Color

According to the results my answers did not match very well with the majority. I only had 3 colors that matched what the majority seem to vote for but to be honest that makes sense. Im not really a huge fan of color, I love neutral colors and rarely stray away from that. I would say my favorite color is coral but i rarely wear it as black, gray and white tend to be much easier to pick out. I would say generally speaking the only experience I have with color would be relating color to personality types. At work we are taking quizzes to test personality types. By doing this we can find our strengths and opportunities. These quizzes usually also help with learning how to approach other color types. In chapter 8 of White Space Is Not Your Enemy it explains how color can be used to categorize. "Color can sort and clump to indicate  what goes with what". I would say the same about the color personalities. It sorts strengths, opportunities for improvement and how that person receives feedback. As odd as it sounds for myself it was right on point. According to Angelica Vazquez certain colors go together on the color wheel I guess the same can e said about personality types certain people can click while others can't. She also said that certain colors can go well together in different forms ( print or web) I would say the same for different life settings for people. Certain personalities go well together at work but would never get along in a social setting and vice versa. 

What do you think your color is? Test it out! 

https://www.gsgatl.org/for-volunteers/volunteer-leadership-conference/Documents/True%20Colors%20Test.pdf

My color is green!

Green is know to  stand for It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Green has great healing power and is the most restful color for the human eye. Guess its not terrible to have  personality related to harmony and safety!

I loved the idea our guest speaker Jim Wend proposed. The title of the presentation was "How to make stuff look good". I pondered on this topic while reading Chapter 9. Not knowing what my video was going to be about I came accross the section entitled Ethics of Shooting and Editing. Before continuing to read I immediatly thought "Are there any ethics?".And from there my video was born, the exact words used where that pictures edited "run the risk of altering or negating the truth of the image". It seems like we run this risk AND cross this line everyday when we as women look at beauty ads. Shouldn't a beauty ad represent real beauty? It doesn't seem like the commercial photographers out there have gotten that message. Altering photos so that they don't even look like the model anymore? Or choosing models that don't represent the the majority of that products consumers. Should we support companies that publicize a false idea of beauty? I have reevaluated the companies that I buy from. I also want to mention the last picture in my video is taken from the Dove campaign called "Love yourself". Im so in love with what this campaign represents and shows that beauty really does come in many forms.


Last week in class one of our classmates posed the idea that she doesn't want to teach her daughter a false image of beauty which I really felt for her. Do you think supporting these types of companies supports the image we allows to be circulating.

Ill start out by saying I loved making this video more than I thought I would! I had never left the state of WI until I met my husband. He has traveled all of his life and couldn't believe that I hadn't even been to Chicago. Well he changed that. Since we got married time has flown by and making this video was a trip down memory lane. In the process of making this I got a chance to see how blessed I am and to appreciate the things we have done in the past because since being in school traveling hasn't really been in the budget. I have learned how to use Animoto and will use this again in the future!

I have to admit that museums aren't my favorite place in the whole world. As a kid I loved going to the museums it was like a world outside of my own but as an adult serving jury duty in downtown Milwaukee and getting a free pass during our break I walked through our museums quickly not stopping to appreciate the art  because all I could think about was not dying from dust inhalation. ( I survived)

While walking through Alverno’s Art exhibit I couldn't help but be amazed that our school would offer something so amazing (and not dusty!) I walked around about 3 times until I settled on the piece talked about in our video which I had an immediate connection to. The Limestone Sculpture is just amazing in it simplicity to me. 

While reading our Article “The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum”, Dr. Haizlip took the words right out of my mouth when she said,“I was actually projecting a lot of me and what was going on in my life at that moment into that painting,” she continued. “It ended up being a moment of self-discovery.” In chapter 5 our book talks about focal points  or Center of Visual Interest which would be what draws your eye and at first I would say it was the bird perched on the sculpture mostly because the material is different than what the majority of the sculpture is made from but in staring at the culture for some time the blanket became the focal point for me. 

In my silent moment in front of the glass case my art work lives in all I could think about was my journey in going back to school. The blanket represents the support system I have had in starting this journey. There are many layers the sculpture representing to me the many levels of support I have while going back to school. Nervous in going to my first class I had my husband giving me words of encouragement, my parents making me dinner showing how proud they are of me going back to school, the support of my co workers working late so that I can leave work early on Wednesdays to get to class on time, and the amazing women I have met in my courses showing me that this journey is possible. All of these people showing and giving me their “blanket of support” so to speak and when I feel overwhelmed I can wrap myself in that blanket and know that everything will be just fine. I know I am not the only one that may need that little bit of encouragement and its great to know that that blanket exist for me. Make sure you wrap yourself in that blanket when things get hard and everything will be just fine. (Its like the dust…You will survive!) 

Who is in your blanket of encouragement?