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Capstone Proposal / Peralta

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Over 100 years ago , an art movement had begun. Starting with Winsor McCay, the creator of the first full-page comics ‘Rarebit Fiend’ and ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’ (these were some of the first psychedelic graphics). Shortly after that we saw Marcel Duchamp paint a mustache and beard on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, to question and subvert the fine art world.
Here we are in the beginning of the 21st century Lowbrow art, which has been influencing design, film, fashion ,advertising, music and television for at least the last half century, is barely recognized as a high art form. Ultimately, some artists eventually find themselves among the highly accepted artists such as the likes of Picasso, Miro, Duchamp and Cezanne, but not without battling their way past the high priests who hesitate to show their work.
Lowbrow ( a term coined by Robert Williams in the mid 1960s ) art is varied and complex. It is a combination of pop-surrealism, cartoons, narrative, pervasive, kustom kulture, retro illustrative, expressionist and psychedelic punk, just to give you some idea of the enormous scope. Cartoon art, however, would be the single most powerful influence. Cartoon art seems to shape pop-surrealistic art both stylistically and philosophically, especially since its insurrection in the 1960s with underground comics and psychedelic posters.
My intention with this three page website is to introduce the viewer to a brief history of “Lowbrow” art, a comprehensive timeline as an info graphic and a partially animated mash up several wonderful pieces of art.

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Johnny Fairchild Capstone Project

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The topic I will be exploring will be the positive benefits of children who are involved in youth athletics. I chose this topic because number one I am actively involved in volunteering in sports, and second because I believe there is a strong correlation between the lessons playing sports teaches you and being an effective adult.

It has been my understanding that participating on a team, especially at a young age can do a lot to instill a plethora of invaluable life skills such as responsibility, accountability, perseverance, teamwork, and that is just to name a few.

My project will compare statistical data that shows youth who participate in some sort of sports team ultimately end up being more successful in life. The medium I will use to communicate this be an infographic that presents the data I uncover in a very eye friendly and easily understandable format. The meat and potatoes of my statistical research will be comparative data that identifies how kids with some youth sports affiliation do better in school, go further with education, and ultimately are more well rounded people.

The second medium I will be using with be a remix video that I will use to explore the effects of sports as a tool for life skill learning. I will use a voice over narrative, and include action shots from the actual youth sports I am involved in as well as interviews with players and parents.

I will also address some of the negative connotations surrounding some youth athletics. For example I will highlight some of the safety changes in youth football that are geared towards making the game safer for our kids.

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With the rise of mobile devices, people are able to stay connected to one another more easily than ever before. Unfortunately, with this advancement in technology, people have began using this freedom everywhere, even while driving. In 2014 by itself, there were 3,129 distracted driving related deaths. Most advertisements on television and the internet focus on teens as the culprits behind distracted driving. As teens make up a lot of the statistics given on this topic, they don’t represent the whole picture. After some research, I’m sure I’ll find that this demographic isn’t the only group practicing unsafe driving habits.
For my capstone project, I will focus on distracted driving as a whole. With research into the topic, I will begin to uncover what steps are being taken to reduce distracted driving.
In terms of what I’ll be producing for this project, I’ve decided that I want to make an animation, and an infographic. This project will be statistic driven, so I plan on taking advantage of this by creating an infographic that will encapsulate these stats. For my animation, I want the viewer to witness the actual impact of distracted driving. I will use images of horrendous car crashes and other pictures that are a result from distracted driving. I’m hoping to make this animation as dramatic as possible, to really drive my point across.
With this capstone project, it is my aim to raise awareness on distracted driving.

Capstone Project – Oberg – Vote! It’s your right!

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The subject matter that I have chosen is voting. Voting is a fundamental right for the peoples of the United States of America. So much so that, since the creation of the United States Constitution, there have been four amendments that specifically address voting rights. In my Capstone project I want to address these amendments and their importance. I also want to address the historically low voter turn outs for federal, state, and local elections. The two media objects I am choosing for my capstone project are remixed video and animation. I am going to use the two media objects to separate the federal election information from the state and local information, while the website is going to give a general overview of what our rights and responsibilities are with regards to voting.
For example:
The Fifteenth Amendment prevents the government, both state and federal, from inhibiting a citizen’s right to vote based on their ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude.’ Now, while this addressed race color and servitude, it still did not allow for women to vote.
Due in large part to the women’s suffrage movement of the early 1900’s, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting the denying of the right to vote on the basis of sex.
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment prohibited the requiring a poll or other type of tax in federal elections which was preventing people with little money the opportunity of voting.
The last one is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment which reduced the voting age to 18 allowing all those of majority the opportunity to vote.
So, as you can see, the right and responsibility of voting is so important that the Constitution was amending four times to allow all the opportunity to vote.
However, many people still do not take that opportunity. In 2008, just 56.8% of the voting age population turned out to vote. In 2012, it dropped to 53.6%, and those were presidential election years. In 2014, a non-presidential election year, the turnout dropped to just 36.3% for federal elections such as for congress and the senate.
This isn’t even taking into account state and local elections for representatives and measures that can directly face our lives.
This article isn’t to try and sway you from one side to another or to pick a particular mandate. That is for you to decide. However, if we all do our part in voting for who and what we believe will best help our society then we are taking personal responsibility for choosing who can best represent our needs. It’s that important.

Randi Higbie – Capstone Project Proposal

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The focus of my Capstone Project will be bringing awareness to and addressing body image issues as they relate to teens and pre-teens. I initially intended to focus solely on issues involving teen girls but quickly realized after speaking with friends and colleagues that teen boys are equally as influenced by societal pressures to conform to a certain standard of beauty and attractiveness. The questions that will shape my research are “What is normal?” “What is beautiful?” “What is healthy?” “Why are our differences not embraced instead of shunned?” I do not want this piece to be negative or depressing but hope it will encourage viewers to pause and think about how they contribute to and reinforce stereotypes and standards both consciously and subconsciously.

