Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking

1. You are (by default) creative.
2. Creative thinking takes work.
3. You must go through the motions of being creative.
4. Your brain is not a computer.
5. There is no one right answer.
6. Never stop with your first good idea.
7. Expect the experts to be negative.
8. Trust your instincts.
9. There is no such thing as failure.
10. You do not see things as they are; you see them as you are.
11. Always approach a problem on its own terms.
12. Learn to think unconventionally.

Found.

A la prochaine!

Take me away..

I've found myself back here on the last day of the month in the new year. In this moment I am so hopeful about the possiblitys of this year(and the rest of my life). I started the new year with one resolution: to learn to swim and travel to the Maldives after watching this:

Maldives: a video diary from Billabong Girls on Vimeo.

But as always with me I'll find new things to do every month, week, day, or moment I'll to improve on the good that's already within me.Welcome 2012.

A la prrochaine!

Today's Lesson

"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.."

From Midnight in Paris

"Merrily merrily merrily merrily...life is but a dream"

Oh how I wish that where true.

Sometimes I feel like my life is one long series of unfortunate events. Life took a weird turn and I'm struggling to just be...okay. So Im sorry that I wasn't posting the way as much as I would haved like.The fall/winter season is always a ruff one for me. With the way I'm struggling now I'm a little worried about how I'll be once the winter really gets here.

Moving on I was having so much fun doing my own little sketchbook project that I decided to sign up for the real one! I have until January 31st to complete and return my book so that it will be apart of the tour. I'm excited to be apart of something so big! Also I've been getting that photo bug again. I haven't touched my camera in about a month. Really I 've only been using it to document my sketchbook and portfolio progress. For the past couple of days I've wanted to go out and photography any and everything.

Who knows what will become of these feelings...

A la prochaine!

A List of Things to Eat

• The Cure All- I've woken up after a long night of partying. I think I'll do it tommorrow just so I can make my self this sandwich. I can't what to try this, with a few variations though.
• The Bedforder- I don't eat meat, but I coouldn't resist posting this, look at that cheese ooze.
• The Burnt Gardener-There are no words to descride the feeling that came over me as I read this post..

Someboby buy my a skillet!!

All the Dreams in the World..

Found right here.

A la Prochaine!

The End Never Seemed so Far Away

Well...I'm almost done.

I'm almost finished with the application process for art school. I still have to write an artist statement and photograph the pieces for portfolio. Then I just have to wait and see. If I get in, great I go to school. If I don't then I will pick my bruised ass up and proceed to plan B(note to self: dearest self, please, please, please make a plan B).

I'm almost done but for some reason I don't feel like relief from all the pressure I'm under is coming any time soon. If anything I know feel more pressured. I want so many things for myself and everyday that I don't do something extraordinay I feel is a waste. Honestly I can't name one thing that I'm doing daily that I would label as extraodinary. The things I'm doing(ie: my job, working towards getting back in school) are things I think I should be doing, but they don't make me happy.

But with so many people living there dream, right in front of me,  I can't fool myself into thinking that I can't do the same thing anymore. I just have to find away to do it....

A la prochaine!

Video of the Day: Changing Education Paradigms

Hello class,

Lets begin today's lesson with this quote: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein

 Now watch this:

Then reading this here.

My thoughts/rambles:

When it comes to my schooling I've always felt frustrated. I've always felt like I was stupid because I couldn't learn the way I was "supposed" to be. If anyone was actually paying attention when I was younger they probably would have tried to slap an ADHD label on me but they weren't.  Which I'm marginally thankful for fyi.

In my case since no one was paying attention I simple through up some walls and held up shop in my head.  In the video above Sir Ken Robinson explains the difference between a aesthetic  and an anaesthetic experience. With no one around to wake me UP I had a very anaesthetic experience in school.

Sir Robinson also talks about how the current system was made for a different age. When he said this I snorted loudly and through in a nice "NO SHIT" for good measure. I think it's been quite clear for sometime now that the way the educational system is set up isn't right. Now I feel like I should mention here since I'm hating on the system that I'm currently applying to go back to school(I've been out for one semester). Everyday I wake up and ask myself "Why?" I don't think that a formal education = a job in this day and age (actually I know it doesn't) BUT I'm holding on to the hope that:

1. I'm not going to be waisting my time
2. That some how, even if I don't get a degree, I'll learn something that can help me survive in this economy.

But enough about me. There are some key points that Sir Robinson said that I wanted to point out:

1. Great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
2. Anaesthetic: shutting your senses off; deaden yourself to whats happening.
3. We are getting our children through education by anaesthetising them.
4. We should be waking them UP to whats inside of themselves.

Now class....what do you have to say?

A la prochaine!