Jessica Carbine 30 day challenge 14-20

Jessica Carbine

Days 14-20 Mar, 1-7 Thursday-Wednesday

This week I'll be halfway though the thirty day challenge and this weeks dreams have actually been pretty good. I saw Into The Woods Thursday and really enjoyed it so I think that sparked my imagination. Not all of them were really noteworthy but I had three that I enjoyed and wrote more than usual about. The most interesting of them was a dark reinterpretation of Beauty and the Beast, just to be clear it wasn't the Disney version it was just my imagining of the old fairy tale. I've been on a fairy tale kick lately, reading allot of story book retellings' such as Beauty, East and The Goose Girl series not to mention the play I went to, so it's no wonder I dreamed this.
One more thing before I start, I was't in this dream, it wasn't about me at all, which is't uncommon for me I'm not in most of my dreams.

In the dream Beauty was to late to save the Beast from his curse. By the time she got there the flower had long ago died and the Beast had been driven mad by the hopelessness and despair of having to remain a beast forever alone.

My dream began much like the old story Beauty lives with the Beast and he tries to court her but the castle is not beautiful its dark and grey and its falling apart there is also feeling of foreboding so she doesn't fall for his tricks. Because the spell can no longer be broken the servants who were invisible in the old story, are free to show themselves to Beauty and she befriends them.
One Day while Beauty is exploring because the castle is falling apart she falls through the floor to the deepest part of the castle. There she finds a dungeon filled with young women like herself who couldn't break the curse and tried to escape, so the beast locked them up. The servants find Beauty and help her escape but she decides she can't leave the women of the servants behind so she returns to the castle.
Once Beauty is back at the castle she confronts the Beast and tries to talk to him but he attacks and tries to kill her for escaping. The Beast sets his own castle on fire and Beauty and the Beast fight while the castle is burning around them. Beauty kills the Beast out of self defense and is able to set everyone free before the castle burns down. I woke up as she was journeying back to her home.

Jessica Carbine 30 day Challenge 7-13

Jessica Carbine

Days 7-13 Feb, 22-28th Thursday-Wednesday

I didn't have to many interesting dreams this week, I thought after Saturdays dream I would have more interesting dreams. A lot of the dreams felt interesting but I only remembered bits and pieces and I had a hard time accurately remembering the sequence of events enough to form a cohesive dream. My biggest problem is when I wake up form a dream its often in the middle of the night or early in the morning so I go right back to sleep and I forget the dream I woke up from. This makes it hard to remember my drams even if I really liked them but I'm going to try and write them down as soon as I wake up no matter how tired I am. After all I've made my self write in my journal every night so far.

Jessica Carbine 30 Day Challenge Days 1-6

Jessica Carbine


30 day challenge days 1-6

I am going to gage allot of my project through out 30 these days on what kind of dreams I have and how memorable they are. As I said in my introduction many of my dreams have become unmemorable and sleeping has become a chore. When I was writing regularly this wasn't the case, so one of my hopes in writing more is to have more enjoyable dreams and maybe even gain some control over my dreams since most things I've read on the subject of lucid dreaming say writing down your dreams is the best way to claim control of them. I am also going to post in 6 day intervals because 6 is easily divisible by 30, every 6 days I have a summery of my week so if I don't get to post every week I can still be accurate with my postings.

Days 1-6 Feb 15-21 Thursday-Wednesday

This first week I couldn't really allot of my dreams most of them were just feelings, or the events in them were so scattered I couldn't make sense of them, but it wrote down what I could. I found that if I actively tried to remember my dreams I couldn't remember them at all, but if I relaxed and took a passive approach to recalling my dreams I could at least remember the jist . I wasn't expecting much this was my first week after all. So I was surprised when  on Saturday I actually had a dream worth writing about.

