#Semester1

[bfmplc]

november 2022

[2000sbebebabesblog]

I’ve started my university course ‘ Biomedical and Molecular Diagnostic’ and at the beginning it was really hard. It still is now but I’ve learned to handle it better. One of my modules in semester1 was maths where I had calculus and probability. That was the one in which I struggled the most with. But I studied for maths any chance I got and I actually understood how to apply it. For my first test I got 65 % out of 40% and I still haven’t gotten my result for my second test. Ik there were a few things I got wrong like some calculus and some statistics but in all I have a feeling I passed that test. I hope my results are good enough for me to get a pass in the maths module. I’m doing biostatistics this semester. Yesterday was my first class and I quickly got onto studying the material so I don’t fall behind.

[mothersjoy]

OLUSEGUN AGAGU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, OKITIPUPAACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION

FIRST SEMESTER1 Monday, 18th November, 2024 Resumption of Academic activities/Registration ofOld and New Students2 Monday, 25th November, 2024 Commencement of First Semester Lectures3 Monday, 9th December – Wednesday 11th December, 2024 Orientation Programme for Newly admitted Students (100 level and Direct Entry)4 Friday, 20th December, 2024 – Friday, 3rd January, 2025 Christmas and New Year…

[manifestasi-rasa]

Mumpung masih waras, mau nulis something yg faedah aaah~

Sakjane ini materi perdana dari MK Psikologi Sosial, dosennya seru abiis, ngakak mulu daku sampe capek. Tak pikir-pikir, kebanyakan materi psikologi tuh berasa kek join webinar wkw, yaah tergantung dosen juga sii. Materi pertama tadi ngebahas latar belakang Psikologi Sosial. Here we go,

Manusia tuh diciptain Allah dalam empat identitas. Yang pertama, sebagai makhluk sosial of course, sisi ini yang bikin kita punya ketergantungan terhadap sesama manusya. Dari sisi ini juga kita punya gregariousness instinct, atau insting untuk berkumpul bersama dengan manusia.

Tapi tuh, kadang ngerasa ngga si, kumpul sama manusia mulu tuh kadang melelahkan hfft. Bcs kita punya sisi sebagai makhluk individu yang kadang butuh menepi dari hiruk pikuk dunia alias me time, kontemplasi sama diri sendiri, berjarak sejenak sama manusya, ini wajar yow~

Selain dua itu, manusya juga makhluk biologis yang butuh mamam, mimik, dan yang-yangan akwkw (yu know yang-yangan?) Berkasih sayang maksud ai. Dan yang utama, manusia juga sebagai makhluk yang berketuhanan (religius). Kata pak dosennya si, kalo si manusia ini sisi sosialnya seimbang, dia bakal ngerasain kalo butuh adanya zat yang Mahaaaa Besaaaar, iyaa, Tuhan.

Menurut Abraham Maslow, dalam teorinya yang bernama "Teori Kebutuhan Berjenjang", manusia tuh punya lima kebutuhan utama yang harus dicukupi agar kehidupan terus berlangsung.

1. Kebutuhan Fisiologis (Fisiological needs) ini tuh kebutuhan yang bersifat biologi (makan, minum, having sex) dan merupakan kebutuhan paling dasar dan paling besar (long life needs)

2. Kebutuhan Rasa Aman (safety needs) yang diwujudkan dalam bentuk pemenuhan sandang dan papan. Kayak semisal orang punya rumah, dia udh memenuhin tiga jenis rasa aman, yaitu aman fisik, sosial, dan aman psikologis (ayem tentrem). Jadi kepikiran, semandiri-mandirinya wanita tuh (kek aku misalnya, uhuk), sometimes emang butuh suatu hal yang bisa bikin dia merasa aman yaa.

3. Kebutuhan Sosial (Love and Belonging needs) urusan cinta misalnya, masuk ke ranah ini. Manusya butuh mencintai dan dicintai kembali. Ngga dalam urusan asmara doang yaa, kayak ke temen, sahabat, kerabat tuh juga termasuk cinta yekan. Terus kata blio, selama manusia masih hidup, sebagai makhluk sosial dia bakal butuh cinta. Iyaa, dia mungkin bisa berkelit kalo ndk butuh. Tapi bisa jadi karena salah menafsirkan bentuk cinta itu sendiri, ehe.

