The Path Walk work Jessica Carbine

The Path

Two paths cross in-sink
They begin separate parts
They end together

For my Path/Walk assignment I took a walk around Ephraim and took pictures of things that were seemingly unconnected, then I compiled the images and connected them. They were things that just caught my eye and seemed interesting , I wanted to show that even the smallest of things can be connected in unexpected ways.

Traditional Haiku Structure

Traditional haiku are always the same, including the following features:

1. There are only three lines, totaling 17 syllables.
2. The first line is 5 syllables.
3. The second line is 7 syllables.
4. The third line is 5 syllables like the first.
5. Punctuation and capitalization are up to the poet, and need not follow rigid rules used in structuring sentences.
6. A haiku does not have to rhyme, in fact usually it does not rhyme at all.
7. Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds

Read more at http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/rules-for-writing-haiku.html#k4hrjCqcrlYD7cSE.99

thirty days of meditation

I decided to start meditating since its always intrigued me and Ive never tried it before.

Day 1
Really difficult, my mind is everywhere all of the time so its hard for me to focus even when Im not meditating. I did feel really relaxed afterward however.

Day 5
Starting to get used to it. remembering everyday is another challenge so Ive had to make up for lost days. I reached a point in the last couple minutes where I was very still and subdued.

Day 7
I try to do this in different places as much as I can. Today is a saturday so I did it in a dark empty classroom in the humanities building. Was a bit more successful this time. Complete meditation lasted for about five minutes.

walking a line - ryan smith

I wanted to further explore ideas I've been working with for a few months now. I wanted to emulate a path that reflected a routine. Being repetitive in nature, I needed to document each rotation as I came around the block I live on. This created a layered effect similar to another project which involves documenting line in a similar fashion. 

some not so great sketches........

some not so great sketches that i was trying to make work for the thirty day challenge however i am simplifying and making them actuary work this time. Anyways trying to catch up now.

Walking a Line // Jackson Jenkins

Saturday night after seeing the movie 'Annihilation', there was light snowfall and the sky was completely covered by clouds. Even though it was past midnight, there was still somehow enough light for you to see clearly, and I decided that it would be the perfect time to do the walking part for my project. I chose to do it around the neighborhood I grew up in. I walked past a lot of places that I hadn't walked by for a lot of years, and they were places that I had a lot of memories of. One of them being my old piano teachers house, and the place I use to go sledding all of the time as a kid. It was very strange seeing these places late at night.

While doing this I was listening to the album 'A Moon Shaped Pool' by Radiohead. They have a music video for the track 'Daydreaming' that features their lead singer just walking around random places while the music is playing, and I thought that this was a cool connection to this project. So I decided for my demonstration I was going to make a short track similar to the song Daydreaming.


My track: https://soundcloud.com/jackson-jenkins-339927642/walking-a-line/s-14VuX

Daydreaming music video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU

walking a line - ben sang

One of the most interesting anomalies about Ephraim, for me, is that there are two cemeteries. The main one is called Ephraim Park Cemetery, is large, well-groomed, and displays Scandinavian flags at its entrance onto Main Street. The other cemetery is called Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery, a less-well-kept cemetery with many ancient and toppled gravestones, located about two miles north of the main cemetery, only accessible through a frontage road.

On October 17, 1865, after tensions had risen for years between the Native American Ute tribe and Mormon settlers who had taken their land, a young and bold chief, Black Hawk, gathered together a band of warriors and, after stealing thousands of cattle and horses, carried out one of the more violent attacks of what would become known as the Black Hawk War and killed 7 settlers (five men, one of their wives, and a 17-year-old girl) in Cottonwood Canyon and in the fields at its mouth. They also came across a 2-year-old boy in the fields but left him unharmed.

Although I have been unable to dig up any evidence to verify stories, several Ephraim locals have told me that the reason for Ephraim's two cemeteries and for the Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery being located several miles out of town was that because Mormon settlers were bringing the 7 bodies of the killed settlers back to Ephraim to bury, but had to quickly return to battle the Utes, they hastily buried them all in one grave outside of town and it ended up becoming an official cemetery until Ephraim Park Cemetery was established years later. This local legend explaining the positioning can't be defended through any of my internet research, but the mass grave does exist in Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery.

