Blog post on one sentence or paragraph from each of the readings that intrigues you.

HOW APPLE MAKES THE WATCH

“Start bending a paper clip back and forth and you’ll notice it gets ever so slightly more difficult to bend as you repeat the process…Add a tremendous amount of precision, equipment capable of applying thousands of tonnes of force and replace the paper clip with a us 50k ingot of gold alloy and you’re working at apple.”

This wasn’t exactly the point of the article but it was just a small piece of trivia that I never thought about. I always thought when you bend something back and forth e.g. a piece of plastic, a branch, or in this case a paper clip that it continually gets weaker. I never got up after a reading to test something I read so I believe this fun fact stood out the most for me.

COMPLEXITY, FLUX, & WEBS OF CONNECTION

Chris Marker extends a brief glance to camera by on-screen subjects through a freeze frame of the look. I have employed a similar device in slowing down, holding and layering similarly brief instants.

This quote, without context, does not seem that interesting but when I thought about how I would film elements of my onotgraph, I did not think about layering or slowing down images to create meaning, juxtaposition etc Although obvious to most, this is an idea that will help me in the course.

CHAPTER 2 ONTOGRAPHY

Scribblenauts paragraph

Other than making me really want to play scribblenauts again this section showed me how there are other platforms out there which will help me think in the abstract/creative way that this course requires. I will attempt to think of more games, simulations, or any audio visual content that will help me see things for “what they are”