Struggling To Stay Human

What Makes Us Human....

In Nick Bostrom's TED talk, he discusses many of the different ways in which humans can "enhance themselves" to make them "better humans." I have to say...I STRONGLY disagree with much of what he claims, "Make humans better." Although, I am in support of life saving medicine, and scientific research, I am not in favor of the dependency of the human rave on those stimulants. At one point in the talk he discusses how scientists have been able to genetically engineer mole rates to be monogamous, claiming that one day this could be how marriages stay together. HELLO! Am i the only one out there that sees the lack of romance in that. In what Disney movie did you ever see the princess and the prince running off to be genetically altered so that they could live happily ever after. A micro chip isn't going to make marriages work. It is the poison apple, the narcolepsy, and they fact that they are from two different worlds -- that is what keeps them together. It is the struggles that lead them to happily ever after.

The struggles in our lives are what makes us human. The pain, the heart ache, the bad luck....all things that are uncontrollable, thus, all things that make us HUMAN. Although, we try to avoid these scenarios it is still a part of our lives. Love wouldn't be such a gift if it was always a match. And life wouldn't be such an adventure if you knew there was no risk to it. Life is a complicated web to struggles with a few moments of bliss. At least that is the kind of life i would want...

The Kees to Kenya

IT IS FINALLY FINISHED!!

Pheww! I thought this project would never end. 4 weeks and countless hours later -- but not i can finally say im done. I have never created a movie before, let alone used a mac for that amount of time but I do believe i created a movie worth bragging about. Through this experience I have run into many technical/interpersonal problems but now that it is over, i have to say i am pretty impressed.

Kees, the girl we profiled, now has a video honoring the selflessness that her fellow peers admire in her; which i have to say is pretty cool. Profileing her was an experience I will never forget. She is the same age as I am yet embodies such matuirty and world knowledge - it really is inspiring just to be around such a bright and passionate person.

The editing portion of the assignment was definitely the hardest part. Kees's friend Michael was an easy person to interview and his delievery of how he came to be friends with Kees was electric. But the process of editing everything together, especially with a group of girls with 0 knowledge of how to run the software was quite a battle. But i am glad that i took a leadership role in our group because although it took a lot of work I did gain a lot of skills through doing it.

I guess its like Kees said, "Dont go with the flow, flow with the go."

Here is our video - I hope you like it : ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBGkFSRjVg

Special thanks for Michael and Britney for letting us invade their lives!