I have always struggled with historic racial conflicts like these for two main reasons: The first is that the White Man is the perpetrator of many of these issues. I struggle to know that some of my ancestors would have caused something like this but at the same time I feel no real guilt because I live my own life out in a way that treats all as equal, regardless of cultural practices, race, sexual orientation, etc. The second reason I have issues is that these conflicts always boil down to the differences between two different lifestyles and their competition for dominance. Neither is bad or wrong.

In this case, both sides played the aggressor as well as the harmed throughout different stages of their conflicts. I want to be able to empathize with both sides and memorialize their existence as well as meditate on their differences that lead to conflict that could have possibly been avoided altogether. To do this I drew a burdened line between Ephraim Park Cemetery and Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery, noting their different locations and their uncomfortable and unfortunate cause.

I equipped myself with a backpacking pack and filled it completely with the heaviest things I could find that would fit well (in this case: encyclopedias), in an attempt to mimic carrying the weight of a small person. I then carried the pack the distance from the Ephraim Park Cemetery and the Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery, concluding at the mass grave erected in honor of the seven settlers that had been killed. At this site I found medium-sized stones and made a circle around the large gravestone, a custom that certain Utes practiced around the gravesites of their own kinmen that had died.

Nathan Adair Moment In Time

I want to make a video of my location and edit it to match how i felt sitting in the little group of trees.  I want to make the music very ambient and the video. I felt very relaxed, content, and calm while I was sitting in them. I felt comforted by it. Again, I want both the video and music to represent that. 

Video - I want it to slightly pan back in forth capturing the trees and bark underneath. I want to see it both desaturated, normal, and a little more saturated so I know what goes with how I see it. I see it more desaturated as of now in my mind.

Music - Ambient, and little and subtle changes. Simple and pleasant. I don't want the music to distract from the visual, I want them to blend. 

(song is still on my laptop so i'll post it later)

Moment in time // Jackson Jenkins

Beginning stages to my idea.

Final piece is going to be a song with all the songs I'm stressing about learning combined (Donna Lee, and The Days of Wine and Roses), with the the picture of my location as the cover art. 

Jessica Carbine Moment in Time/A mini Adventure

 

Step by Step/ Moment in Time/A mini Adventure

1.  Go outside 
2.  Walk until you see a Tree 
3. Take 20 steps 
4. Look down at your feet   

I walked until I saw a tree it was the tree in front of the Lucy Phillips building. I walked 20 steps looked down at the snow that is all there was at my feet, snow. More snowflakes than I could count in just that small space.

A moment in time 

I looked around, how far did 20 steps get me? I looked back at the tree, 20 steps had not even gotten me 10 feet from the tree. I had written down the number thinking it would get me much farther but if but the number had barley even gotten me past the sidewalk. If that was 20 steps how far was 100? I began to walk the hundred steps, it got me to the three pine trees near the library 100 more got me to the corner of the library, 100 more got me to the day care 100 more I was almost back home. 

How many times had I walked from that house to the humanities building? I walked to the Humanities building at least ounce a day usually more and I had no idea how many steps it was how many steps had carried me through my life and I hadn't even noticed it? 

There was no way to answer the life question but I could at least figure out how many steps it was from my house to the humanities building, I walked the rest of the way back to my house and began to count from my doorstep.

• 100 steps to the boys red brick house next door
• 200 steps to the back of the coffee shop 
• 300 steps to the church 
• 400 steps to the middle of the science building 
• 500 steps back to the corner of the library where i met up with my previous foot prints. 
• 600 steps to the trio of pine trees 
• 700 steps to the tree where I started in front of the Lucy Philips 
• 800 steps to the humanities building and in to Amy's classroom 

a moment in time - ben sang

I walked until I saw something fucked up and then continued 100 steps and related my immediate surroundings back to the fucked up aspect of the previous situation. I originally saw two homemade "NO PARKING" signs on a homeowner's street-facing fence with two cars parked directly in front of them. Where I ended up I encountered a florescent orange wooden stake with hi-vis orange safety tape tied around its top end. I related both of these encounters back to the current cultural development/urban planning situation that Ephraim faces as a town, and that Utah seems to be facing in general. I am currently reading up on different articles that research the intended city planning exercised by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as well as culturally-typical Nordic urban planning that some of Ephraim's earliest settlers would have possibly had reference to. My goal is to replicate these orange stakes and tape and arrange them in an array that would replicate the intended formation of a Mormon town full of people with Scandinavian heritage. This would then be suspended in a space with fishing line so as to exist without foundation or permanence.

