So I missed my deadline for when we were to submit our thoughts on class... but here it is anyway.
First off, Merlin the Egg made it to class in one piece! I left him in my car out in the hot sun for most of the day and got a little worried that he might not make it.. but he survived!
I enjoyed seeing everyone's eggs and was surprised to see that I wasn't the only one having a difficult time coming up with something out of nothing. Apparently, not may people feel comfortable when given so much freedom, which when you think about it.. isn't that what we all want? The freedom to do whatever we want?
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Merlin the Egg
For our first assignment, we were given an egg and basically told to do something creative with it?! Then bring it back to class and discuss what we came up with.
I first tried to turn my egg that was given to me into a golden egg using my embossing kit for scrapbooking. The egg was starting to look somewhat neat until it started smelling horrible and burning my fingers from the heat I had to apply to melt the gold dust onto the shell. Soon after the the smell egg began to sweat! There were literally drops of water forming on the outside of the shell! Who knew eggs sweated under pressure? Trash can for the egg and off to bed for me. ATTEMPT ONE: Fail
After seeing what happened to my golden egg, the next morning I decided to start over again, this time avoiding heat! I blew out the inside of the egg so I would have one less thing to worry about. I then painted my egg blue with some stripes and carefully glued blue pieces of fabric to it. It now resembles my pet fish Merlin! Not sure what I'm going to say about Mr. Merlin, probably something about how terrible I am when I comes to pets, so I only buy fish. Hopefully, Merlin the Egg doesn't fall apart or have some sort of tragic fall like Humpty Dumpty before I can make it to class, fingers crossed!
I first tried to turn my egg that was given to me into a golden egg using my embossing kit for scrapbooking. The egg was starting to look somewhat neat until it started smelling horrible and burning my fingers from the heat I had to apply to melt the gold dust onto the shell. Soon after the the smell egg began to sweat! There were literally drops of water forming on the outside of the shell! Who knew eggs sweated under pressure? Trash can for the egg and off to bed for me. ATTEMPT ONE: Fail
After seeing what happened to my golden egg, the next morning I decided to start over again, this time avoiding heat! I blew out the inside of the egg so I would have one less thing to worry about. I then painted my egg blue with some stripes and carefully glued blue pieces of fabric to it. It now resembles my pet fish Merlin! Not sure what I'm going to say about Mr. Merlin, probably something about how terrible I am when I comes to pets, so I only buy fish. Hopefully, Merlin the Egg doesn't fall apart or have some sort of tragic fall like Humpty Dumpty before I can make it to class, fingers crossed!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Great Expectations
I'm taking a class this fall semester at IUPUI called Seeing Sideways. I had no idea what to expect going into this class somewhat dreading the start of school. Once I left, I couldn't wait to go back! Now that I've gotten a taste for this Seeing Sideways class I'm expecting to learn a lot about my creativity and how to channel it! I'm usually a pretty creative person, but when I'm told to do something on the spot about anything my heart desires, I freeze and I seem like the most uncreative person ever! My ideas are always generic unless I'm asked to do something specific. I'm expecting this class to help me view things in a different light which will in turn help to open my creativity to new levels... but then again, it's only been one day!
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