L Harms Time Arts Spring 2008

circuit bend - journey of my toys

2008-04-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

The circuit bend was successful! I was able to make insert a .25" jack and create a circuit jump in a kids phone. It makes great glitchy sounds and can't really be turned off. But I donated it to the lab for Mark to use as an example.

Animation - today is a new day

2008-04-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

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Trailer Remix - The Greatest Temptation of All

2008-03-20T22:37:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed this project at first but as I began cutting everything up, it became harder and harder to keep a new plot line going. I was trying to turn the love story of Moulin Rouge into a horror movie. Basically that he still falls in love with her and dreams of her loving him in return, but in fact she is just a seductress. At the end when the man says kill the boy... that's is supposed to be the kind of horror movie cliff hanger I recognize from today's horror trailers.

"The Problem of Cooperation" Response

2008-02-15T06:42:00.000-08:00

Lauren Harms
Mark Edward Grimm
FND 111
15 February 2008

After reading Robert Axelrod’s description of people being selfish in group interactions I am able to relate to my own experiences from within group settings. As he states in his introduction, “people are not angels, and they tend to look after themselves and their own first” (Axelrod 3).

Yet the fact that we interact in group settings on a daily basis does not change people’s attitude. We try to integrate it into education early on, so that in the future people will be able to handle such situations in their workplaces.

We do this so that all can better understand the workings of cooperation. The interaction of cooperation is essentially a two way street. As Axelrod points out it is both how we react to the task of being asked to cooperate, as well as the other party’s reaction. Even if one side is completely willing to cooperate, that doesn’t mean the other is as well.

His question of how cooperation can develop if “incentive to be selfish” exists is especially fitting in the classroom and education setting (Axelrod 3). Each person in a group is particularly concerned with their grade and how the professor will view them considering individual grades will be given out in the end. As Axelrod puts it, each person will “seek their own security through means which challenge the security of others” (4).

If and when someone is willing to cooperate, there is always a catch. They always want there to be equal division of work. Like Axelrod’s example of inviting friends to dinner, human’s expect a return for anything they do. I believe that cooperation is human nature, as McNamara says, “explaining the rise and maintenance of cooperation is central to our understanding of biological systems and human societies.” It may not be completely natural to do things selflessly for others, but the act of doing tasks that support a community and group of people is natural. In Green and Cillessen’s study of children around age six, they discovered that the children were much less interested in a theoretical grade than they were in interacting with others. “There was more variation in the strategies children used to elicit the cooperation of peers than in the strategies they used to gain access to the resource.” I think the basis of human nature can be observed at young ages as the children have not be affected by society.

Kuo found the same in his study of children’s interactions in community. “Through the participation of empowerment mechanism, community youths are guided to develop abilities such as autonomy, independence, and self-discipline. With these abilities, the youth could utilize social capital to impel community growth and group cooperation.”

The professor plays another important role, aside from giving grades, in the cooperation of students. To me the professor fulfills the “central authority” position who “police(s) the situation” (Axelrod 4). Without the professor there to initiate the task under which students must cooperate, there wouldn’t be a situation at all.

As Axelrod transitions and brings up the Prisoner’s Dilemma, I loose his train of thought. I believe it is subliminal cooperation; there is no mental thought in trying to cooperate and play with the person. You are really just trying to trick them through a game. Group cooperation is not a game, it is an interaction. I believe this is an important point to consider in our classroom. That we can in fact cooperate and work together as long as we are willing to interact.

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Works Cited

Axelrod, Robert. The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books, 1984. 3-24.

John M McNamara, Zoltan Barta, Lutz Fromhage, Alasdair I Houston. "The coevolution of choosiness and cooperation. " Nature 451.7175 (2008): 189-92. Research Library. ProQuest. Bird Library. 14 Feb. 2008

Jui-Kun Kuo, Cheng-Neng Lai, Chun-Shen Wang. "Social Participation and Life Satisfaction: From Youth's Social Capital Perspective. " Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge 12.2 (2008): 237-242. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. Bird Library. 14 Feb. 2008

Vanessa A Green, Antonius H N Cillessen. "Achievement versus maintenance of control in six-year-old children's interactions with peers: an observational study. " Educational Psychology 28.2 (2008): 1. Research Library. ProQuest. Bird Library. 14 Feb. 2008

Sound Experimentation

2008-02-12T20:23:00.000-08:00

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This is my first try at manipulating sound in Audacity. Of the segments we collected I used the light switch being turned on and off (in two different keys and one set slightly off from the other), shoes being shuffled, push pins being dropped on a shovel, and a paper towel being ripped. I didn't really know what to expect or what to make exactly, but it was fun to experiment and mess with all the different features. If you knew what you were looking for this would be a great way to add sound effects.

Lost Shots

2008-02-08T06:08:00.001-08:00

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For this piece Kailin and I were experimenting with different camera angles and shots. It was fun to try and figure out ways to incorporate different techniques into each frame. Kailin did most of the filming, but on any of the shots were I'm not in them, I did get to experiment a little. I really like the idea of trying all these out and hopefully I'll remember to incorporate them into my projects in the future.

Narrative - travel buddies

2008-01-31T20:09:00.000-08:00

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For this project we were to tell a narrative in three different perspectives. I chose to draw out scenes, use a still photograph and film that I had from the actual experience. I wanted to film the actual drawing out because it seemed like it was different from regular shots and I really liked how you could hear the marker. It's interesting doing a movie with no continuous sound or background music, it definitely changes the mood.

Research - on the bus

2008-01-25T06:33:00.000-08:00

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For the research film I decided to go over the South Campus bus systems. Although the actual route takes about 15 mins I sped up parts of the film to give an abridged version. This is basically just to inform the viewer of what life on the bus is like.

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2008-01-25T06:09:00.000-08:00

this will be my blog for time arts, spring 2008, grimm

my name is Lauren Harms,
I'm planning on majoring in communications design,
I currently live on south campus,
I am originally from Manhattan, Kansas... the little apple