My storyboard so far.

OLD storyboard

Addendum for project 1

Some additional musings for my piece.

Why is someone my age stuck between dressing like a golf pro or a Jersey Shore D-bag?

Who says I have to settle down?

When does all the stuff I did in the past supposed to stop haunting me?

Is it wrong that I don’t have kids?

Is it wrong I have outgrown religion? (this may be a topic for another project.

Is this all there is? Really?

When is my midlife crisis supposed to hit?

 

 

Ideas for project 1

Project 1 will be a video or graphical based piece on beginning to feel old. The basis of it is questioning what is going on with how I perceive things, and what is going on with my body as I get deeper into my 40s.

Some questions for my piece may include

Why does everything hurt? 

What is there hair where there wasn’t and less where there should be?

Where did my ass go?

Are theses wrinkles?

How am I supposed to be ‘mature’ when I still find fart jokes funny?

Why am I suddenly not hip?

Why does every new thing suck?

Why is Justin Bieber a thing?

Why do I hate Taylor Swift so much?

Am I creepy yet?

If not now, when?

When am I supposed to totally stop liking new things, because I feel like I’m halfway there already.

When am I supposed to ‘grow up’?

When does the stuff i like become old?

Another project idea

  I am what the media labeled Generation X. The son of a Vietnam veteran, I grew up with my father’s taste in rock, and then was swept up as part of the first generation of MTV kids (I was 14 when it launched). I have gone through my rebellious phases, and am now looking my own mortality square in the face. I want to maybe do some photo/text/video based project on starting to physically feel my age, when mentally I am still a young wanna be rocker.

Ideas for projects.

I have had several knocking around for a while now. One of them is something about my non-traditional status, and what that means for my immediate future. I want to make it video or text based using AE or Premiere, two programs that I just need to get better at.
I also had an idea earlier about tattoos. I made an ad in Onestart to get people to let me photograph and tell their stories of their ink and its significance in their lives. Nobody answered the ad for almost two months, but the response I did get was enthusiastic. I was considering a small doc on the local karaoke scene but the lack of original music would quash that.

Here I am again.

This is my T434 blog page, freshly scrubbed from T273, since for some reason I couldn’t quite wrap my head around Tumblr. I am the old man of the class, looking for something in the digital or cyber field after I finally graduate. I am 43 years old, but I have always considered myself an early adopter among my peers. I went back to school after I found out I could go on my father’s military benefits. That, and I was getting way to old to be making 300 a week punching a clock.
My primary interest is the internet. By that I mean internet culture and how it shapes us in the everyday, and how it will shape us in the future. The internet has brought revolutionary changes already to politics and media, and is a major tool in the dissemination of information, although its accuracy isn’t always verified. I have been online in some form or another since the early days of dialup, and have used all the early tech such as Prodigy, AOL, and NetZero.
My major is new media, with a minor in film studies. I am not quite sure what a 44 year old can do with that when it comes to a job, but I am keeping my eyes and ears open. MY hopes are to work in social media in some respect.
My likes are Karaoke, photography and sports. I have had photographs seen by thousands on the net, and have even had someone take credit for my work. I look forward to my future in this class and what it has to offer.