Project Planning

To be quite honest, after reading the Cronon essay, I don't know what to think anymore... about anything. I'm totally at a loss and I don't know what to say... Regardless, here's some suggestions for the final project.

Here are some technical skills that I can bring to the table:
- I can do video editing fairly well, assuming all the effects needed are in Windows movie maker
- I can draw both traditionally (pen and paper), or digitally (with a drawing tablet)
- Obviously all of us can write

1) There is no way that we can film an actual movie in the time constraints (even with good planning).
- The alternative is a series of short videos illustrating the same ideas. (Of course, this may be out of reach as well, but it's still an option).

2) I am relatively opposed to a formal essay, because I think that creative mediums can be more expressive since they combine various methods of expression along side text.
- We can look into the story book idea that Roy had though we need illustrations? Which I can do, but that does take a considerable amount of time, which I'm not sure I have especially with Science Research Seminar presentations coming up.

3) Some sort of physical visual representation (Collage, Statue, Poster etc)

I simplified our themes further to narrow down our options:
Flaws: Takers, Greed, Ignorance (The Cave), Determenism
Solutions: Prophet, Sun, Knowledge, None, Escapism (but not)

So after a painful "I have no idea what we should do" moment, I decided to write a metaphorical story (honestly just out of sheer frustration). It's going to be simplistic like a children's book (text wise).



Once upon a time, there was a little rabbit,
This rabbit lived on a little green plant, in a little colorful solar system,
The rabbit had the little green planet all to itself,
It nibbled on the plentiful grass, and lapped up its abundant water,
And it was happy.
One day the rabbit noticed a dry patch of grass,
This had happened before when there was less rain on the planet,
but the rabbit never worried about it, since the planet remained plentiful in grass,
Except for some reason this time was different,
The rabbit happened to be hungry when it came across the patch of dry grass,
And while there was fresh grass all around,
this small dry patch sparked doubt in the rabbit.
It began to wonder about the supply of grass, then it began to worry about the water,
Never before had the rabbit needed to think about such things,
and it caused the rabbit great distress.
However, the patch soon grew back with the rain, and the rabbit forgot its concerns.
One day, an egg shaped capsule fell from the stars onto the little planet.
Astounded, the little rabbit watched the round object until it cracked open,
From within the object crawled snake, and slithered towards the rabbit.
Alarmed the rabbit began to flee, when the snake spoke.
"Fear not rabbit-friend, for I am, in fact, a vegetarian!"
The rabbit relieved but suspicious turned towards the snake.
It sniffed the snake, and smelling no ill intent decided to trust the snake.
"What an lovely planet" the snake said "And such an abundance of fresh grass!"
"Would you be willing to share your planet with me" it asked "I won't be any trouble, I promise"
The rabbit silently looked at the snake, then resumed grazing,
the snake, taking the silence as approval, turned and slithered on its merry way.
The two continued to coexist in such a manner
until the day came when the rabbit came across another patch of dried grass.
While the two had lived together on the same little planet,
the rabbit had never come to fully trust the snake and it began to suspect the snake,
it worried once again about the grass and water, and hastily began to plan for the worst.
The rabbit immediately began to build a fence around all the fresh patches of grass and little ponds,
it locked itself in the confines of it's self determined territory and continued to graze on its grass.
"Rabbit-friend!" said the snake "Why had you built this wall?All the grass out here is dry!"
The rabbit said nothing
"Rabbit-friend!" said the snake with slight distress "There is little water here for me to drink! I fear I may dehydrate!"
Still the rabbit said nothing
"Rabbit-friend!" the snake continued to call
But the rabbit remained silent, grazing on it's fresh grass and drinking it's pools of water,
until the snake ceased it's pleas.
However the rabbit eventually discovered that it's little fortress could not stand forever.
The grass began to became stale and the water tainted from confined and controlled environment,
Even so, the rabbit refused to break down the walls, and it continued to eat and drink.
Eventually the rabbit became sick from the enclosure,
But it had been prisoner to it's own creation for so long, that it forgot what lay beyond the wall.
The rabbit was too sick to do anything, so it lay in the rot of it's confines unsure of what lay ahead.
It began to dream of the outside, it dreamed of luscious green and clear blue,
but it wasn't sure what those colors were, it only knew that it wanted it, whatever it was,
The rabbit awoke from it's vibrant dream to the stale brown surroundings,
With the last of it's energy it limped towards the wall it had built so long ago, and began to tear it down.
Slowly the wall collapsed, until the rabbit could see over it.
But by the time the rabbit looked up to see beyond the wall,
it's eyes had become too clouded from it's tainted land, and was unable see clearly.
It was blurs of green and blue just like in it's dream, and it crawled over the walls remains
it felt the softness of the pulpy grass and the coolness of the fresh water on it's fur,
but it could no longer see them in the same way.
The snake was no where to be found.
Saddened by the disaster the rabbit had caused, it lay down in the grass,
and vouched,
never again.

Ok, so now it's nearly 12:00 and I'm exhausted, and unfortunately this story failed to spark any "genius ideas" about projects. Regardless, I tried to tie in themes to experiment with a story like project.
This was more for my own sake, but it ended up being a lot longer that I meant it to be. Erm, I'll try and think about it some more... That's all for now though.