Week 8 Essay Prompts (3 options)
1) Select either the pro-vivisection or anti-vivisection position. Craft an argument for or against the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876) based on this perspective.
2) What did the 1860s and 1870s debates over Darwin’s theory of evolution and vivisection reveal about Victorian anxieties?
3) See essay prompt on Darwin’s argument in Origin of Species (web handout).
I have posted a power point in Week 6 (moodle site)that contains some images related to the Darwin lecture on Thursday. See slides 25-29 for a comparison of Paley/Lamarck/Darwin and the diagram of Herschel’s analogical reasoning and Whewell’s consilience of inductions (without the “confusing” inference arrows).
The Olympia Film Festival is looking for volunteers November 6th-20th. Volunteer a few hours and see a movie for FREE! Volunteer 20 hours and receive a FULL PASS to the festival! They are very interested in student volunteers. You can sign-up on their website, or click this link.
A laser disk of Muybridge’s motion studies is now on open reserve in the library for those of you looking for additional animal imagery or just interested in knowing more about his work. There is a station in the back of the library beyond the video stacks for viewing laser disks. It will be available through the end of the quarter.
Proteus, the film we viewed in class today (Thurs. Nov. 3rd) is now on open reserve for those of you who missed it or want to take a second look.
Remember that for the first half of the class on Monday, Nov. 7, we will meet in the Computer Center in L2916 to critique your animal locomotion sequences and your zoo sketchbook work.
Your completed animal locomotion sequence should be saved as a quicktime movie labeled “AL_[your species]_[your name].mov” and copied to the Animal Locomotion folder in the program Workspace folder on Orca.
Remember that there will be biology review sessions this afternoon (Tuesday, November 1), 11:45-2:00 and 2:15-4:00. The biology mentors will be available to meet with students in the lounge area outside our studio space.
Remember that you should arrive at C Lot by 8:45 am. We plan to leave promptly at 9:00 am.
Also, the contact list for students is now posted in the top section of the moodle site.
This is a reminder that we are meeting Monday at noon in Library 2619, the Mac Classroom in the Computer Center, to review your animation that is due that day.
Your sequence is due in your cubby by 11:30 am. Remember to label it properly, “yourname_FS,mov”, so that we can identify you after we download the movie from your cubby.
Our field trip to Pt. Defiance Zoo will take place on Monday, October 31st, instead of Tuesday, November 1st. This will accommodate the Zoo’s winter schedule that starts on November 1st. We will leave campus at 9 am. Van drivers should pick up vans at 8:30. We will return by 5 pm.
Stay tuned for revised schedule for Tuesday November 1st (work-in-progress critique of the animal locomotion sequences and the mid-term exam).
Here is the Thursday Workshop schedule for week 3:
(in Lab 2 2223):
Group A – 9 am-10:45
Group B – 11 am-12:45
Group C – 1:15 pm -3 pm
If you need to check what time and where your 2d Animation Lab proficiency meets, go to Moodle and download the pdf of the sign-up sheet.
