Blog Assignment #1

I'm pursuing design because I think that if you have to have a job the rest of your life, it may as well be something fun. I'm excited to learn all that I can and even more excited to contribute. I would do it for free.

I hope to achieve something new and dynamic. I hope to explore, to push myself, and do the best that I can. I want to make people look at the same things in different ways and focus on the interesting within the banal. I want to create beauty. Part of me wishes to communicate, and part of me simply wishes to create for no one but myself. For no good reason. I want to create work that's subtle, and some that is blunt. I want to scare myself and take chances, or sometimes just do what comes naturally and easily. I want to give expression to every facet, the entire range of experience.

I'm inspired to design by the idea that I can actively shape the world around me to reflect my vision. Hubris? Neuroses? Probably.

The idea that I'm taking part in creating reality as opposed to simply enduring it or having it happen to me is very appealing. Maybe I am seeking an illusory way to control chaos, or maybe it's just cathartic to render something that was once only an idea. The thought I most enjoy is learning how to recreate the images that appear from out of nowhere while in between sleep and wakefulness. The ones that are not thought out or devised, but born and presented to me out of the subconscious or collective unconscious if you're a Jung fan. Spontaneous non sequiturs that simply wish to exist. I look forward to interacting with and better understanding myself and the world simultaneously in the process.

The first site I recommend is Green Porno.

http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/

It is a series of short films starring Isabella Rossellini enacting the scientifically accurate mating rituals of various insects. May I recommend Praying Mantis?

The second link I suggest is the Guardian. I use this website just about everyday to check out what's going on around the world-and ironically in my own country, since they often report things that the media here does not.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Nova's always got something cool and interesting going on:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/