#faildoc

[marlosanmiguel]

Studio 2: Interactive Storytelling

I’ve absolutely lost the plot.

[matveycolab]

The other side of Studio 2

The yesterday's lecture felt a bit like a joke, how many social accounts do we need? If we want to learn how to use social networks we can do so by ourselves, why bother going to Uni then? And everything is as vague as it can be. All the time I wonder what am I actually learning. Just a small rant, but things gotta change.

[niishbct]

Interactive Documentary: Prezi (Studio 2: Project 1) References

All sources that I have used for my Interactive Documentary PREZI have been referenced below:

References:

M, Riggs. (2012). Forty years of drug war failure represented in a single chart. Retrieved from

http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/11/forty-years-of-drug-war-failure-in-a-sin

F, Pipes. (2015). War on Drugs. Retrieved from

http://franklinpipes.com/2015/05/05/7-percent-of-americans-think-the-us-is-winning-war-on-marijuana-drugs/

 National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2015). Overdose Death Rates. Retrieved from

http://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

 G, Maggie. (2014). Family Prison. Retrieved from

https://earthcrazy.wordpress.com/tag/failure-of-war-on-drugs/

 T, Dominguez. (2015). How the war on drugs betrayed America. Retrieved from

http://testtube.com/testtubenews/how-the-war-on-drugs-betrayed-america/?test=grv

 K, Bond. (2015). Wars don’t work. Retrieved from

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21650112-one-war-drugs-ends-another-starting-it-will-be-failure-too-wars-dont-work

 W, Dana. (2015). The war on drugs. Retrieved from

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-war-on-drugs-a-trillion-dollar-failure-20150625

 C, Schwartz. (2015). America’s war on drugs has failed. Retrieved from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/war-on-drugs_n_7164914.html

 T, Arnold. (2013). The war on drugs. Retrieved from

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/paradox/htele.html

 A, Crawford. (2015). What have we been smoking?. Retrieved from

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2015/07/13/marijuana-prohibition-and-the-war-on-drugs-have-utterly-failed

 Audio file:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBHnk78Q_4

by Aaron Hodgins Davis 

[hektikcreations]

My Personal Failure

            In September of 2010, I started my first semester of University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I was freshly graduated high school and had no real life experience or aspirations. I was told by all of my teachers in high school that I should enrol in university as soon as possible because it’s a tough world out there and you can’t get by these days without it. Being the studious and keen lad I was, I enrolled in the first program that came to mind, a Bachelors program at the Haskayne School of Business. I knew nothing about Business and I didn’t understand the consequences of studying something I wasn’t passionate about at the time. 

           My first semester was really hard. I had no real study skills and my time management skills were atrocious. I found myself spending a large of my class time… not in class. I would head in for my morning classes and then just leave at lunch. This continued for most of the semester until I started to feel the exam crunch. I crammed a whole semesters worth of work into a week of constant stress and energy drinks of course. Exam time rolled on passed and I somehow passed all of my courses. I felt pretty pleased with myself. This is what university is all about. Easy. I’ll approach the next semester the exact same way…

            Second semester came on a lot stronger than the first, and I definitely was not ready. I again spent most of my class time somewhere else physically or mentally. Calculus was my most hated class by far. It didn’t help that it was at 8 am every day. This time when exams came around, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to cram like I had the previous semester. I ended up dropping calculus (failing before I even tried) on the course release deadline date. Spent the next week squeezing all of the information I could possibly fit into my cranium before exam week. It most definitely did not work as well as it did the first semester. I just barely passed the remainder of my courses.

            I had finished my first year of Business school and I still had no idea why I was there or where I was headed. I knew I was there because that’s what everyone else wanted me to do, never once did I think about what I wanted to do. That is exactly where my massive failure came from.

            Halfway through my third semester, it really hit me like a ton of bricks, I HATE WHERE I AM AT. I don’t like this course, I don’t like this school, and all the problems I have with procrastination are because I truly don’t have any connection with what I am doing! My failure was letting other people decide my future and the price I paid was about $12000 in tuition and a year and a half of my precious time.

[matveycolab]

We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more from our failures than from our successes. With success, sure, we are pleased, but we often have no idea why we succeeded. With failure, it is often possible to figure out why, to ensure that it will never happen again.

Don Norman (The design of everyday things)

[laura-bct]

Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Inspiration for Prezi

I came across a great website full of quotes from Vincent van Gogh himself. They give a bit of insight into his life and his feelings and I intend to use some of them in my Prezi document. The following ones stood out to me the most:

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” 

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” 

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.” 

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” 

“Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of ‘you can’t’ once and for all.”  

[isthisprogress]

Project 1: Rethink Failure - Story of Personal Failure (25/07/14)

Activity 01:

My failure story is about failing to find an individual personal story on failure to discuss. Failure is and has always been a core part of my life, where from a young age I have always been naturally bad at most things; which opened the gateway to failure. I have experience array of different types of failure.

I had failed to maintain and make, strong and worthwhile friendships; throughout high school.

I had failed to take care of myself. I would deprive myself of sleep just to finish off some work (Which in reality was a complete waste of my time and barely helped me for my future). Also, when injured I would make my condition worse.

I fail to stay committed towards mastering or reaching an advanced level for a skill. This is mainly, due to me feeling too scared to pursue my heart.

I fail at doing many basic household task, due to my incompetence, lack of common sense and tendency to miss small details.

I fail at cooking, frequently burning or forgetting a core component.

Furthermore, I have experienced seeing years of hard work fall apart in mere seconds. This moment was the turning point of my life; I realised that I had never achieved anything or truly develop any useful skills.

Throughout, most of my life I always found myself being so close; yet so far from my goal. At these moments, I would wish that I worked a little harder or was just a little faster. Subsequently, I would feel “not good enough”.

