Dakota Mullins
Channel 3 has Judge Mathison where the defendant “Candy” is being sued for $2000 by ex-boyfriend “Rich” for an unpaid loan. The defendant used to misuse alcohol and pills, but has been 4 years sober now. NBC News has on a show called 3rdHour Today that explains a new technology that uses digital cutting and modern manufacturing for the future of proper sizing in clothing. Good Day DCon Fox gives an overview of Hurricane Dorian and explains how South Carolina have already began evacuations. Local forecast includes a beautiful afternoon, with a listing of temperatures for the airports in the region (77 for BWI). “Terrible Traffic Tuesday” is the label for today from Fox News as new traffic patterns and post-holiday weekend travels bring on a higher volume of traffic. ABC has a commercial on for factory-trained experts for Bray & Scarf who help with appliances. “Live with Kelly and Ryan” interviews Maggie Gyllenhall for her part in “the deuce”. which she finds stimulating and a fun role to play. Good morning Washingtoncovers a story about Justin Bieber’s most recent Instagram post that talk about his struggles with drugs, women, financial responsibilities and fame. He continues to say by 20, “he made every bad decision known to man” and had “gone from the world’s most adored young man to a troubled, hated man” for all of his mistakes. The CBS channel has an ad for Ozempic, which is a drug that can be used to help with obesity/weight loss. Major side effects include dehydration. The City of Fairfax Information channel informs watchers of important events coming up such as Bingo on Friday, September 6 at the Firehouse and when different city council work sessions are planned for. As it is close to an hour of watching television, the last channel is an infomercial channel for Chaco Canyon Southwest Jewelry which symbolizes native American heritage, showing off a turquoise cuff bracelet for $319.90.
For a more naturalistic setting, I decided to spend an hour sitting out in the Innovation Food Forest. I noticed that there were patterns all around me. The bees preferred the chive plants, but would never get too close to another one. The butterflies danced around the gardens and chose different selections for where they wanted to land. While watching the butterfly, I learned that they rest sometimes in order to rub their wings together, in order to clean off their wings. I learned that people passing by were completely unaware of the things going on in the innovation forest, passing through it without paying any attention to the interactions around them. A few birds flew through and landed on the ground, hopping after one another and rubbing their feathers in the dirt. Overall, I learned that there are several interactions going on in the environment at all times, even when it goes unrealized.
When comparing both phases of this experiment, there are a few key take-aways. The information that is learned in each setting is completely different from the other. When in a environment and interacting with media, you are learning things that may be trivial or romanticized by the media. You learn things that aren’t necessary for your well-being such as how Justin Bieber’s fall from grace affected him, but how does this influence us as watchers? When in a more naturalistic setting, you are able to pick up on small interactions between the environment and relationships that are formed that you wouldn’t usually notice. For example, I saw a butterfly and a bee share the same flower. I had never noticed something like that before, thinking that one would scare away the other. They both had the same purpose on the flower, and actually worked together to achieve that. Paying more attention to naturalistic interactions can help better everyone’s lives because it creates less focus on things that aren’t important or necessary to our lives, and more focus to the things that are.