It was sort of a lucid dream I was tired and couldn't sleep but I manged to dose a bit so I still felt a little consensus in this dream. I dreamed about my Grandmas  house, I grew up in that house because my grandma needed to be taken care of early on so form age 6 on we just lived with her. Memories of that house are still very precious to me. When I was 14 my Grandma died and due to some unfortunate events the house was taken by the city and demolished there is nothing left now. This event still haunts me in more ways than I can explain, so I tried not to think about it much.
In the dream the house was still whole I went through every inch starting from the basement of it remembering the feel of the carpet and the furniture and the comfortable clutter. I remembered the smell of the fireplace and the pictures on the wall along with the murals my mom painted, in my room, in the kitchen and on the doors. I also remembered the yard and its surrounding all the trees I used to climb and the creek I would play in. It was comforting but, I knew it was a dream which made me sad, for the past few years I have had this intensest feeling of home sickness and I guess I always will but that dream helped me think about it in a different light.

Singing assignment

For this assignment we decided to play out a five note chord where we each matched a note with our voices. We recorded samples of our voices and looped them to create note samples for 7 minutes, and played it on a phone speaker in the atrium.
The sound was actually a lot harder to listen to for seven minutes than we originally thought, you can hear everyone in the background and one eventually turned the volume down.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JjpSz7p-7Q&feature=youtu.be

Sensory Deprivation - Alyssa Burnside

This is my Sensory Deprivation Project

Over the winter holidays, I had the opportunity to participate in a taste test with my family. My parent's had gotten a box of different root beers from the store for us to try. The goal was to taste and then guess which root beer it was.
However, due to expenses and timing, I wasn't able to recreate that experiment. So, I change it up to fit my budget better. I went to the store and bought off-brand sodas and on brand sodas for my Boyfriend and his two young brothers to try.
We started this experiment at around 8-9 o'clock at night and didn't finish until around 11. The fact that this was done at night when they were tired made this experience really fun. They joked around a lot and were being their normal selves, just a little more hyper than usual due to the lateness of the day and the amount of sugary soda they've drunk.
The soda's I used were as so:
1.Mountain Lightning (Off brand of Mountain Dew)
2. Dr.Pepper
3.Twist Up (Off brand of 7Up)
4. Sam's Cola (Off brand of Coca-cola)
5.A&W Root Beer
6.Root Beer (Off brand of A&W Root Beer)
7.Mountain Dew
8.7Up
9.Dr.Thunder (Off brand of Dr.Pepper)
10.Fanta
11. Coca-Cola
12.Organette
The video is shaky in some parts, so don't be alarmed. I didn't use a tripod.

https://youtu.be/yc9uNT5ihhE

a set of instructions " couldn't remember if I posted or not "

Jessica Carbine 30 day challenge day 1

30 Day Challenge 

For my 30 day challenge I have decided to write in my journal everyday, I want to write more in general and I will but for the purpose of this challenge I'm going to focus on writing in my journal because it's easy to track and its also very versatile because I can write about anything I want in an in depth personal manner. 

I use to write all the time in jr high and high school, I wrote about all kinds of things and when I did I had these really amazing vivid dreams that would cause me to write more, my ideas just flowed so freely. 

After high school I guess I just went into hyper drive because I wanted to do well in college and I had to work to pay for college and I stopped writing. The vivid dreams stopped too and sleep became just another chore, my ideas feel like a wellspring that is running low.

My friend gave me a journal for Christmas, its a beautiful present with a heartfelt letter on the inside and it would be a shame  not to use it. I believe that if I begin writing again things will change and I will feel better.

Jessica Carbine sensory deprivation

Sensory Deprivation 

I couldn't find an exact statistic but I've herd it said that smell is at least 70% smell. So for my sensory deprivation I decided to test this statistic but I didn't want to do it alone. 

I gathered together some food, chopped up apples oranges, potato and I also backed cookies. Potato are similar to apples in texture so I wanted to see if people could tell the difference, Oranges have a very distinct smell to them which plays into there taste making them perfect for this experiment, then finally I baked cookies because I wanted to see if something so familiar could become unfamiliar if I took away its smell.