4. Kebutuhan untuk dihargai. Yes, manusia butuh pengakuan akan eksistensi dirinya. Jadi inget pernah spik spik sama mbak Sput tentang eksistensi diri. Jadi pas jaman mahasiswa demo, ku bilang ke doi, intinya, aku tuh kalo semisal mau ikut demo, takutnya niatku ngga bener-bener buat menegakkan keadilan, tapi sebatas utk nunjukkin eksistensi diri. Trus mbak Sput bilang, yaa gapapa do something buat eksistensi diri, manusia kan emg butuh diakuin.

5. Kebutuhan Aktualisasi Diri. Sebagai manusya, kita butuh untuk merealisasikan mimpi dan angan supaya jadi nyata dalam bentuk terbaik.

Daan karena waktunya tadi mepet ashar, materinya cuma dikit karena satu jam sendiri buat perkenalan. Biar ada chemistry diantara kita, kata Pak Dosen, xixixi. Dah, sekian, semoga bermanfaat buat aku di masa depan.

[k00268408]

Playing around with misplacement :)

Water colours & black ink pen

[fauziyusoff]

PART 2/2: Which designs do you like? __ Here's my TOP 5 out of 75 students' works for Digital Photography & Imaging (DPI), Semester 1 from Taylor's University. Students were given a task to research & discover about themself and translate it into an individualistic artistic artwork. Check out the learning process here: http://fauziyusoff.com/dpi __ #taylorsuniversity #thedesignschool #tds #degree #creativemedia #semester1 #design #nft #digitalphotography #imaging #DPI #selftitled #MCO #onlineclass #onlinetutor #zoom #parttime #lecturer #fauziyusoff https://www.instagram.com/p/CR59fJ4JaXK/?utm_medium=tumblr

[vdowlinguniblog]

Animaniacs Reboot

For my poster project I was researching Tom Ruegger. He created the hit animated show Animaniacs. Whilst researching I found out that they rebooted the show. Sadly Tom Rugger was not included in the Reboot even though he was the creator of the original series. In an interview he said that he was quite sad about not even being asked to be part of the project and before he even found out about it, they already had a showrunner and staff. Ruegger is also very disappointed by how they created the reboot because of how they changed the characters. Ruegger said about the characters Wakko, Yakko and dot in the original series: “Almost all of them are about going up against assholes, authority figures, and puncturing the balloon of pomposity, hoisting them by their own petard.”. In the revival they are mostly annoyed about the world that has changed, which sucks the magic out of the series.

I think it’s sad that they decided not to include the original creator of the series, because he just added something special to the characters. Tom Ruegger thinks he was not asked to be included due to him not wanting to be part of spin-off series, which was the reason why “The Animaniacs” were created.

Source: Alan Sepinwall,(2020).‘Animaniacs’ Revival Misses the Zany Magic of the Original. Available at:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/animaniacs-hulu-revival-review-creator-interview-1088188/

[ispywithmythirdeyeofficialbct]

Welcome all, and Goodbye Sun! Spent all day on uni today. So here's a reeeeeally long post. A lot to reflect on. My writing style may seem odd to some, but its how I retain a good memory of it all, by putting a lot of words on paper. So here's my paper of reflections on my first day back in #ctec502 with Roy and our korero.

Also my paint arrived. Hell YES. MORE PAINTING.

Carol Dweck on The Power of Yet,

I like that there is this method of teaching, how we think at a very young age, the power of critical and developing thought. It is innately in built into us from a time perhaps before birth, since it is consciousness that we are transforming and interpreting here, using our capacity to think, but CONSCIOUSLY.

There has been a book available in a well voice acted audio version on YouTube called The Tao of Pooh. This insightful little story teaches us the way of the Tao, as in the perspective of Lao Tzu, a particularly old and equanimous monk.

In the famous Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne, the archetypal too-busy-working, close/fixed-mindset, is played by the character Rabbit, a woodland creature that is so caught up in their mind they don't actually interpret what they experience or can learn from others or themselves.

