Author: chrisdenecke

Group work 9/23/11

On the friday Spetember 23rd my gorup and i met to dicuss how we are going to get poeple involed in our project. We decided to set a time and date to interview people aobut the ratio at tech and thier social life. We wanted more viedeos of peopel doing wierd things for sweets, so we set up times to bake cookies or cupcakes. We want more viedeos becasue 3 videos is not enough for a several week project. Also we diccuesd the creation of a website where all our results were to be placed. This website will house all of our viedoes, explanations, pictures etc. Also it will include our conclusion and how we got our conclusion.

Our project is going to involve several different parts. All are focused around social awkwardness. One part os the ratio and how comfortable people are walking up to the opposite sex and just talking or hanging out. Also we have what people will do for sweets. IT may just be they want to do weird stuff and this an outlet for it. Ze Frank inspired this part with his Earth Sandwhich video. We are hoping to make people more comfortable with social interactions, wheter its just friends or with the opposite sex or anywhere.


Right Brain Joke Experiment

Ok so for my play activity i decided to dissect a joke. It is not necessarily a real joke, but to me it is very funny. It is titled  How to win a Drink in a Bar. The instructions areas follows: 1.Bet your buddy that you can finish 3 pints of beer before he can finish 3 shots. There are only 2 rules and they are that you get a 1 pint head start and you can not touch each others glasses. (You may be able to see where this is going at this point.) 2. Drink your first beer. 3.When finished, place the cup upside down over one of his shot glasses. 4. Drink the rest of your pints at your leisure because he can not remove your glass.

Ok, i have not tried this just going to put that out there, but i can imagine the look on your friend’s face when you put your glass over his. This mental picture is what makes this  funny to me. Go on picture it, do you not find it funny? Anyway that is what i did for this activity.


Symphony: Mahler’s 4th.(with web URL to music)

For my Symphony project i decided to listen to Malher’s 4th Symphony in G major. I choose to listen to this one because i have not heard it before, unlike some of the others. When I listen to this piece I feel many different emotions run thorough me. My two favorite parts are the 2nd and 4th movement. In the 2nd movement I fell relaxed and calm until the suspense starts to build. When that happens I fell agitated and alert until the music decrescendos back down to calmness. The 4th movement is really my favorite because it is a balance between pure chaos and order. The piano part starts out smooth and soft and all of a sudden explodes into a fast paced solo and then back again. This piece was masterfully done and keeps the listener interested in what is going to happen next. I feel this Symphony talks to the listen about the balance you need to find between order and chaos.

The Symphony can be found at this URL on youtube. It is 56 minutes long but worth it. THere is a video that goes with it, but it is just the same picture.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_f-gD0R164&feature=player_detailpage

You can just copy and paste the URL. I’m not sure how to add it here as an actual URL.


Friday 9/2/11

On friday our group discussed what our social experiment project would be. Eventually after many minutes of silence one group member came up with the idea of walking into a random opposite gender’s dorm, with sweets if various natures, and seeing how the people in the dorm would react socially. We had a good laugh for about 10 minutes and then realized it was a good idea. Of course it sounds morel like a ploy for the 3 guys in the group to meet girls, so we added the fact that the girl in our group had to do it to a guys dorm. Then we started to think, what sweets? We came up with 1 person brings brownies, 1 cupcakes and 1 cookies. We all think that this project is going to be fun over the course of 5 weeks and look to forward to it.