The good, the bad, and the ugly teammate

Positive:
• Honest
• Creative
• Reliable
• Hard working
• Trustworthy

Negative:
• Passive
• Stubborn
• Defensive
• Apatheic
• Disorganized

These traits describe exactly how I am as a teammate, if you've worked with me before I'm sure you will understand. I don't want to sound cocky as if I'm the most honest, creative, reliable, hard working, and trustworthy person out there, but I would say I am pretty good at those things. I hate lying so that makes me honest, I think of weird shit so hopefully that means I'm creative, I'm reliable, hard working, and trustworthy because I'm always on time and do everything in my power to meet deadlines.
As for the bad traits... being passive, stubborn, defensive, apathetic, and disorganized is pretty much how I live my life. If someone says they have a good idea and they are excited for it I will just keep quiet and let them go with it, on the other hand, if I have a good idea and they don't want to use it i will tell them to eat shit. If the project isn't going my way I may tend to seem a little apathetic and lose interest in the whole thing. As for disorganization, I am getting better ( I bought a binder this semester ) but other then that, my life is a mess.

My hero

To be honest, I'm not too sure what influences me. I want to say that everything does but I don't think I will get a good mark on this if I do. I know I started drawing because of my brother, Will. When we were kids he would always draw South Park characters that were cross bred with Mortal Kombat characters, seriously, what better combination could there be? My brother stopped drawing and followed his destiny as the Ko family math prodigy, while I kind of just stayed the kid who attempted to draw South Park verses Mortal Kombat fights.
These days there isn't really a solid role model that I follow, it is pretty much the world around me that shapes who I am. Everything I feel from family, friends, music, movies, artist's work, stories, pretty much anything, anything that makes my mind wonder or pleases my heart.

Danifesto

Risk it for the biscuit
When you only have two choices... to do something average and settle for mediocracy or do something extraordinary and take home the glory

Expand your mind
"There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory whichstates this has already happened."- Douglas Adams

Be a shepherd not a sheep
You can either settle into a trend or be the trend setter

Don't listen to haters
Not everyone can relate to what you or I appreciate.
"Style is knowing who you are, what to say and not giving a damn"- Gore Vidal

Don't worry
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, its not the end.

Just do it
Decide that you want it more then you're afraid of it.

Add only what you need, on canvas and in life.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"- Edward Abbey

As long as you believe you can do it, you can
"Just believe" - Brent D'allesandro

M.O.E.T
money over every thing

Enjoy yourself
Smoke good, eat good, drink good.

Words

Solution
Clarity
Impact
Cleverness
Whit
Expression
Corporate
Pleasing
Form
Function
Inspiration
Risky (risk it for the biscuit)
Pioneer
Mindblowing
Fresh
Worthy
Precise

Design is... (revised again)

So I was walking home this morning and I was thinking of a quote I had read the night before. The quote spoke of what inspiration is, how someone gets inspired and what can be done with inspiration. The quote was long but it was so good I couldn't stop reading it. On my way home I had a revelation about my own design process, I realized that the quote had described my design process in a way I could never word. Sadly I thought I saved the quote on my computer, but I did not.

Design is the collective thought of the universe. Each idea and concept adapted to a new host to better itself.


(revision)
"Design is for solving a problem, and then using the results to blow the human mind."

(Before revision)
My views on what design is hasn't changed from my post five weeks ago.

"Design is for solving a problem, and then using the results to blow the human mind again and again until it explodes from amazement overload."

Media Usage

The week I recorded was from February 8 – 14.
I found that my media usage is really scheduled. There are a few certain times each day that I will use a certain type of media ie. using the computer every morning to see what the weather will be like, listening to music on my commute to school, or every night when I start my assignments. These occasions differentiate from other parts of the day where I am forced to use certain media ie. in class when I need to use a computer to do work, or at work when I am forced to pick up the phone.

