Grid Art Project

Steve Jobs

The speech Steve Jobs gave was very inspirational. He stressed his devotion to being successful strictly resulted from his love for electronics. Jobs admitted to being a college drop out, fired from his own company, Apple, but still showed his determination for computers. From those two negatives he created a huge positive; creating Pixar. Pixar was then able to drastically change the movie industry. From this invention he was also rehired by Apple. Jobs has also faced very serious issues concerning his medical health, fighting prostate cancer. Overall, Jobs explains to the graduates at Stanford University that with out a drive and love for what he does, he would not have been able to overcome so many obstacles.

Mark J Stock

"Inside The Bomb" is my favorite piece of work done by Mark J Stock. It is a picture displaying chemical energy transforming into kinetic energy. I like how the picture has a center that draws your attention but then you move out from it and look at all the different strands connected to the middle. There is a lot going on in the picture, it is very busy though it still looks organized. I also liked the light blueish purple color in the background.

Fastest Computer

The fastest computer in the world was created by the United States and is a supercomputer called "Titan'. It is worth over $100 million. This machine is able to process 20,000 trillion calculations per second. Titan is used to calculate complex energy systems for the United States Department of Energy. These computers get their unbelievable speed from interconnected processing boxes, for Titan it is Gemini XE interconnect.


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OTR- Gosden & Correll's radio broadcast

Gosden and Correll's radio broadcast was a couple of men acting out a story. They work together for a taxi company. One of the men, Amis, is dating a girl named Ruby. The other night when he went to her house for a date there was a man named Earl there so Amis was angry. Ruby calls to talk with Amis but he is out so she talks with the man that answered the phone. She asks him for advice and he says he will get Amis to call and ask her on a date and when he does to say that she has a date and then he will be jealous and won't be able to be angry anymore. She agrees she will do it and they get off the phone. When Amis comes back he persuades him to call and ask Ruby on a date, as planned, but tells Amis that if she says no it is because she doesn't love him she loves someone else. He calls and she says that she has another date. At the end of the broadcast Earl comes in and confronts Amis about being angry and says he is going to go over to Ruby's whenever he wants and there isn't anything anyone can do about it.

I had chosen this broadcast because it was under the comedy section. It is interesting to see how people were entertained in the 1930s. Listening to this broadcast today it was not very amusing to me and definitely not a form of entertainment, as it was a popular form in the 1930s. I didn't hate the broadcast but I did not find listening to be something I am interested in. You can see how different even things as comedies have changed in the past 80 years.

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Singing in the Rain

The song "Singing in the Rain" was used in two completely different scenarios. First seen in the movie, Singing in the Rain in 1952, the song is played in a happy scene. The man is ecstatic and energetic singing powerfully and dancing in the rain. Next, Singing in the Rain is played in the movie Clockwork Orange in 1971. This scene is the complete opposite of the previous movie. Random men knock on a couples' door asking to use the telephone claiming they had got into an accident. The woman does not want to let the strangers in but her husband insists on doing so. The men are all dressed in white with black shoes and masks. They continually beat the woman and the man in an extremely violent scene while singing, "I'm singing in the rain". I believe the huge difference in the usage of this song is because of built up anger from all of the wars that had been occurring. Between the years 1952 and 1971 three different wars were taking place, the Korean War was about to end, the Cold War had been going on for a few years and the Vietnam started roughly in the middle of this period. During this time people may have been more violent due to all that was going on around them; fighting and war. Therefore, Clockwork Orange used the song "Singing in the rain" to display people's anger and emotions, while the movie Singing in the Rain was from 1952 when people were more calm and happy.

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