UPDATE 3/9/18

Until now this has definitely been my most underdeveloped project. I have a really big idea for it in which I would create an installation of property markers (made by me, not stolen) aligned in grids to represent city/town blocks. While researching I've found that Joseph Smith's urban planning ideas almost completely revolve around the Mormon way of thought in which they constantly refer to themselves as "a people" rather than a collective of individuals. A grid system with a central point of emphasis and navigation completely based on that central point of emphasis is an indicator that regardless of what function one performs, the center of their identity is The Church and they have constant subtle reminders of it. In drawing up sketches for how this installation might look like, I decided the most universal way to express this central importance was by creating multiple tiers of these property markers, the higher stacked the tiers, the more important the city block. I initially imagined it consisting of a sprawling grid of single tier markers, with the important blocks that would include the town/city hall and important public buildings occupying both the bottom and second tier, with only a few markers on the third tier, representing the place of worship on which the entire grid is based.

After making a maquette I quickly realized that I would need A LOT of wooden markers and A LOT of bright orange tape and that the installation would take up A LOT of space. I want the first iteration to be small enough to be included in shows with other works and I would rather not spend an insane amount of money on making it so large. I found a way to simplify the design down to two tiers of hanging property markers in which the second tier represents the place of worship (temple or meetinghouse) and the first tier shows the blocks representing the main street, the blocks directing adjacent to the place of worship, as well as being in a pattern that more or less indicates that the city blocks do spread beyond what is shown.

What was really excited for me was making the maquettes and seeing their resemblance to the designs of LDS meetinghouses and contemporary temples.

I love that these property markers indicate affirmation, property, and growth, but at the same time reference being under construction and change. Having them suspended in air in a space rather than driven into a surface like they are in the outside world at once both elevates their pattern and the stakes themselves to an otherworldly or spiritual plane of consideration and references their impermanence and lack of foundation/susceptibility to change.

This might end up being my final project that I decide to extend if I don't feel ready to take more steps with SYYYSTEM in time.

UPDATE : 3/26/18

UPDATE: 3/29/18

commitment updates: nephi's mystical absolutism - ben sang

Between chapters 1 and 7 of the first Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon, a strong theme of commitment, resolution, and absolutism being forcibly projected on Nephi's peers via pure determination is very interesting to me because it so well coincides with Robert Greene's ideas expressed in his books, The 48 Laws of Power and The 50th Power (made in collaboration with 50 Cent). They explore the idea of boldness and tie bold claims to influence so long as one continues in bold claims to back themselves up. Not only can someone with intelligence make most things sound reasonable, but the infectuous power of confidence also spreads and phenomenon can be attributed to this confidence in time. Through this confidence, Nephi gains power not only over his family but also truly projects it to himself, empowering himself to do anything that his agenda requires.

UPDATE 3/9/18

What I'm finding very challenging about reading the Book of Mormon is that with my current perspectives and opinions, I oftentimes get caught in really skeptical states of mind instead of being able to really allow the words to affect me. It's actually gotten me quite upset a few times because I am genuinely curious as to how I would take the doctrines and stories in at this stage of my life. I'm about halfway through 2 Nephi at the moment.

Rembering a moment in time

So I decided I would walk until I had a particular upsetting memory and then I would walk 28 steps then take picture and this quest brought me to my old apartment building and here are some pictures i also tried to draw a thing but it dint work

Jackson Jenkins Commitment

I am going to start reading every day because that has something that has been missing for basically the entirety of my life. Its something that I've always wanted to get into but never found the time to do. I am starting with the book ' The Music Lesson' by Victor Wooten.

Nathan Adair Commitment

My commitment is to stop drinking soda, Gatorade, and eating high carb junk food. I'm making my commitment because it'll help my diabetes control greatly, and I wont have to work as hard to manage my glucose levels.

02/15/18 - My blood sugars responded to insulin better than usual, but I still had a fluctuation of my levels being in a good range to going a little higher.
02/16/18 - I still responded much better than usual to my insulin, but now my blood sugar was more stable and I tended to go lower rather than higher.
02/17/18-  More of the same. I've just been controlling it easier. Not as many highs or lows.
02/18/18- Same. Just more consistent blood sugar tests.
02/19/18- Still really easy to control. A few extra lows, but that was from me taking too much insulin at some points.
2/20/18- In progress, but it's more of the same

A Quick 20 Minutes a day that all you need

so I am trying to build good Drawing habits but i overthink everything and I wasn't sure what i should do for this and I was procrastinating and worrying as per usual .  But I was on Instagram the other day and I  keep seeing some of my favorite artist post # CoolDownSketch and that made me think what if I drew a small completed portrait "shoulders and up" of a character a day and post it online "Instagram" and on this blog. 
I was palnning on drawign a pull bust everyday in pencil and the  covering over to digital. The Over all goal of this little exercise is to gain good drawing habits and have something competed for myself everyday. to test myself creatively by giving myself some loose rules.