I got my stuff together along with some nose plugs and blindfolds and went to class, ounce there I had every body put on a blindfold and nose plugs, I uncovered the food and told everyone to begin. 

The results were hilarious I wish I had video taped it people were so disoriented about which food was what and it was so great seeing their reactions. Ben was startled by a piece of  orange he exclaimed "Ahh Its wet", Nathan Jackson and Ryan all got stuck with potatoes and none of them could figure out quite what it was. 

The most recognizable thing was the cookies because of their sweetness, the oranges were almost tasteless only recognizable by their texture, the Apples were a little more recognizable but people still got them confused with the potatos. It was fascinating and fun to see everybody's reactions and I'm glad I decided to share this experiment with the class.  

Jessica Carbine Resource list

Resource list 

imagination 

creativity 

music

bed 

blankets 

books 

backpack 

outside pack 

binders 

Sketchbooks past and present 

Car 

Camera 

film Camera

film 

computer 

clay 

clay tools 

cats

Drawing supplies 

dog  

parents 

siblings 

friends 

swimming ability 

swim suit

good sense of direction 

guitar

violin 

hiking boots 

mental map 

school studio 

school library 

peers

Teachers 

pocket tools

earphones

Trying to hard at the first of the thirty days

so I wanted to do a simple digital drawing very day to help me learn how to finishing things and het faster but this was not working for me I have to simply in order to draw every day I have to learn how to make things easier on my self

Walking a line

as related to the previous a moment in time project I ran some of my old running roots around Ephriam and i would remember some pretty upsetting things so I took a few pictures of what memories where recalled

Photo 1

Rotoscope 1

A moment in time..... again

so for this project I wanted to show or illustrate rather an up setting memory in my life that was upsetting so I did some research found a good reference and tried out some new digital painting techniques.

the Reference I found 

the penciling

the ink layer

some painting progress

Divine stress

gesture drawing - ben sang

When we are somewhere, we take in more just one plane of view. We are surrounded completely and the surroundings heavily impact our focus. We are constantly creating different kinds of gestures that we are aware of as well as those that we are unaware of. The external factors of our environment oftentimes become the stimulus for which of our many gestures we are especially attentive to at the time. I wanted to experiment with the idea of a gesture through my own various interactions to an environment while including the environment itself in the gesture.

In order to do this, I wanted to go somewhere that served as a location with a view or one that would be considered to be an outlook. After deciding on the top of the college's football stadium bleachers, I used a 360 degree camera to taking in the surroundings that I was most immediately aware of. Where was my head and body moving? What was I paying attention to? How was I positioned? With each repetition I focused on small gestures of my own that I wanted to focus on. These gestures varied from taking in the a view in general to constantly keeping my eyes down for fear of making eye-contact with anyone that might be able to see me standing or sitting far above them making weird motions with my phone.

I wanted to organize different gestures in a way that would make them all follow the same two formats: place, and relative dimension. Using the 360 degree created neat stripes.

What I find most interesting about these images is that depending on the gesture being carried out, the images become quite wildly abstract despite being achieved in the same way.

Gestural Painting - Alyssa Burnside

This is my Gestual Drawing

A simple gesture that I seem to do every day for different reasons is pacing. I don't know why I pace except that it helps either with relieving stressing, thinking about stuff or releasing energy build up. In my painting, I used different colors to symbolize the different times that I pace and the emotion that I feel when pacing. 

Black=Anxiety, worry, and depression
Light Blue=thoughtful

Red=Stressed

Orange=Excitment

By using my own feet as the painting tool and my emotions to guide me, I mixed the paint I wanted to use with water to help make it more liquidy providing splatters to the parts where I felt more emotional about something. 

Why did I do this though? Well, I wanted a piece of my art to be related to me. I wanted to show the kind of emotion that I feel every day and by using a simple gesture that I use to help cope with these different emotions, I feel like I can connect more with my audience. 

I worked on this project while actually feeling these different emotions. Whether that's thoughtful or exciting and energetic.