{"id":1473,"date":"2005-08-04T23:19:21","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T06:19:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last three days obsessing over a demo video I created and strangely enough, it woke up that creative side of me.  I completely lost myself in creating something that expressed something, something emotional. Ever since I could use my parents\\&#8217; videocamcorder, I had been fascinated with making films.  Of course, I never really pursued it throughly.  I made short videos of my sister and my dolls.  And the stories we concocted with them.  Stop-motion and full action.  Yet, when I got older, I realized I didn\\&#8217;t have that creative edge and dropped the dream in place of something that I was truly skillful at&#8211;technical skills.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I am almost done with my masters.  Yet, I sometimes question if I really took the right path.  I do enjoy what I am doing.  Yet it seems like there is something missing.  I want to write.  I want to create.  Most of all, I want to create something that moves people.  Something that wakens up a small spark in them to make them learn something, think in new ways, and feel something that they have forgotten.  With HCI, I can lessen their frustrations and make their life simpler.  It\\&#8217;s helping the world, but to me, that\\&#8217;s not enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last three days obsessing over a demo video I created and strangely enough, it woke up that creative side of me. I completely lost myself in creating something that expressed something, something emotional. Ever since I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}