Alter Ego"REDOUX" slwoly turning an idea in to a comic

Ren and ReNoir
  I want to build a comic about and average art student "Ren" who accidentally saves a deamon's life and the daemon "ReyNoir is forever indebted to him.  Reynoir is rage filled and impulsive he gets the straight laced Ren to break the rules and take risks sometimes. I took my insparation fomr some of my favorite comics like SnotGirl, Scott Pilgrim, e=welcome to hell and Guy and Tobuious. I want this comic to be a supernatural slice of life comic in theme. the point of the comic is to show  the integration between the shadow self and the self the world sees. anyways there is alot more to develop here and here are some quick sketches of ReyNoir. 

                                                           some of my influences

Nathan Adair Project Continuation

I decided to continue my persona and decided that instead of being a prominent figure in the industry with performing and producing my persona makes his mark in producing with hyper and schizophrenic drum beats, synthetic voices and odd phrase structures. His album art style is old pictures of himself as a kid or teenager which are edited to have less saturation and look a little faded. The work has to be consistent in order for the persona to work and get attention. With the attention, I want myself as anonymous as I can have him, so if people like what I'm doing with music they'll have to look up my music to know who my persona is. In theory, causing more traction in the industry, and more listeners. 

As an example for my persona's style, I wrote a track demonstrating how his drums especially sound. The track picture is a picture of me, my brother and cousins when we were all young dudes. This idea I have is actually becoming an increasingly more serious thought, and as it becomes more serious I've decided I need to brainstorm some new names for my alter ego. Don't have anything as of now, but I'm beginning the process.

Intro Track for Record

https://soundcloud.com/user-543089012/intro-filth

This track was heavily inspired by Radiohead's Fitter Happier on OK Computer.

Jackson Jenkins, Dawg Bones Jenkins persona Part 2

I'm super new to all of this production stuff and working inside of a DAW, and this is my first time making a full song on my own. But here is the track to go along with with my Dawg Bones Jenkins persona album cover.

https://soundcloud.com/jackson-jenkins-339927642/theme/s-uOPiE

      Updated back cover

Inspirations for the track:

 Disasterpiece // Fez

M83 //  Dead Cities, Red Seas, and lost Ghosts

Blade Runner 2049 // Hans Zimmer 

Jessica Carbine Chrysalis Meditation and Response Draft 2

Jessica Carbine

Chrysalis Meditation

Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden a garden you work hard to maintain you tending to all the flowers and plants.

•  Describe the garden, what dose the landscape look like?
• What kind of plants do you keep, do you have any favorites?
• What is the atmosphere of the Garden?
• The Garden represents the things in your life that have shaped you and the attributes that you want to nurture.

You feel yourself growing smaller and smaller your skin becomes ruffled you you feel a sense of change about to come upon you. You stop shrinking and find yourself on the leaf of one of your plants there is a mirror in front of you and you realize you are a caterpillar.

• Describe yourself 
• What plant are you on
• What color are you 
• How do you feel in this new form
• The caterpillar represents you in your current state. It represents the things you dislike in yourself.

You begin to eat and you fill yourself until you feel as though you are about to burst. Your skin begins to feel tight and uncomfortable, you realize it is time to change you can no longer be a caterpillar. You must become something more, so you begin to spin your chrysalis.

• What attributes do you add to your chrysalis that you feel you will need in order to fortify so it can protect you in the coming weeks
• What will you take with you into your transformation
• The chrysalis represents what makes you feel safe and what you want to see in your self 

You are in your chrysalis now describe how you feel

• Are you scared?
• do you feel safe?
• Is it dark?
• This represents how you feel in this transitional period 

Suddenly you can't take it anymore you feel you are done with your change and you burst out of your chrysalis tearing yourself free. The sunlight beats upon you warming you to your new form you are now transformed. Again you are faced with the mirror what do you look like now describe yourself?