Some of the inspiration for my project came from the Dove beauty campaign, the “Play Like a Girl” campaign and the organization Girls on the Run. I was also inspired by stories from my friends of things their children have said, done or been affected by in regard to how they feel about their bodies.

My project will include an infographic or animation containing statistical data related to average height/weight ranges, healthy ranges of body fat, cholesterol etc., prevalence of eating disorders among different age ranges, quotes from teens discussing the pressures they feel and/or things they think and say about their bodies. I will also create a video mashup of positive images of different kinds of beauty and clips from other campaigns addressing positive body images and potential interviews with women in my circle. I want all of the elements of this piece to be empowering and positive.

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For my Capstone Project, I will focus on the social issue of climate change. According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Climate change is any substantial change in Earth’s climate that lasts for an extended period of time.” Thus, not only does climate change pose a threat to us today, it will cause even greater harm to future generations if it cannot be mitigated immediately. In fact, prominent political figures such as Senator Bernie Sanders and President Barack Obama have stated that climate change is the biggest threat facing both our nation and the world today. Climate change is a very big deal!

To convey the importance of what climate change is doing to our environment, I will produce both an infographic and remixed video that contain shocking statistics and information to support my claims. Both media objects can be easily embedded in the website that I create and they will strongly illustrate the dangers of climate change. I envision that the infographic will be newly generated by me and it will consist of short facts placed over an image. Alternatively, the remixed video will consist of many short Creative Commons video clips that I will put together to present a visual story of the devastating impacts of climate change. I hope that my two media object along with my website dedicated to the impact of climate change will open people’s eyes and inspire them to take action for their own wellbeing, in addition to the well-being of their children, grandchildren.

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The topic for this capstone project that is of interest is human trafficking. Human trafficking is a major issue but is often forgot about by the general public who do not face the issues everyday; this is why it is an important topic to discuss. For the overall project, an animation video along with graphs and other visuals will be provided in order to thoroughly explain this important issue.

Most people do not understand how serious and dangerous human trafficking is, and without raising awareness to help stop human trafficking, this will be a growing and continuing problem for years to come. For those who do not know the true meaning of human trafficking, it is when humans are traded back and forth as if they were not living beings. They are usually traded for labor and sexual slavery but there are also other disturbing things that come along with human trafficking. People who are victims of human trafficking need our help to an end to this and to bring them home safe to their families.

After doing some research, it is clear that human trafficking has been an issue for quite some time. Without awareness victims will not get the help they need. Keep in mind how the families of these victims must feel. If someone you loved was in danger due to human trafficking, you wouldn’t hesitate to help.

 

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Cody King
For my capstone project I am going to focus on the incarceration rate in the US. I will be pointing out the problems with the system and comparing it to other countries incarceration rates. I will be doing these things to help illustrate the magnitude of the issue. I might also try and suggest some possible solutions to the issue, and I could also have a call to action in the project. I will create an info-graphic for the project to showcase some of the information in a colorful and eye-catching way. The second media object that I will include in my capstone project is a remixed video to animate some specific part of the topic.

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the subject matter that i will be talking about for my Capstone project will be about Gloving is not a crime which is a campaign for the ban of gloving in music festivals and other music events. Gloving, among other forms of light shows such as Orbitals and flow poi’s became incredibly popular among rave and festival goers all over the United States in the early 2000’s. Over the last few years, however, the understanding of gloving shifted from a genre of art to a hazardous drug-related activity by many government officials.

More often than not, light shows are given while sitting down. when there is a large number of light shows happening at an event with an even larger number of attendees sitting down to enjoy them, fire marshals see it as a fire hazard. it also did not help that many government officials saw the act of gloving to be hand-in-hand with drug issues often associated with rave culture. This rapid shift resulted in the ban of gloving at many major music festivals including those run by Insomniac Events.

For those who have tried to keep the culture of gloving alive and well, there have been numerous instances riddled with heavy-handed consequences.

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Gloving shouldn’t be consider as a crime <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/glovingisnotacrime?src=hash”>#glovingisnotacrime</a></p>&mdash; Cmpblast (@cmpblast) <a href=”https://twitter.com/cmpblast/status/717198235337498624″>April 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>there are still numerous instances of people facing heavy-handed consequences just because of gloving. <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/glovingisnotacrime?src=hash”>#glovingisnotacrime</a></p>&mdash; Cmpblast (@cmpblast) <a href=”https://twitter.com/cmpblast/status/717195276620943360″>April 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>fire marshals see gloving as a fire hazard. but where is the evidence that say that they are a fire hazard? <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/glovingisnotacrime?src=hash”>#glovingisnotacrime</a></p>&mdash; Cmpblast (@cmpblast) <a href=”https://twitter.com/cmpblast/status/717193238155804672″>April 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>many government officials saw the act of gloving to be hand-in-hand with drug issues. why is this a act of gloving? <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/glovingisnotacrime?src=hash”>#glovingisnotacrime</a></p>&mdash; Cmpblast (@cmpblast) <a href=”https://twitter.com/cmpblast/status/717191937426501633″>April 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>the gloving community as a culture has resulted in the ban of gloving at many major music festivals based on the past. <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/glovingisnotacrime?src=hash”>#glovingisnotacrime</a></p>&mdash; Cmpblast (@cmpblast) <a href=”https://twitter.com/cmpblast/status/717191215200870400″>April 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>