Feb 8 - Display Case Presentation - 2hr
Today I added some final touches to the display case presentation. Mainly I found images and photos in order to add them to the presentation. The research information I found about the "science attention" and the interview I had with Brandon Guthrie contributed to the presentation heavily. One of the issues was finding film festival images, because the only display cases about films were preserving movie props and other movie memorabilia rather than the festivals themselves. Another issue was finding examples within the parameters of the type of case I had access too, so I had to create something myself.
Feb 9 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 1hr
I continued organizing the drives but could only work on them for so long before the madness sets in again. One of the biggest issues that I have encountered is that there is duplicate folder's inside of themselves. So I have to look at individual files and determine if there is any differences, most of the time they are carbon copies of one another, but every now and then there is a slightly different version of the same document so I need to keep both versions.
Feb 10 - Bake Sale - 5hrs
Today was the day of the bake sale. I had a lot of fun acting like a fool trying to convince people to donate for baked goods. I mainly tried to push the cake pops that I helped make. What I enjoyed the most was hearing people's excuses why they couldn't donate, it ranged from I don't have cash, I'm running late, and I was just mugged yesterday. Most people seemed to be open to the idea, and when I initially got their attention with "hello, how are you, having a good day" more people were wiling to stop and listen, as oppose to "Hey would you like donate to...through bake sale." I think some people wanted to start conversations, but once they heard me trying to "sell" Visions they either wanted to know more about the cause, or became distant.
Feb 11 - Calico Room Valentines Party - 5hrs
This was the night of the Calico room party. I think because I don't drink alcohol I am just socially awkward at these sort of things. I feel like if I don't have anything to do, and my one task didn't occur until midnight. I was door person #2 and by then there was really no people coming in, so I was mainly handing out short surveys. I will say this though, the Theory of Reciprocity was proven this night, Shannon gave a raffle ticket to Wes, and this lead to Wes and Ryan buying $40 worth of raffle tickets. Not only that but by the time I went to see Ryan again, he was posting on the Cape Fear Equality page drawing to the event that night. He told me to send him the link once the tickets were on sale in order to post about that as well.
Feb 13 - Meeting with Marketing and Art Department - 2hrs
Today I met with Zoe, Jack, Grace, Michelle and Carson. Zoe asked me about my budget, and presentation, and told me to make adjustments. One slide will have to go, even though I liked it because it created synergy. I think I will fine tune my presentation in order to have it function with the budget since I did not present this week.
Reflections
Other than already knowing I am a socially awkward person in social situations and an outgoing lively person in normal situations, what else did I find out about myself this week, and I guess my job. I am a paradox, so my work is a reflection of that, I make simple task complicated, and make difficult task look simple. My whole idea is that if it is too simple then you should put much more research and work into it in order to get down to the root of the task. Sometimes that means looking at art in order to be visually pleasured or confused, which then leads to trying to understand scientifically how the eye functions, and finally how our attention is attained. All this to try and figure out how a display case should be organized. I really like my holistic approach because somewhere down the research rabbit hole I will find something that interest me a lot.
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