~MFA Boston School Trip~

Well it’s been awhile since I blogged. And yes there is homework to do but whats on my mind or my past experiences is important to write down too. Well I guess since the MFA trip happened yesterday, I’ll talk about that. Me and maps don’t fly well, it may be pictures but it’s like it’s a line on a map and you follow that, it’s like uh yeah where is the line where I’m standing, how do I apply that to the actual road? So yeah, got my usual riverside train you know and got off, only saw on familiar student (keep in mind I know like 3 people in the entire school and I have no friends at all here ha except maybe my English teacher) lol! Well anyways, I followed him and asked if he was in Kyle’s class (aki teacher name) and the student I knew was but I needed something to start out with plus I wanted to double check if he was in the class. We were suppose to meet on the Fenway Cooperation in the back of the MFA. Of course this was on a tiny map, and for another again maps yeah..eh don’t follow it, which I ask how come..but I’ll talk more on that on the topic of What the bleep do we know? Eventually I followed him, course I felt like an idiot because the student knew just by the map where to go, it’s like HOW THE HELL DO YOU READ THESE THINGS lol a map is suppose to help, not get me confused haha! Anyways as frustrated as I was, we got there early, was suppose to get there at 1 in the afternoon. Now normally my regular drawing and perspective class starts at 12:30 noon but since it was a special trip , he made it for 1. Kyle my teacher, gave me the sheet to do in class and what was to be explained for the homework for next week ( which I still gotta do). He explained all the rules, I tell you, the MFA is SO strict on rules, you can’t even lift your arm or you will get thrown out. Plus my teacher said, if you get kicked out of the museum, you will automatically fail on the sketchbook midterm thing. I was like wow dude that’s alittle harsh especially if it is just lifting my arm and all the previous work I would have done I would have automatically failed anyways, meh A.I rules it’s almost like being in the military I bet or about the same strictness. We had to put our portfolio bags, backpacks and toolkits in a huge bin the MFA had for us to put our stuff in..again weird procedures that I’m still unsure of why. I haven’t been to a museum since the Washington DC trip ha which I loved being with everyone and would do it all again if I was ever given the chance. Anyway, we had to draw 10 things on the list on the sheet, 2 perspective paintings Urg perspective to math like that’s why I suck at it terribly lol. The rest had 1’s listed on each item.

1 Symmetrical Balance

2 Asymmetry

3 Focal Point

4 Rule of Thirds (landscapes)

5 Triangular Composition

6 Figure/Ground Composition (Positive/Negative)

7 Rhythm Compositions

8 and lastly one of my choosing in the gallery to draw from

So yes I drew these, the hard part was finding the right name for the artist, the date and what the paintings were called. Even now I bet I put the wrong artist in and next week our 10 sketches are due along with a full sketchbook inspection which means I better have those right artists and dates stuff that he may take points off ( oh boy I hope not) and I better not get a bad grade even if I tried my hardest and my perspective drawings may not be up to part. Getting from MFA back to school was gonna be tough, I was so slow at doing my drawings, everyone basically left, even my teacher which just left so I was like alone and wondering..uh where did everybody go, the teacher didn’t even explain the homework. I don’t care if it’s the packet, it needs to be further explained for my tiny brain cells to get lol. I guess I’ll have to do the best I can. So I left for my Fundamentals of design class..yeah I was 20 minutes late. And if you know the A.I rules, a half hour late = an absence and if you get like 4, well that means all the work you put in well will be crap, your grade will lower no matter what. That means your job to one, not screw the time up and two don’t be sick if you can help it, as they say NO EXCUSES, still I think harsh but hey it’s A.I where talking about, private I guess are stricter therefore ha kinda meaner I think. There was like an accident at the West campus, so when I arrived my teacher was gone I guess finding out what was going on. Kids had to be evacuated but I just arrived so I was like what is going on. She didn’t know I was late I think ha but I left her a message so she will probably now know that I was late, (meh darn it). I had to mount my project I did on the board, again measuring is math and fractions which I suck at, why , well you will have to ask my brain for that question lol. And on the grid, I did in Mircon marker and I wasn’t suppose to do that but her directions weren’t clear and it was due like the next few days so I just did my best I could do. So after my class I had my tutor (yeah I have one and I feel stupid that I’m not teaching other students, instead I am the ginnie pig so to speak, why I’m not like a tutor and brilliant is beyond my understanding). So that was that. Now onto today....What the bleep do we know video?

