Passion

PASSION-The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/pa/passion199957.html

Passion is something that once you have it it will never leave you... not completely. You may at times get discouraged but it will eventually come back to you. I have a passion for singing. It is my life and my way of expression. Without music and voice i would not be the person that i am today.

The Appreciation of Life

You know what i just thought about.... How much this quarter has actually changed me. I notice things now, i actually pay attention to details when I'm driving or walking to class or working. Its really weird to see things that you have missed for so long, i feel like my eyes have been opened. For example I went to Downtown Seattle last night for my friends birthday. As we were leaving the first bar i looked across the street and saw some of the most interesting graffiti i have ever seen in person. The thing is, when i was standing there looking at it, i realized that if i hadn't done this presentation and research on graffiti and listened to the lectures about it, i would never have noticed it or appreciated it. How much of a waste would that be, to miss something so beautiful in the middle of a city covered in advertisements. It reminds me the the saying "A diamond in the rough". The picture below is the picture I took on my phone of the graffiti i was talking about. I hope you all can appreciate it as much as i did!

BARBIE

I was just thinking about the Art of Subconscious graffiti lecture and I remembered that we kept talking about Barbie and how she is portrayed. This quote really reminded me of that lecture.

OBAMA VS MCCIAN

I remember Joe talking about a website that i decided to go check out. Streetsy.com. It was actually really interesting. I spent quite a while searching through the website. This picture stood out to me. It really shows how you can take a couple ordinary election pictures and create art with them. I also was really interested in the placing of this art. It is on a huge billboard/poster that covers the entire wall. Its something you just cant miss. If this was printed on a normal sized sheet of paper and posted on a telephone pole or something it wouldnt have near as much dramatic effect.

The only comment that this picture had on the website was "Brainwashed...." Im kinda of confused on this i guess. Are they talking about the art being posted the way it is and us actually paying attention to it, or the picture that was displayed. In this case the election results.

The Game (Yoko Ono)

To Score a goal,
To Dribble down a dirt field,
A Feeling,
A Rush.

Something Like Love (Yoko Ono)

I fell in love,
There is no turning back.
Its a feeling,
Like no other.

MUSIC these days

This music video really made me think about music in general these days. Where rap uses the terms "bitches" and "hoes" country is a lot about empowering women. Its really interesting to see the major differences in genres

AUDIO BUSINESS... the everyday

I decided to just listen to my everyday life and see what sounds i would pick out that would be interesting. I ended up deciding on the rainstorm that was happening outside my apartment and my roomate typing on her computer. I tried to overlap the two a little bit and you wouldnt believe how long it took me! haha Hope you like it!

Some things that make you think....

I recieved this from a friend and thought i would pass it on to you! (Thought you might appreciate it like I did!)

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids
already, three who were deaf, two who were blind,
one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would
you recommend that she have an abortion?

Think before you answer.

Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only
your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three
candidates.


Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with astrologist. He's had two mistresses. He also
chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B.
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until
noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of
whiskey every evening.

Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian,
doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never
cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be our choice?

WELL……

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion
question: If you said YES, you just killed
Beethoven.


Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think
before judging someone.
Wait till you see the end of this note! Keep
reading.

And Finally, can you imagine working for a company
that has a little more than 500 employees and has
the following statistics:
* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at
least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the
last year...

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.
Professionals...built the Titanic

MY JOB.... and how its changed.

FACT: Mortgage companies hired 2,900 full-time workers in September even though all U.S. business trimmed their employment roles by a surprising 284,000 workers.

FACT: Some loan brokers are now engaging in loan modifications to make ends meet

FACT: The usually positive National Association of Realtors struck a decidedly downbeat chord at its annual convention in Orlando, predicting that housing prices would fall this year by the largest percentage since the Great Depression.

FACT: JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation's third largest mortgage lender, is warning that additional deterioration in the performance of its $117 billion home equity portfolio and $107 billion mortgage portfolio is likely.

FACT: Congress has temporarily increased FDIC deposit insurance from $100,000 to $250,000 per depositor through December 31, 2009.

Special Delivery (novel in three lines)

This is for standing me up on our date tonight.

In one swift move, the pie met her face.

The fifth floor of the library would never be the same.

-BYU magazine (page 77, Fall 2008)

Hopscotch for College? (novel in three lines)

Maybe... she'll receive a full-ride hopscotch scholarship.

Maybe... You should be saving for college.

I didn't have to do anything else.

-BYU Magazine (page 66, Fall 2008)

Twisted Talent (Novel in three lines)

For Jeremy Telford, balloon twisting is more than making dogs and dolphins at dinner.

After all, Telford is a balloon guy, and parties are his business.

Paco also introduced Telford to balloon twisting, and he found a new artistic outlet, a career, and, finally, a major.

-BYU Magazine (page 15, Fall 2008)

Whats for Breakfast (novel in three lines)

Your mother was right when she told you breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

A Swedish study found that obesity was more often associated with irregular meal patterns than total caloric intake.

If breakfast is not part of your morning routine, adding this habit may be tough at first.

