Last class!

So for our last class the presentations for okay. I especially liked the presentation that tried to use and integrate acting into their work. I thought it captured my attention more than all the rest of the presentations. I think I would like to see more acting and use of theater in the presentations however I don't think that some or most people think that its appropriate. I think they feel that sticking to more traditional methods such as the power point is more acceptable than anything else. This can make presentations boring and cliche, and it may not always keep the viewers attention. I've also noticed that some groups bride attention and possibly grades by giving out candy and cookies. I really don't think approach works to well either. I will just be eating something while NOT paying attention to you presentations. I'm not saying that you are doing a bad job or that you didn't put work into your stuff. But it is the last class hence my lack of attention towards everything. So with that I'd like to say that I was satisfied with this class and the information I learned while taking it.

Thanks

Chris

First impressions!

The presentations that I viewed on Monday were interesting and I think the one that peaked my interest the most was the Pixar presentation. The presenters had good form although their presentation was a little long I believed they did a good job in keeping the information relevant to the issue at hand. The BP presentation I thought was way to long it had upwards of 30 slides! I think that if you properly research and prepare your slide show should not nearly be as long. But they did come together in the end despite that fact. I'd like to talk a little more about Pixar and the company itself because it is something that interests me. Pixar is an animation company that depends on computers and cg equipment to complete its projects and movies. The process is an interesting one and it goes something like this. The artists start by drawing up concepts from a creative guide, often put together by the art director. This guide is the starting point for all creative tropes and ideas for the film/animation. The art then makes its way to the 3D modelers who model the two dimensional images in 3D space. The modelers then hand of the model to riggers who rig the model with animation features, such as joints, bones etc. They then texture the model and send it off to the rendering farm to render the full image of the model. This is a fascinating process and one that I was thinking of during the Pixar presentation.

Power, and the people that wield it!

So we have been speaking a lot about power lately. I'd like to take this moment to highlight some situations and people that may have power. I am trying to re-imagine power in the hands of the common folk. Taking action is one piece of power we all hold. This is my most crucial point I'd like to make. To not take action in a situation of opportunity is a waste to say the least, and at the most it is a waste of your own personal power to change and to act on your surrounds. I think people in general seem to minimize the power they have as a collective and seem to concentrate power in their mind on the upper class. Now that we have the internet one could even argue that the lower classes have more power since they have opportunities to come together and share ideas and power. This is unconventional wisdom of course and their is no evidence to back this sort of conclusion up. It is also my personal opinion and I realize it may not hold much water but I really do believe that sort of being chained and locked up I think we all hold some amount of power in society.

Business Exercise; Incompetence?

So corporate exercise was interesting and I thought it was overall a good experience to have gone through even if I thought it might have been mismanaged at some points. I'd like to offer a critique of this exercise and show some of my opinion in how I thought this may have been effective or not. The first aspect of this exercise I'd like to highlight was the SHEAR incompetence of the leaders at the top. This is of course from my prospective as an employee of course. The incompetence stems from the lack of communication and proactive action taken to make the so called corporation function correctly. I know I felt like the employees were tossed aside in favor of the managers and customer interaction with the top.This type of neglect is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE. Effective leadership would have included a more proactive stance to bring all the parties together to work out a deal that would have benefited everyone, and at the very least everyone in the fictitious organization should have at least been informed. Another words, if your given a game such as this and told you can make up and change rules their frankly should be no excuse to have your plan executed perfectly. This is just my opinion and I have been influenced and biased this week by observing a string of very INCOMPETENT people, so I am also ranting as well.