Assignment 2

Kidd The Cheese Monkeys Excerpt
Something useful:
I like the idea that "big can always be bigger and small smaller" and that "the atom is the universe and vice versa". It is hard to wrap my mind around but it's an interesting thought. The smallest thing i can imagine could always be bigger than something else. It is easier to imagine that some thing that is big can always be bigger because I cannot see the whole universe. However, i can see a piece of sand, and to think that that piece of sand isn't that big to an insect is crazy to grasp. No one will ever be able to see the smallest spec of that grain of sand.

Something difficult: As for the part where the author instructs the reader to design a moment, I am lost. How can one create a moment in time?  A moment happens. I don't understand how it can be designed. It is just something that everyone goes through. The moment holds the person, the person doesn't hold the moment. Maybe thats just my perception. 

Hickey The Heresy of Zone Defense
Something useful: Rules have never been explained to me like that before. You need them for any type of structure. Without rules you don't have anything. If there were no rules Basketball could never exist. If there weren't rules Julius Erving wouldn't have made that shot. He wouldn't have had to. The rules were what made that shot possible. 

Something difficult : Rules are required, yet if there are too many rules it is no longer a game. The player loses the artistic license. That is where it gets confusing. when do you stop making rules? If the players are too free someone could be hurt or they game would be to easy.  The YMCA newsletter started asking if the game was too rough. They didn't know if they should add more rules to make it safer. A fear might have been that it would ruin the beauty of the game. 

Weschler Uncanny Valley
Something useful: I liked the way that the animators use milk as a reference to the reflection in the whites of a persons eyes. Henrik Wann Jensen thinks about milk a lot. He said that it is harder to animate than Dinosaurs. I wouldn't have thought that it would be that complex to animate. However, they seem too have a lot of trouble with making it seem realistic. 

Something difficult: Its interesting to think about how animators have to build a facial expression from nothing. Actors know how to express an emotion because they have felt that emotion before. If they don't have a live example to reference it from it is extremely difficult to know what each individual face muscle will do in reaction to something.