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.