Elbows

https://giphy.com/gifs/birdbrow-LW40TCK0cPEuakXeM1/tile For my project, I made a tiny little animation of a man whose eyebrow turns into a bird. I did this by taking pictures of the different stages of the transformation and combining them all using a gif making app. I’ve made gifs before, but only by converting live photos or videos. I think this is a celebration because this incredibly easy-to-use app takes something that, to an outsider, is very intimidating, and makes it very accessible. I like to draw and doodle, and I think illustrative gifs are way fun. However, I am no illustrator and the idea of creating an animation feels woefully out of my league. But when I first had the idea, all it took was a bit of poking around the app to figure out what I needed to do, and then voila: a weird eyebrow-bird situation was born. I like this because it stretched my creativity while building off a skill I already had, which is frankly my favorite way to create. Gifs, in their own right, ...

Read Larry Woiwode's   Ode to an Orange  and explore the listed mentor texts. A dapt the essence of Woiwode's original story into a new digital/social medium. The work you produce should maintain something from the original story and also create something new and uniquely your own. Mentor texts:  A. Todd Smith's 3 minute film   Ode to an Orange  (http://studentfilms.byu.edu/?p=57) Ex. Ex. Ex. Technology Goal: Utilize a medium that you are familiar with but actively learn something new about the medium while creating. OR Use a medium that you have never used and figure out how to use it while creating. Writing about the project 500 Words: Discuss how your creation expanded your understanding of the original text and your understanding of the medium through which you worked. Discuss your responses to the other works of art created in the class, and how they expanded your understanding of text/mediums. 

https://orangeode.tumblr.com/ If students can catch the creative bug, they will be caught between an immediate, intuitive desire to plunge in and begin working—don’t lose the vision! don’t forget any of those good ideas! this is exciting!—and the fear that such immediate action, or in fact any creative actions, will be terminated, discouraged, or hedged by failure or judgement. This is, upon close examination (or any sort of conscious examination, for that matter), a terrifying place to be. Creativity is so tremulously, inherently vulnerable. Expression of self via creativity cannot really be avoided or disguised (if it can be “avoided,” then maybe it is not creativity at all), and perhaps this is heightened by the online avatar that roleplays for the self. The internet may appear to be a separation, and therefore a safety net through which creativity is more fluently and fluidly exercised, but in reality the internet has far too much power, potential, and influence to really ...

Purpose and Intent An "interfering device" is something that's not a weapon, but could interfere with the educational process. This includes cell phones, cameras, laser pointers, or other electronic devices. Guidelines You will not take pictures of or record other persons without their knowledge and permission. This is especially pertinent in locker rooms, restrooms, or any other other area where person may be changing clothes or in any degree of disrobing.  Teachers, principals, and other administrators will take your phone or electronic device at any point if they see fit. The cell phone may be returned as the administrator sees fit or arrangements with a parent/guardian may be made for pick-up of the device. Your cell phone or device will not be on in class.  Your cell phone or device will not be used to bully, harass, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, or threaten any other person. Using your phone in this manner may result in consequences up to and including ...

I wrote a college essay about the liberation of deleting Instagram the summer before my senior year of high school. It was grandiose and self-righteous and not ill-intentioned by any means. These days, I have a small, very silly Instagram account where I feel free to post just about anything. I also have Facebook, Pinterest, Marco Polo, and VSCO accounts, and probably a few more that I’m forgetting. I love to read (mostly physical books), to draw, and to write. I like to read a few blogs, mostly about beauty or fashion, but also about political situations, social movements, etc. My favorite pieces of media are ones that combine all of the above: aesthetically provoking + emotionally/intellectually engaging. This applies to books, blog posts, documentaries (lookin’ at you BBC’s Animal Planet ), twitter accounts, etc. (Does Learning Suite count as media? I think it only really counts as a curse from the adversary to convince me to attend Paul Mitchell instead of BYU. But I bring it up ...

A candle in my apartment, where candles are banned. Agency: to understand a rule, why it exists, and make a decision based off what you think is acceptable/right. 

Cross-linguistic onomatopoeia  Your Smiling Face (song, James Taylor) Far From the Madding Crowd (book, Thomas Hardy) A Good Walk Spoiled (podcast episode, Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell) ManRepeller (fashion blog, Leandra Medine Cohen) Headspace (meditation app) Planet Earth II (series, Netflix) I Carry Your Heart (song, Eric Whitacre, based on a poem by E. E. Cummings) In Search of Fear (essay, Best American Essays 2018, Philippe Petit) The Large Bathers (painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paul Cezanne) Instagram: I haven't had an account in a long time, but I got one about a year ago and have had so much fun just posting silly/authentic things.