Wednesday, November 26, 2008

SS Resource

Psychogeography

It’s really interesting to know the word “Psychogeography”. It can be made into deep and thoughtful simply by look throw it and think creatively. When I heard this word, I didn’t get what is psychogeography means, but now I get sort of idea. There is no right or wrong to defined Psychogeography, it’s all based on your thought and your creativity.

Site Specific Performances

This idea makes me to looking back some places that I’ve been before. But, I felt quite happy to find some places inside of school.
Basketball court and roof was really good to have music performance. We don’t feel something crowd, we can feel a lot of freedom and enjoy. I’m the one of the person who is going to have music performance. I feel strong aggressive and I strongly believe that all of students who are going to have performance, they can do tremendous job.

The Silence of Silicon Lambs - Choreohraphy Ideas

Article: Why Psychogeography?
Guy Debord who was first person called psychogeography, called for an investigation into the effects of the environment (both constructed and natural) on emotions and behavior. I think, it means, whatever we have our emotions and behavior, just put into the art.
I was quite shock at what people does in 1950s and 1960s which represent about Corbusier style modernism. Group of artists, writers, activists, students were attacked city planning as an ideology of organized social isolation. I don’t get why they did that but I guess it’s a part of their thinking and the way they express their feelings.

Article2: Site
After I read an article about site that specific performance, one place was strike me out.
I’ve been this place when I was in UK, this place called “Piccadilly Circus.” If we go this place, we can see a lot of street arts. For example, some people painted themselves and try to act like something or some people came out with some props and do some act.
This place is also famous in UK and has long history.

Skype with Erica
It was awesome opportunity to have interview with her. One thing I felt really fun was we used cloths and have some different act. I put purple jacket top of my head, and tried to be a famous pop star. Although, she want Angus and I were act something images with two different motions. First motion was normal speed and the other one was slow motion, which makes creative.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Enron "The smartest Guys in the Room"


While we watched documentary called “Enron, The smartest Guys in the Room”, I personally felt little bit boring. But, as soon as I try to enjoy and understand, I found something cool facts.

First, I was shock at how much Enron Company grow fast. And it’s similar with what we discussed from last year our Global Ethics class. We discussed about War-mart.
How do they marketing and how do they their businesses. So, the following result was huge. War-mart has a lot of different shops around world, plus a lot of employs. Now, I want go back to Enron. This company grew up 1.700% with in 15 years. But, interesting facts is that we don’t know why big company such as Enron fell down.

Second, I could make my self to think about government systems again. Kennety Lay who was CEO of Enron closed with George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney.
Based on what I researched about relationship between George W. Bush and Kennety Lay, I found interesting facts. Until George W. Bush get a president of United State, He got about 600,000 US dollars from Lay.

I still don’t get the real points of Enron’s documentary, But, One thing I found my self to know is that, clear business and be honest is always stands for right answer for safety business.


Kenneth Lay(April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. He died in Snowmass, Colorado
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Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling (born November 25, 1953) was the CEO of Enron Corporation in 2001, He was setenced to a 24 years in the prison in Waseca, Minnesota, and was charged with mutiple felony charges.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Short paragrph after wathing BBC documentary

While I watched this short video clip from the BBC documentary called Blood sweet T-shirts,
I found one fact that relates to the book we just read (Travels of a T shirt in a Global Economy). At the end of video clip, the students experienced working in factory making cloth. It’s very similar with Shang-hai factory in the book. They worked really hard, but the payment isn’t that good. It happens in real society too, mostly because they have trouble between their owner and the workers.