masterpiece academy question

This course was something new, and something exciting. It does represent a great amount of trust, and I've been worried whether or not I earned / utilized that trust. My top priority throughout the year has been to work on my clothing brand and grow it to monumental proportions. My ambitions are too high for my own good, and I tend to be passionate about the wrong things; the unproductive things that don't earn a high GPA.

But I have completed a hero's journey, I've completed high school. I've completed four whole years in a place that just sees me as a number and people that see me as another teenager in a hallway. I've completed a hero's journey through judgement, frustration, stress, heartbreak, and everything else associated with high school. That's enough to make me feel like a hero.

masterpiece notes

     amanda

• "this town is like a sinkhole."
• amanda has a strong passion for travel and did everything she could to enable her to go to italy.
• this makes me want to really travel to italy
• i really need to travel to italy

     javier / izamar

• "in loco politico: educating the people of tomorrow"
• should i write for in loco politico?
• i think in loco politico has a lot of potential to expand, maybe into printed news. 

    jacob / kristin

• jacob and kristin have a clear understanding between their titles "education and learning"
• there seems to be a mutual understanding with high-shoolers and their lack of faith in the education system. 
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"FOUR WHOLE YEARS"

coming soon



( bermudaco.us/righetti )

look at my brain

designing clothes is my masterpiece. when i design clothes (and write), it allows me to express myself and connect with people. it turns me into a business -- a prominent part of an entire culture. i'm put in the position to make decisions for my brand and create an image for it. in clothing, collaboration is common. creative people gravitate toward each other like planets, crashing together and creating something new that has a little bit of themselves in it. look at my brain.

what about my masterpiece?

In the past week, I've been thinking of different ways to market my masterpiece ( a collection of  clothing ) to the school. I've began work on two of the designs I'll be printing and selling. Doing all of this work toward the collection just makes me more excited to release it when the time comes.

THIS IS ONLY A TEST

it's hard to describe my ability to complete my masterpiece because I've been doing it for the past year and a half. my masterpiece is a collection of clothing by my brand, which I will print and design and sell on campus. I've been doing that with my brand for about a year, so I'm prepared enough to start designing and printing. the only thing in my way is the difficulty of releasing this separate collection of clothes AND the ongoing collections I do with my brand.

while reading the last 1/4 of bnw

I really like the conversation with the Controller and/or Mustapha Mond about their society. It's just satisfying for them to come out and basically admit to cruelly engineering the world and telling them why. I especially liked in chapter 17 when he said "Christianity without tears -- that's what soma is." The idea of religion being used liked a drug and vice versa is interesting, I've never heard of that. And it confirms a lot of the things we talked about in class regarding the soma and the orgies to have a religious feel to them.

I also noticed that on pg. 246 it says "flowers and a landscape were the only attractions here," when the society is famous for making flowers and landscapes unattractive.

this isn't exactly a blog, but it IS a website that i created that reflects more of what i've learned

www.bermudaco.us

10 questions

how do i stay true to myself, creatively?

what aspects of business, actual business, do i have to know?

what do i do about media?

how do i know what type of people i should collaborate with and what type of people i shouldn't?

what are some of the best decisions you've made with your brand?

what are some of the worst decisions you've made with your brand?

how did you fix those mistakes?

have i made any mistakes with my brand?

if so, what can i do about them?

bnw discussion notes

in the class discussion, mostly we talked about brave new world's relation to the tempest, and vice versa, since the title is derived from the shakespeare play and there are lots more references to it in the novel. one thing we talked about what how the themes of the tempest seem to align with the themes of brave new world. (loss of innocence, difference between man and monsters. also, one of the characters from the tempest imagines a different type of utopian society at a point in the play.

launch

I'm going to make a collection of clothes based around righetti / high school / graduation, and include a faux graduation speech with it.


Since people seem to be doing their masterpiece around a skill that they know and understand, I'll do the same with clothing design and production, as well as writing. Along with designing and printing the shirts, I'll use what I know about media and promotion to advertise them throughout the school and offer them for sale. I can get help from my colleagues and friends to do all of these things (and it doesn't hurt that I'm friends with the school voted "best dressed")

brave new essay topic

I think comparing Huxley's world to ours is a good essay topic. After all, that seems to be one of the reasons the book was written. There are a lot of subtle and sometimes symbolic similarities between the two worlds and it'll be fun to try to pick out all the subtle ones, like the alphabetical system in which citizens are superior to each other.

launch / draft

I'm passionate about creativity. Right now, it's designing clothes but in 20 years who know what it'll be; but I'm passionate. I love physically creating the ideas that go on in my mind and have those things get appreciated by people. That's what I want to do.

I can use the Internet to correspond with others about clothing and design and explore other brands and ideas. I also use it to network and sell my clothes across the country.

I think I can impress people with my clothing brand. Hopefully I can convince and inspire other young people to be openly creative.

Start thinking about an idea as if it were reality, and as if it were completely possible and all it took was your effort. Because once you give that effort you've already started turning that idea into a reality.

hafta / wanna

honestly, I don't think things will be very different for me after I graduate high school. I mean, I'll have more time on my hands and I'll have a diploma. But once I get up on the stage and get that piece of rolled up paper, I won't change or be a new person, and I won't change into a prepared and responsible college student. I'll still be the same person after graduation, but I'll just be spending more time doing what I want with my time and my life and my clothing brand. I won't change, though. It's just a piece of paper.

what's the story?

In this quote, Keith Richards is simply trying to wrap his head around creative urges. He states that people write to build a connection, and touch other people in ways that only words and sounds can do. I can't help but agree because, in a way, that's why I design shirts and why I write. There's an urge to connect with the world in a creative medium. It can't be explained but there's an urge to show people how you feel and have them enjoy it.