Veevz

I’m going to write about a classmate blog, which is not my English classmate only but also in design workshop class. Her name is Viviana and she called her Blog Veevz which I think it’s a funny way of say her name.

She skips class a lot so she hadn’t write so much posts… no just kidding, she was really sick a few weeks so she couldn’t come to classes but anyway she made her posts, till this moment she has 10 post, maybe in a few moments it will be 11becaus of today’s assignment.

The blog is really simple and easy reading, because she uses contrasting colors of back screen and font, black and white… some classmate has green annoying typeface on black font…totally hard to read.

Her funniest post was about her heavy but beloved laptop, it was funny because it’s really heavy I mean… TOO heavy… even for a laptop and I remembered the pain in her face when she is with her computer bag, I feel pity for his health…really. Her post are all easy reading, with a positive look of things and always with a pinch of humor, like she sees the good part of things, an important matter that not all people has (like me for example).

The grammar in the post is so good that I feel a bit of envy, but don’t get me wrong, I’m jealous because she writes her posts very fast and she can go home earlier. I, on the contrary am too slow in writing and checking grammar and syntax.

Her blog is good she only hast to put a bit more images on it, because I don’t see words just letters, but images introduce me of what is the post about and make it interesting.

If you ask me why this picture is because she is pink and nice just like Kirby, so sweet and happy, totally adorable.

I’m not going to write about my favorite photo

Cos I don’t have one, I think it’s too difficult to choose one between all the possibilities, specially now because of the new technology in photograph cameras, in the digital world is too much easier to own a camera, also everyone can publish his photos on the internet, so the quantity of pictures has increase and due to that the quality too.

So today I’m going to write about this photo, you can find it weird, the format it’s not the conventional one. My boyfriend took this picture while we were on a small winter vacation just the two of us, we were so happy that time because it’s really hard for that happen to us because of monetary or time issues.

The place is the coast, in Algarrobo, it was winter as I said before, it was almost sunset time and we were kissing when he took the picture, so what you see is our shadows reflected on the sand, you can tell the hour for the length of the shadows. Our shadows looks like a pyramid or so, I think it’s a cute picture if you know what it’s but if you don’t I think the picture doesn’t has sense.

I really like this picture because it reminds me a lot of good moments I had with my boyfriend that vacation, the day we had to go back to Santiago it was so sad because we get used to be together all day for a whole weak.

I hope we can go there again and do more photos.

Ken Robinson on TED 2006

As a designer, I recognize that there is an element that is very much needed in our further education and working life, and this is creativity.

Education today is increasingly taking away children from this area; this is what Ken Robinson proposes at the February 2006 TED conference in Monterey, CA. He is an expert in creativity who presents his research and opinion of this conference.

The way to present the topic was quite interesting because he brings out the humor as communication strategy, keep audiences entertained and they will listen, so he inserts his message with a touch of humor.

One of his phrases:
"We do not grow Into creativity, we grow out of it. Educated Or Rather we get out of it. "

It demonstrates clearly the dissociation that the government has (in general in all countries) regarding creativity in the education, and they appear to be more concerned about generating Childs as robots than unique individuals.

The college seeks to foster our creativity, they teach us techniques for this, but clearly it’s not a process that is rooted in us that’s why we find it hard to fly our imagination.

Personally I do not think this is schools fault only, but also of the family, are the parents who have to encourage the education of their children through all necessary education techniques, and one of them is to encourage creativity and individuality.