Day 14 Take Away

The biggest thing that I took from the last class was one of my classmates presentations.  His fear was loneliness.  So what he did is that he did not, or I think he didn't, talk to any of his friends during his free time.  That includes messaging by phone and social media. He said that he had highs and lows while doing this project but he said it was a good experience.  I was impressed that he was able to do this for a whole week because it was hard on him because I'm not sure if I'm able to do something like that.

Day 13 Take Away

Last class was interesting.  Most of us shared our fear projects for the class.  What I noticed during our discussions is that mostly our class overall is afraid of failure and/or time. I did not find that surprising knowing the circumstances that we are all in. I believe, though, that we all understood our fears and others' around us.  How fear affects our life and what each of us do with it.

My Fears

I had a tough time deciding what fear I would like to do so I decided to do all of them because they all impact on my life. So I used all forms of worry, phobia, fear and anxiety.

I notice fear when mainly something unpleasant that happened in my life.  Usually nothing major but the fear does develop over time.  For example, one thing that I am afraid of is failure. In school I did struggle a few times and because of that I have gone to “special” classes or get “special” help within my normal classes. After a while I did not like it because it made me feel like an idiot. So whenever I accomplish something with no help it raises my confidence in myself.  Although, sometimes I can be cocky that hurts me sometimes but I am getting better figuring out when I do really need help.

Most of the time I use fear as a way to motivate myself.  It will make me feel like I accomplished a goal if I overcome that fear.  

I don’t know if fear plays that much into my creativity.  Most of the time I am somewhat care-free whenever I engage in creativity. Probably the some moments when fear plays a part in creativity is when other people judge my work and time.

I used varies fears in this project.  Most of them are deep but there are those that are surface.  Like for example, I am afraid of spiders is a surface fear while failure is a deep fear.

I think that this project shows that my fears have to do with my confidence in myself.  For my project I took index cards and wrote about all little more than a dozen things that I am afraid of or things that have to do with those fears.  Then I will give each classmate a card.  If there more people I will have them write down their own fears because your fears could affect other people.  After that I will have them crumple them up into balls and have them throw them at me.  I am supposed to represent my confidence while the index cards represent, as said before, my fears.  The fear pelts me and hurts my confidence and what I want to accomplish.

Bliss

Fear list:

Time

Supplies

Money

The unexpected

Creativity

What-if questions:

What if I use pencils to make a fort?

What if I use old supplies?

What if I be prepared what will happen?

Day 11 Take Away

Last class was interesting.  Mainly what we talked about is fear and how it effects us in  our lives and creativity.  One time someone mentioned when we are talking more of a serious or depressing topic, we not as energize.  When we talk about something fun then there is more energy in the room.  Also another thing that is interesting is that fear is more of a choice than an emotion.  In a way I kind of thought that made sense.  There are some things that we are afraid of personally than what maybe others don't find scary.  Fear could also show what you care about.  Someone afraid of failing in class show that he or she cares about school.

Class Take Away Day 10

What I thought was interesting last class was the difference between escapism and meditation.  I do escape from my problems by watching TV, playing video games, and etc.  It doesn't, though, get rid of my problems.  Once I stop escaping, my mind immediately think about the problems that I am having at the time.  That makes me even more stressed out.  Maybe doing some meditation might help out whenever I am in stress.

Media Round Robin

For this project, I started off by drawing four different shapes. One is a pentagon, a rectangle, a triangle and a rhombus.   In these shapes I drew triangles.  After doing that I colored each of the shapes with various of colors.  The pentagon and rhombus I used complimentary colors.  For the other two I just used random colors. After completing that I took a photo of each of them. The shapes are below.

Once that was finished I put opened Photoshop.  For this experiment I had to do something creative by hand, then do something digital to it, and then by hand again.  In Photoshop I blended all the shapes together and the finished product was this.

I was suppose to do print it out and do more to it but I didn't want to.  I felt that there is no need to mess with it any longer.  If I continued working, I think I'll lose this cool blending effect on the photo.  It also might make it look sloppy.  This final product is very different from the originals because all the shapes and colors created a unique photo. You could still see the different shapes in the photo though.  Thanks to media, I was able to blend all the shapes together in order to create this final product which could not be done before or as simple.  I think this what this will apply outside the classroom is that I am able to create product from various other finished products and create something new or different.