Kimberly Paz -Project 1

First Project

Below, is my friend Edward. He is nice, fun and even, argueably smart. However, he's extremely hard to have a conversation with on the count of his ADD.

Attention Deficit Disorder. I wanted to see how productive he could be without his medication. So, I got him off his medication for a couple days and challenged him to complete a thousand-piece puzzle.

This... is what he thought about that.

He began, as the time scale indicates, at 10:38.

In just one minute he has finished all the edges.

As he continues to work I notice he is building the puzzle at a very rapid pace.

At 10:43, just five minutes after he started, he finishes the puzzle.

So is medication supressing his natural ability to concentrate or is he just super, duper, extra, good at puzzles?

 

 

THE MOTIVATION:

As a child, and even now, my brother never took medicine because my mother told him it was all in his head. He would not even take Tylenol.

So as I grew older I began getting sick. It wasn't until I moved out at seventeen when I went to a doctor at the University of Texas and got a prescription.

At first, I thought it was just my family that believed medicine was a placebo, but my roommates also think that. I had to hide the fact that I was taking medicine from my family for about a year.

So, I decided to have an exaggerated form of medicine as a placebo. I presented this to the class in a very nonchalant purposely so that they would at least wonder, "What? Did he really do that in five minutes?" Afterwards, I did explain that it was an exaggeration.

I changed the time-scale on my camera so that it would make it seem like he accomplished this thousand piece puzzle in five minutes.