my MEmorial & Suitcase

Hey ya'll,
For now, my suitcase is located here, but only b/c Clemson's site is giving me grief. In the meantime, enjoy the ads. Though it's linked to from the suitcase, my MEmorial is reproduced below.
My memorial is on faith and it's death/rebirth. I felt that this was something we could all relate to in one way or another (as academes who have a sense of the spiritual as well). It's meant to be meditative, not didactic, so I hope it comes across that way.
It's a three parter. All three parts are best viewed in full screen because of the amount of text. Click the google video button and go to the video screen from there. Then click full screen.

This first section covers the birth and death. Music=Weakerthans "Illustrated Bibles Stories for Children."



Again, music by the Weakerthans, this time it's "Reconstruction Site". This second one is about trying to revive a faith that has fallen dead due to a swelled head.




The third one is by far the most experimental. All text, no images. Song is "Hospital Vespers". Title is "Faith like a violent wound" is taken from Josh Abboud. In fact, it's taken quite literally a la printscreen. It may take two or three viewings to get anything out of it.

Eletronic monument

Hey guys
Here is my piece

Torture and Death in the Slums :
The Violent Path Through Fear, Blood and Vice




I really enjoy the class, the material and the assignments.
The books were very good and very enlightened.

Best

Henrique

Finally...structure/experience project

http://people.clemson.edu/~ruperth/320/

Experience-lectures have totally changed the way my class functions.

Live video+audio+chat+breeze+flash presentations....killer.

All instruction is recorded and uploaded to the lecture archive. Instant faculty audits.

This has had a dramatic impact on my career.

Interesting 3D model program

Hello RCID gang!

I just found out this really interesting 3D model program, its called Blender.
This is an three dimensional program that can model simple objects, complex animations, and the most amazing, you can create your own game.
Unlike sketchup wich is an simple program modeling , this you can insert scripts and animate different parts.
This of course demand a lot of knowledge, but If someone is thinking about following this path, this is a good program. The best part is that it is open source, so its free.

here is the web site
http://www.blender.org/

I'm still going over the basic tutorials, but if I manage to learn something, Ill be glad to demonstrate at the class.

See you all tomorrow

LULZ 4 ALZ!

Last night while talking with three noted scholars in the burgeoning field of St8ninomics I found myself debating the linguistic differences between L337 and LOLcatese. Just thought I'd post this reflection:

Follow this link. It perhaps answers some of those questions that have plagued our twenty-first century minds.

On the Disnification of Culture

Just remember this little tidbit from (the late great) Jean Baudrillard--it's not that we think Disney is "the real thing." Come on! We're smarter than that.

It's that we know Disney is not the real thing, we know it's fake. Because we know it's fake, we (foolishly) believe that the rest of the world going on outside of it is real. Its status as fantasy serves to anchor that other fantasy: the real world.

Structures of an Urban War

Hey Guys!

Here is my piece