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Doing this project really made me understand what stable and ambiguous really meant, and also that it can be conveyed in many different ways by different people. it could be sown anywhere, from little things on the street to even buildings on your street. it has also taught me the importance of positive and negative space, placement and contrast.
These are the scratches that I made from the pictures that I took outside. They are both inspired by the leafs picture. I wasn’t hard to draw it because it kind of looks like a mouth to me.
The sparks in the video represent the staccato song while the violin represents the violin in the legato song. The left panel on the bottom slides slowly to the violin while pitch is shown on the other violin panels. I also chose to make the smallest spark panel the one with the most energy to match the staccato beat that has higher frequency.
I worked on this for about 7 hours on the pictures and about 20 minutes to pick a song and a part I would crop.
Part 1: Biography
Hi, my name is Olando Alexis and i’m currently a freshman at City Tech. As a person I feel as if I have the potential to be great and succeed in life. To be honest I haven’t really figured out what i’m passionate about in life yet. The feeling of uncertainty is a huge mystery but in a way also stressful and unpredictable. I want to be productive in the future but not be working a 9-5 job. I like the feeling of having a social life. It’s true that a social life can be formulated through careers but there’s only so much you can talk or relate to people about at work. The social life I want is more of a work-life balance, and also being close to my friends and my loved ones. Knowing the type of person I am, I tend to heed others opinions but I also know what not do do. I feel as if I want to be successful I would have to take risk. I can’t be a regular person, it’s more than just a future for me. Whatever I end up doing, I hope that career pays well and that it makes me satisfied. Everyone knows that an unpredictable life is dangerous and scary, but I somewhat love it and hate it at the same time because the rush is amazing. I just want to be stable and be able to say I succeeded and keep on moving forward through the challenges that were in my way.
Part 2: Avatar and image description
For my avatar i chose a character form an anime known as “Naruto”. So all in all the character that i picked goes by the name of Shikamaru. So in this anime, Shikamaru is this really intelligent guy that seems to think differently and out of the box from everybody else around him. Although very comprehensive and intelligent, He is most of the time depicted as Easygoing and lazy. He lacks work ethic and tends to find easy ways or does a lazy version of works given to him or works that are mandatory. In this particular anime, characters have great power abilities and and fighting arts. In shikamaru’s case, his powers are powerful but not as powerful as his peers but what really sets him apart and makes him superior to his peers is his ability to outsmart and make his opponents/does look silly. The image itself depicts a my avatar looking forward with his right hand behind his head and he looks very lazy. Also, in the picture the character looks as if he doesn’t really care what’s going on around him or what anybody has to say to him. Also you might notice that he had a ponytail as a hairstyle. That’s significant because that shows that he’s not very stylish and that he just keeps his hair simple and tidy.
The thing that me and my avatar have alike is that we both think things through before making a decision and we also don’t act on impulse most of the time. To be honest I have no type of idea what i’m passionate about but, then again it is what it is. For viewers looking at my avatar they might just see a guy that has a very boring face, but in my opinion his face expression says and means a lot to me. To me it means observant and neutral. People often misinterpret observant people as boring and in some cases quiet. In my head it’s more fictitious than obvious. As a person im more outspoken but i also feel as if my character is very outspoken when he wants his point heard and when he feels as if his voice has to be heard. Another thing that people might notice is my characters body language. While most People see his body language as shameful and shy, i look at im more as a disinterested, and that to me says that my avatar doesn’t do anything that has no interest to him.
Final Part: Conclusion
In short, I feel as if my profile has been completed and that the audience understands my point of view and also my personality. My profile conveys the fact that I’m an observant, Intelligent, and outspoken person but also more easy going and interesting. I expect my profile to give me more motivation into being more of an hard worker. Also I want this profile to allow me to accept myself as I am and try to change all the parts that i consider to be able to get more improved. Lastly, I hope that this character can help me understand that I do have defaults and that it can help me continue through college to get my degree in whatever I get interested in.
These quotes address the different New York experiences because the article Lost and Found by Colson Whitehead focuses on how New Yorkers tend to take everything for granted in “their New York” which is what they experience on a day to day business. But because we have different experiences like that and the city changes every day no one’s New York is the same as another person’s because someone will always encounter a store and remember it for it selling that product, or functioning for this purpose. Then when the store goes away new tenants or people who live in the neighborhood won’t see it like that but the newly renovated cafe, restaurant etc. This relates to my juxtaposition because the new highrise may have been something else such as a store or an abandoned lot at some point. The quote from A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport” by Charles Mcgrath talks about how people may not be used to walking around New York for the first time or underestimating the time it takes to walk. This could connect to my juxtaposition because people have different experiences walking in New York. If you live farther away from Manhattan I would like to believe that the streets are normally less crowded which may be apart of your New York if you chose to live away from commercial areas. The final quote by Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt” by
I chose to take a picture of old stores on the front compared to the clearer residential buildings in the back. What’s striking is that they kept the stores the same which might make me think that the store owners may have kept their exterior the same because of nostalgia reasons or they simply didn’t have the funds or right to renovate their storefront. The story I could imagine from this is that people were attracted to how New York’s shops are so close together and wanted to live closer to the street with a variety of shops. However, the existing apartment buildings were too old thus they needed to create a highrise to meet with the demand of new tenants. If I had to do some research on this project I may look up if the owner is currently occupying the building, when it was created and if they own rights and responsibility for these stores. I could also see when the highrise was created and if possible see an image of how the daily life on that street looked. If it seemed lively then I could perhaps conclude that it was an attraction to live there at some point.
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The story that I decided to work on is “Here Poverty and Privilege are Neighbors; Income Gaps are a Source of Resentment and Guilt by Janny Scott because the word poverty was the first phrase that my eyes first caught before reading through the stories. Every single day I see many homeless people roaming around the streets and I always wonder how did they ended up into this mess and as a New Yorker, I believe it’s important for me to know about the issues between society and poverty and why are there people falling behind our backs. My expectations though this article will probably be the problem of the the populations and high income tax, it makes sense to put these reasons for the cause of poverty because it could be difficult for people to find available rents homes or apartments and income taxes are very high on these days now. For instances, in New York City, there are millions of buildings and/ or other facilities surrounding the city and most of them are unavailable rent for the cause of the dramatic increase of the population and the income taxes rapidly increasing and for some cannot catch up and they end up bankrupt leading to poverty for themselves. It would also be great what New Yorkers think about other people from different states or foreign people.
“A defining characteristic of New York City is its economic diversity, the juxtaposition of people of disparate circumstances in limited space.”
“The gap between top and bottom is greater in New York than in most cities in the country and people at the extremes often live closer together.”
“And as the population swelled and real estate price soared and crime wanted, the affluent pushed deeper into neighborhoods they had once shunned.”
All of these three passages are stated form the article,”Here, Poverty and Privilege are Neighbor; Income Gaps are a Source of Resentment and Guilt” by Janny Scott and all support each other because in New York City, it’s always a busy city and very crowded with people as the population increase. Therefore, New York had to restricted the limited space it has left. With all the people currently living in New York City, all streets, houses and buildings are very close to each other even the neighbors do either live extremely close or living together with no choice, considering to the limited space that I’ve talked about earlier. Most New Yorkers would describe New York City very expensive for the real estate price soaring, tight for the building and/ or other facilities being too close to each other and somehow rarely unsafe for all the crime happening around the streets and it could be any day now hearing police sirens suddenly appearing out of nowhere. These passages describes the life of New Yorkers and knowing that one day after another will never be the same.
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