Part 1: Time Tracker!

(Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future…)

Use of time for one week (9/7/15)-(9/13/15):

 

	Monday(Labor Day!)9/7/15	Tuesday  9/8/15	Wednesday  9/9/15	Thursday  9/10/15	Friday  9/11/15	Saturday  9/12/15	Sunday  9/13/15
7:00	Sleeping	7:45- wake up, get dressed and ready for class	7:50- wake up, get dressed and ready for class	7:50ish-wake up, lay in bed	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping
8:00	Sleeping	8:15- make peanut butter and jelly sandwich (“breakfast”)8:45- leave for class (Fine Arts Building) from East Hall	8:10– eat breakfast granola bar in dorm8:40– go to class (Fine Arts Building) from East Hall	8:00– get up and dressed, ready for the day8:15– eat granola bar, check social media  8:40– leave for class (Fine Arts Building)	8:45- wake up, change and get ready for the day	Sleeping	Sleeping
9:00	Sleeping	9:00- Foundations in Art and Design class	9:00– Visual Studies (Lab)	9:00– Foundations in Art and Design class	9:00ish– take shower	9:15ish-Wake up, check phone9:30-back to sleep	Set alarms for waking up (9:45, 10:40, 11:00, etc.), then go back to sleep
10:00	Sleeping	10:40- Class dismissed, walk to Main Building	10:45– End of class,	10:30– class ends, speed-walk to drop off art supplies in dorm (East Hall)10:40– arrive in dorm room, rest on bed and phone for a little  10:50– walk to library in order for Professional Speaking and Communications class (Library Presentation day)	10:	Sleeping10:30ish– wake up, but lay in bed for a little bit   10:50– get up, restroom, check phone	Set alarms, go back to sleep
11:00	11:00– wake up, talk with roommate!Look through social media11:35– Phone call with mom, grandma (ends at ~12 pm)	11:00- Professional Speaking and Communications class		11:00– beginning of Library Presentation11:40- end of presentation, conversation with professor about outline	11:50– Applied Piano Lessons	11:15ish– take shower	11:15– Wake up (finally!)
12:00	12:01-read through email12:30– prepare and eat peanut butter and jelly sandwich, plus Goldfish (yum), while checking social media	12:10– End of class, walk to Ragsdale Center for lunch12:40– finish lunch, walk to poster sale outside Ragsdale		12:00– go to lunch at Ragsdale center	12:15– End of Piano Lessons, walk to Ragsdale Center12:20– go to poster sale (upstairs Ragsdale in ballroom)  12:40ish– pick out posters to buy,checkout   12:50– walk to LBJ South for Rhet. and Comp. II class
1:00	1:30-Read through email (Zimbra), Facebook1:40– decide to take shower, take shower		1:00– Rhetoric and Composition II Class1:50– End of Rhetoric and Composition II class, walk to Ragsdale Center for lecture		1:00– Rhetoric and Composition class1:50– End of class, to Hunt Hall Cafe for lunch
2:00	2:00-Work on outline for Speech		2:00– Sex, Drugs, and Counterculture lecture/class			2:00– begin shift as desk hall worker;distribute mail, read Just Mercy
3:00	3:00– Work on Foundations in Art and Design Contour Line Sculpture		3:15– end of class,walk to East Hall			Listen to music, draw, read
4:00	4:30-Finish sculpture, begin to watch The Office (Netflix)					Listen to music (switch to classical in order to “focus”)
5:00	5:15– Hunt Hall Café for dinner (to go) with roommate	5:00– Arrive to work study job (Front Desk of East Hall)	5:00– Jazz Band class/rehearsal		5:25: walk with roommate to Hunt Hall Cafe (in the rain…)5:30- Hunt Hall Café, special dinner with hall floor	5:00-end of desk worker shift
6:00	6:30– Back in East Hall; eat dinner in dorm room while watching TV	Read Chapters for English (Just Mercy) while working	6:30ish– end of Jazz band practice, walk to		6:15– head back to East Hall (dorm)
7:00	7:47– Walk to Desk Worker Training session in Ragsdale Center from East Hall	Also work on Foundations in Art and Design homework/drawings; take breaks to doodle
8:00	8:00– Desk Worker Training session	8:00-End of Desk Worker Shift8:05– talk with roommate while organizing
9:00	Training SessionContinues		9:00– Desk Worker East Hall shift beginsRead chapters of Just Mercy while working, listen to music, draw in “One Sketch a Day” journal		9:00– dust off shelves, sweep floors (spur of the moment cleaning of room)
10:00	10:00– Training Session ends, walk back to East Hall10:10– Arrive back in dorm, talk to roommate, read for English (The Bluest Eye), change into pajamas
11:00	11:30ish– last scroll through phone, set alarms for morning, wash face/brush teeth, go to sleep
12:00	Sleeping		12:00– end of Desk Hall worker shift12:05– head to dorm, wash face and brush teeth, pajamas
1:00	Sleeping		1:00– lay in bed, read, go on phone1:30ish– fall asleep
2:00	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping
3:00	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping
4:00	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping

