Beauty in ugly

Hehe went dumpster diving and boy do I have a visual aid

11/15 recap

Today was a fun day.  It was interesting to see all of the projects people had done for the personality assignment.  I found several people's really interesting, the thinker, the tires, and a few others.  I must say though, it's rather annoying when the class is starting to dig in about the deeper meaning of a piece to be randomly interrupted with information that has nothing to do with the current conversation.  one thing that I didn't start a discussion about because I figured it would take quite a while for my rant to finish was something as follows.  When we're young we show our true self to the world.  But we quickly learn that the world is a painful place and we hold our true selves in high regard and don't want it damaged.  So we learn to build layers between our true selves and the world.  The masks we wear when around others, the people we pretend to be, or the way we act to fit in.  Other's see those and build their understanding of who we are and our personality off of it while most never see that true self.  And sometimes we build so many layers that we forget who our true self is and start identifying with the masks that we hide behind rather than who we are.  Then there's the idea that we are identified by who we were, not who we want to be or are working on becoming.  So that we are constantly chained back to the actions we have done before by others.

here's my inspiration picture for next week:

personality

What is personality and what does it mean to me.  If I had dedicated more time to this assignment instead of doing it at two in the morning this post would be roughly twelve pages long and no one would bother reading all of it.  Instead i'll talk about how we represent our personality.  It is what makes us different from each other, how we see the world and give meaning to it.  It changes the way we remember things and how we deal with the good and bad times.  I think one of the easiest ways to determin some of the key aspects of someone's personality is to look at all of the fronts that person puts on, the masks they use to deal with life.  and examine the parts that overlap from them, what is solid throughout that person's changing faces that anchors them down to who they are, and what are the exceptions to generalizations people would use to describe them.

spatially diverse class time

Yesterday we had class at our own chose of location and time.  When asked why, the answer seemed simple to me.  When out in the business world when you have a contracting job or small firm work, there tend not to be any "guidance" beyond a very basic concept of a goal and an intensive for you to reach it(money).  One thing that schools in modern times are terrible at instilling in many people is the ability to stay personally motivated when not given a lot of direction.  Once in the real world there isn't "class time" or a simply formula that you can follow on every assignment to get a good grade, especially in the artistic field. 

For my time I gazed off into space thinking about various aspects of psychology, mostly cognitive behavior and humanistic schools of thought, and how they tied into so many different aspects of life and jobs.  While doing this I had out a couple of my favorite knives from work and slowly sliced up a cherry coke bottle that was laying around.  My first order of business was to cut off the cap section of the bottle, then slowly sliced into the middle of the bottle and even points and pulled upwards.  The way the blades slid upwards was undirected by me and took on a very fringe look.