Saturday, October 4, 2008

Saccade: a small rapid jerky movement of the eye especially as it jumps from fixation on one point to another

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2697427604730907658&ei=vLfnSJ-PJ6C4-wG9xfQF&q=blindness&vt=lf&hl=en

This is a trailer for the movie 'Blindness' that came out this past weekend. I work at a movie theater and I just thought I would share with everyone about how all the blind people came and protested the movie. First, they called during the day and asked if they could protest on our property and the managers told them no. They can protest on public property, but the theater is private property so they're not allowed, and we can call the cops on them if they do. Well, later in the day they decided to do it anyways so they had the cops called on them, but their protest worked. We sold almost no tickets for 'Blindness' on a Friday night. Any thoughts?

Also, I watched a really awesome show on Discovery about senses and a lot on sight in specific. A bunch about optical illusions and how easy it is to fool people's brains into seeing something. There was also a lot about blind people being able to perceive light through the use of technology. Very interesting show! I'd try and explain more, but it was almost two hours long. x[


Friday, October 3, 2008

I eat turd sandwiches

My name's Jackie and I'm really dumb and stuff.

Touch

I worked for 9 hours touching things at work. I picked up my fluffy bunny and pet my dogs. 

Hearing

I used my hearing on a part of my Japanese quiz where I had to listen for times and phone numbers. I also listened to a lot of music and listened to the debate on TV. I took in a lot of sounds.

Smell

I went to Japanese cooking night and got to smell a lot of different foods. It was awesome! YEAH!

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Sight

I focused mostly on sight today because I had my drawing class. We drew for three hours straight and my vision started focusing in on becoming grayscale. I couldn't look away I was so focused. Afterwards, my eyes hurt really bad. O_O

Taste

A day late, I am blogging about the sense that I focused on yesterday which was taste. After class me, Nathan, and Bianca went about our normal Monday routine of walking to Bazbeaux and then going to Luna. We had pizza with cajun shrimp, onions, green and red peppers, garlic, and spinach. I tried to focus on the taste of each individual ingredient while eating and the one thing that really stood out was the spinach which I really enjoyed. I had to pick off all the onions because the texture and taste are so nasty to me. I dislike onions a lot, so that was kind of unpleasant. Later, I had home made curry rice and it was really good! The end.