mistakes

"Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever." ~ Neil Gaiman

MLK, JR.

What do you know about Martin Luther King, Jr.?

How did he stand up for others?At what cost? And how did he affect our lives today? When and how have you stood up for your self or others?

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

What does this mean?
How do we affect others?
How does this apply to our art class?

summer feelings

Summer feelings from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

He captures what kind of feeling here? How does he do that?

How can YOU capture feelings through images?

The heart of LIFE

from Albert E.

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us...Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

-Albert Einstein

important: Dallas Clayton

walt whitman

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

-Walt Whitman

What in the world causes you to wonder? Gives you awe? Makes you amazed?

How does it make you feel to be near the things that make you wonder?

What is true confidence? What does it mean to really have confidence? Not cocky or arrogant--confident?


Confidence Etymology:
early 15c., from Middle French confidence or directly from Latin confidentia,
"firmly trusting, bold," prp. of confidere "to have full trust or reliance," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + fidere "to trust"