David Blaine expresses that he spent a ton of time working at holding his breath for extended period of time. He talks about how he trained every day and followed a strict regimen of dieting and training every single day. … Continue reading
The radio lab Beyond Time demonstrates how time is not necessarily a sequence of events heading one direction. Talks about a clock that won’t ring until many years after the artist dies. Many people that go near it decide that … Continue reading
The Way Things Go is an interesting Rube Goldberg machine. Each part is extremely important to the piece afterwards, and everything is necessary for this machine to work. It is set up to operate through not just the everyday objects … Continue reading
The film Memento demonstrates the purpose of acknowledging the sequence of events, and how words and pictures can come together to create a narrative. At the beginning of the movie, there is no context to the photo that has been … Continue reading
This first project for me was filled with some confusion, but I feel it transitioned me into college art classes. In high school, there was so much handholding and concrete guidelines like how many images to take, and what subject … Continue reading
In the Dan Phillips TED talk, he discusses how the housing industry has created a large amount of waste because of their obsession with perfection and perfect materials. So he decides to make houses out of scrapped materials that are … Continue reading
During my exploration of South Congress, I discovered an interesting concept contrasting a chain link fence to nature. After multiple visits, I decided to focus in on this, as I realized that it could relate to Gestalt. The chain link … Continue reading
Listening to the Medium is the Message was honestly terrible, and a little horrifying. Since it’s really hard for me to focus, the entire audio kept throwing me off, making it hard for me to hear the actual reader of … Continue reading
In Amy Tan’s TED talk, she discusses where creativity comes from. She explains that some people think that creativity is something that an individual is born with. She then questions whether it is from past lives, as her mother thinks, … Continue reading
It only makes sense that over years of creating to serve an objective purpose that people would begin looking for things with better design. The book excerpt explains for a few civilizations, the pattern of creating things to suit a … Continue reading