This week am man named Peter Hanley spoke. Mohawk and all, I think he was someone the majority of the Tyler Freshman Class students were immediately drawn to. Peter's topic was somewhat confusing, he spoke of how his computer was his studio -- but not really, his mind is. But not really that either, there's a halo of ideas and plans around his head, that's his real studio. Wait, what?
Hanley was saying that you shouldn't limit yourself to just the 2d surface of your computer desktop. You should remember that the computer is a tool, but you mind is what is really driving your inspirations and plans. I identify with this because the artistic part of my brain tends to work sporadically and I try my best to record these thoughts so that I can later make use of them appropriately and the computer itself helps me develop those ideas, but not create them entirely. Hanley stated that if at one point you find yourself in front of the computer simply going through the motions of your work, then you should take a minute to access the actual project -- cause chances are it's boring. Why create something that the computer tools can do alone? Your mind's innovations are an essential part of any artistic work, otherwise the person, client, grandmother with a knitting business that is pioneering the internet advertising world -- would just hire a robot.
This lecture I think especially applied to Foundations Computers because we do spend three hours in front of our monitors and explore the abilities of the glorious Macs. But there is a fine line between exercising the computer's skills, and actually applying those skills to bring life to the things that your personal (real-life) mind so happened to think up. Something to remember.
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