Today I watched I show called the Big Bang Theory which I have seen once before. It is a fairly standard sitcom except the main characters are giant nerds. One of them is a quantum physicist.
At the beginning of the show this character started a conversation out of the blue explaining why even if teleportation existed, he would never use it due to the fact that it would kill the original and only send an exact copy to the new location.
I have actually brought up this same topic a few times and had the exact same opinion.
What this revealed is how I think. When I think about things in the present day, and see things around me, I'm not simply trying to understand them. I actually think things through to such a point that I plan how to do hypothetical or improbable things far into the future.
I suspect that I already have thousands of "what if" plans formulated with little bits of knowledge that help support them.
Here is a short list of things which I suspect I have vague plans for if they were to happen:
Space travel
Operating a backhoe
Running from the police
Flying an airplane
Being on the Apprentice
Going into the business world
Being a politician
Being a chef
Supporting myself through fine arts
becoming a hitchhiker
being an engineer
being a teacher
competing in high level sports
Getting into a fight
Being some sort of military person
Being an author
Most of the above list are strongly influenced by things I've seen or read. I have little actual experience in anything listed above.
Kyler
Mess
For a long time I considered myself to be pretty tidy. My room is pretty clean. My work space is clean. I rarely find myself consumed by any messes.
However I realized that I had a mess lurking where I hadn't considered one to be. On my computer. I know most people probably feel their computers are messy, but I think I my situation was quite particular simply due to the scale of the potential problem. I have something like 100 000 files on my computer which date back all the way to my days in junior high.
Today I decided to go through it and think I actually got it to a state where I understand most of what I have. Have things fairly well organized. And I have gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary junk.
Another thing I have come to realize are some of the problems associated with computer file collections. Take for instance my MP3 collection. Since everything doesn't actually take up much physical space, and because it is easily organized, I never feel as though I have the right to get rid of anything in it for fear I might want it in the future. However I am starting to get over this fear and have started to delete albums I am sure I don't want to listen to again.
The same is happening in my photo collection. I am trying to delete all of the bad photos and am trying to be very critical of any bad photos I find.
Hopefully computers and everything will stay advanced enough to keep up with these massive collections. Or I can get rid of stuff fast enough.
Kyler
However I realized that I had a mess lurking where I hadn't considered one to be. On my computer. I know most people probably feel their computers are messy, but I think I my situation was quite particular simply due to the scale of the potential problem. I have something like 100 000 files on my computer which date back all the way to my days in junior high.
Today I decided to go through it and think I actually got it to a state where I understand most of what I have. Have things fairly well organized. And I have gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary junk.
Another thing I have come to realize are some of the problems associated with computer file collections. Take for instance my MP3 collection. Since everything doesn't actually take up much physical space, and because it is easily organized, I never feel as though I have the right to get rid of anything in it for fear I might want it in the future. However I am starting to get over this fear and have started to delete albums I am sure I don't want to listen to again.
The same is happening in my photo collection. I am trying to delete all of the bad photos and am trying to be very critical of any bad photos I find.
Hopefully computers and everything will stay advanced enough to keep up with these massive collections. Or I can get rid of stuff fast enough.
Kyler
Tracing
In this drawing project, I took classmates and friends sketchs, and traced them over and over and over and over again, until they had changed alot. It made apparent how my way drawing compared to how they draw. In some cases things changed immediately. In other cases, it took much longer for things to change.
Kyler
Kyler
"Starving Dogs is not art - Please stop this Artist!"
Dog starved in museum
From news on the internet, this story was apparently a hoax. No dog was actually starved in a gallery.
However for the last few weeks I have know about this story, and I believed that a stray dog died in a gallery. The reaction against this story on the internet was exceedingly harsh. Everywhere I saw comments about the story, most people wanted to send the artist to prison, or simply kill him. It was complete outrage.
And I saw a bit of an Oprah show where they did an investigation into puppy mills, where dogs are kept in cages for their whole lives. People were outraged. Things were happening. Dogs were being "rescued" (or humanely put down). Everybody was exceptionally concerned about the dogs.
And the only real opinion I could get myself to hold about this topic was that I couldn't feel really bad about either case. I don't hate dogs, and don't want to hurt them. But I couldn't rush to a conclusion on the topic. There are trillions of animals that are kept in cage, caught in nets, and killed. It seems that people are lying to themselves if they believe they can both be concerned about dogs and ignore where their food comes from.
This type of gut reaction is apparent in a lot of places. Look at every side of the story, avoid being a hypocrite.
Kyler
From news on the internet, this story was apparently a hoax. No dog was actually starved in a gallery.
However for the last few weeks I have know about this story, and I believed that a stray dog died in a gallery. The reaction against this story on the internet was exceedingly harsh. Everywhere I saw comments about the story, most people wanted to send the artist to prison, or simply kill him. It was complete outrage.
And I saw a bit of an Oprah show where they did an investigation into puppy mills, where dogs are kept in cages for their whole lives. People were outraged. Things were happening. Dogs were being "rescued" (or humanely put down). Everybody was exceptionally concerned about the dogs.
And the only real opinion I could get myself to hold about this topic was that I couldn't feel really bad about either case. I don't hate dogs, and don't want to hurt them. But I couldn't rush to a conclusion on the topic. There are trillions of animals that are kept in cage, caught in nets, and killed. It seems that people are lying to themselves if they believe they can both be concerned about dogs and ignore where their food comes from.
This type of gut reaction is apparent in a lot of places. Look at every side of the story, avoid being a hypocrite.
Kyler
Going
"If you want to go quickly, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together."
Good quote said by Al Gore during a new TED presentation
Al Gore: New Slide Show
Kyler Kelly
If you want to go far, go together."
Good quote said by Al Gore during a new TED presentation
Al Gore: New Slide Show
Kyler Kelly
Light Drawings
With the help of my brother I did some really cool light figured drawings. He did the drawings of me. There are more images posted on my Google photo thing that gets linked through the photos.
Kyler
Kyler
Wrapping paper
I started simply working off of the idea of a mystery box, which turn into a present, which turned into using wrapping paper as canvas, which turn into cutting and layer, which turned into just lots of cutting of canvas. Experiments,not final pieces. No I don't hate puppies.
Kyler
Kyler
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