Normally eyes come out red and the rest is its natural color; this time all is washed out but an eye. The world we know is perceived. What does that tell us about reality?

This week's Inspiration

3 Bands

-Harry and the Potters

-Stars

-Fruit Bats

Group with Ideas

Lauren Liberg

Margaret Lee

Susie Kim

Hansol kim

Alle O'Neil

IDEAS:

-magazine

-flyers

-table in schine

-get students involved-make it like a club

-student gallery

-internships

-mix of student work and visiting artists

-artists talk about their lives to accompany their work

-advertise on the bus and warehouse

-Pop-up red tent on the quad- interactive communication

-play previews, on the quad?

Inspiration...

"18 Minutes With an Agile Mind"

http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/clifford_stoll.php

Clifford Stoll is an astrophysicist who spoke about learning and the future of the world. He claimed that kindergarten teachers are the people who are best able to determine what the world will look like in the future -as opposed to scientists. Along with that, he also measured the speed of sound by multiplying frequency by wavelength. While his message was delivered quite spastically, his concern for how the youth of today are taught and encouraged to learn was prominent. Stoll strongly encouraged everyone take part in affecting the future through teaching children. He ended by reciting a quote that summed up his overall point, "All truth is one. In this light may science and religion endeavor here for the study of evolution of mankind... ...the voice of life calls us to come and learn."

"Stroke of Insight"

http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/jill_bolte_tayl.php

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neurologist who had a brain tumor several years back. During her time on TED she recounted that experience. To begin she explained a little bit about the brain:

Right Hemisphere: learn though movement, images, experience current/present moment, feel as one with surroundings

Left Hemisphere: past and future, linear thoughts, organizes details, thinks in language, "I am," become an individual, brain chatter occurs in this half

When Taylor had her stroke, she lost awareness of the left hemisphere of her brain. She felt at one with the universe; she was no longer an individual. In a way she found Nirvana. Taylor came to the realization during her recovery that everyone has access to that experience. People can purposefully engage in an experience with only their right or left hemisphere at a time. Knowing that, the information follows that people have the "power to choose where [people] want to be in the universe."

http://blog.ted.com/2008/04/amy_tan_creativ.php = Amy Tan's clip

"Where Does Creativity Hide?"

Amy Tan spoke on Ted Talk about the origins of creativity. She said that we can only sense the existence of something if we have experienced its absence. Her lecture went on to discuss moral ambiguity, calling it something of a necessary annoyance. Considering divine intervention is a way of allowing our minds to expand and grow. When we are provided with hints and clues, they are suddenly extremely obvious and you wonder why you had not thought of that before. Tan said, "when you are aware, more serendipitous events occur." We find creativity through associations. Knowing this, it must be acknowledged that we do not know truth, we know uncertainty; this allows us room to be creative. To feel truth is more useful than to know truth because our sources are other humans that are strangers to us. Test what you know because there often is more to something than mere "facts." Question everything, then create.

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