Semester take away

It was a wonderful journey of my seeing sideways class. It has changed my life in many different ways. All the assignments were very different to each one and really made critical thinking in a freedom class. I am taking away many new and discovered inner things of mine to my life journey in future. when i rewind my memories from first day or starting of this class my confidence level increased. My thinking capacity has also changed in a manner which i have not thought of it before. Now i am surprised to know about my own capabilities in many different things. I have confidence in whatever i do. I am taking many positive things/thinking to my future leaving behind my negative things/thinking in the seeing sideways class. Thanks to Beth for creating this class. The class most enjoyed, relaxed or learned is from this class.
The assignments I enjoyed:
1. Media round robin: I really enjoyed mixing non-digital and digital media and i like what i created.
2. Fear assignment: What not i got from this assignment, no words to write I am blank i really passed my phase of fear when thinking, creating or while writing about my fear. I recognized my fear and now i am out of it. This helps me a lot to carry it to my future.
THANK YOU BETH!

Class take away 16

This was our last class we all discussed our final project that is altered book. it was awesome to listen to everyone's idea or life behind it. I almost liked all the projects. We enjoyed the cake and candies. it was a great journey.

Final BOOK

What is your opinion of combining technology and the human body as she did in the video?

Combining technology and the human body as she did in the video is really amazing /impressive, I am not against it at all. I agree with the cosmetic pills but when it comes to me I personally don’t like to just experiment it on me. As I like many natural things and do not like to combine it on my body. But the idea for those who like to change is really amazing as I mentioned it earlier.

What is your opinion of combining a media arts and science project with your own body?

I am completely against in combining my own body or to use my body with projects in Media arts and Science.

How will you change this book?

I changed my book cover page by covering it in black paper and traced my hand and cut it and painted white and pasted it on the black background. Inside few papers I shredded it and few I cut it as snowflake and painted it blue.

How will this book change you? 

This book brings me positive thinking encourages me and reminds me to work hard whatever difficulty it may come in future. 

class take away 13

It was the day of sharing our bliss and fear assignment. Beth was not there due to her personal reasons. I hope she get better soon. Missed her a lot. she was my strength in class to talk or to share things with everyone but still I presented my fear assignment without her and it made me feel really really confident to carry it to my future. It was good listening to others different fears.

Class take away 14

It was the class of continuation from last class where some shared their fear assignment. It was very unique experience for me which also helped me for my development in the future. Missed Beth in this class but it was still a good class. By listening to all others fear assignment I increased my confidence level in my life. My positive power was increased. overall as always it was a nice experience.

&*%$ FEAR &*%$

‘Loneliness’ makes me fearful.

1.      Is the fear you identified for this project a fear, phobia, anxiety, or worry?

I identify my fear as a state of worry. My loneliness is not being in solitude but it occurs when I am in middle of a crowd. I identify it as worry because it is my mental negative feelings or predictions I think this is because of my shift from my hometown. My loneliness is worry not anxiety because I don’t withdraw from going in the middle of the crowd but I experience it in the form of worry.

2.     In what ways do you notice fear in your life?

I think it is mainly because of my shift from my hometown and from my family and friends so many social situations and crowd causes me feel my worry of loneliness

3.     What does fear keep you from experiencing?

This worry so called fear of me keeps me experiencing negative thoughts in my life.

4.     What is the use of fear in your life?

When I try to overcome my worry it gives me more mental strength to work or to create what I like in a way more than I expected how it turns out.

5.     How does fear affect your life, especially in terms of creativity?

Fear affects in my life mostly when I am in a situation where I cannot overcome my worry of loneliness. It affects me by being normal and not being social as always I am. In such situation I completely stop working. I don’t even attempt to do simple works or talks which I usually like and completely becomes dumb.

6.     What form does your fear take?

I feel crummy of myself.

BLISS !!!!

      1.     Not good at expressing things

1.     What if I don’t worry about not being expressive and just continue working on my assignment.

2.     What if people around me family or friends praise me for my thinking

3.     What if Beth praises me as if it is the best assignment?

2.     Forget about my assignment due dates like I forget my blogs

1.     What if I don’t forget due dates of my assignment

2.     What if I put reminders on my mobile and calendars and even a reminder note in car

3.     What if I complete it even before the due date?

3.  Neglect assignment as I used to do it back in India

                    1.     what if I don’t neglect it

                     

                    2.     what if I give first preference to it

                    3.     what if I give importance to it

                   4.  I don’t get ideas to do it

                   1. what if I get an good idea

                   2. what if I think critically and do my best

                   3. What if everyone like my idea

                   

                   5.not having enough time due to lots of deadlines

                   1.what if I plan in advance and finish all my deadlines

                   2.what if I sacrifice all other regular routines and concentrate on doing assignments

                   3.what if I do assignments all night to meet deadlines

class take away 11

The class was very interesting as always but there was some changes to it than usual which made us think a lot after the class. Beth mentioned about two assignments both making me to think a lot and still in thinking process. hope I will find solutions to it soon. But I am enjoying this phase of thinking what makes me happy and what leads to fear?

mixedMedia-media round robin

• How did the creation change as it went through multiple media? I did digital > non-digital > digital. My digital image i created using Photoshop. Using mask in Photoshop i created this image first.
  I took print out of it. then i used my color pencils to draw on it which was my non-digital process to it. 
  then again digitally i changed the image to look like it as shown in the final product. for this process i used my mobile app.
  
