Independent Research Project Proposal:
For my Independent Research Project, I would like to create an animation sequence using iStopMotion of my own. I love watching animation and I thought how cool it could be if I could create my own. I have very little experience with iStopMotion, therefore, I want to learn how to use it effectively to create not only animation and time sequences but to also add music and sound to my sequences.

Response to "Preliminary Problems In Constructing a Situation"

What my opinions were after reading this passage was that I found it similar to people wanting accomplish a goal or mission. For example, in the middle of the passage, it is mentioned that the constructed situation is necessarily collective in its preparation and development. Therefore, it says that one person would need to play the role as a director. The preparations and development here would be the preliminary problems that the actors and actresses performing in a play or acting for a movie would have to overcome. When the actors and actresses are fully prepared to perform or film a movie, it is considered to be the constructed situation. Basically, the obstacles one would have to get over would be the preliminary problems and the final result would be the constructed situation.


Response to "Theory of the Dérive"

In the beginning of the passage, I thought dérive simply meant someone to be daydreaming while studying. In the second paragraph of the passage, it is said that one or more persons during a certain periood drop their usual motives and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and encounters they have. This is when I thought it could also mean a person being on vacation in a very clean refreshing and relaxing area and just clear their worries and problems out of their minds. The last idea I picked up on when it said that the dérive could go on for a brief moment or even several weeks, was that it could be stress or a difficult situation a person might be in. For example, a couple could've broken up and felt sad and gloomy for quite a long period of time.

These are my responses to the three passages. First is "Notebook: On Activity and Performance." Second is "Meat Joy." Third is "The Printer as an Instrument of Real Time."

1. For "Notebook" On Activity and Performance," I thought the whole passage was talking about what kind of performances there are and what can occur in them when I read for the first time. However, when I looked it over again, I noticed that the author mentioned an artist at the beginning of the passage. This made me assume that the passage was talking about how an artist would draw and what kind of flaws could occur in a way they would talk about an actual performance given in front of a large audience.

2. For "Meat Joy," I did not quite understand what the passage was talking about. The only thought I had about Meat Joy was that it had something to do with the images and drawings of mainly dirty materials just like raw fish, chickens, and paper crap mentioned in the pasage.

3. For "The Painter as an Instrument of Real Time," I can say right off the bat that Kristine Stiles talks about several of Schneemann's artwork, videos, and paintings she has done in her life. Not only does she talk about them but she explains what kind of procedures and processes Schneemann had to go through to produce her work such as comparing her work to other artists.