So I thought hard about what to do for a project in which one has to demonstrate the concept of "exaggeration". And I think what I finally decided on is the best I could really come up with... at the time.  All I will say for now is that it simply involves a football helmet.  Simple, but may get a good laugh I hope.

My "research project" is finally complete.  I think it turned out great!  It's pretty amateurish, but still may get a good reaction from the class.  We may have demonstrated more random dumb jokes than facts, but whatever!

~LaTeR dAyZ

 The Triplets Of Belleville was actually a surprising movie to me...  I didn't believe it seemed like it would be my kind of movie, but it turned out to be fairly interesting.  It told quite a nice story.  I found the mother character to be very funny... constantly blowing her whistle.  And speaking of which I found the use of audio and character body language to be quite a sufficient substitute for any dialogue, which was very surprising also.

The use of exaggeration seems to become a cute style for the film... the mammoth-sized ship that leaves the country, the box-shouldered mafia men, and the outrageously skinny character of the son.  It plays very well into the humor of the story.

For those of you who have not seen the movie, I can sum up the extent of exaggeration possibly through one picture, which shows the life-like version of the mafia men....

So our latest assignment was to throw away one of our senses for at least 2 hours and document the journey.  Now, based on a person's common knowledge of what someone's "senses" are, one would assume that you would have to choose between sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.... However, this class is all about creativity and interpretation, so I tried seeing the rules in a different way.

I took away what I consider one of my stronger senses (or "abilities", if you will), and even stretched it furhter than just two hours so it would make more of an impact for the assignment.  I chose to loose my ability to drive for one day.  I consider my "sense" of good driving to be a strong quality, as well as a very handy one-- so to be without it for a full day is kind of a pain.

To make it less burdensome I chose to do it on a day I didn't really have anywhere important to be (work/school/etc.).  But my friends wanted to hang out for the afternoon, so I told them they'd have to give me a ride.  The biggest upside about this, I'd have to say, is that I saved plenty of gas!  But it also was sort of troublesome, just a little, for my friends to have to drive every instance they wanted me to come do something: my friend Allison had to pick me up to go to lunch, my buddy David had to drive from Noblesville to pick me up for a movie, and Michael had to give me a ride to Jon's house to swim.  A lot of rides, but at least it was for a school assignment! (or so goes my excuse) =)

~LaTeR dAyZ