The computer is definitely my most used media, even if you take out the school usage it is still the most used media.
• 54 hours
• 45 E-mails received (mostly junk )
• 4 E-mails sent

I'm not a big talker on my cellphone, I like to talk on it for a few minutes to make plans and thats it. I will occasionally have the conversations that go on for hours but this week my longest was 27 minutes.
• 1 hr 42 minutes

Texting is a glorious cellphone tool. Because of the way I talk on the phone I find it much more convenient to text then to talk.
• 54 text messages recieved
• 61 text messages sent

Books and magazines are the smallest media use. I'm not trying to make myself sound uneducated or illiterate, I just do not read much. The only times I read books, magazines, or newspapers is on the morning commute to school or when I get any of my subscriptions. None came this week.
• 1 hour

Music is my one source of joy when I commute from place to place.
• 28 hours

Television and movies are a big portion of my media usage. Because of my lack of access to a television I watch all my Television and movies from other sources, I do not want to admit to watching them anywhere illegal so I will be vague.
• 10 hours

My final graph to show my media use in my everyday life will be posted on Tuesday when I hand it in

God?

God? poster I created in Typography 3, semester 3 at Humber College

So I watched Zeitgeist for the second time today and it inspired me to start writing my conspiracy blogs. The movie itself shows evidence, or lack there of, that Christianity is false.
Growing up in a Christian household myself, I have been taught the word of the Bible every Sunday ever since I was born. The story of Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus Christ, has been told to me countless number of times. The "miracle" that birthed Jesus Christ was known to be impossible. How could a girl who had never been sexually active give birth to a baby?

A few weeks ago I had stumbled upon this link, the story reports about a one year old baby who was pregnant. Is this a miracle? Not at all. It is explained by doctors in the article "One of the world's most bizarre medical conditions is known as fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene."

So what are we supposed to make of this? The virgin Mary doesn't seem so farfetched now does it? It is possible for a girl to be pregnant without having sexual relations. I've discussed this story with a few friends and the only statement that could be argued is that this is a baby that is pregnant and the virgin Mary was a teenager. Well the miracle behind the virgin Mary is not related to her age, it is that she is a virgin.

To conclude, I'm not saying a god does not exist. I'm just saying the evidence is piling up my friend... the evidence is piling up.

Design Process

I am actually having the hardest time on this compact disc cover. I checked Kevin's blog to see what he wrote and then he used the word "vernacular" and I was like "yes... this is out of my league" and just stopped.
My design process is pretty much that of any lazy, excessive eating, graphic design student. To show the world a glimpse of my design process I will review my day.

11:55am: Wake up
11:56am - 12:00pm: Take morning poop and brush teeth
12:01pm: Get myself pumped to do homework all day
12:02pm - 1pm: Excitement for homework lowers and instead I watch 30 Rock while eating Raisin Bran
1:01 - 1:04pm: The hunt for the handouts
1:05pm - 1:42pm: Lose hope on trying to find the handouts and go buy groceries
1:43pm - 2:43pm: Cook food
2:44pm - 3:00pm: Eat food
3:01pm - 6:00pm: Nap time
6:01pm - 6:15pm: Eat more food
6:16pm - 6:30pm: Clean room while trying to look for handouts
6:31pm - 7:00pm: Read PizzaPizza nutrition charts in amazement of how much of a fatass I am
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Get distracted by Infomation Design homework and completely forget about the CD case.
8:00pm - 10:00pm: Sit around and do nothing
10:00pm - 1:30am: Start working on the CD case at a mild pace
1:31am - present time: Write blog

This schedule isn't too accurate, there should be alot more eating in there.
As you can see, it does take me a while to get my brain in order and get down to business. But in the words of a wise Testudine, "Slow and steady wins the race."

p.s.
Yeah, you like... "Testudine"
I can use big words too

The Dan Ko Project

Today in Contemporary Design Theory we were given an assignment to track our everyday usage of everything we do that relates to the media. Meanwhile in our Information Design Two class we were given an assignment to visually show our emotions throughout a particular day. I was thinking I would mix these two assignments together and hand in one super assignment for both Heather and Johnny... But then I had an idea of mixing this already mixed assignment with a personal project of mine, Project: Get Jacked.

