GVSU Renaissance Festival

I went to the Renaissance Festival that was being held at GVSU this weekend. I couldn't help but wonder if in 500 years would people be doing industrial revolution fairs in towns where people dress up as bankers or factory workers. Perhaps instead of reenacting sword fights (like they did this weekend) they would do pretend football games.

While I can appreciate other peoples appreciation for ye olde times and I personally find the renaissance to be of great significance to human history; I find it perplexing when people say "life was so much better back then". I feel that they are either a masochist, or they don't fully grasp what life was like back then. Low life expectancy, high infant mortality rate, and the height of medical treatment was bloodletting and leeches, lastly there was not internet. If these people are referring to the honor, chivalry, free flow of ideas and other good things that are associated with this era perhaps we should try to fold these ideals into our time instead of trying to turn back the clock.

My Opinion of Tyree Guyton

Who is Tyree Guyton?- Tyree Guyton is an African American artist from Detroit, Michigan. His formal education includes studying at the College for Creative Studies (located in Detroit), and he has received an honorary doctorate. He is considered to be a urban environmental artist. His friends consider him friendly.

What is Tyree Guyton's work about?-  Dr. Guyton's see's art in a different way "What is art? I ask myself this question over and over. Is my life an art form? I began to see and hear my own work in a new way that opened up my third eye of wisdom and my mind to see how everything is connected to this one source of energy or this divine power." This way of thinking of art has lead Dr. Guyton to create the Heidelberg project, which has become a community project that focus's on changing peoples life through art. 

What is Tyree Guyton's art making strategies. One strategy Dr. Guyton used during his Heidelburg project. was polka dots, his intention of doing this is to was to showcase the diversity he sees in his community. He also used pieces from the environment (like a home) and rearranged them, painted them to make his community more beautiful and bring people closer together.  

"Thinking outside the box" is to understand creative thinking. This means that you should have system or process for driving your creativity. The author listed a four step process for creativity. 

Three ways to think outside the box include: preparation- setting the ground work for the thing you want to create by gathering information, incubation- this is the process of organizing the the information gathered in the preparation stage, illumination- this is the process of the "ah ha" moment resides and it comes after you have sifted through all of your information thus far, and finally verification- where you are able to confirm either through analysis or others analysis that you have created what you set out to create.  

A correction

Turns out that what what I posted on my "thoughts" page was not my first post. THIS is my very first post.