because of the war there and stuff. Our media portrays it as if iraqi ppl actually wants US military to stay there and help. but the other side of that story is, there is protests in that region every time saying that US needs to go away and pay for the wrongs they did to the people of Iraq. I believe everybody is capable of seeing the truth to the events. they just need to put in little bit of effort to get behind what news reports are saying. i don't know if i make sense. it's really late and im tired.

Minute Paper 3/11

The clip that we saw in class today showed us how people can put their perspective forward by using the complete opposite of it. In the clip, it showed us news reels of different networks at around the incident of 9/11, then the GNN combined these news reels into a informative presentation talking about how everything has gone down hill from 9/11. I think the GNN found a good way of trying to put a different stand point out there other than the local news.

ad busting part deux, GNN ideology

after looking at how an ad suggests a certain world, how things are in that ideology, and then in turn how an artist can turn the presentation around to disrupt or "bust" the ad, i am more an more excited and interested to see what everyone wants to do for the final project. that is, if everyone isn't too offended by some liberal media to stick around. 

today's class made me think about how many cultural ideals are fed to us through ads. what we want to be and want to be like i feel is obvious as a society by our obsession with beautiful thin celebrities. what i hadn't thought about before though, and what is being brought to my attention in my women's studies class also, is not only the image of what is beautiful and desirable... but what is seen as the norm. its scary to me that certain "norms" can be completely subliminal. i don't want everyone to think anything else should be normal, or that we are doing something terribly wrong or anything... but at least we should be aware of what's going on.

on another note, it was fun to get everyone into the discussion today because it was on a rather heated topic. it was frustrating though because i felt like for a bit everyone was saying the same thing but still arguing about it. for whatever reason, we asked each other what is truth today. correct me if i am wrong, but we talked about it at length... i feel like everyone was saying, there is not real truth other than opinion on your own experience, your own judgement on everything you see.... 

i like the videos that were shown today purely because they made laugh and think about thinks a little differently. we can't take ourselves too seriously or we shut off to new ideas and quit learning. 

Andrew's Minute Paper 3/11

I found certain aspects of today's class really fun. In particular, I really enjoyed examining the advertisements from a critical perspective. While this didn't seem to interest all of the class, this is quite a familiar task for me, because of a series of classes I took in highschool. My school had a set of media related classes, with one of the basic early activities being learning all the different tactics advertisers use to make us want a product, while usually guaranteeing almost nothing. So it was easy to look at an add and see them trying to sell, happiness, sex, or adventure by claiming that is what their product is.
One good point that was brought up that really stuck with me was that while the GNN stuff focused how biased the news tends to be, one also has to consider their own biases, and how they shaped the GNN coverage of biased news coverage.
I also was amused by the fact that this far into the semester, we heard about as much today from the substituting teacher about the major project of the class as we have heard from our regular teacher.