Sarah spoke about her trip to Bolivia, and I find it interesting about what she had to mention in her post. “Anyways, while staying at this village I enjoyed the freshest and most organic food! It made every college meal swipe spent seem so disgusting and overly processed. Their houses were also very simple and the way of life in general. The entertainment came from musical instruments and dancing not sitting in front of a TV. Their water supply came from the towns people walking to the bottom of the mountain and back again so as you can imagine they used their resources sparingly because of their value and the work behind its availability. This really made me think about how careless I was with my time, my resources, and my diet because of the so readily available products always in front of me.” As Americans, this is our entire way of life is the opposite of other places in the world. I think that America can never go to the way things are in Bolivia, and that third world countries will become more like the U.S. and other developed nations.
Mike F. brings up a very interesting point about plagiarism in his blog post about A Remix Manifesto. “Now, I must say that when certain books are read over and over again people tend to read the same things from them, just because someone before me thought the same thing and wrote it down does it mean that me putting the same thought down in my own words is stealing because I did it after them? Again, where do we draw the line”? I do know that there is a thing called common knowledge, which means if it is general information then it doesn’t have to be cited. There is a problem with that because if we read something in a book or two or even three and they all say the same thing, we still have to cite from somewhere even if we learned it before and have a general interpretation that could be our own. Who wouldn’t play it safe with the threat of academic misconduct? I think that is the biggest problem with plagiarism.
Mike B. mentions color perception in his blog. “Both Albers and Itten were interested in the psychological aspects of color. They were also interested in how the eye and the mind perceive color. In his color study called Homage to the Square Josef Albers studied the effects color had on the eye. His squares, which he painted using pure non tinted paint, would show how our perception of pure color can change when placed on different colors.” It is interesting to think about how color affects people. Psychology is a growing field and there are many things that should be utilized to help people in any way possible. It is a challenge because someone who designs anything has to understand how color will affect the people who use the product.
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