So what will happen is...
By the end of the project I will have a fully detailed map of how I live my life, in both written and visual form. I will then compare the notes with my rock hard body to see if there were any relations between my daily routine, and the shape my body has formed.

Why am I doing this?
• To masterfully finish three projects in one
• To fulfill my 2009 resolution to get fit
• To publically humiliate myself OR to prove everyone who doubted me AKA Jason Jung

My body

Picture taken 21/01/2009

Who am I?

In the context of creativity and design, I am an octopus.
I may not be the smartest, or the coolest, or the best looking.
But I've been told I'm weird and unique.
I eat, sleep and breathe in a sea of ideas, and dance my way around in a way the straight-forward thinkers envy.
My mind is in eight different places at once, trying to grab hold of any idea that may pass me.
It is very easy for me to get stuck on an idea, and once I am stuck it is very hard for me to let go.
I examine things using all of my senses, my nerves were built for that exact purpose.
I can blend into the scenery to appear as if I am nothing special, but then jump out and surprise you.

Who am I? I'm an octopi.

Post Update 26/01/2009: I thought we were only supposed to comment on the last part of the sheet not the whole thing. This post only comments on the last question.

Be Heard, Not In a Herd

"We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it or educated out of it"
-Ken Robinson

At an early age we are taught that the arts are not the way to go. We should conform to the academic oriented portion of society to better this world with formulas and equations. But is that really the best answer? Is it so bad to be the Salmon who swims upstream? Or the sheep that runs astray from the herd. Well according to the education system, it is. We are meant to be a square peg in a square society. Fuck them.

Creativity is the greatest tool to change the world. A good idea can change the world, but if you don't have a voice no one will listen. A voice is meant to be heard, and I would prefer to be heard than be in a herd.

Carrot Mob
This is an example of an idea that can change the world.
Creativity at its best.

Design is...

My grade three teacher, whos name I cannot remember, made us do this art project. The project was to gather sticks, leaves, and other things found in the forest. We would then lay the gatherings onto a sheet of paper to create any picture we wanted. I made the greatest picture of a bird, and everyone else's looked like shit. It was around then I realized Mathematics, Science, and English would be useless knowledge for my future in the arts.

Six years passed.
I was in grade nine, and I pretty much made nothing artistic since that grade two bird. I couldn't draw anything, not even cocks. I had this art teacher Ms. Carroza. She failed me with a forty-five percent, but the class was pretty cool so I took it again, and every year until grade twelve. While I was in grade twelve I didn't know what to do with my life after high school, luckily I didn't have enough credits to graduate so I had another year to think. I did a co-op placement at this print shop that was so far from my house it was a joke, actually, it was near Artur's house. I met the nicest people there, they taught me alot of stuff about printing and computers. So there it was, confirmation to myself that graphic design was the path my life would take. Humber accepted me the following spring. I still remember the interview for Humber. I caught a peek at this girls portfolio and it was so good, I wanted to knock her out and just steal it. The worst part was the interview itself though, Heather, I'm sure you rememeber (stink eye).

School has changed my views on what design actually is. The more I do the more I realize the importance of design in my work. Design is for solving a problem, and then using the results to blow the human mind again and again until it explodes from amazement overload. That's what's important to me, the explosion. The explosion can do many things, it can inspire, it can cause realization, it can connect, it can create feelings, but most of all, it can excite. These moments don't come too often, so they aren't to be squandered.

My dreams for the future are tied to my thoughts of the power of design. One day I hope to start my own magazine, and great design can manipulate the masses, it can communicate to who it needs to and deliver a message to zombify them bit by bit.

Anyone can be designer, anyone with the urge to disturb the norm, or anyone wanting to create something so creative it makes their head explode.