In relevance to Carol Dweck's studies into 'the power of yet', it really is all about culture, ethics, opportunities and social conditioning. Childrens minds are like sponges were told, and we see it everyday, even in ourselves. We understand that yes, there is a need for workers and people who can do repetitive tasks, as how it is taught in a modern conventional schooling system, BUT THE ACTUALITY IS to any student where they are given the opportunity to choose what they want to learn, are made aware of how they can learn and evolve when given a certain challenge, in a non judgemental and constructive environment, we can drastically enhance the collective intellect of our whole interlinked social network within the short span of a year as claimed by Carol Dweck.

Here is some art that was created by myself during a 4 day Stay at Home MURAL Festival that had the theme of bringing light to issues of the world but in a positive and beautiful way.

With over 700 artists in 50 or more countries... even this simple idea to bring intelligent and simple, beautiful, artistic, childish action, that's bold for its first year running!! All from Covid-19.

Casey Reas on Digital Algorithm Art

In the first online lecture given by Roy, I was surprised we would be using algorithms so quickly in our physical work, and it took me back to my day of using procedure based processing to create scenes in a program made to generate 3D environments, this program was called Terragen 2.

Using the software called Context Free to render simple shapes and sophisticated 'real' clouds in a 2D representation even if it is generated in 3 dimensions if programmed, (and 4 dimensions if animated) it was interesting to understand why my PC I used up to 10 years ago clogged with animal fur, would die on me when I left it to render a scene in ridiculously high quality over a period of multiple hours. It was because of the amount of shapes I'd set my PC to fully render without understanding that the picture is more sophisticated than a simple blink and reality is made, it is GROWN AS A SERIES OF INTERCONNECTED OBJECTS and it adapts to or from the environment with the interconnectedness that is afforded by their state of consciousness (programming) and the matrix of energy they take form as in this sedimentary moment in reality.

The past affects the future render layer in a moment of rendering. Also the future affects the past layer by building or deleting or transforming itself, this seed from moment to moment. This Animation. To give an object a code or seed to existence, even if you can't control all of its inputs, simplicity can create diversity and complexity and vice versa.

The amount of revelation I can place in rendering in procedural matrix or lattice realities...I would love to see that in my work on mixed media and mixed reality assignments or projects I endeavour to entertain or seek out.

But this in itself is a paradox. Am I pulled to this future by my simple minded flow toward this source, as is entropy, as is the movement of all things. ..There is more than black and white to all situations. Usually it's black and white or white and black. Lighter darks or darker lights.

I wouldn't be at university because I didn't have a revelation to attend it last year. I wouldn't be at university if I felt so depressed I needed to leave. I wouldn't be at university if I wasn't allowed to attend. Nevertheless I know. I know that I am pulled forward to where I'm meant to be, as much as I am falling into old habits, they're not old, they're new, but its my consciousness that calls them old and tries to outdo the habit one moment, while another moment were relieved we didn't listen to the critical mind saying we shouldn't do what we don't want to do. Everything has a cause and effect like the render in window. Like my life on pen and paper. Like my mind engaged in its word spinning and weaving.

I digress back to my art in context of the Casey Rea's YouTube video.

A fun aspect of my art is it would look amazing even in a quick render with plenty of visual noise, but I love the simplicity of procedural based virtual world and object creation and the layers it can develop or devolve into.

Another thing is using Photoshop to apply visual post production enhancements was also something I really enjoyed as a part of the iterative process, and this has been reaffirmed in a book I have just picked up called Photoshop for 3D artists V1 by 3dtotal Publishing.

I watched all the videos recommended by Roy in his pdf today from the lecture and I can summarise my views on them:

Carol Dweck: This type of learning should be more widespread in our culture. Only way it will change is if we change, and teach others the same way. It begins with us. I enjoy the way Roy engages with us in our lectures like we're human beings and not students. I think this is the most important thing about his teaching that enthuses me, and the themes of his classes are quite informative.

Casey Reas: I like his work, I'm not new to this idea of art, but I did like to see his process. I wouldn't certainly seek out a video like that one given but it definitely was insightful into his particular environment and methods of producing ideas.

