Day 14

This is a what! This is a who!

I think Monday’s class was one of the most difficult day so far. I also think that it was more fun than game day. Jimmy introduced us to a new game, and by the end of the class I realized that it could be a fun drinking game as well. It was confusing at first to understand how to play it, even as I was explaining it to my friend after class I’m sure I didn’t explain it so well. You begin with two objects, one you name a who, and the other a what. You hand one object to the person sitting next to you and you tell them “this is a who”, the person sitting next to you then ask “a who?” and you respond back with “a who!” and then the person takes the object from your hand and replies a “oh a who!”. It gets more difficult as the object gets passed around the group, it become more complicated as both objects the who and the what are reaching the center where they are about to meet. For the first time I didn’t care if this had any thing to do with being a designer, I just enjoyed my time. But I should know better than to think this had nothing to do with being a designer, it had everything to do with being a designer. The main idea behind the exercise was to focus our minds.

The next part of class was a complete 180 when it came to use using our minds. Jimmy read us a short story, we were the main characters. He began reading this story in which we had to imagine our selves walking to a forest and then going into a cave. The cave had doors with out names on them. You open the one with your name on it and go through it. What is through that door was left to our imaginations because thats where his story ended and our began. We had to draw what we saw in our minds, I saw this big room with that was all mine. My own space, of course that would be in my imagination. It was a beautiful place in which I can be creative, be inspired and be ALONE. I live in a small house and I share a room with my older brother, so I guess it makes a lot of sense that I would want that.