Tate Gebhart Arm

I first started off by photo copying my arm. Then after that I proceeded to take a photo of the photo copy. Then  after the first two steps I proceeded to use the photo apps, Phonto and Brush. I used these two apps to edit the photo to make a clearer image for the project's sake. I also used this app to custom make the custom title that reads "Tatertot".Then I went into the snapchat app and edited the filter on to the already edited image to make it look like a rap album cover. This was a fun project that helped me show an image of creation. This image is left up to the viewers on what it means to them as a whole. I wanted this image to show hands helping other hands. This picture could also represent a family tress as it Is linking hands from past generation to what it ultimately is now.

Grid Project Tate Gebhart

  I went to the neighborhood Walmart Tuesday right by campus and bought a total of three items. The items I bought were board,crayons, and colored pencils. I proceeded to go back to my dorm and once I got back to my dorm I put my materials on my desk. I then took out the board and drew ,with a pencil, 900 squares and then I colored in my grid with various crayons and colored pencils. The challenging part for me was to make sure that I did not use the same crayons and markers so that each diagonal square would represent one singular color. This project was not overall to complex ,but helped me learn to be discipline and to stay with in the lines. I personally would have rather drawn outside the lines ,but the assignment left me only so much time for overdoing the creativity side of this drawing.

Electronics Comment

I agree that the "phone" is revolutionary and should be seen as one of the top greatest inventions of all time. The thing I disagree with you on is that the phone has created a lot of business across the world ,but it also has made people more depressed because you have more access to faster information about bad people doing bad things which as a whole changes the way we act in our day to day society.

Electronics

      In the 1900's the phone changed the way we see the world and how the world acts. It all started with the rotary phone. The rotary phone had a unique way of dialing as you had to spin like a locker combination to call someone's number. The rotary phone was revolutionary as it allowed the process of information to move more quickly than in years prior when the only thing moving information was word of mouth. The rotary phone lead to the first cell phone or as my mother refers to it as a "bag" phone. A "bag phone" was a huge blocky cell phone that had a gigantic antenna. If you showed a photo of a bag phone to a millennial they would lose there minds.The "bag" phone was revolutionary  as it changed the way we talk to people as now we can walk and talk to people across states while on the move. The "bag" phone then lead to the flip phone. The flip phone was revolutionary based on it's size and it also introduced the world to texting. You could put a flip phone in your pocket as well as you could send messages across states via your cell phone. The flip phone lead to the Blackberry. The  Blackberry changed the way men did business as it was known globally as a business phone. Not that it is important but the Blackberry also had my favorite game of all time on it called "BrickBreaker" which helped bring upon the idea of gaming on the go and ultimately lead to smartphones. The Blackberry lead to a whole group of phones being made ultimately known as "smartphones". I am going to talk about the most important phone of all the smartphones in my eyes the iPhone. There have been many iPhones but the iPhone as a whole Brought the entire computer into a phone that we could carry around in our pockets. iPhones also created apps and or known by todays generation as applications that could allow you to do various things. These applications allow you to tell the weather, play chess with your friends across the country and even watch movies in a car. The iPhone has created millions of businesses that would have never have been a thought without past advancements such as the rotary phone, the"bag" phone, the flip phone and the Blackberry. This device has changed the way we get news. In my lifetime it has changed the way a generation acts and is perceived. My generation along with myself are so normalized with school shootings and crazy  natural disasters that it changes how our generation acts ,but the reason we are so used to it is because of the iPhone. There are goods and bad things that come with the revolution of products some people pick there sides depending on what point they are trying to make. Regardless, this device will shape future products out of this world the fact that we have a product that contains the entire internet in our pockets is insane to me. The amount of new apps for better or for worse will be insane.  What will happen in the future? I do not know ,but it will be something revolutionary.

Exquisite Corpse

       I drew the middle of this drawing taking a chance on my two peers would get the gist and add there own creativity to it. I drew a blink 182 shirt to be ironic considering that I know of them just don't listen to there music. This overall was unique and fun and came out different.

Flipbook Gebhart

Intervention

We went outside and I saw the logo of which defines our campus and saw in total what defines me. I saw the palm trees and I made a relaxation pose because that is how I am as a person and thats what I see our campus as.

