the game that i played was elder scrolls oblivion. its a quest base game that takes you threw a magical world where you have to bring the different regions of the world together to defeat the dark force that has come to take over the land. 

This game i found to be extremely addicting and i think the thing that was most appealing was the amount of options you are givin. you don't have to get started right away. if you really want to you can just run around the world of oblivion. i think that was the big appeal for me was amount of freedom your aloud to have in the game. i never played a game that gave me so many options, but even with all these options you can still easily get back to the task at hand to start completing the game. this game took me a whole summer to complete before I came to college and with added expansion and growth in the game. its still one of my favorites when player xbox.

Asterios polyp

Asterios polyp

the story and how its layout is pretty interestingly. it seems to be be more focussed around the shapes and the illustration the try and communicate threw the story. when first looking threw the story it seem to be images supported by quotes. and you have to use the images to understand whats going on. Juxtaposition.

the story was a little hard because it seem to keep jumping around.it seems it takes place in the main characters mind. the transitions are pretty cool, where they sometimes use a symbol to help transition you to the next scene. I also enjoyed how the story seem to revolve around the main character and we look into his subconscious and see how he sees himself. he seems to show himself as this robot geometric shaped figure, that i feel fit very well with his personality and as a male. the story seems to use this tools to really give each character there own personality.  like when they are at the party towards the beginning of the story.  its also interesting to see how his life transitions from his old life to his new life and how he just seems to roll with it.  in the end this for me was a very fun a clever book. 

Oryx and Crake

Lit

Oryx and Crake a very interesting story about two individual that take very different paths threw life, but would later come together based on a women that they both saw on the internet when they were young.  Crake is a young man that works his way threw life as a bioengineer and wants to develop a new peaceful world. his friends Jimmy ends up writing ad's. the story is a bit of a love triangle of guilt and betrayal and in the end Jimmy kills Crake after Crake kills Oryx for betraying him. 

the story seems very interesting as for how its told and how it develops. its a bit of a modern version of adam an eve. after the death of Crake and Oryx. also the ideas of the apocalypse after Crakes virus takes out the population. its makes you think about how stories are told and how they are passed down for generation. 

We want to explore the idea of collaboration and its power of creating an image in an engaging project that will hopefully fill the kids with some kind of enjoyment. We'll have a couple of large sheets of paper for the kids to draw on, only they'll be folded into 3 parts, where one person draws the head, the other the body and the other the legs in any imaginary form they wish. the people drawing each of the sections wont be allowed to see the others, so when its finished and unveiled its usually some extremely humorous concoction of creativity.

emerging cultures

emerging cultures.

for the past few years a genre called electro music which is a genre that came into to play back in 2006 and 2007. the music has been sampled and used in a lot of popular pop radio. everything from Lady gaga to Lenny Kravitz have used the genera in there music. elector music which is the combination of techno music vs rock in its most water down forum. The music has been scene as the back bone for a lot of contemporary popular music, as well as for a lot of emerging artist using the sound as an experimental tool. since 2006 then genre has opened up techno music as well as other sub genres that were before getting lost in the WORLD MUSIC scene. Out of this music also grew a new culture and art scene that kids began to latch on to.

bands and record labels that helped open the door back in 2006 and 2007

ED BANGER Label 

DIM MAK Label

Institubes Lable

Daft Punk Band

SoulWax Band
http://www.theelectrowars.com/


Also to go with the ideas of emerging cultures, I found this link that I think has some truth with are emerging youth today.

http://www.observer.com/2011/daily-transom/sexless-and-the-city

RUSHMORE

MR. BLUME

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here. Because, the fact is, whether you deserve it or not: you go to one of the best schools in the country.

Max's eyes light's up. MR. BLUME Rushmore. You lucked out. Max leans forward to the railing and begins to listen intently.

