Right Where You Are Sitting Expo #1

Write ten things about where you are sitting right now that you hadn't noticed when you sat down. Use your senses. Do it quickly. Do not Censor. Okay, begin.

1. Air freshener is going bad 

2. Fishing rod in my eye

3. Power switch to lights is still on

4. Sand everywhere

5. The girl on the back of Reax is really hot "UNZIP"

6. A receipt from tiger Mart

7. My yellow fishing line

8. White shrimp bait stinks its crusty

9. 2009 Wild Acres Art Workshops

10. 99.5 Country Music

In 1952, a milk truck driver in Watertown, New York, USA, complained to a local chemist about the smell of spilled milk. Luckily for that driver, the chemist was Julius Samann, who had spent several years extracting essential oils from pine needles in Canada. Samann, quickly discovered that putting high-quality fragrance on porous card stock was a highly effective way to make a quality air freshener. He soon sketched the now famous Little Tree shape and coined the name "Car freshener". An American legend was born!

March is Workplace Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month.

70,000 Eye-Related Injuries on the job each year cost American Business Owners    

450 Billion dollars.

Every year, dead car batteries are the cause of more than five million Roadside Assistance calls to AAA clubs nationwide.

The Typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich eaten on the beach contains over 

7,000 grains of sand.

In field tests Macrodactylus subspinosus or the rose chafer, males were significantly more attracted to feeding virgin females than field collected mated females.

From information gathered in 2002 there were 121,446 gas stations in the USA. 

Fishing with a hook and line is called angling.

16 year old Berkley Bedell, in June 1937, started Berkley in his upstairs bedroom by tying flies from his dog's fur and pet chickens feathers. It is now a multi-billion dollar company.

Not going!

Is such a good depressant! 

MY CAT GOT SPAYED TODAY

Let me paint this picture clear, 

I thought I saw her in the mirror.

I heard the sound of her hello,

she wasn't there but what a flow.

The lady at the desk said,''We will call.....

so I sat by the phone all way long.

Grey and White in the corner of my eye,

I had to call the vet just to hear her cry.

Surgery was a success but thats not why,

she follows me everywhere.

I raised her right and thats worth the pay,

Remember it like it was yesterday.

Eyes shut green without site,

Blind from an early plite.

I picked her up without ease,

She ran from me like I was a disease.

Don't know what to say,

I out smarted her in a playful way.

Snatched her up now shes mine, 

Call me if you have the time.

Eyes clear now glass,

The spay was free right to ask.

Heat fear pregnancy,

You should have called to comfort me.

Sherrif said the spay was free,

Find a vet not to worry.

 

A poem explaining the experience I had with the 

                vet while waiting for my cat to come home,      

 while also highlighting the love I have for my  

cat and the way I found her.                    

 

 

Exp. 5 Something about Nothing

Never have I been so scared. Responsibility is such a huge task that it mortifies, squashes, and paralyses every bit of unorganized movement a human can make. What is the fun in that? Doesn't the human thrive on the chaos that is produced by a free fall of human contingencies? As I near graduation I see my life flash before me. It takes me back to my childhood. My father's voice at my bedside with the love of a lullaby, the smell of fresh racked leaves, mother yelling for me when dinner was ready, and the echo salt makes when it hits a patch of ice. You ask what does this have to do with design. Everything. Design is about seeing. Creatives are the ones that have been blessed with the sight to see. We are like sponges, sensitive to everything around us which we then filter to come up with the right answer, or the solution, that changes our outlook, which once was the problem. Isn't this the definition of responsibility, the ability to take all options into consideration while putting your needs aside to create the perfect outcome. This is not childhood, this is adulthood. And that is scary.  

What am I doing

This book is not easy! We started off in the beginning of the semester being told that a preconceived notion of the thing we were doing is not good. Now that I have done some experiences, which have been totally random but have spoken to my heart, I am left with exercises of looking. These exercises have helped me see within myself and do things that will improve my process of growth as a human being. It is hard looking at your self because we are our own worst critics. 

Exploration # 49 Alt. Collect Words You find Interesting

Go out and collect words that you find interesting. This is a study of the mundane so I am sure I will find some interesting relationships. Well, I take that back, words are very interesting but it is the fact that they are words that makes it a little mundane, especially looking through a dictionary. Also I will be timing myself this exploration, which will give me only thirty minutes starting now 7:25 a.m. ...................7:55 a.m. ..................

festoon 

gob

gonad

infuse

in house

man eater

oligarchy

one-way

grumbler

grow up 

brae

blackamoor

black ball

black bass 

black bear 

black belt 

blackberry 

black bird

black box

aqua vitae

annotate

amputate

allowance

acrobatics

acropolis 

acrylic resin

chankah

chap

change

deface

defeat 

gang plow

gargle

hangman

heterodox

meteorology

merry-go-round

petty officer first class 

philosophy

snipe

thermistor

umiak

umpteen

videotape

vignette

whoopee

zoo geography

ziti

weiner

These words may not be particularly interesting to you, but it is interesting how the eye moves along the page. The eye works hand and hand with the brain constantly syphoning through words. The words with interest providing a blazon light around the ink that put it there. Surprise! Now you have 1 millionth of a second to determine if the word is of interest or your brain will move on to the next highlighted area of your life.   

Exploration 4

People Watching and Many More

I started this exploration with the idea of time.  As I continued to draw, or picture what was in front of me, I started seeing things as a story. Thinking of connections and how a rapper will wait for the right track to explode on. The sequence of things happening may not be predictable unless there are specific responses connected to the specific event. If you get shot, you bleed, but there is a time in space when the bullet leaves the gun that it is not connected to anything. What does the human do to fill that void? The void in the soul from a parent that forgot to detach from work while home, or the womanizer that has no connection to any woman, but the instrument he worships delightfully.  These are all common occurrences related to family life but the human soul is resilient, and learns to compartmentalize those pains. It's those who can't who suffer, they are scarred for life, many of them, artists, but what was it that made the sting so deep or the bite so hard. Continuing to peck away at the soul we start seeing things in one color. Retreating to places that create illusions of safety. Visions of family replaced by gangs and weapons, that honor a quick release, bring them even closer to a shining light, creating an awareness free of plight. Vivid skies blue with height, we see our goals without fright. 

Experience 3

THE GIFT of giving

Well this is an interesting one, for this I had to go back in my time machine to a few days ago. It was a weird day disguised with the smell of teen spirit.Do you remember that first date and the unabashed love you had for that certain loved one, that now looking back just seemed so dumb. Well it wasn't dumb, it was amazing, you let your guard down to let someone in.It's similar to the idea of giving a gift. Knowing the person or thing receiving the gift is not a given (like the pun) but it sometimes helps in choosing the gift. It's even better if you surprise the receiver with a beautifully wrapped box. Left in an unassuming place the receiver frequents on a regular basis. And then leave. Don't wait behind a chair to see the response. Not seeing the gift opened is the best part. Every emotion I experienced was the joy of seeing someone open a gift. But I didn't see her open the gift! Go out on a limb, embarrass yourself, do something that puts you in an awkward situation. This applies to design;Real world experience = Real world awareness. See each day as a new present and watch for new awareness.I did........which is exactly what Twyla Tharp meant by the idea of the spine.   

 

The spine is my little secret.It keeps me on message, but it is not the message itself.

Plan your work and stick to your plan.