Did an about me page for the website. Its like a cool typography art thing. Idk, just messing around in illustrator per-usual.
Did a ton of reverse engineering on a website adding in designs and whatnot.... its gettting there.
New website bg.
2 [Thoughts and Reflections]:
wrote a half an essay on what i was thinking. Still a work in progress but heres where i got so far:
Sources:
1:
http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/04/milgram-experiment.html
2:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5uDdx1Ld0ORZTc3MjdiNzEtMTZlMC00ZmFiLWI5MTEtOGIwNTU1Y2E0Yjky&hl=en
3:
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5uDdx1Ld0ORYTNjMjk4YmYtMDIzZS00NmVjLTlhMTItYmU5YzRkMzZiNWE2&hl=en
4:
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/conscience.html
5:
http://www.cjgsu.net/initiatives/what_makes_a_terrorist.htm
6:
The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas (2008)
7:
Schindler's List (1993)
8:
BBC Horizon - How Violent Are You?
9:
Hooligans (2005)
10:
Evolutionary Psychology and Violence edited by Richard W. Bloom and Nancy Dess. Praeger: Westport, CT and London, 2003
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5uDdx1Ld0ORZGNlMDI4NzMtMDdkZC00YzU3LWEzNTEtNWQxNzQ2ZGFmZWMx&hl=en
11:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199403/violence-has-home-address
12:
Wikipedia: General Info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_accumbens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Essay:
Violence. Spurred on by our innate evolutionary desires to survive. Necessitated by the harsh conditions our ancestors had to overcome including large predatory animals and hunting for food, but the most astounding aspect of violence in human nature is how we are more prevalent to be violent towards other humans. This comes from any number of evolutionary aspects including competition for resources, defending a territory and mating privileges.
Over the many years of human development we have come to control and organize our violent actions, Weaponry, Wars and Conquest. Some associate violence with glory and honor. Others it is the ultimate evil associated with infringement on the rights of others (rape, murder, etc.). Ironically enough the punishment for violence is violence.
Mankind has always fought and battled, killed, maimed and slaughtered. "We are appauled and fascinated by [our] violence" (8) It is a very natural part of our evolution. Now that we, more or less, understand the vastness of the universe could we stop being so socio-masochistic and start directing our violence away from each other and towards some of the more dangerous elements of the universe?
I don't know if this is possible. We will always have underlying desires to inflict pain on one another. Whether a spurned advance of a potential partner or some other mistreatment. We can always justify violent action to ourselves because of the complex chemical balance which comprises emotion in our mind. To sedate and control these desires would make us something less than human. Ultimately it is up to each individual to control his or her own violent urges.
So deep within each of us, even the most practiced pacifist lies the dormant cognitive desires to fight and kill. At times we can't control ourselves. What should be our guiding star? Conscience varies from person to person and the laws of social convention are only observed out of fear of repercussion, rather than a desire to achieve moral enlightenment and equality.
Its a confusing thing being human. Confliction is overpowering. Our desires are fueled by constantly fluctuating and delicate chemical balance.
Whats perhaps most frightening about human violence is what happens when it is used in conjunction with social conformity as revealed by Stanley Milgram. "In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram conducted one of the most important experiments ever done in the field of human psychology and social conformity." (1) In the experiments 65% of the participants agreed to administer up to fatal shocks to test subjects (learner), despite the learner's urges and frequent attempts to cease the 'experiment'.
The reason for this was a authority figure who over shadowed the shock administrator (teacher) and instructed them to continue the experiment. BBC Horizon recently repeated a similar experiment in conjunction with psychologists and received similar results.
Notes:
The most difficult thing for man to do is love unconditionally.
It defies millions of years of evolutionary traits and survival instinct. Our predisposition to violence is hard wired into our brain, yet social conventions inhibit our violent instincts. We are in a constant struggle between our primitive survivalist nature and an enlightened, reasoning intellect. Only true dreamers, visionaries and heroes know the sacrifice necessary to love, but all of us have incredible potential.
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In this piece I wanted to explore the duality of man. On one hand we know there is more to this world than just our physical selves. Every day we experience intangible, abstract thoughts and emotions. In contrast to this we are also confronted by our primitive, animalistic selves. The side of man that kills, rapes, steals and survives against everything evolution has thrown our way since the Australopithecus.
We are torn and divided. Societal conventions restrict our innermost and base instincts. We don't fuck everything that moves, don't kill every rival, nor do we destroy everything, but we certainly have our moments when we can't consider ourselves men, but animals. When the chips are down the average person is a wild beast cornered by hunters and rules don't apply when survival is on the line.
