WEEK 2

1. Allow events to change you.

A year ago i doubt i would have ever agreed with this statement, but now i completely understand where Bruce Mau is coming from. Last year i was at the receiving end of a bad breakup and my friends were also giving me grief. So i packed up everything and moved to Perth. Since last year i have had to get out of my compfort zone by moving to a city i barely knew, i had to find a rental (never had to do this before), find a housemate, find a new job and finally make new friends. It was the toughest thing i have ever had to do, but i did it. See if i never had that person cheat on me, and leave me, than i would have never moved from the little country town where everyone lives on gossip, because i believed that there was no better place to live than Bunbury. (my bf at the time always said there was bigger things out there, but i never wanted to believe him).

Although i was heart broken i will never make the same mistakes as i did whilst being with this guy. It took a bad event for me to appreciate the good things in life and to realise that the world is a big place. Now i didn't exactly change who i was, but i have noticed that the experiance has helped shape me into a more independant and happy person. I wouldn't appreciate everything i have now without looking back at what i have come from. I am who i am because of the people and experiences i have had over the years.

15. Ask stupid questions.

In order to grow as a person we must ask stupid questions. If we didnt ask stupid questions then we would never get any wiser. It's like when i was studying Building Design and Technology at Tafe. I felt really silly asking stupid questions for example what is a brick made of. People looked at me like why do i need to know what a brick is made of. Anyways my lecturer then explained what bricks are made of and explained the process of creating bricks. See the question seemed silly but the answer i got gave me a greater knowlege about bricks. We always need to know the basics in order to understand the more complex information further down the track.

As Bruce explains its not about the question itself its more about the answer. I will probably, most definantly ask a few stupid questions over the next few years of stuying this course, but who cares because in the end i will have a greater knoweledge and udnerstanding of how animators like Walt Dinsey got to be so successful.

37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

I think i like this statement the most out of all the other statements on the site because by doing all these things the possiblities are endless. By not limiting ourselves we are forever creating new views, new objects, new pieces of art. It allows us to think outside of the square, and this with this course you definately need to learn how to do this as your first option or idea may not be the best one.