Blondie In The City

 Every time I look at the Optiv building outside the dorms it kind of fascinates me. I grew up on an island where we weren't allowed to have buildings over ten stories, and we also had very few buildings that even had elevators. So 1, wow that thing is tall. My secondary thought is always that I want to go in the Optiv building and go all the way up and see out the top windows. Sometimes I think I'm scared of heights, but I don't know actually. I don't want to be scared of heights. Maybe I'm in denial. Writing this, I'm wondering how long that elevator ride would be. I googled it and there's 40 floors apparently. Now I'm also looking at the building next to it that has the spike on top and I'm wondering how big the spike actually is. I wonder if the optiv building has window cleaners who clean the windows of the entire building. If they do I hope they get paid well. That would take a long time.  Now I've gotten distracted and started thinking abo

This exhibit in the Emmanuel Art Gallery was especially interesting to me. Since maybe 7th grade I've always wanted to make graphic t-shirts of my own and these are screen prints to do exactly that. I never really got the materials or time to do it but seeing this in person made me want to try again. I've made little stamps before and stamped on paper but I want to try it on shirts or jeans. I think I will in the future, and I'm really looking forward to learning more about it.   

 I spend a lot of time thinking about how some people can see things when they close their eyes. For example, close your eyes and picture an apple. Can you visualize it, as if it's right there in front of you? Can you spin it around and see all the angles? The top and the bottom? When I close my eyes, I can imagine an apple, maybe I sort of know that the apple is red, and the leaves are green, and the general shape, but I can't see it in front of me.  My major is digital design, and I'm minoring in painting and drawing. I'd say when it comes to drawing I'm okay, but recently I've been practicing drawing what I can see. For example sitting in a room and drawing everything I can see with the right perspective. Making sure all the objects and shelfs have the right angle of line and the right shadows in the right places. I've also been practicing drawing faces. I think it really helps me drawing references so I can practice putting the right features in the righ

 When I used to think of creativity, I'd think of color. Big bursts of all the colors you can imagine. Paints of all kinds, bright pictures, photos that make you think, big swirly lines, etc. Kind of like how when you search up creativity on places like pinterest or google, this pops up. I would think of those people who do a drawing a day, or the guys that take music albums and make them smaller on a screen and fill in the rest of the canvas with what they think is outside of the picture. I'd imagine people building things that no one ever has before. With things like legos or even real buildings.  However, now that I have been introduced to this course that I'm taking, called "Fostering Creativity," when I think about the word creativity, a sort of battle happens in my mind. Creativity still means those things, but I'm leaving out 90% of the creative world. My box of small minded had suddenly been opened to a whole world with one of our first assignment