Madame Butterfly: The Video Game

         
      In this blog I was asked to turn the opera,"Madame Butterfly" into a video game. The first thing I would do is turn this game over to  Telltale games. The video game company, "Telltale Games", is famous for turning over the storyline to the player. The company makes the player pick what happens in the storyline by giving them four options ultimately deciding the climax of the storyline. By allowing Telltale games to help me I could give the players more of a connection with characters like Pinkerton. Another idea would be to change the ending or give the players choices that ultimately decide the ending of the game. This is Telltale games sweet spot and I believe the collaboration would make a very successful game. The other way Telltale games would help is they are known for there movie like video games that tend to produce a lot of drama. I believe a video game with drama in  today's society is a big attraction to kids between the ages of 18-24. The way I know this to be for the most part true because kids in my generation love shows like the Walking Dead. Telltale games sold a lot of copies of there video game version of the popular tv show. Which gives me confidence in the fact they could do an amazing job on this close to a century old opera.

This game would have to be R-rated because of the sexual nature along with the game ending in suicide. In the opening scene of the video game maybe you see some imagery and foreshadowing by flying around as a butterfly with uplifting Japanese music playing in the background just to ultimately catch on fire as dark and scary Japanese music plays. Ultimately the butterfly goes down in flames transitioning to the first act of the video game. Then you see the cutscene of the love between Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton and there goodbye. Then the first chapter you get to play as Pinkerton in the U.S Navy and get to see his mindset change. Another way to make this game more popular is by changing the storyline by allowing the players to choose if Pinkerton should leave Cio-Cio-San or not. This idea was not shown in the opera and would interrupt the chronology of the opera ,but ultimately makes the game more interesting. If we use this route then it would help the player see two sides of a story for better or for worse. Every story likes to show one sided biases. The video game would  fall in line with other top 21st century video games because the story would be more complete and without bias. Then the next cutscene we would play as Cio-Cio-San giving us the option to wait for Pinkerton or not. These choices would allow many different endings with many different scenarios based off what the player chooses. It would be hard ,but maybe there is a scenario that gives the character the choice to play as Pinkerton and decide weather or not to even leave for the U.S navy. To make this game very successful In the twenty first century you would have to keep a lot as well as change a lot.

    While watching the opera ,"Madame Butterfly", I realized the mix of emotions from deep love to deep pain and sorrow. The video game I would create would show emotion ,because emotion produces reaction. Madame Butterfly produces various strong reactions from the audience when watched for the first time. Sadly I feel to reproduce those same reactions with kids from my generations playing this video game I would have to shorten the story because kids attention spans are shorter. Also on the matter of my generation being a factor and having a short attention span you could easily sell this to my generation by putting a flaming butterfly on the cover of the video game. I feel this game would be hard to make if you kept 100% of the same storyline and 100% of the same endings. This opera is beautiful and weird and could be sold as a video game ,but I feel the storyline would have to be added on to and shortened. Kids in my generation are big on first person shooting games, maybe we have a chapter of the campaign where we fight in Japan apart of the U.S navy as Pinkerton. This opera is important part of chronology of the opera ,but to make a 21st century video game you would have to add on parts and try to stray away from chronology. This opera as a video game in its entirety allows the creators to go 1,000 different directions with a 1,000 difference endings and options.
 

