June, 2007

A Blog for all Occasions

June 27th, 2007 June 27th, 2007
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So…when it comes to blogging I am rather like my sister. I’m still pretty new to this whole “write down your thoughts for everyone to see” thing. I’ve got a myspace account which allows me to blog as well, but so far in the last 3 years that I’ve had my account I’ve written probably six blogs. Most of my writing style revolves around being sarcastic, so most of what I have to say is a running commentary of whatever annoys me enough to write.

Class was interesting last night. I was afraid for a while that the course would be lecture based, which boded poorly for me as I am known to stealth nap in such classes. Fortunately, it turned out to be very discussion based….nay, engaging discussion based, so I’m thinking that this will be a better month than I mapped it out to be.

In particular, I liked our whole tangent we broke off on with the “all creativity can be understood as taking in the world as a problem” quote. I did not think much of the quote until the discussion was opened up, but then found myself rather pleased at how much could be said about such a short sentence. It made me think in particular about my design major and how I’m often faced with an uninteresting project. Mostly I get frustrated and produce a half-assed solution which just barely gets me by. The discussion in class opened up the possibility of fixing the problem of the uninteresting project by making said problem inspiring. So simple! Unfortunately, the number of solutions available are many, so that produces a whole new obstacle to be overcome.

I also liked the idea of the braided path and intertwining creativity and logic to solve a problem. So much of our society functions on the idea that there is only one way to solve a problem. When two different groups have two separate ideas on how something should be solved, say democrats and republicans for instance, they seem to be too stubborn to work as a team and mesh their ideas, rather opting to clash violently and bring everyone else down with them. This is basic stuff we learned in kindergarten, people! Share your ideas, work as a team, stop fighting and eat your damn snacks!

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For Real

June 26th, 2007 June 26th, 2007
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I swear I have a blog! I swear!