Remember that cool project that time???

"take a good long look at what your own personal wellspring of creativity and inspiration is"

Well mine is just...there. It comes from inside me and it comes from my surroundings, my experiences and things I see. I have a project...or I come up with one. My own usually start with "wouldn't be cool if..." and then I come up with a project. Inspiration is everywhere. If I am making a card...I look at other people's cards. A website for a handyman...I google those. I like to see what others are doing in areas I am not familiar with especially, and then try not to be TOO much like them but enough so that you know its a handyman. Make sense?

My true love is horror. and Musicals, but since I can't sing I just watch those and sing with my kids, who think I am the best singer ever! For now...

Anyway, after reading about the assignment and seeing the following "I ask that you make it memorable" I realized something. WHY does it HAVE to be memorable. Every project, job, assignment I work on is memorable in some way to me. So what does it mean to be memorable to you? Well I don't feel that I should rack my brain trying to come up with something that will impress you. That is not why I am here. You don't really have the right to ask me to create something "memorable". I will make what I need to for clients and what I have to for school and what I want to for me. And it will all be memorable or not its in own right. But I won't make something JUST to be memorable. I most certainly will not make something to impress the class, or you or anyone else. Do you know how much pressure that one statement put on the entire assignment? You probably do, actually. Well, I don't need that kind of pressure. I don't need it to motivate me and I think its the wrong reason to create anything.

So..for this assignment...my "memorable" piece is........

Reaction to class 4-11-11

Well I wasn't in class..again..though I do want to be I swear. My journey through this class so far is really more of a recap for me. I think this class is a fantastic idea! But the journey that Beth tries to help you take is one I have already taken I think. Its a journey of self-discovery and personal growth. One that helps you identify your creativity, your thought process, your working conditions and ethic. It challenges you to step out of your comfort zone both in creativity and life and be stronger for doing so. It helps you learn your strengths and not just in the creative process. Again, this class is a HUGE leap in the right direction for universities and should be made available to all and not just New Media students. But again..I knew who I was a long time ago. I have flushed out what makes me creative, how I think, when I think best. Fear doesn't get in my way for anything. I am constantly challenging myself to learn new things and adjust my balance of ME time and work time and family time. These things I already have done. I have kept an open mind and done the assignments as best as I could and some were fun.

I just think as personal growth goes...I know how I grow and allow myself to do so. I know my strengths and weaknesses. I don't let fear stop me from trying anything. I don't count success by how good others think I am. I count it by my ability to try.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~ George Edward Woodberry

Why am I here...

I have asked myself this numerous times over the course of my life and with various meanings. Why am I here....in school, or in this relationship, or the BIG here = Life. Well I almost always find a reason for the small here's, but I don't believe there is a BIG here answer. I believe we are all here for a reason, one purpose maybe a few and then you are on the right track things start going ok for you or it at least seems to make some sort of sense. My only purpose may be to have had my kids, or hold a door open for a particular person, or donate that $1 at the checkout (that we do EVERY time they have one....), hell it could even be to have killed (or not) a spider in my house. My point...we never truly know WHY we are here on this planet, or why we came into existence at all. which might be why scientists keep trying to figure out HOW. At least if they figure that out, they will feel closer to the why.

Fear Class take 2!

Well I had to miss this class so I will have to stand by my previous post =D. Sorry (I think) that I didn't get to see the rest of the fear projects.