Madama Butterfly

This short animation, Madama Butterfly, turned out to be very impactful and tragic. It is beautifully animated in a way to depict a miniature world with little doll-like figures coming together. In the animation, the puppet Butterfly is shown living on an island all by herself until a ship brings a handsome sailor doll to her. The two fall in love for a short time it seems until the Sailor is shown having to leave and get back on the ship. Upon waiting what seemed like a long time, the sailor returns in the frame himself and comes to greet her with their child in her hands. The sailor then takes the child back to his car with another woman there and several multi-colored children.

The sailor rips a thread from her and she is broken into shambles realizing the reality of the situation. Butterfly runs away in embarrassment and sadness into the darkness where she eventually ends up what seems to look like unscrewing her legs and head off and she is then shown being blown into the wind. I found it very sad that the sailor did not remember and cherish Butterfly's connection and it seemed to be that she was not the only victim of his ignorance. I think the animation depicted Butterfly's pain and sorrow with the ending in an extremely powerful way. All in all, this was a great piece of work.

Raul Cuero's Interview About Creativity

I found the interview with Raul Cuero to be very enlightening and mind-expanding as it seems Raul has a lot of humble and authentic principles he lives his life by. I found that Raul was talking a lot about going against oppression from society and to use it as a motivation to excel in your own life. I also liked that he put an emphasis on how kids are super involved with technology to the extent that they are not sharing ideas with others or spending time in nature - where Raul and the host agreed most good ideas are sprouted from.

Good things take time he had also touched on and how everything is a process, and that you should not plan creativity and to enjoy the process in the meantime. To not allow the results of the process to be the motivation for you to do something. I also liked that Raul touched on towards the end that if you better your mind, body, and soul/spirit to be the best it can be - you cannot go wrong no matter where you are.

Introduction

This is my first blog post, how exciting. I am Vincent Raspopovich and I am in my second year at University of Tampa and I am studying within the New Media Production degree. I run a web design and development agency named Waystorm Digital and for fun I like to make music under my professional project (funkshway music), practice self improvement, go to the gym, and hang out with friends.