AAD 250: Art and Human Values, Fall 2013, Scott Huette

I found the TED Talk, “Laws that Choke Creativity” by Larry Lessig, to be extremely interesting. Before I watched this video my original view towards people’s obsession and infatuation with technology to be poisonous to a degree to the human brain. I don’t know about other people my age but I grew up with the […]

  The underlying thesis in this weeks reading “Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins”, by Beverly Jones, is that “new forms of art and technology are frequently cast in the mode of old farms.” (pg.1).  This means that the look and form of new art and technology that is released can be related back to its […]

I found this unit to be pretty fascinating, especially after I watched the TED Talk video featuring Jane McGonigal, a game designer who is aspiring to create a new type of game genre that can possibly contribute to solving some of the world’s current problems. I don’t know if I would consider myself a “gamer” […]

How do you define “spirituality”? To me spirituality is the opposite of the ordinary. To be more specific it is the notion in all of us that makes us search for the sacred. Its what makes us look for the meaning in everyday events and is what helps mold and shape our personalities and values. […]

I found our assigned reading “Deeply Seeing” very intriguing. I felt like I was able to connect with the author on a personal level when he explains that there is a difference between “merely looking at a thing and actually seeing it” (pg. 1). He goes to basically note that we spend our entire day […]

My wardrobe is very diverse. I have clothes from all over the spectrum and what I choose to where mainly depends on what time of the day it is. However, I would definitely have to say that most of my wardrobe consists of sport/athletic attire. What I mean by this is that I have a […]

Today I devoted an hour of my time to people watch in front of the EMU on the campus of University of Oregon. Of that hour spent people watching there were a lot of people that stood out to me. However, of the wide variety of people I saw, there were three that stood out. […]

In this article, “What it’s like to eat at the world’s best sushi bar?”, Dan Shapiro has the honor and pleasure of meeting the legendary Jiro Ono, the worlds best sushi chef. Jiro Ono, an 86 year old Tokyo native, runs his sushi restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro tucked away in the basement of the Ginza Metro […]