sharing my dragon

I think my dragon was born simetime when I was in high school. I was made fun of A LOT. I didn't have any friends to turn to when I was feeling bad. So, I started drawing dragons. It was a way for me to escape my troubles for a while. The 2D picture that I draw is the one that I seem to draw the best. But whenever I draw certain parts of the dragon, certain things come to mind. For example, when I draw the chin, I think of my mamaw's chin. When I draw the beard, it reminds me of the burly guys I used to work with and date. When I draw it from head to toe, I take myself on a ride of memories and stories. Each section I draw, it is like peeling away a layer of myself, or turning a page in my book. To other people, they are just drawings of dragons. To me, the dragons reprepresent me, my soul, my memories, my history, my knowledge, my life lessons that I have learned. Though the 2D dragons look a lot alike, I never draw them identical. Sometimes I draw them with a crystal ball, or a treasure. These things represent my heart -like it's protecting my heart. Sometimes, I picture my dragon being that voice in my head telling me that someone will let me down or disappoint me or that I shouldn't trust someone. I know this is not sane... but I am sane enough to stay within the realm of reality. I'm not crazy. I got my head checked once... the person said I was fine... just a "little odd". Well, i'm cool with that. haha. Anyway, I just thought I would share some pictures.

dragon

seeing sideways

If Beth don't like that pic, i will bring my flash drive to class again, next time... for better.


-I'm surprised that there were so many different points of views for my project. I appreciate the input. Anyway... I showed my boyfriend my pics and told him about class today and about other people's projects (that shared). I showed him the iMovie thing that was submitted earlier on Beth's blog... (which has nothing to do with class today). He liked the dude's video and John (my bf) was inspired to go find and buy the music online. (Epica) He's doing it right now. I think... I will bring my video cam to class next time -hope ppl are ok with that. It's not like I'm going to post anything from class online or anything. But I just want to share with my bf. I can't really explain very well. I think he would enjoy seeing that this is such a different class. -Also, I am looking forward to this next project.

-see y'all Monday!

Number 2

number one

Pics of the fear assignment

Fear Assignment

I was going to mention something about a nightmare i had a few years ago with the pice of cardboard that had the red on it. And with the plain one I was going to refernece to the fear/frustration that some artists get when they see a blank page.


-But it just didn't seem good enough. So, What I did instead is demonstrate change in the pieces. Many people are afraid of change. So, I took pictures of what they looked like when I started.

-Next, I changed them a little bit and took pictures and kept doing this.

-Eventually, I made the two pieces become one -likemarrage. Some people are afraid of that.-After that, I decided to pour some jam over the top of them. Some people are afraid to get dirty.

Class in the dark/dreams

I thought the idea of having class in the dark was interesting. It was sort of  fun, at first. I just got burned out after a while. It started with group conversation but eventually there were many conversations going on. I hope i don't sound like a bitch but there were moments i wished it was completely silent.
-I am the kind of person that likes order. I tried to jump in conversation(s) but i was unsuccessful. (I think because i was across the room) I didn't want to be annoying and yell... i didn't want to trip over anyone trying to get to a conversation... so i just sat there being uncomfortable. I couldn't keep track of any conversations, they were going too fast for me. (I wished i had brought my bongos and toca drums)
-I was being such an introvert that i was one of the few people who didn't get to play with the marshmellows. I wanted to.
-Just to be clear, this is not a complaint. It was a "different" experience. I just didn't have very much fun and i was not very interactive. This is my own fault for not being more extroverted. Maybe i got PMS or something cause i was more irritated/frustrated than anything. There were things i wanted to say that were related to conversations but it seemed like no one could hear me. So i just kept my mouth shut after a few attempts.
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-Once the lights were on and everyone was taking pieces of the pizza boxes, i saw them ripping big pieces off. I was wondering where i would store a big piece of cardboard. in my computer bag. When i walked up i saw the two most perfect pieces. Immediately, one piece reminded me of a dream I had -a nightmare! The next assignment is about "fear" so i snatched up the little piece of cardboard. Right under it was a nother little piece the same size. I snatched it up too. It was so plain. I had a great idea for that on too.
-I have to say that Samantha's dream and the other discussions about dreams made me have a dream last night:
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We all had some assignment that was a phisical thing we had to bring into class. We all went out to the parking lot across from the IT building and Beth took someone's project and held it up. A GIANT, slimy, gross worm/paracite-looking thing came out of nowhere... i mean this thing was bigger than a fire truck! It squeezed itself between two trees. Beth threw the project up onto the air and the worm cought it in its "mouth"/teeth and ate it!! We all panicked! The rest of us tried to hide our projects from her so she wouldn't feed them to the worm. -end-
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This was not a lucid dream. Maybe feeding the project to the worm was a good thing because it was worthy of the worm... or maybe the project was crap and disposed of by the worm.
I dunno... but it is cool that Samantha had her dream. -It is like a domino effect... cause i had a strange dream about our Seeing Sideways class.
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Anyway... hopefully, i can be a little more open in class and have more fun with it in the future... i'm sure i will :)

class on aug 31

I was unclear of what we had to do... i thought we had to actually make something that we had to show the class for next time.
-When we were all on the ground looking at the sky. I saw all kinds of stuff. A seahorse, a bunny... but that was lame. I opened my mind and remembered of a story in the Bible. (I'm not a very religious person) I thought of the story of the Tower of Babel. The guy wanted to make a tower to Heven. We were talking about the eggs from past classes. I thought, "What if, instead of scattering the people with language berriors, it would be funny if God threw a giant egg and hit him in the head.
-Since i thought I had to actually do a project of some kind, I wondered how would I put this idea out there in media of some kind. I imagened a short film:

-The opening shot would be a  mid-close up of green grass.
I would lie down into the shot and look up at the sky.
-Cut to the sky (blue with some clouds).
-(Audio) (me thinking) "Hummm... what do I see?"
-Fade out

-There would be a story board/comic strip of the Bible story. My boyfriend would provide the voice of the guy in the story. (The story board would be b/w it would resemble something like Reading Rainbow because it would be a video of the story board/comic strip)

I stopped there except I went on to think about including when I turned over and the bee was around my feet and I yelled! (during class) haha... I was so embarrassed.

-Anyway... I guess this is all I have to do. -for now