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BBC Horizon - How Violent Are You
Our aggression spans the globe
We are appauled and fascinated by violence
What makes people violent?
-Primitive Survival Instinct???
-Self Preservation mechanism
-Natural tendencies towards violence are suppresed by social conventions
-Aggression hard wired into us
-Nucleus accumbens--- releases dopamine when fighting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_accumbens
Violence Addiction? ---> Criminal?
Riots, Frenzy, etc.
Hooliganism
OTHER SOURCE:
(Hooligans, 2005)
Slow Motion - Third eye blind
SOMETHING STOPPED MOST OF US FROM BEING VIOLENT...
What??
EXPERIMENT
3 yr olds with scooter
No inbitions. Until age 3 no stopping urges from emotional center of brain until development of pre-frontal cortex (control aggression)
The experiences of an individual can have tremendous impact on the development and effectiveness of these inhibitions.
Children from violent bgrounds have a predisposition towards violence....?
Downward spiral of mankind is violence. Vicious circle of cause and effect. If you are treated poorly by another person you have a natural predisposition of hostility, skepticism and doubt of others. Fool me oncem shame on you fool me twice shame on me....
The most dangerous opponent impeding the development of society today is ourselves.
IMMINENT SELF DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND
(Sketchbook)
"Incredibly being taught to share and take turns actually changes the physical structure of the brain. It strengthens the connections between the pre-frontal cortex and the emotional center. This is what makes us less aggressive."
Children as young as 2 are most frequently aggressive.
Prefrontal cortex susceptible to injuries which involve sudden, rapid deceleration. (car wreck)
Also: Depression Drugs Alcohol and Aging all impact the violence responses controlled by our brains and chemicals etc.
Interpretation of facial expressions
Lack of Sleep also impacts aggression
EXPERIMENT
aggression resp test with color and words and facial recognition
test found him average hostility
Virtual 3mo old babies to deprive sleep for 60 hours
Bombsrding him with stimuli while tired impact aggression response
(New job as junior chef ontop of virtual twins for stimuli and sleep deprive)
waking dreams as symptom..at 50 hours
placebo of reprogramming babies to cry more often. in reality they werent but he assumes this and is upset about it at the experimenters who he calls "jailers etc"
displacing of aggression suggestive of hostility buildup
after 60 hours agrression response test run again
word color responses were slower
facial recognition subconciously recognizes normal faces as aggressive and is predisposed to hostility
"Our sense of self is incredible fragile"
Crimes of passion.... caught offguard and crack
joy of revenge
CONTROVERSIAL EXPERIMENT
MILGRIM EXPERIEMNT
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normal citizen given electirc shock for science
volunteers meet actors who they think are a proffessor and another
memory test with electric shock
one is teacher and on learner
fixed lotto ticket for learver role
strapped into chair
teacher next door
15-450VOLT range
teacher given 45 v shock to think its real generator
word pair memory
professor keeps telling them to go on and shock
reponses are on prerecorded cd
participant deppers to professor and they givre responsibility over to the autority figure
"The prompts drive him back to the task"
The idea that science is being conducted for the greater good.
9 of 12 went to 450v Lethal level
over 65% went to 450 v in millgrims experiment
immediately afterwards they hear the true nature of experiemnt
participants were under stress but argued that authority was real responsible party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
violence is innate. present in our minds controlled by learned social conventions but spurred on by our need to survive and a chemical reward system (dopamine)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5uDdx1Ld0ORZGNlMDI4NzMtMDdkZC00YzU3LWEzNTEtNWQxNzQ2ZGFmZWMx&hl=en
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199403/violence-has-home-address
3 [Photo-Op]:
No pic yet
4 [Something I learned]:
Several shortcuts in illustrator....
Various bits and pieces of CSS
Desginy stuff with illustrator.
5 [Learning Link of the Day]:
I learned nothing, but it was interesting-
Geekologie
Glossy Vector Icons Are Epic-
RSS Icon Tutorial
Tongue Icon
Really Cool Thing I want to try...
Flashlight Light Tricks
6 [Things I did for Others]:
nada yet
promise keeping
helped dad make a fire
helped out with the dogs
fixed mom's watch
7 [Things I did for Myself]:
Looked at NOLS magazine (Thx Alicia)
Researched Milgrims Experiments, Nazi Germany, Islamic radicalism and Human Aggression/Violence.
Made about me page
Made progress on my website
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