ENG101, section 7. Spring 2020. Emory University.
This is inspired by many bottles of water I have in my room. And that makes it perfect for me to use them for bowling. And the ball needs to be relative large in size and heavy. My extra vegetable oil becomes the top choice to knock my bottles down.
I was trying to figure out what to do for this hometask assignment and got a little hungry…so I thought, why not kill two birds with one stone? Here’s what I did:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-fq_bttO8rAdJxAPQRtC8qEZq2D_2PsT
Without referring to anyone else’s hometasks, I did pooling with frozen fishball with the chopstick as the cue stick and class cups as the holes, which is basically IDENTICAL with Ruohan’s post. So I rushed other basic weight lifting exercises, and I put the pooling as the bonus scene at the end of the hometask video. At first, I thought I was going to pretend like lifting and exercising, but when actually lifting the bottles of oil, I found there is no need to act. The bottles are genuinely heavy. My arms are aching now.
This here is my home tasking 6 video. For this home task, I used my calmer, but busy dog, Sasha to capture this extraordinary moment. I turned Sasha into the coolest dog ever, using a pair of trousers (and a cool little hat to spice up the look). Her face in the video says “I HATE IT HERE”, but I promise, she loves playing dress up. I think the hat was just a little much for her in term of size and fashion…
This home tasks took a lot of effort as I said previously, Sasha is a very very busy dog. I first tried it on my evil dog, Kase, but after several bites to my hand that gave me the clear message to leave him alone, I moved on to Sasha. Although it took several treat bribing, chasing around, and funny faces, this video came out great. I mean look at her… have you ever seen a cooler dog? (I mean, maybe if I would have put sunglasses on her, it would have enhanced the look even more, but I’m trying to avoid making her into a little diva). Right after this video, she shook everything off, but you know they say: nothing lasts forever.
PS. thank you Sasha for allowing me to interrupt your sleep for this assignment!
Reflection: This home task was one of my favorite ones. Although home tasks as a whole are challenging for me as my home is undergoing renovations, it was more calm this week and actually made me laugh which I needed. I think the home tasks allows you to interpret things in a multitude of ways as they keep the tasks broad which I really like. They don’t define what “extraordinary” means– they allow you to define it yourself. They didn’t give us a specific type of trousers we needed– we got to choose it for yourself. And this flexibility is the very thing that makes the home tasks not only doable, but exciting and versatile. In a state of quarantine, this is the very thing that society needs because it allows you to explore your imagination and escape from the horrid reality that we are forced to battle throughout this pandemic.
For this side quest, we had to do something interesting with a pair of “trousers” (this sounds ridiculous to me… they’re called pants). The first thing that came to my mind was a trick shot. If you’re wondering why the video cuts off at the end, it’s because the ball bounced out of the cup right after. I cut it off at that point so you could easily inspect the final frame and confirm that I made the shot. This shot took many, many tries, so I hope that me revealing the fact that the ball bounced out doesn’t take away from its exceptional nature. Here’s the video:
I had a great idea that even I am not able to accomplish it, I want to include it in my post: Wear all of my ski gears lying on my side on the floor and have a white bed sheets under my skies on the floor to mimic the skiing track, only if I have my ski gears with me.
So this is another plan I came up, including elements from the kitchen, a pan! I thought about using a tennis, but considering the amount of fragile kitchenware we have, I went to badminton that could cause a lower damage. And of course my old friend the cat who wasn’t invited intentionally.
As the main producer for this episode, I chose Monument Valley due to its uniqueness among other games. Unlike competitive multiplayer games that require skill, experience, and focus, Monument Valley is a game that gives you a space to think, relax and enjoy. There is no pressure to play this game and there is always a sense of reward for players to find out more about their imagination and what they can do in this game. This game design is heavily focused on aesthetics and representing 3 dimensional objects within 2 dimensions. Many seemingly impossible shapes and structures are suddenly possible in this game and challenges users to abandon their current belief of dimensions to really enjoy the imaginary world this game creates for us. Making this episode is much more smooth from our previous experience with other episodes. It only took us very few trials before the audio is ready for final editing. To combine the discussion with background music, Ruohan helped me edit music from Monument Valley original sound track and that fits this episode perfectly.
Genuinely speaking, I had more fun producing this episode than making my own episode. Since the game Monument Valley truly focuses on limited aspects, we were able to maximize our expressions and opinions on these topics, alone with some minor points, which makes all the ideas come together to form a complete episode.
I played this game the night before planning the podcast, therefore I was able to have vivid memories when doing the outline. I would say both playing the game and producing the podcast were fruitful experiences to me because I enjoyed playing the game for sure, and I also enjoyed analyzing it and elaborating the concepts and deeper meaning within the game. The part that I enjoyed the most was producing the background music for this podcast. We decided to use the original soundtrack from the game itself because we were both impressed by the style and quality of the soundtracks. I went through the collection, picked out seven soundtracks, edited them into small pieces, and combined everything at the end. I would definitely recommend all the soundtracks in this game, they are as beautiful as the game itself.
I hope everyone enjoys our episode, and check out the game and music yourself. I did not regret spending $5 for this wonderful experience.
My kitchen counter was turned into a pooling table, with a cup as the basket, a frozen fish ball as the ball, and a chopstick, spatula, and a rolling pin that makes up a cue stick. Strawberries doesn’t mean anything.
The kitchen counter is relatively tiny for me to come up with workable choices, especially one side of it is attached to a bar, but I am not upset with how it turned out.
Pooling with only one basket is still pooling
I had the choice to either beat the tomatoes or the bok choys in my fridge. I eventually decided on my two-week-old tomatoes. The Dasani arena was assembled with bottles I collected from lunch bags. As for the Muay Thai hand wraps, I simply have them for the sake of having them. Daredevil is a great show, and Charlie Cox a great actor. From the story to fighting choreography, everything is excellent. Unfortunately, I don’t even know the correct way to use the hand wraps, but I think this is enough for the tomatoes.
