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Jesse Harasta, a grad student in cultural anthropology at Syracuse University created a card game based of the peoples of the Trobriand Islands in the 1890′s. The chieftains ability to maintain power came form the ability to aggregate people, land, and the primary resource for food, yams.
In our class we have the land (The Facilities), and peoples(The Students) gathered under our chieftains (The Staff) but what is our food?
In The past when rival tribes became aware of prosperity amongst the group raider parties were sent out in order to obtain the excess riches.
Today the ‘yams’ of our class are our ideas. The attachment to our ideas has always been an enduring one. We will fight to the death for what we believe in, even if our ideas are not entirely logical or grounded in reality.
On Tuesday 9/30/2014 the first 3d prints for our Making Meaning Matter class failed collectively. The class was assigned to create tokens, small coins 4mm in height and 30mm in diameter. The pieces were gathered and thrown on to the floor in the middle of a lecture. Students quickly rose and scrambled to gather the ‘refuse.’ The value to the students of their ideas became as apparent as the value of food to a starving nation.
We must be careful not to let two things happen:
- Let our ideas take hold of us like hunger driving one to obesity
- Letting our ideas fall victim to thieves
Photo of ‘Yams!’ card
The lab bustled with activity. Computer arbiters seized their processing machines, wrenching the controls furiously. Involuntary facial expressions on the faces of these young 3d world builders allude to a subconscious turmoil, a pull between potentiality and reality. In their minds millions of tiny skirmishes are taking place on a microscopic level. At a crux, when a neuron faces the impasse of two choices, one synaptic branch or the other, this is the firefight. A metronome of futures engaged in combat. There can be only one.
Sitting here…
This is my TEST post.
I am currently in my Making Meaning Matter class at Evergreen State College.
Hello my name is Brandon Fortner, this is my first post.
My first post:)
This post is the first of many. It has no academic value.
Working in the 3d printing labs has been an exciting and new experience, I can already tell it will give my peers and I chance to learn with each other, build off of each other, and work together on projects. The way that the class is set up, with half of us observing and the other half working hands on with the program is an interesting way of approaching learning tinkerCAD. I can see that it will give some people the opportunity to learn by observation, and that in seeing the different things that you can create with the program they will get a better chance of thinking outside of the box and building from each others ideas. Sometimes I feel like all I want to do is the hands on work because I am naturally intuitive with autoCAD programs, but when I do get a chance to step back and take a look around the room I am glad I got the opportunity to see the amazing things my peers have done.
3D printing a double helix
My first post is going to be boring, because it really has no topic. I will be doing things such as making links that lead to places you already know how to get to. Plus, this guy and his 3D printed hands
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write write write write wright
First post on this blog! I’m excited to start updating and sharing my progress in this class with all of you who read this. Here is the workshop outline.
Hello me. Here is the test post lalalalalalala…
This is a test. Wow.
oops this is my first post disregard it
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10/4/2014
“Really impressive. So that’s what you’re going to do for Kodacell, make these things out of recycled toys?”
-Suzanne
“Nope, not quite. That’s just for starters. The Elmos are all about the universal availability of cycles and apparatus. Everywhere you look, there’s devices for free that have everything you need to make anything do anything.”
-Lester
My observations from our first 3d lab session are much like Suzanne’s when first being introduced to Perry and Lester’s creative process. I found myself amazed at all the different ideas and creative energy in the room. After the first creation, a whole world of possibilities opened up and one by one students began to realize that they had the ability to make anything, spin it around on a computer screen with the flick of a mouse and then turn their design into something tangible by way of a 3d printer. So, no…these Makers won’t just be making coins out of fermented corn, this is just the beginning to everything and anything.
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I just barely created this site. This is a test post.
I have a cat named Jojo and a dog named Captain.
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