MR. BLUME Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich, and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down.Some of the students and faculty begin to look at each other with puzzled expressions. Max is nodding and taking notes on the flypage of a hymnal. INSERT HYMNAL:

Rushmore -- best school in country. rich kids -- bad? MR. BLUME Just remember: they can buy anything. But they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget that. Thank you.

Mr. Blume leaves the podium. Max leaps to his feet and leads the applause. The organ starts and everyone stands up. EXT. QUADRANGLE DAY Mr. Blume and the headmaster, DR. GUGGENHEIM, come out of the chapel among the throng of students.

Dr. Guggenheim wears a wool coat and smokes a pipe. He is very dashing with silver hair and a warmly patronizing manner. He walks with his hands clasped behind his back. Two Jack Russell terriers follow quickly at his heels.

DR. GUGGENHEIN

Are you free for graduation, Herman? Maybe you could give us an encore. (whistles to the dogs) Nicholas! Copernicus! MR. BLUME (lighting a cigarette)

I don't give a shit. I paid for the whole damn natatorium. The least these little pricks can do is hear me out. MAX Mr. Blume.

Max has appeared beside them. Dirk tags along behind him. MAX My name's Max Fischer. I just wanted to tell you, I strongly agree with your views concerning Rushmore.

MR. BLUME You don't say. Tell me something. How long have you gone here? MAX Ten years. MR. BLUME

Then you've been living in a dreamworld for ten years. MAX Iknowit,sir. Max smiles broadly. They each notice that their haircuts are identical, neatly parted on the side.

MAX Your speech was excellent. Except I disagree with your ideas about rich kids. Because. After all, we don't choose who our fathers are. But that's really my only criticism.

MR. BLUME (hesitates) Thank you.

NOTES

Mr Blume seems to be one the main characters in the story as well as max. He seems to be a friend to max.

Max seems to be a nice young man just trying to make his way threw the world. He is obviously the main character

Ms.Cross is a teacher that Max falls in love with. I think the relationship grows because she sees a part of her old husband in Max and in turn unintentionally leads Max in loving her. When she starts seeing that max becomes Obsessive she backs off and goes to his friend Mr. Blume for help.

Max is not apart of this culture, so he can relates to Mr. Blume. He seems him as a father figure, later there relationship gets destroyed over a women and max takes revenge on Mr. Blume, the revenge then ends with either side happy, and near the end the relationship it brought back after neither him nor Mr Blume can have the heart of Ms.Cross

This story is a coming on age. Of a young boy who is finding himself in the world, he a smart  kid, but he seems a little reckless for his own good. This both drives the character to success and is his weakness as well. He becomes Obsessive and brings much drama to the story.

Lolita

A very interesting novel of a young girl who's life is ultimately changed when her mother is killed in a car crash. I found the novel to be pretty intense for what happens to Lolita is very sad and dark.

Humbert the narrator has a sick love for the girl, that fills him and he becomes obsessive with the girl and controlling her. I found it interesting that he did love Lolita, it wasn't just about the sex with her. Though this story could be scene as something very distasteful and disgusting, this story is really about a man who falls in love with an idea, not so much about a girl. Its the ideas of Loltia the he loves. Humbert would go into great detail as how Loltia made him feel just her being around him.

"My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I hitched up the pants of my pajamas, flung the door open: and simultaneously Lolita arrived, in her Sunday frock, stamping, panting, and then she was in my arms, her innocent mouth melting under the ferocious pressure of dark male jaws, my palpitating darling! The next instant I heart her—alive, unraped—clatter downstairs. The motion of fate was resumed. The blond leg was pulled in, the car door was slammed—was re-slammed—and driver Haze at the violent wheel, rubber-red lips writhing in angry, inaudible speech, swung my darling away, while unnoticed by them or Louise, old Miss Opposite, an invalid, feebly but rhythmically waved from her vined verandah.”

