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last wednesday in my drawing 3 class, moser handed us an article, told us to read it, and create a piece inspired by it. he told us it would be due at 8:30 (it being 6:30 at the time) and then walked out.
the point of the article basically boiled down to the usual "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type of thing. different people have different concepts of beauty. it also varies from culture to culture. it also talked about how the concept of beauty in art has changed over the past however many years with the onset of modernism and whatnot.
so we all read it... and then kind of looked around at each other. some people left for the library to do some research... and/or at least look like they were doing something. then they came back and took out their 18x24 drawing pads and set to work. i looked at my drawing pad and decided that i could not capture the 'essence' of beauty and all the differing viewpoints on a single sheet of typical drawing paper. i though for a bit, watching everyone scribbling away and got a bit of an idea. i traked down moser and pitched it to him and he seemed to like it.
so. armed with a pad of yellow sticky notes, a black sharpy, and one hour to go until the due time i set out across campus. i went to the west lawn, the laundry room, the rotunda, the dorm halls, etc and found as many people as i could willing to help me. i ended up with 35 people. my instructions to them were thus:
take a sticky note and write 'beauty is..." and then fill in the blank with whatever you personally feel defines beauty. i didnt care what it was. it was totally anonymous since i didnt know any of these people (except my two roommates that i cornered into writing one for me). and well... this was the result.
i didnt read any of them till i got back to class and i put them up on the wall like this. there was no strategic order to them except to space out the different types of handwriting (which after i put them up, i thought was a nice touch/additional commentary on individual differences and the beauty in them.). then i read them... expecting to find something deep... penetrating... something that would... i dont know... mean something. but in the end most of them were so cliche it kind of made me sick. is this really what these people think? (granted some of them are a bit deeper and some are funny, but the majority of them... yeah...) as art students we are, in a way, taught to stand back and look at the cliches that our culture produces, and then turn around and go our own way (which in some cases may or may not include these cliches in some way, but usually there is some kind of personal reason/statement for doing so). but when i thought about it further i realized that the regurgitaion of these sappy cliches actually emphasized a point made in the article. personal concepts of beauty are different, yes. but they are more or less shaped by the culture we live in. for example: in the US we are more inclined to think that a tall, thin, blonde woman is attractive than would be the case in some other cultures.
so anyway, here is my piece. i'm actually rather proud of it--for 2 hours worth of work and forcing myself into a place i'm not particularly comfortable (i'm not a very outgoing kind of person. i dont strike up conversation very easily with people i dont know. so... i think that talking to 33 people i've never met in one hour is quite an accomplishment.)
beauty is.
the end.
: )
O calor familiar da pele dela sob suas mãos fez com que ele pendesse a cabeça para trás e gemesse. Estava tentando ignorar a proximidade entre os dois, como ele conhecia bem o toque dos lábios dela nos seus, como era amargo saber que tudo isso teria que acabar. Mas seus dedos tocavam tão de leve. Ele podia sentir seus coração acelerando através do vestido de algodão fino.
أقتَربْ مَوعِدْ رحِلة الأشَواقْ
(وأَذَنْ فِي النَاسِ بالَحَجَ)..
فهنيئاً لِكٌلْ مَنْ سَيكَتَبْ له السَنَة
يآرب بَلًغْنا
If you tell someone a secret about u and she told others that this is a repeat first two qa then it was far from the generosity of my. You yourself have to repeat the things that J did and this is the 2nd girl. I will never see you as my best friend anymore. Fenship is a liar!
22/02/08
Cagliari, Biblioteca Comunale Studi Sardi - Mostra di Strumenti Musicali
Firma autentica di Giacomo Puccini
Questo set di foto è stato pubblicato su chitarra e dintorni, un blog interamente dedicato alla chitarra e alla musica classica, a cura di empedocle70! :)
The Central Market, Central, Hong Kong
Ceased operation in 2003; the Central Market has since then been left vacant. It's recently decorated under on the theme of Central Oasis, pending further revitalization by the The Urban Renewal Authority...
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i like having a place all to myself to write my thoughts. small enough to bring with my anywhere, keep a pencil or pen with, filled now with bright and colorful words in pink and blue and orange. its not full yet, not even close, but its more writing than ive done in a while. lists. thoughts off the top of my head. more lists. letters. sketches. ideas. something all to myself. something all my own.
The theme for Macro Mondays is "Guilty Pleasures".....One of mine is, I'm a collector.....of documents, stamps, coins, vintage photos.
Note the figures on the 1910 bill for plumbing work. Dec. 22- 30...dig a ditch and install 33 ft of pipe $26.50 for parts and labor and not the digger made more that the plumber did. HMM.
my oldest sister wrote that.
and then afterwards, my two sisters and i spent an hour writing some random stuffs;
it was funnnn :D
then i tried to copy her style of writing;
gosh, i love herrrr handwriting :P
I am trying really hard to count my blessings these days. I have had a challenging job change due to a merger and my whole life has been turned upside down. I will keep on plugging, though
Several years ago a hideous eyesore was erected in the desert a few hundred yards off of UP's Cima Subdivision. Called Seven Magic Mountains, it inexplicably became a popular tourist attraction with the Instagrammer types. However, with it slated to be removed at the end of this year, I decided to include it in this shot of the ZSCLB wheeling west out of Vegas. I will not miss it when it's gone.
Hola a todo aquel interesado,
adjunto os paso tres fotos de mis cuadernos empleados para el aprendizaje de
esta bella lengua.
1. Diccionario: aquí recojo las palabras (adjetivos, nombres, adverbios...
pero no verbos) que vamos aprendiendo, de forma alfabética; una hoja (o
varias) para cada una de las letras del alifato. Sólo es a modo de
traductor, pero si considero que es necesario, añado alguna nota que me
pueda resultar útil. Como por ejemple el género y número de aquellas
palabras que puedan ser especiales o que no sigan las reglas generales.
Espero haberos resultado útil.
Saludos wa maassalama
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