-NorthWest Prime Time (page 10, October edition)

The Autumn Colors (novel in three lines)

If you feel that this fall has been marked by unusually spectacular fall foliage- the kinds of reds, golds, and oranges we associate with the Midwest and the east coast- you not imagining it.

The reason is this seasons unusually dry and cloudless weather (which we had until the past week or so).

Dry weather is also conducive to the chemical changes that produce foliage color.

-Seattle Weekly (page 10, November 5-11)

The Light of Hope (novel in three lines)

The great light of hope is burning bright right now.

Whatever storms may be still to come, let us bask with full hearts in the sunshine of this moment.

Not that this is about any cult of personality.

-Seattle Weekly (page 9, November 5-11)

Oh the Memories (novel in three lines)

Stepping into the buzz of activity, I found myself once again drawn to an item other shoppers ignored.

Addicted to searching for memorabilia from the past, I enjoy the thrill of the hunt.

Every antique I adopt eventually leads me on an educational adventure.

-NorthWest Prime Time (Page 42, October edition)

Those kind of Women (novel in three lines)

You should never trust a woman who says she loves sports unless she can clean a plate of hotwings by her lonesome.

She likes rum and harleys too.

Gentleman start your engines.

-Seattle Weekly (page 5, Novemeber 5-11)

GIRLS PLAYING BASEBALL? (novel in three lines)

She was thrilled to see so many talented girls ball in Spring Training.

Wrigley wanted girls who could play like men and who looked like girls.

Jeneane thinks she was in the right place at the right time.

-NorthWest Prime Time (page 45 and 46, October edition)

His Little Red Barn (novel in three lines)

Dad's little red barn, his mighty treasure chest full of memories.

This was a gentleman's barn.

Dad passed away a few years ago now and i am still in the process of selling off all his old memories.

-NorthWest Prime Time (page 47, october edition)

THE BLOGGER WORLD!

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/81/blog.html

I read this article about a man who is a significant blogger and is said to be the most powerful person in Redmond. He blogs close to 30 blogs in a night. He blogs about almost everything. He doesn't just blog about everyday life but about technology. He is in fact a microsoft empolyee who is very skilled in the technical part of the blogging world. You will read in this article that he doesn't just blog to vent or to inform others of his knowledge, he also gets feed back from other technilogically savy people about new products he is putting out for microsoft. He is using the blog world as a resource. I thought you might enjoy this artile like i did!

Surrealism

"Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings."

-Octavio Paz

Genealogies: Writing through writing through writing

I actually won’t be able to make it to this event because I unfortunately have to work, so instead I thought I would do my own research on the topic because I know absolutely nothing about it and it sounded interesting. I thought I might start out with the definition I found of Genealogy. Genealogy is “the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives.” According to Wikipedia.org.

So since I am not able to go to this event I thought I might respond to the title. I’m just going to talk and guess what they will be talking about.

How do people know exactly who their ancestors are? By word of mouth? People or parents telling them that they are related to so and so. That their great great great great grandfather was this guy in this book. Who is to say that my great grandfather times 50 wasn’t the President of the United States. Its all based on people keeping track of the right people and other people not lying about it. What about adoption. Are you supposed to pick up your new adopted families family tree or are you supposed to keep your biological one. And what if you don’t know about your biological history, are you supposed to just start a new one with you? This is, in my opinion, just one big grey area to look into.

Warhol (Required Prompt)

“Over the years I’ve been more successful at dealing with love than with jealousy. I get jealousy attacks all the time. I think I may be one of the most jealous people in the world. My right hand is jealous if my left hand is painting a pretty picture. If my left leg is dancing a good step, my right let gets jealous. The left side of my mouth gets jealous when my right side is eating something good. I’m jealous at dinner that somebody else will think of something better to order than I did. I’m jealous of somebody’s blurred Instamatics even when I have my own sharp Polaroid’s of the same scene. Basically, I go crazy when I can’t have first choice on absolutely everything.” (page 49 and 50.)

-This passage of Warhol’s really stood out to me. I have never thought of things quite the way he does so this came to a surprise to me. I have never even considered that one part of your body could be jealous of another. I cant tell if he means this as a metaphor to show just how jealous he is, or if he means it literally. I wouldn’t put it past him if he did.

I have always thought of myself as a jealous or competitive person. But its usually not shown. I like to be the best at something when I put my all in it. I’m an only child so I also like to be the “only”. I’m my mothers only child, my grandparents only grandchild, the only person my boyfriend ever thinks about, my best friends only best friend. I am going to be the only criminal lawyer in the family, the only person with a skydiving license and the only person to back pack Europe for six months. I have all these dreams and aspirations that I want to accomplish and yet when I read this one little passage it makes me look at everything differently. I never realized that I was like this until I read this. “My right hand is jealous if my left hand is painting a pretty picture.” It was put so perfectly.

There is something about Warhol’s words that really make you think. You can’t help but to look at everything in a different perspective. I never thought I would say this but I really enjoy reading a required text!