Its interesting, because like other erotic novels, I would think that that it would talk more about the bond on the characters together, like equals. My beliefs is that most of this is in Humberts head and that he is really the only one that is maturity enough to really understand what’s going on in the relationship. Lolita is far to young and I think with out her added commentary it makes the story that more creepy.

Pulp

I read first year of batman for my pulp novel. It was fun had a lot of themes that we see in a lot of pulp novels. Interesting I found that the universe of where a lot of Pulp stories take place are connected to are reality. and that this city is a dark and evil city, it sets the mood and allows to attach to something we know, like a city. but scene it does not exist it lives open the possibility for anything happen. The story it self is field with holes and is very loose. First year of Batman was very action based and was all about getting you threw the story as fast as possible, it tried to use plot elements, to build it up, but at the end its just another action story thats mostly only about the acton. it's funny analyzing it, how that really all it is and nothing more then just that. Just the same formula used multiple times, but for some reason were ok with it, we think that things will change. that this next gamble will lead Batman so where else in his journey.  The character becomes some what super human and  This formula can be scene in other forums of pulp as well, like James Bond. Really its the same story, just on a lager scale.

Locus

story seems to be about the life of these people and how there burn outs in the Los Angles, and the stereotypes of hollywood. great quote  "overestimating the importance of his crowd, the people who come to California to die" Tod is a painter and paints backdrops on movie sets. While in LA, he dreams of Hollywood failing apart and on fire. 

Tod also seems to be stuck as the go to guy in the relationship drama with Homer and Faye.  Seems like a horror story of low life's and bad problems all around, as well as Tod is on his own journey figuring out his place in this new city. In the end the idea of the locus swarm comes true after homer is caught beating a child up next to a movie premier and the crowd for the premier descends on to Homer. The area is thrown in to chaos and this is were Tods dream of the painting comes true.  and the symbolism of the title of the book takes shape.

I think when we went over this in class, I felt the idea of Hollywood as this place were only the lost go wasn't true. I think you can get the same kind of people any where not just LA county.  Iv seen the same kind of people in many cites from NYC to FL. Florida in my opine is filled with burn out. I feel Sarasota in general seems to attract a lot of gypsies and homeless people.  Same kind of thing that I see in the bigger cities.

wizard of oz

with the wizard of oz we see Dorothy as more of a girl with a lot of personal situation she seems to have a lot of characteristic of a very lost teenage girl that is trying to find herself. threw out the story it takes three male characters to get her to where she needs to go, which I thought was funny, because the wizard of oz seems to uses the roles that we have put in place of each other in western culture. that this girl can not make it threw this journey with out the help of these men, but whats weird is that Dorothy is the strong one in the group and that all the male characters have qualities that I think a lot of men try to gain. knowledge, courage and compassion. Even the witches play the role of a mother figure and the wizard plays the father, as the person to go to fix her problems. 

its a coming of age story of a young girl finding her self and is built to teach young people basic life lessons about growing up as well as putting a little bit of role play.

My situation as a reader.

Reading for myself has never been something I have fully enjoyed, I don't know if its the subject matter or that we live in an age where we except thing to come to us immediately. I guess reading for me has also been some what of a challenge scene a early age. I do like  reading short passages of information, such as news posts or reviews, but I never have been into books. Thinking about it, it might be because I did most of my reading in school and I never found that material anything I could relate to or connect with to really enjoy.

A SIGN I N SPACE

A SIGN I N SPACE

This story seems to follow a man that has control of the universe similar to the last story I read. He seems to be going back to what he had created before ex the milky way. and is amazed that its still there. he picks up on signs and the story ends with him coming to the conclusion that he really servers no purpose and that space it self my not exist. I thought the idea was kind of cool, that this person has this power but over time does realize that is it really doing anything? It makes you think that is what you are doing anything at all? Do you really hold a purpose in life? Or are you just here based on chance? 

