Grid Art

In class, we made pixel art as we would see it on a computer, but with Skittles. I used Hello Kitty as my template. This was actually a very fun project!

RAUL CUERO Interview - Creativity

• Watch RAUL CUERO’s interview about Creativity and post your comments on your blogs on how can you apply these concepts to your everyday life.

How can I even begin to relate to someone like Raul Cuero, who seems to be on an entirely different plane of thought? He's so incredibly poised and has so much insight into what it means to be creative. It's almost hard to believe he makes his living off of science and not philosophy.

For starters, Cuero makes a few great points on creativity, including the idea that kids these days seem to be much less hands-on than our preceding generations. Nowadays, kids are so invested in technology that even stepping outside to discover their surroundings and play in the dirt seems like a foreign concept to most toddlers. Toddlers of the modern era are assuaged by their parental figures with an iPad chock full of games. What happened to the idea of them playing in sandboxes and getting their little hands all sticky? Some of my earliest memories from toddlerhood sandboxes include creating imaginary worlds with my friends and pretending we were invaders on alien planets. This, at least in my mind, does not seem nearly as appealing as playing a game on an Apple device, flooding the brain's dopamine receptors for about 15 minutes, and then being bored once said game is over.

I could go on, but I would be here figuratively all day.

Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Hannah Zimmer and I'm excited to be a part of this class this semester! I'm a freshman at UT who is currently undecided, but I'm planning on transferring into the musical theater program via audition. Acting is my specialty, but I quite enjoy singing too. My feet weren't meant for dancing but boy do I try.

Some of my talents include:

• crying at everything
• never leaving my house
• saying sarcastic things and making bullet-pointed lists about myself in the hopes that 0.2 people will find me funny
• repeatedly getting mistaken as male in public
• quoting vines and presenting myself as a nuisance to those around me

pictured: the yaadas crest corner pole, a replica totem pole at the sitka national historical park in sitka, alaska
also pictured: me

     thanks for coming to my TED talk