Elijah Pittman Blog

1. Public places are great for a lot of things, shopping, walking Etc. So why not frolic in these  places as well. These commercial areas have norms and such but frolicking does nothing but bring people happiness and remind them to smile. So i will be going to public commercial areas and frolicking breaking some of these norms and trying to get people to smile or even join in.     2.  For my final project I will go to the most commercial spaces I can find in where I am at and will dance and frolic around the spaces to.  It is simple yet I think it is an effective manner to inject some life and something out of the ordinary to these places. often being places that take them selves to seriously I feel that this breaks the norms of these places.  3. Previous Public performance - https://youtu.be/7m1EB2TcTbw 4. my plan for this project is to go to spaces that are populated and used for commercial uses and frolic around and dance. there is social norms...

 I found the second walk or performance from this unit to be interesting simple because i did not get nearly as many reactions as i thought i would. it was something i was prepared for but not expecting.  I feel this really adresses how we are getting stuck in our own boxes and not as ready to openly interact with our fellow people. I feel technology is playing a big role in this as well. we are less and less willing to reach out and actually speak to people and it is weird to me. people prefer texts over calls and i know many people who prefer self checkouts or order kiosk so they do not have to talk to anyone.  I feel this exercise really pointed that out. I also feel like the walk from the last module related to this as well because of how we put ourselves into a cocoon we are closing our self off from the rest of the world. it is something that is quite sad to see happening and it something we are slowly seeing more and more of. I feel there needs to be more self expr...

For this exercise I would raise my left when interacting with anything. Whether this was a conversation, or opening i would raise my left hand above my head. I did this at varying speeds throughout the day. When doing it the presences of my friends i do not think they really thought to much of it. they see me do odd things around our house everyday and probably just took it as something like that. But when interacting with people i did not know or even people I did not know as well I got some strange looks when doing this. I wen t to the grocery and did it every time i picked something up and interacted with anything. Not to many people ever asked me about why I was doing these things either. I think 3-4 people even asked me why i was doing it all day,  That was one thing i thought I would get more of when doing this. My arm did get very tired throughout the course of the day. I found this to be a fun and interesting performance but i did not get the reactions I thought.  I gu...

      Recently someone form back home on Oahu died. He was a Coach and a teacher to many people in our community. He taught some of our parents and us and recently passed away.  So for this walk I decided to walk for him especially seeing everyone back home get together to celebrate his life. We saw him walking around the stores and the beaches always stoic. So for this walk I simply wanted to remember the times and some of the things that Mats taught and coached. I wanted to remember the good and the bad times and everything in between. I decided for this walk as well I would walk to the gym since thats where I would often find Mats. Mats was always pushing for people to live a more active lifestyle as well so this seemed appropriate as well. the path was pretty a straight line to which embodies how he was often with how he spoke and acted, straight to the point.  Below is the route I took the gym I walked there and back along the same route. 

  An idea that resonated with me from the course material presented was the idea that listening to music on daily walks to places can be a detriment. The idea that you can tailor the sounds you hear around you to exactly what you want, giving you the exact experience you are looking for being bad for you is an interesting thought. It is like giving you instant gratification somewhat like what a drug does. It gives you what you want, not what you need. It takes you out of your current environment. As people now we always seem to be looking for ways to displace ourselves from nature when we are still a part of that and listening to music instead of your environment is just another way to do this.  Maybe this is why it is stated that ipod users often struggle to reach a level of autonomy overtime because you are dulling your senses in a way.     In Style Wars graffiti artist try to assert there claim and be noticed and recognized. they Fight for there art and ...

 The site chosen for my first project was this strange playground by my house. I simply placed rocks on top of the varying structures because if the structures were to be used the rocks would have to be taken off. Everything was easily found in the area and when moved the piece will return to being part of the environment that it came from again.