Blog #3

#1.) A) Acknowledging the Lizard is when a person knowingly accepts the fact that there is a voice inside their head that tells them no to do things and just accept the mediocre life as a cog. When a person accepts this voice they are able to overcome it and are able to do things in their lives that they would normally be too afraid to do. Also when someone accepts the lizard part of their brain they are able to become the movers and shakers of the economy and get things done.

 B.) Making Art is using the talents that you have already made in your life and using those talents to create something new and original and using that new and original item that can be used to interact and connect with people around the world using the art. Making art using no set rules and creates the uncreated. In essence art is a risky thing to make because you could fail over and over again in making your own art form known to the public.

C.) Learning can be summarized as striving everyday to learn something new. If this something new is an actual new fact or a new way of doing something compared to an old way of doing things then you learned something new. Learning can also be learning from mistakes that have happened in your life in order to not repeat the same events. Learning can also be applied to acknowledging the lizard brain in each one of us and using what we learn in order to overcome that part of our brain and learn to be an individual. 

#2.The three layers discussed earlier are connected to this blog because this blog is a way to be connected and overcome our fear of the lizard part of our brain and expressing ourselves stops the human race from just becoming a cog in the giant economic machine that America is becoming. The aspect of making art is very close to this idea of creating a blog because this blog is our way as creative students to make our own sort of art. The art that we are making though is through the words that we are writing or the different lyrics that we use to express ourselves right now or through the various videos or pictures that we post into our blogs. The final aspect that is incorporated with this blog is the aspect of learning. Learning is an underlying factor that is being done every time we read another person's blog or reading an article on how to be creative or we learn through continuously practicing writing and expressing ourselves in order to be able to express ourselves succinctly. These exercises that we do weekly as blogs and as projects do make us better artists because most of the students in the class have not used every single program that is used during the course and by practicing with these different programs and with these different aspects of the creative process  we better understand how each branch of creating a product is done and by knowing how each system works we are able to create projects that can be done with ease by different branches and yet at the same time be created into something beautiful and intrinsic.  These exercises also help shape who we are as a person and a student because these various tasks force us to create something within a certain deadline and because they are created within a certain time period we as people are pushed further than we have been before in our lives which causes us to grow as people and workers in our various fields or the artistic and animating process. These deadlines also help us as students because we are forced to work diligently in order to not only get a good grade on the assignment but also to get it done on time as a whole. Overall these assignments are very helpful in understanding the concepts we are learning in class and very helpful in applying these concepts in a way that will help us create better and more coherent projects in the future.