Alternate Persona Project

For my alternate persona I chose to be a frat guy for 48 hours. I was called Andre and dressed like a frat guy and joined in on frat activities.The guys totally played a long with the project and got really into it. They let me film a good amount of my experiences. Some things were kept off film though because filming would upset people. For example in the morning the guys all sing in the shower and yell hilarious things usually commenting on their morning shits, but no one wanted to be filmed during that part of their day. The Rec Cen at UCSB would not let me film inside their facilities while I did bench press and was led in a work out by one of my frat brothers, that was a shame.  Also, they had a huge party the first night that I was there but I could not film it. It was interesting being on the other side of their parties though, I usually attend them as a girl obviously, but it was fun hanging out with the guys and hearing the things that they pay attention to at parties like how the girls look and how fucked up their friends are getting. I learned alot from this, for example, "Bass Fishing" is a term used by the frat to stop their bros from hooking up with an unattractive girl. I.E. "Dude let's go bass fishing this weekend, you down? I heard there are a lot of bass out in the lagoon to catch!" Then the guy knows to try to shake off the girl. I also played volleyball, drank a lot while playing dangerous drinking games, went to the gym, played some video games, fucked around with some kitana swords and learned a lot of new frat skills like opening a beer with a lighter. All of which is documented. It was an exciting project. I feel like I bonded with the guys and will always have a little frattiness inside me after this. It was a great experiment and I enjoyed it very much. I would love to keep doing alternate personas because they are so fun.F

Response to Final

I had a bit of a hard time with the final exam,
I recognized all the work and remembered what they were about but I only remembered the artists that I had just reread about in my notes minutes before the final. I hope I get most of the points. The girl next to me took the whole time writing about the work so that kinda made me feel like an underachiever.

I liked the TA presentations alot. I would have liked to have more background info on the first guy's class projects. It looked like they made a lot of dioramas or something. Then I didn't understand what the portraits of the students had to do with anything or if that was a project too, I also didn't get why some portraits were all tribal and some were all black and white and clean. I have no idea what went on in that section but it still looked like a good time. The other 2 sections were good as well. I would have liked to see more confession pieces. I know Kiki Neibhur is in one of the sections and got a lot of attention for hers because she made herself look like a date rape victim and had video of that. I would have liked to see it. Our section's random performance was great! Alex is hilarious! It was easily the best show of alternate persona in the lecture. So Funny!