Tate Gebhart Madama Butterfly

 
          As much as I love claymation, this is one of the weirdest videos I have ever seen. The storyline is a very typical one. It goes as fallows as a couple has sex before Pinkerton goes off into the navy. Then while he is away Butterfly gives birth to a baby girl that honestly I thought at the time was some mutant because it was shown in the video having no eyes and looked sort of like an alien ,but I digress. After that you see the child still being attached to Butterfly via the umbilical cord and flown around like a kite which honestly weirded the hell out of me. In theory I guess the creator was trying to make the point ,that the child is basically an attachment and created by Butterfly. The old vinyl recorder is  a symbol of Pinkerton and Butterfly's love for one another and shows up in the beginning and end of the video. The really sad part in this video is when I realized that Butterfly waits all this time for Pinkerton to come home just to find out he has moved on to another women and eventually also takes there child with them. The weird part about that scene when the child is taken away is that Pinkerton rips her from the umbilical cord which is really weird ,but the more you think about it the more it makes sense. Pinkerton isn't just leaving her for another women, he is taking a piece of Butterfly away from her.So I guess the creators wanted to make that point clear by literally showing Pinkerton ripping Butterfly's umbilical cord from the child. It gets even weirder and even sadder as now Butterfly is left with no significant other and a piece of her is gone after the child is taken. The character, Butterfly, starts to tear off her female parts and even her face which has to be symbolic ,but honestly just creeped me out.  I think the creator's where trying to show that Butterfly committed suicide because she has nothing left to care about and the video ends with her body parts falling off the cliff to really weird music.  I get there is a  lot of deeper meaning to this video and for it to make sense you can not just look at it at face value. I also can say I do love claymation ,but this is one of the weirdest overall videos I have ever watched.

Cuero Phd Comments Tate Gebhart

       In today's society kids my age often tend to conform to the idea of being popular. Many people in my generation will come up to you and tell you that they are different than most, but yet while talking to them you may notice they wear the same clothes and act the same way. People in my generation want to believe that they are creative and different people ,but in reality most of them are not. The lack of creativity is not from a lack of trying it's just from the simple fact that most of them see what's popular in the world today and are often detered from being different because they are scared. They are scared of what people might think of them. They are scared of what they might say if they talk, walk or dress differently. Even though I feel my generation is largely responsible for a lot of positive change in the world today, I still see a large room for improvement,  even in my own life. As a freshman in college in the year 2018, I believe that I could use Mr. Cuero advice to better myself and hopefully one day help change the world at whatever level I can. Mr.Cuero also talks about the "unknown" in parts of  the video and says that  when you do things in the world today that involves the unknown and present to the majority of  people that just expect the "known"  are shocked and most times scared because it's taboo and different but that's what makes the world change. The question asked to me is,"how could I apply Mr.Cuero's concepts in everyday life?" Well by just daring to mess with the unknown and not to be scared to do more then what's expected of me, weather that be in the field of academics and or athletics area.


 Now you may be asking yourself,  "how do kids conforming and dressing the same way in society today have anything to do with our Microbiologist, Raul Cuero Phd from the video? Well let me explain. The ideas Mr. Cuero has on creativity is what makes  a different and creative person. If kids in my generation listened to people like Mr.Cuero more often and used his ideas and concepts in their own lives I strongly believe that world would be more creative and better place. My generation would be more truthful with themselves and others as well as being more creative because all the stress of living up to people's imaginary expectations would go out the window.  Do not get me wrong I firmly believe you can be successful by doing the same thing as everyone else. That does not change the fact that is almost a definite fact that the most successful and influential people in the world today are those that dare to be different and open up there creativity to the world no matter what anyone says to them.  Many kids in my generation would likely tell you that they fall under Mr.Cuero's idea of being the ones who are unpredictable and are the ones flipping the script on what people limit our generation to, when really they are just conforming. They are conforming because it is a lot more comfortable and hell of a lot easier to fit in then deal with the criticism that comes along with being an innovator. I hope kids begin to look up to people like Mr.Cuero because kids in my generation are becoming as predictable as a daily four p.m. rain shower in the city of Tampa and is honestly a bit annoying.

Introduction

       In my , Art and Technology,  college course I feel that there is going to be a lot of creative and   interesting ways to present the material given to us.  I love the freedom my professor gives us in the writing of our blogs. I am a big believer in conversation and expressing ourselves through education. The reason I am a big believer in this idea is because when people express themselves through education it tends to make the class more interesting and enjoyable. I expect for this class to test my blogging abilities and test the creative side of my brain. I also intend on challenging myself in talking about things in the fields of Art and Technology.

   My name is ,Tate Chandler Gebhart, and I am from Atlanta, Georgia. A unique fact about me is that I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Another fact about me is that I am a big people person and love the lost art of conversation/debate. I strongly enjoy learning about different cultures and different people and what makes them who they are.  Also something about me that people may not know I am a big sports fan and hope to one day get a job talking or playing baseball.