Day 3

All this thinking is starting to hurt my brain…

I’m really starting to enjoy what this class is about. I like that Jimmy is forcing us to go to this thinking place in our minds that sometimes I would avoid because it felt like it was to much going on in my mind that I could never translate it into paper and images. Thinking is easy, we do it all the time, but thinking hard can be frustrating because it always feels like you are hitting a brick wall. Jimmy gave us a pep talk on what to do when that happens and the best thing to do in order to let the ideas come out is to do it with an OPEN MIND, be curious with what you are working on to explore new things, and new possibilities. If something that you are working on is really boring and it is difficult to be interested on, find a way in. Find something that you find really interesting and take that angle on it, explore all the possibilities, at the end of the day its for your own good.

Monday’s lecture for Jimmy’s Art 220 class was about brainstorming and mind mapping. Brainstorming was something I would do in high school for my English classes when it came time to write a paper on a topic, it is the same concept, but I enjoy it a lot more this time around because it involves visuals. Brainstorming is an explosion a flow of ideas within a certain amount of time, and mind mapping is the same idea. The notes that Jimmy gave us defined mind mapping as a “diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word”. It’s a very simple notion, until you work on it. Jimmy gave us the task of making our own mind map on anything that we wanted. I did mind on time management, it was difficult for me to start but once I had the ideas coming out I wanted to write them all down fast so that I wouldn’t forget my next idea, my next topic. Our assignment for the night is to do another mind map, but this time around embellish it with visuals and colors. Of course, in the spirit of keeping things light and relaxed Jimmy made it a competition, the best one gets extra credit. Lets see how this goes down!!!