Brainwashed

In the article, Brainwashed, by Seth Godin talks about how we as artists, students, adults, go about our decision making process. The article talks much about how we are influenced and driven to make choices. One of the sections in the article is titled, Acknowledging the Lizard. The section talks about how we as artists sometimes hide i creativity and ideas when we believe that it will not be accepted or liked. It tells us that we have a little part in our brains that protect us from rejection but also dishes out our anger. It is true that when we feel our ideas are ostracized we tend to give up on it and try something else. This limits are creativity and if we fight past the "lizard" part of our conscious we can establish and carry out our creative ideas without the feeling of rejection.
"The risk the artist takes is that you might ... actually laugh at the effort. And it’s taking these risks that leads us to get rewarded."
Another section titled, Ship, talks about how we must take initiative to make out ideas public. Yes, a lot of the time we want to hold back because we are afraid to fail but that is part of the creative process. We must acquire the skills to make are decisions, carry them out, and get things done. What we have is what other people will seek out.


This article relates perfectly to this blogging activity. As we create projects in class we post them to all blogs for all the other media labs to see and hear. Theses blogs cut open out veins and put a piece of ourselves on display for others to critique and comment. A big part of this blogging is having the "lizard" brain. We must be brave and put our work on display and not be afraid to laugh at ourself or even fail. These exercised discussed in this article will help us become better media majors and stronger artists as well as students. It is all part of learning and applying the creative process.