I really enjoyed watching Kurt Vonnegut’s take on “The Shape of Stories.” What I agreed strongly with his theory was the accuracy in the expression of his statements, “People love that stuff” and “We all know what happens!” In terms of graph, while the initial point of the curve may be different depending on the story, the final point of …

Spy Kids was definitely an interesting movie that well illustrated the theme of spies and their enemies. Often, we see a pattern of a group of people working toward a common goal. For instance, in the Disney movie Incredibles, the Parr family worked together in defeating the bad guys. Moreover, we also see a pattern of bad guys who were …

Hey Yuta, I decided to write a letter to you because I thought you would fit the description of someone I don’t really know. Thank you for talking with me and answering my questions about research, Physics, Japanese, and everything in between. I don’t know what I have done to deserve to talk to such an amazing person. I really …

Dear Mom, Thank you for making all of the delicious meals for us last weekend and washing the dishes afterwards. I am grateful to you for everything in my life including daily things because they are all part of who I am and I am very thankful that you are my mom. The sweats and tears you have put into …

Dear Diary, Once again I am at a point in my life where I am contemplating about living a double life as both a spy and a student. My friends always ask me, “Hey, do you want to have dinner together?” and I usually answer back with, “Sorry but I am busy.” I do feel bad that I cannot come …

  For this week, I created a variety of medium to express my ideas using GIPHY, Paint, Pinterest, and YouTube. The hardest part was the work execution and balancing time in between. As a novice, it took a while for me to decipher what did work and what did not work (for example, I did not know how to combine …

Original Assignment This was not the first time I combined pairs of images into one. The direction was quite vague, “use photo editing software of your choice to splice pairs of pictures into single images,” so I just went with what I was most comfortable with—paint. First, I viewed wonderfully creative examples from Stephen McMennamy’s great collection and tried to …

Original Assignment GIF with GIPHY I must say, creating my first GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, was much easier than I thought, thanks to GIPHY’s programming system that was made for a computer amateur like me. All I had to do was visit GIPHY’s site, click the “Create” button, copy the URL of YouTube clip that I wanted to use, …

Original assignment Dream Room? It’s just a dream for now… This was my first time using Pinterest and signing up for it was a breeze. I created 5 boards, which successfully divided each idea into specific categories. Starting with “Room,” I wanted my bedroom to embody a comfortable atmosphere in which I can just relax and rest. For “Bed,” since …

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I learned tremendously about setting up social networking sites, blogs, domains as well as uploading video, audio, and images. Making the domain was easy in itself, however, linking applications such as WordPress was more difficult than I initially thought. I was lost especially with navigation and just understanding the system in general due to lack …

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I like the Secret Agent theme we are assigned this year and reading about spy fiction increased my interest level even more. Never have I given any thought to attributing symbolic meanings to Spy Fiction, and what an interesting way to view its varities! My favorite idea would be the Dirty Martini mainly because I …

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I enjoyed reading Austin Kleon’s posts about lessons from his book, “Show Your Work.” I agree with the author that life is not about opportunities knocking at your door passively, but rather, you knocking on the doors of opportunities actively. Out of the 10 points he has mentioned, the last message, “Stick Around” resonated with …

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