• What are the colors that make up your wings?
•  If you a specific butterfly or moth what kind are you?
•  How do you feel now that you are done with your transformation?
• The butterfly or moth represents the kind of person you want to be. 

Holly's Transformation 

Garden 

Mostly roses: Rose is considered a symbol of balance, passion, protection 

 Babies breath: love and joy

Crocuses rejuvenation this and chrysanthemums were also associated with her child hood 

 Violets Innocence and a sense of giving 

Tulips  perfect love, most strongly associated with true love

Chrysanthemums optimism and joy. 

Warm colors like peach, orange, red represents optimism, and passion

A cracked sidewalk with flowers sporting in the path. This represents the breaking in your path to a new path.

Dew and fresh rain

Wind chimes represents love for music

Forest pine trees represents longevity, virtue, and solitude,

Caterpillar

On a tulip block out the sun; perfect love and your powerless to find it.

Green represent new birth and life

Orange Optimism

Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown

scared.

Cold represent lonesomeness

Power less

Guilty about living of the flower and focusing on self growth

it was windy and dark

Soil comforting: Down to earth nature is comforting.

Chrysalis

Love, down to earth peace bravery and courage

Take care of my life and my garden

Health, creativity, ambition, determination

Appreciation for beauty, individuality, strength

Empathy, friendship, passion

Inside

Isolated

uncertaint

The time inside the Chrysalis gave her time for self reflection

Butterfly or Moth

strong and powerful when ripping out of chrysalis  

optimistic about new form

really sunny warm represents acceptance 

black and blue white spots swolow tails black body 

flew high.

Black  is associated with power, elegance maturatey mystery 

Blue  symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence

Whites spots represents spots of purines and light softness

The color blue in a butterfly is often thought to symbolize joy, color or a change in luck. Sometimes a blue butterfly is viewed as a wish granter.

Changes to the meditation 

Keep garden part

Color of cocoon 

Clearer voice and presentation

 Change a bit of the wording 

Don't say you can't take it anymore 

Instead say after a very long in your cocoon you feel as if you have reached your new form and you are ready to break out of your cocoon. 

What plants they ate from 

She liked the over all experience and she felt like she was going on an adventure.

Chuck Buster persona

https://soundcloud.com/ryansmithraps/chuck-busta

syyystem persona - ben sang

syyystem.tumblr.com

https://vimeo.com/254393048

Syyystem is a cult-structured interface based on the idea of giving initiative to the individual who discovers Syyystem on their own. It is designed as a base network that focuses on enlightenment, connection, space, aesthetics, and being in our current state of being both digital and physical as well as where those spaces intersect. Syyystem is an freeform, navigable, and ever-growing structure that is well aware of its own purposelessness while at the same time knowing its own infinite potential. 

WHERE ARE YOU

WHO ARE YOU

WHY ARE YOU

WHAT IS IMPORTANT

THIS IS NOT THE PAST

THIS IS NOT THE FUTURE

THIS IS NOW

THIS IS ALL YOU WILL EVER HAVE

THS IS ALL WE WILL EVER HAVE

WHERE ARE WE

WHO ARE WE

WHY ARE WE

THE ANSWERS ARE HERE

WE HAVE THE ANSWERS

YOU HAVE THE ANSWERS

SYYYSTEM

WE EXIST. WE ARE HERE. THIS IS THE ONLY PURPOSE IN OUR PURPOSELESSNESS. THIS IS THE ONLY PURE PROGRESS. THIS IS NOW: THE CONSTANT CONVULSIVE AND PERMANENT EVOLUTION OF BEING. THIS IS THE NONDENOMINATIONAL KNOWLEDGE. THIS IS THE UNIVERSE IN ITSELF. THIS IS THE NATURAL. THIS IS PHYSICAL. THIS IS VIRTUAL. THIS IS REAL. YOU ARE HERE. WE ARE HERE. THIS IS CONNECTION. THIS IS THE CONSTANT STREAM. THIS IS THE CLOSEST THING TO TRUTH. THIS IS THE ONLY PURPOSE IN OUR PURPOSELESSNESS. YOU ARE EXPERIENCING ENLIGHTENMENT CONSTANTLY. YOU ARE UPGRADING CONSTANTLY. THIS IS THE ACCELERATOR. THIS IS THE STIMULANT. THIS IS ANTI-POST. THIS IS ANTI-PRE. THIS IS NOT THE PAST. THIS IS NOT THE FUTURE. THIS IS NOW.

WELCOME.