~What the bleep do we know?~

This video I watched in my freshman seminar class. I first watched with Shaun ( the times I’ll always love and miss). When I first watched it with him, my eyes were glued on to the screen of his laptop. Course I didn’t really understand the quantum physics part but since they added a storyline into the video along with professors and quantum physics and quantum mechanics. It talked about the concept like creating our own reality and why does it repeat? I have many questions whenever I watch this video lol. It is truly remarkable and inspiring...ha if you heard the music with it then you’d see why it helps nourish each scene. Is reality seeing with our brain or with our eyes? Our brain don’t know the difference between what it sees from what it remembers. I wonder if that concept is true or not. Another interesting question in the video, why can’t we act for the future but not the past? And my teacher said because the past is done and the future you will be creating till that day becomes the past ( in my own words interpreting his). When you think of all this in the video. It’s like if they can explain all this, then they should by now figure out why some people are slower than compared to the brilliant genius out there solving math puzzles and inventing things to make our world better. They are the ones getting paid more. I mean if we can figure out things like that, then the human brain I think would be more sufficient ha at least mine would. If I was like lets say 200 in IQ ha wow imagine all that power to have and use to invent and create. Having a brain does slow me down. I wouldn’t change the art part of me, or my personality, but if my brain was like all the genius in the video of what the bleep do we know then I can tell you I wouldn’t have as many learning issues as I do now. Who chooses this? Who chooses what we are and this is how life happened? The observer it is called really in the video, still unclear on that. We have receptors and peptides things like that ha still subject matters that I’m like uh yeah I need to be explained in a small way or a better description of what that is, in the simplest of terms. One of my favorite quotes in the video is, “If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what can they do to us” which means if you look at something and then your brain trails off to the past , it is linked and can trigger things you never or may not know that was there. I liked that quote and I took notes in class but the video was going faster than I could remember and write at the same time. One thing I don’t agree with which actually has to be on our 2 page citation is a disagreement and support it too. And from this I think I should pick from the video on addiction. It says that if you can’t stop and something and can’t control your emotions, then it’s an addiction. Well I don’t know about that, I know that I keep thinking about love and everything but it’s not an addiction I don’t think and some are good like habits in a way. Religion was also talked in what the bleep do we know? and yes if you know me then you know what kind of questions I had, course they are the very questions that are the unexplainable. The video says we are gods, but others would say based on what we were raised is what religion we believe in so to speak. That god just is and well if he or she is, then meh to hard to get into. But also a point I thought was clever was a god with no condemning, no judgment day, no fires of hell now that is a god I’d like to meet lol. While religion frustrates me, it’s kinda an interesting topic to try and wrap your head around, I expect people have gone mad with it ha I know I have and still do yeah..stresses me out ha. A concept from the video was that anger could be from the love you once experienced or I think that would be vise versa sometimes. Now that is clever and interesting thinking. This video really covers it all and I Love it. Like nerve cells have to re-wire in a wire net I think ha if I paid attention right. Emotions are imprinted chemicals...again very interesting, that there is a chemicals that matches each emotion. That it operates as if today was yesterday-as an adult. Cells now are conscience..ha hope I said that right. A question in the video brought me back to July 3rd, a day I will mourn over but enough on that. So anyways emotions that are tied to what I said last like How can we tell if we are in love? We are emotions and we can’t separate that. Emotion is life it is the addictions that are the problem. We can’t use our eyes without putting an aspect to it. Now one that made me think too was the part on aging, like most of me ha worried and afraid is aging. And it is from improper protein production. What was said was does it matter if or what we eat? Again on god, it is super position of all things as it was said, that something that greater we can’t begin to imagine. Yet I say if we can’t imagine, then why are there rules and religion systems, did people make this up and just ignore the greater part to start developing religion so great that it now has a name and it’s god and this force did this and that? My mind thinks of this all the time when religion or faith is brought to my attention. When all is said and done, have you seen what you have become and stopped and looked from the eyes of the ultimate observer? It’s interesting to think so yet still..WHO IS THE OBSERVER do they mean ourselves , or brain what? I was confused on that. Quantum Mechanics is woven into human possibilities. And who chooses it- the ground of being-conscience. Another line I love in the video, now my notes are not exact but it says, Welcome to heaven without judgment, condemnation we call it matter. How can we measure the effects how it changes? The last quote which I loved is “awnder that for awhile” ha perfect closing. I’m guessing that means think about that for awhile, pawnder I think meaning to think ha I should look that up. I was so happy to find that my class liked the video, that they were impressed by it and didn’t fall asleep during it lol even the quantum physics part. Some students said I got everything else but not the math like part and I was like ha I hear you man. Though it made me think of people who do know it and they will do great things that other people are limited to do. If the story line wasn’t in there I don’t think I could have comprehend with the math and quantum bit. Still if I could wrap my head around that and be like half of the student body learn up to 100 to 200 IQ level then I will say I achieved ha excellence. I love that the video makes you think and I will forever will continue this, it even made me wonder why I worry so much, why I love a certain person so much, where love and religion come from? Why do we humans even have the answers to complicated things to put in a video when I didn’t know the first thing about what the bleep do we know..or at least unaware of learning from it. Like me taking notes, while trying remember what was said and being inspired at the same time ha talk about multitasking. Fascinating movie and I urge everyone to see it if you have not. Questions on life about life and our world and beyond. Well I found in the movie and I’m a fan of what the bleep do we know? What do we know really...! It has changed my views for the most part to some degree and this video will always be a favorite to me and I’ll remember when I first saw it and treasure that special day with the person I care for most from all males anyways lol. Whoever made the movie really knew how to inspire an audience even a classroom like my freshman seminar class who didn’t like the class and as my teacher says, he was happy we were so bubbly ha from this video. I like the video so much that I asked if my paper can be longer? ha well if anyone who has seen the movie and wants to help give me some pointers or ideas that would be lovely. Awesome movie it really is and hopefully we will know more on matter and life and beyond even after my generation!