trees are people too

Creativity
This is going pretty well so far. The weekly tasks keep me producing (whether I like it or not) and this has led me to try and create in new and different ways. i may be creating utter shite, but creating I am. This would indicate that I am pushing myself outside of my comfort zone. Oh good on me.

This also has led me to learn new skills through creating, as I hoped it would. I want to try new and different techniques (repeating the same practice for every weeks task would be a bit dull) so I have already ventured out somewhat. Nothing revolutionary, don’t worry. So….good so far. I was a little ambitious saying I would create 2 pieces outside of course work, but perhaps if you could call blog posts a form of production or piece, I am currently having no trouble blabbing on my blog. I might review the creation of additional pieces outside of course tasks to one, and state that a good blog post or images (photos, sketches) or even brainstorming could be considered a ‘piece’.

Exploration
So easy. So excellent. We can’t the entire course just be based on exploration. ha. I am finding it easy to access/explore at least one or two new resources/references/even plugins each week to expand my knowledge and skills. But this bit is fun, and there is so much info out there. Subscribe to a couple of good media blogs and it is all at your fingertips. So this one doesn’t really count. :P

Discovery
As above, my discoveries are the fruits of my exploration and I am having no trouble indulging in this. I guess the trick here is to keep my ‘discoveries’ (ah, intrepid explorer) relevant. It’s easy to get sidetracked. Tay Zonday is perhaps not as relevant to the internet’s outstanding ability to disseminate information as I first thought. But going ok. Discoveries a plenty.

(n.b. Exploration and discovery so far so good, but I would imagine as the semester gets busier it might be a little harder to keep on top of my personal criteria. Therefore I grant myself a slight respite in later weeks or very busy weeks, but I with my addiction to rss, websurfing etc, I am hoping I will want to keep exploring and discovering, thus keeping on top of it.)

Risk Taking
As I am the only one who knows my own boundaries, capabilities and my fears, I am so far pleased with how this is going. I still want to die every time I see a post or production of mine appear on mog, but I am keeping at it. Not a big deal for most but a big deal for me. I am hoping it will become easier, and while I sometimes feel gung ho, I know I have a way to go. The ambition would be for this sort of involvement/risk taking to be quite natural by the end of the course. It’s getting easier, so perhaps I am heading in the right direction.

Wizard for now, but there will be updates and further reviews I am sure, and moments when i think that I have made a terrible mistake.