John Maeda: Wow this guy really looks like he's on the guide for dummies, and he definitely could write a few of them. Was a great insight into his perception of reality and how he expressed his ideas and himself was also simplified complex ideas and that they are readily available to see or interact with including his book. Simple. It's right there in front of you. All it takes is a shift in perception to discover what was currently scanned over as unimportant details by our consciousness. It's all right there in front of us, or if we feel something, from within us.

Warren Berger: Well to be honest, he didn't excite me as many of the other videos because his idea was so simple and not really that much of a paradigm shift within myself. It always can come down to refinement of an unwanted edge. Does one see a wave as something that can be answered? Can you answer that question? How about the question preceding this one? Can a bird fly as well as a fly can bird? Why is a raven like a writing desk? Why do we play 20 questions? We are always in an iterative process of rendering our existence and our legacy in this reality by the choice we have when faced with a question. Depending on its complexity or cryptically contrived hindrances, we will always be faced making a choice, or answer the question of our existence, with our consciousness in this moment. And can we use that moment to ask something we have never thought we had an idea about before...like why isn't my skin purple? Where did my consciousness come from and why is it specifically in belief that I am me, every time I get up at 8 am, but not while I am in the throes of a dream?

Riddle me that and I'll ask you why

Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.

I have seen my lives

In my eye

Simply put, I never die

It's not a riddle, it's who am i

Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.

[sarawitek]

Photography Major Project 1 - First Trip to Chernobyl; Part 2

some more pictures I took, via my Camera for my project.

[bfmplc]

october 2022

[thisisjcuso]

Week 1

Activity 1: What’s in my bag?

For our first class in Visualising Data Through Art, we were given an activity to get our brains started for the semester. We were asked to empty the contents of our bags and get in groups to then sort our things in a way that told a story.

My team and I chose to sort our things by category (laptop, bottles, wallets, headphones, clothing, etc.) and by age (newest to oldest). We would’ve liked to add another layer to the data by using post-it notes to label what belongs to each person, but unfortunately no one had post-its.

We went through the different groups and they explained their thinking and organisation of objects. Some sorted by colour, value, how essential the item is and fear of loss. It was interesting to see how everyone tackled this little activity but it was also a nice way to break the ice and get to know our fellow classmates. I’m excited to see where this class goes and how it can help inform the way I do things.

I chose this class because I think it will help me when I have to decide what I’d like to do for my final grad show piece this year. Being in third year is already a bit stressful but really exciting.

[designruh-blog]

Collection of photographs made by me, representing harmony and goodbye

[michellesharplesart]

‘No one cares’ acrylic on canvas, painted and scratched into as I was feeling thoughts that I wasn’t loved I channeled my inner thoughts straight onto the canvas. Punching, scratching and painting in fast notions. I wanted to just leave it as it was and not work into it anymore. I think it’s important to know you won’t like every piece of work you make, but the process and the meaning and technique being used helps to make the piece. I can look back at this piece one day and think ‘god I’m glad I don’t feel that way anymore’. I wanted people to know what was in my head. I’ve also jotted down all the other things that came to mind as my theme mostly concentrates on what is in your head mentally and how I’m using my artwork as a way to let out so to speak of the negativity within a timeframe in my life whilst being at university.

[k00268408]

Made a new friend

[vdowlinguniblog]

The passerby

The short film is split into two stories about two different boys. It starts out with Thomas drawing a picture of his crush Karen who he is meeting up with soon. On the way to meet her he sees his best friend and he tells Thomas that Karen also liked another guy. He keeps driving on his bike when he suddenly gets hit by a car. 

In that moment it cuts to the second guy who is on his way to buy drugs he lives next to the bus stop where Thomas was supposed to meet Karen. On his way he passes the accident and Thomas house. He starts talking with his dealer about the accident and they realise he doesn’t have enough money, so he has to go back home. In the background you can see Thomas family hearing about the accident and Thomas dying and being put into an ambulance. When he is back home Karen is waiting at the bus stop and you can see her getting worried.

First the story seemed a bit boring but with every minute I started to love the story more and more. It was very emotional and it showed how it is to just pass by a very heart-breaking scene without actually knowing what happened. I loved the way it was in a collage style and it seemed to get darker with every part of Thomas story.

[ricky-is-a-book]

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