Nevertheless, being trapped in spiral of failure for a long time has taught me many useful life lessons. Failure has by far been my greatest teacher; where in truth failure is not some negative force set out to ruin one’s life. Rather, it lets one become aware of their weaknesses. Over time, I would begin to reflect on my failing and try identify my mistakes. Soon, I would begin to cherish my faults and begin to work against them. These actions changed my life and made me aware of the potential that I kept buried away.

Currently, failure is what pushes me forward and has provided me with many useful skills. Such as, being able to help and understand weaknesses of others’. Due to my many failings I am able to find where others have problems and help them understand or learn past their difficulties.

The fact that I cannot share an individual failing story is a failure towards this task. ;)

But in all seriousness, I am very grateful for my past failures. If it wasn’t for them I would not have chosen BCT.        

Words: 443

[juliandv-creativetech]

Fäilure

Never failing sounds good, right?

Failure and experimentation have a direct connection. If you never experiment and always do the same things you should in theory never fail.

I think there’s a good way and a bad way to fail. Failing right requires a positive attitude. One that will allow someone to learn from the failure, turning it into a success and making the whole experience worthwhile.

Humans aren’t perfect. We fail. All of us. Look at any successful person in the world and I guarantee that they have failed in many things in their lives. Most of the richest people had many more failures in their lives than successes. Big companies fail too. New Coke and Google Wave to name a couple of these failures.

Embrace failure

“don’t listen to academic institutions that make you fear the concept of failure”

I’m in the right place then :)

See failures as opportunities

You are what you think.

Your perception of reality is altered by your own inner thoughts.

So think positive.

Learn to see opportunities where others see failure.

[pluralpossessive]

#CTEC503: WEEK 4 // ANNA

Hard work beats talent every time.

In pursuit of our ambitions, what we produce doesn’t always match our visions - especially in the early years.

With creative work, there’s a fallacy that good ideas just happen. However, it is no different than any other discipline. Creative work requires practice, refininement, and patience with yourself; an attitude to continue learning.

Our journeys are non-linear, sometimes we diverge from our plans. The form of Glass’s presentation is one way this message is visually communicated.

Consider the style of presentation, the style of content (e.g. emphasis with size), the tone to communicate your message. What are you trying to say? What is the most effective way to say it?

We have to work hard to be good at something. We never truly reach that end point, we should always be working to improve and expand our abilities and knowledge.

On taste / judgment: consider that this also needs development, this can also change over time. Remember that taste is highly subjective. Taste is determined by the audience. Thus, who is your audience? Do you understand them? Have you profiled their interests, needs and habits?

To help develop our taste, awareness and judgment, we must keep ourselves open to opportunities to learn. Every person you meet, coffee table reading, article on your Facebook feed, or experience in your everyday life is an opportunity to be learning something.

Learning is not always explicit. Pay attention. Ask yourself what you can take away from every situation. And then ask yourself, what you can give back to help others in their learning journey.

[patriciadanielletan]

Found this brilliantly simple and creative retelling of the story of Hansel & Gretel using Prezi. A great example of how Prezi’s pathways/zoom feature can be used in innovative ways to craft a narrative.

[marlosanmiguel]

Studio 2: Choosing a Target Audience

I’ve been trying to choose a suitable target audience for my prezi story but I’m struggling to grasp anything. It’s not that it’s hard to grasp, I’m just not compelled to grasp it? I don’t feel any connection towards this project because I’m not really interested in storytelling.

Now, I’ve been colabing with a friend through google doc (which I will blog about later) and she suggested people around my age group (18 - 20) as I can easily relate and cater to them. I don’t know why but for some reason, I find my age group to be immature. Something about it just shouts out “I’m too cool”. Don’t get me wrong, everyone in BCT is amazing and can handle themselves well but something about that age group just doesn’t sit right with me. I feel like it’s an age group that wouldn’t care about an interactive story about failure.

So it got me thinking, what do I feel strongly about. In terms of failure, what drives me nuts the most. Who or what can I really connect with. Then it hit me. It’s this attitude towards the arts and the creative industry. Drama, music, visual arts and extends to anything creative like BCT. I sometimes can’t help but feel like a social reject. A failure in the social occupation structure. A monstrosity that has nothing to offer the world. In high school, I was put in a class full of academics, from year 9 till year 13. With this kind of exposure, the definition of a successful occupation always laid with the academic jobs such as engineers, scientists and doctors and everything else was of lesser grade. They were supportive of the creative jobs but it always felt condescending, so I couldn’t help but feel like a failure because I’ve chosen something that is almost considered taboo.

I need to refine and restructure this feeling to make it better suit the brief, which is why I’ll need to talk to a number of people, at least Anna.

[claudinenalesumct]

Successful People Who Failed At First

I originally started with 50 people but decided to narrow it down since 50 was definitely too much.

These are the people (and their categories) that I am going to research and include in my Prezi. I chose these people because they are from different times (either the present or the past) and other a great variety/range in terms of failure, while all technically staying under the main theme of “career failure”. 

BUSINESS

-          Henry Ford

-          Bill Gates

-          Walt Disney

SCIENTISTS

-          Albert Einstein

-          Isaac Newton

-          Thomas Edison

PUBLIC FIGURES

-          Abraham Lincoln

-          Oprah Winfrey

HOLLYWOOD TYPES

-          Charlie Chaplin

-          Marilyn Monroe

WRITERS AND ARTISTS

-          Vincent Van Gogh

-          J.K. Rowling

-          Steven Spielberg

MUSICIANS

-          Beethoven

-          Elvis Presley

-          The Beatles

ATHLETES

-          Michael Jordan

-          Babe Ruth