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.