• How different, or similar, was the final product to the first creation? I liked my final product. it was amazing to see the changes myself. 
• How could this apply to your field of study outside this course? it helped my creative ability to think out of it to create this image. 
• What did you learn about media in this process? Using mixed media we can create a unique piece which cant be created using only one media. As always there are no restrictions in using any media in creation was exciting and was waiting for the unknown unique art piece.

class take away 9

Class was too silent today but it was good to listen to tastes assignment from everyone. I felt real hungry by listening to everyone's food assignment. I was waiting to go back home to have food. I am really excited for our next assignment because i always want to experiment with mixed media kind of things like creating it physically and altering it digitally. lets see how it goes.

New taste

As I am a vegetarian and a foreigner I have tried many new things over past few years. This time not entirely new but I tried eating pumpkin seeds that I have never had in my life, to try a new taste. Before eating it I had many questions in me that how exactly it tastes, is it hard, chewy, and bland? After trying it ....I felt like yes, it is little crunchy, little chewy, not so bitter but little sweetish but bland and mild, emotionless when I had it as it is. I felt like as if it is lacking some strong features in it. I tried both with shells and without shells on it. When I had them with the shells on it and the texture of shell was like eating fingernails. I am NAIL-BITER when I am nervous and I actually wanted to stop that bad habit of mine recently.  I was really disappointed after trying new thing over this weekend and spring break as it again reminded me of biting nails.

So, I suggested myself to try frying seeds. I fried and added salt and chili powder on it and the taste was amazing. It was salty and spicy, full of life, the tastes were fresh and flavorful. I was out of that disappointment and nervousness. Thanks to my positive thinking ability.

I just took picture of it and edited in Photoshop creating some moods out of it.

I added colors according to mood on it. I used grey, yellow and pink colors. Too much grey leads to feeling mostly nothing. I used grey to represent my first mood after tasting raw seeds. Then I used yellow and pink which represents my mood when I had fried seeds. Yellow because it relieved from nervousness I used pink as it is the color for relaxation.

Class Take Away 8

We all discussed about cover page ideas. It was really good to hear from my dear friends. it was really a meaningful day for me. i started thinking about myself again and again....its like on and on and on in my mind. no matter how many times i think i get new myself when thinking who I am, i don't know it make any sense? but yes for me its really meaningful and good to succeed in my future life.

You've got this covered!

You've got this covered!

For this assignment,

1.I will paint my cover page as winter weather scenery illustration.

2.I will create a pop-up snowflakes on it by coloring background black as my background representing my past and snowflake representing my present and future.

3. i will paint in black and make my palm impression in white representing "ME" always weather past , present or future i will work hard for my success.

03/02/15 class take away

This week’s class was short but sweet memorable class as I first got a chance to meet Mr. Michael, as Beth said he was in such a severe pain even though he made it with Beth as she did not want to cancel the class. I thank him for that and lesson to learn that we can sacrifice and do anything for our loved ones.

We discussed about our last assignment done which was who are you and why are you here? It was really fun and also made me really think for the first time seriously who am I and why I am here, here for me was not only in this class or IUPUI but in this world :).

Who are u and y r u here?

I am an extremely lovable, passionate, adorable person sometimes shy. At times, I am practical and prefer quietness. I am here to overcome shyness to come out of fear and to support and help my family, friends and people in need. so i colored blind contour drawing with four colors according to the meaning of colors in dreams which represent me. I used brown, pink, black and red.
BROWN: earthy, practical
PINK: love, love for mother, need for unconditional love
RED: joy, animal passion, fun
BLACK: fear, anxiety
Here is the picture of my blind contour drawing:

"Bible" dipping

For my seeing sideways class we were asked to create something that had to do with “reuse”.

After thinking for a long time about what to REUSE, I finally decided to reuse one of my childhood dresses. Obviously I do not fit into it J. Instead of keeping it or forgetting about it completely I reused it on my daughter. Luckily I also have a picture of myself in that dress.

I have a photo of me and my daughter in my childhood dress which I reused it on her, to share with the class and my childhood dress. I wanted to reuse my childhood dress, which is one of my sentimental treasure. 

