Blog #3

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Connect: We have a great connection with the rest of the world, but if all we’re doing is using this connection to see how big our online footprint is then we’re using it all wrong. By taking advantage of what we have by being creative and then spreading it over this connection with the rest of the world, the chance of people wanting to seek you and your creativity becomes greater.

 Make Art: Make Art talks about how art is based on the self and interaction with others. It isn’t following any rules or codes. It’s all created by whatever you think it is. Making art is taking risks to make something that is new or changes everything.

Ship: Shipping is to be able to do things, finish things, and getting things to people who want it. Some are afraid to ship because of possible failure. But if you ship and are successful at it you become the one who can’t be lived without.

2. All of the layers that I read along with the three I summarized above are all connected to the blog that you are having us create this quarter. To start we can look at the first layer, which is connect. Since these blogs are on the Internet this means that anyone in the world can see them. With that in mind, if the blogs that we create are interesting and creative then people may enjoy reading them. If more and more people enjoy your blogs then someone possibly may come to you with an opportunity of a lifetime due to your creativity. These blogs also help us make art because a lot of the times we communicate with our other classmates, which helps add to the art making process of these blogs. Besides the fact we have to follow certain things on the grading criteria these blogs are like a blank canvas for us to make whatever we want to, and hopefully by doing that it is either new or changes things.  Creating these blogs is also connected with the ship layer. The reason for this is because to ship is being able to do things, finish things, and then getting those things to people who want them. The final out come of all of this is that you become someone who people cant live without. This is connected to the blogs that we are creating because by doing these blogs they follow the steps of shipping. We start the blogs, finish them, and then people who follow the blogs can read them to see what you have to say. Even though this may seem minimal it can attribute to any future creative projects that we embark on in the future. This blog is just practice and preparing us for the future when we may need to ship. After the blogs and projects that I have so far done and the ones that are in the next couple weeks, I do think that these exercises help make us better at all of these layers. Along with that they also helps us become a better artist, person, student, etc. The reason for this is because all of these exercises you are having us do makes us use all of these characteristics as a person and the layers that were talked about in the article “Brainwashed.” They are making us make art, connect to the world, get over our lizard. To learn how to be a successful shipper, learn to fail and still get back up and to learn. All these blogs and projects exercise all of these! In the end I do believe that these exercises are making me a better artist, person, student and all of the above.