GAME WITH OUT END

GAME WITH OUT END

Very interesting story about child like characters that play with the power of atoms. I got the idea that these children were like gods. Who were playing with powers of atoms. They were playing games but on a galactic level. The children play games but start to understand that the games will have no end they would never catch each other. It was a never ending circle short of symbolic to how the universe acts if you ask me. I thought the story was an interesting concept, it should that even on a child like level how things  moved in patterns and sort of acted a story based on myths. 

CYBER PUNK by Bruce Sterling.

CYBER PUNK by Bruce Sterling.

Very interesting article of the rise of a genera. I find it very interesting to hear the story of how a genres begin and the mentality and minds of the people with in the group.  It talked about how it had a cult. Also the idea of how other stories would be interpreted in the genera. Such as Frankenstein. I was able to connect much better with the idea, but I got me thinking. How many other stories has this genera fully reaped off, and at its core what is this really as its grown an evolved overtime. From its small cult roots. Is this something new? Or the same thing just with a new skin.  To be far you could put this on most other genera.

ALL AT ONE POINT

ALL AT ONE POINT

this one I had a better feel for. I got the idea that this was a small group of indviduals that were stuck inside some kind of ship or somthing like that. it seems to do do witht the idea of people acting out on there stertipyes and there realtionships with other cultuers, for example the  Z'zus were called out as immigrants, but towards the end of the story I had trouble where ph(i)Nk0s gets killed or bursted into nothing, I didnt know why this was happening and it really had me confused as well.

AT DAYBREAK

AT DAYBREAK

I had a real hard time with this one. I didn't really know what was going on most of the time. At first I thought it was about a kid and his family who were traveling threw space and came across this nebula, but as the story went on, it turned into they were on the nebula as for some reason the family got split up. The story feels very dream like with lots of things happening making it hard for me to understand what was going on at the moment. Even at the end I was lost with the talk of earth and I didn't know if they were looking at earth from the nebula or if they were back on it.

Warbreaker

The plot for me was very deep and complicated I think a little to complicated for the time frame that we needed to read it in. the story of two sisters and that one is to be married to a god so that Idris can have enough time to secure his defenses if the god decides to attack. he instead sends his youngest to Siri. Then its a journey of Vivenna trying to save Siri from her fate.  I mean I love fantasy novels as much as the next guy, but when a book gets this involved I get lost, and I also can't really start to believe it. Theirs nothing tangible in the novel that I can relate to, and maybe thats the appeal for some that really enjoy these novels. Its so out there. It's for these reason mostly, that keeps me away from most fantasy novels. I think stories like the golden compass and Harry Potter have these dementions that slowly bring you into the fantasy, so that the reader can start to get involved into the story and can realty at some level. 

The Graveyard

The Grave yard. I kinda had a hard time with his one. The story kept jumping around which was a little difficult, but all in all it was ok.  After the young boy. Nobody enters the grave yard he is then brought up by the dead, which I found to be a very interesting concept to push a story. Its like a story where a young child is bring brought up by there grandparents or aunt or uncle, theres that disconnect because there not really your parents. Of course these is brought to a whole new level that really pushes the concept further.

the golden compass

Lyra is a young girl that is taken on an adventure as she starts to develop into a young women. The story of her uncle that goes on an quest in the northern pole leads the story threw an adventure to try and save him and find out where she really came from. It's a coming of age tale that follows similar stories like the Narnia  books and Harry Potter, where young people are given the opportunity to play a large roles that most children would never have. It's kind of like the tale of a Spider Man or super hero character.  I always like stories like this, because their the factor where you can relate when you were a child growing up, so you have a better understanding what she was going threw and you can relate. Even when you are little it's great to read, because it gives you the story of someone else like you who has become a hero, but I think for young people its something that is an inspiration for them. The added characters like the demons are awesome. They show what a person is feeling and I found it to be a great way to communicate differently how characters were feeling then from other books in this genera. The thing i like most about this genera is they are able to kind pull from the two others scfi and horror. and turn it into there own thing. all in all it was a great read.