....made were Rules

seluR erew edam....
....ot eb nekorb! roF siht tnemngissa ti saw yrev tluciffid rof em ot kniht fo saw yrev tluciffid rof em ot kniht fo tahw selur ot kaerb. I saw yllaer desufnoc dna knalb dna thguoht I lliw dne pu ton gniod siht tnemngissa. tub sa noos I tog pu ylrae siht gninrom I emac pu htiw siht aedi ot kaerb eht elur fo gnitirw siht tnemngissa ni eht essever redro dna/ro gnisrever lla fo the srettel ni eht drow fo siht tnemngissa. yllaniF it saw yllaer nuf dna I deyojne ti.

it enjoyed I and fun really was it Finally. assignment this of word the in letters the of all reversing or/and order reverse the in assignment this writing of rule the break to idea this with up came I morning this early up got i soon as But. assignment this doing not up end will I thought and blank and confused really was I. break to rules what of think to me for difficult very was it assignment this for broken! be to....
....made were Rules

Rules were made....
....to be broken! For this assignment it was very difficult for me to think of what rules to break. I was really confused and blank and thought I will end up not doing this assignment. But as soon I got up early this morning I came up with this idea to break the rule of writing this assignment in the reverse order and/or reversing all the letters of the word in this assignment. Finally it was really fun and i enjoyed it.

50 different questions

What if I….

1. Color all the pages with my favorite designs
2. Allow my 3 year old daughter to color on all the pages however she likes on it
3. Cut all the pages like a snowflake
4. Draw and color all possible cartoon characters in all the pages
5. Tear all pages and blow it away in air
6. Spray paint on all pages
7. Cut a big hole in middle of the book and use it like a storage
8. Lay colorful lace all around and decorate
9. Stick the pages to one another to create a design
10. Stick my photos from childhood till now and make it an album
11. Draw pencil sketches on each page
12. Glue all the pages to one another so that book can’t be open again
13. Write the lyrics of all my favorite songs on pages
14. Stick stickers on all pages
15. Punch out holes and connect it with woolen or threads
16. Use stencils and draw
17. Sew all pages together
18. Wrote all possible quotes on it
19. Glue in stamps of all countries
20. Glue in my tissue collections from restaurants from different countries
21. Design all the pages from waste things
22. Glue in pictures of all my favorite foods from different countries
23. Write recipes of foods from different countries
24. Stick all dried flower petals on pages to make a design
25. Mark out some liked words from different markers
26. Draw illustrations
27. Water damage the book
28. Write all my collection of home remedy tips in pages
29. Glue envelopes to each page to store old letters
30. Creating wall hanging
31. Make collage
32. Tear them like crazy
33. Creating paper embossing
34. Writing alphabets of many languages
35.  Burn corners or some part of all pages to create a design
36. Staple pages
37. Create a flip book
38. Stick all my greetings collection
39. I put up my fingerprints in different colors and create design out of it
40. Using my daughter’s palm print to create designs
41. Get autographs from people whom I know on all pages
42. Spread red, black and blue ink all over pages
43. Leave the book outside in wintry weather
44. Tear all pages, wet it mix it with clay, roll it and make ball to kick it whenever I feel stress
45. Tear all pages, wet it mix it with clay, roll it and make pot to grow plants
46. Tear all pages and feed it to cows
47. Glue newspaper/articles of different languages in one book
48. Highlight few words while destroying all other words
49. Do line art on each page
50. Create paper/felt houses 

Class Take Away 3

Yesterday 2/2/2015, I had to miss the Seeing sideways class due to my daughter's illness. The part of the day I spent doing some creative activity was to think of ideas for the doodling assignment. I had a lot of thoughts and finally created the lines doodle. On a tense day, it was relaxing to do the creative assignment

polly wolly doodle all the day

Polly Wolly Doodle all the day project was really hard for me. I took lot of time thinking what to doodle, finally i thought of doodling on "line" in which I need to be spontaneous on what I doodle and it was really challenging to me. After i finished my work of doodling i was really happy and enjoyed it.

My Colored page

The required textbook was a coloring book for this class. That too it was to color it in a way we wish. I chose Mystical Mandala coloring book as my coloring book. My first colored page for the class. Here it is….

Project_EGG

After I received my egg in first class, there were many thoughts in my mind but I was sure what I wanted to do with it really. Whenever I look at an egg many words/feelings moving across my eyes. An oval shaped egg symbolizes the beginning of life, birth, hope, cycle of life. So I wanted to paint an abstract art on egg which symbolizes birth/beginning of life. This art/egg also symbolizes beginning of my real life from SEEING SIDEWAYS.

Class Take Away 1

Seeing sideways – Class with lots of freedom….

I did not want to miss taking this last class with my inspirational instructor, so in spite of many restrictions I took this class. I did not know or have not heard too many details about this class other than the title of the course SEEING SIDEWAYS, which did evoke many questions. My first day of the class was a totally different experience - “expect the unexpected”. We took a break with a twist that we should not leave our chairs, going through the hallways with rolling chairs….amazing….I SHOOK MY SHYNESS J I think my shyness no longer rules me in this class….  

"Responsibility is the price of freedom"- Where there is freedom, responsibility plays a very important role. I want to be myself and explore ME freely but responsibly….More and more to SEE.