Through the purposeful examination of the hours in the day and how I spend them, I realized just how much potential time has for me to utilize it. I spend a lot of time thinking of what I need to do, rather than actually doing what I need to do (I procrastinate, with fears of not accomplishing, when this makes it even worse!!).

Part 2:
My senior exhibition in high school incorporated two years worth of self-motivated work. Through these years I picked up inspirations from nature, emotions, childhood experiences, dreams, and I really enjoyed working to create grotesque, haunting, yet beautiful and intriguing creatures and forms.

I worked with different materials (papier mache, graphite, acrylic on wood, clay, leaves, and others). I noticed that I incorporated a lot of my interest in theatre arts (for example, the puppets and masks), which helped me play even more into the human emotion aspect of art.

 

 

Part 1:

1. The first article, titled “What can entrepreneurs learn from artists?”, by Tim Leberecht, points out that nowadays businesses significantly are beginning to utilize visuals and creative, artistic methods (and that inventive ideas are becoming a determining factor on the success of an entrepreneur). The article ventures to emphasize that artists have characteristics which are becoming even more useful to the way people in the business world approach issues.

In the second article, titled “Are Artists Entrepreneurs?”, the author Amit Gupta also recognizes the aligning qualities and similar inherent requirements of people in art and business. Both articles focus on the assets of both fields, and how both want to make an impact on the world. The second article focuses more on the characteristics of entrepreneurs and how they will help to shape future artists, and the first article focuses more on the behaviors and beliefs of artists that are being incorporated more and more into the business world.

2. Artists can learn from the practices of entrepreneurs that art can be collaborative, and that it may be especially beneficial to reach out to other artists and groups in order to become more active and even more industrious within themselves as well as within the community.
3. I believe that artists can be entrepreneurs not only in through consumption of their physical art piece, but more importantly they can be entrepreneurs of their own ideas and perspectives. Getting people to become excited and enthralled with their style may not be the goal for all artists, but it certainly can become an effect, as many consumers of art become infatuated with the styles of artists as a result (whether intentional or not!).
4. Numbers 7 (Artists are holistic, interdisciplinary thinkers), 9 (Artists are great storytellers), and 11 (Artists are passionate about their work) are the characteristics that I agree with most. Artists combine thoughts and emotions through visual elements in order and usually express different levels of whole ideas at once. They put their own stories into creating a story for the viewer. Their art embodies their personal communication of their thoughts and emotions, which is a part of their daily life (their passion).

I found that number 4 (“Artists are like children”) was one of the most compelling qualities, especially when it makes the connection that different popular technologies/companies simply tend to our inherent natures to share and touch.

5. I would add that artists review their work, reflect, and exhibit shifts in their approach/styles over time (goes a long with the love of new ideas, except that their changes are more of a response to their context and personal observations).

Part 2:

1. I received a score of 3.63, which means that I am “grittier than 60% of the population” (not too shabby, I guess)! I believe I can be determined when sticking to what I believe in and to the goals that I have, but sometimes I let emotional or technical distractions and discouragements get in the way of me achieving and learning fully. I’ve noticed that I have gotten emotionally tougher when faced with challenges as I’ve gotten older (especially with the support and insight of my mom and my teachers throughout high school).
2. In order to have a grittier attitude and approach to learning (and all things), I will have to stop dwelling so much on what I should have done differently in the past, and instead reflect and work on the present with focus and optimism for the future.

I read a quote recently, by Mary Engelbreit, who says, “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strengths.” Overthinking has become a distraction all its own for me, and definitely stalls my motivation at times. It’s very important for me to put more trust in and to be more patient with myself. I need to understand that I have the ability to learn, that I’m always changing and growing (and that we all do at unique paces), and that a little work and passion can go a long way.