Wrap up

So what did I learn from all this?
Is creativity this mysterious beast that dwells within me, or do I have the ability to tame it?
Can creativity be taught? Can it be learned?
Do I know now?
I've learned and grown so much this semester. I was lucky to have teachers with a passion for teaching. I would like to send my gratitude to Brian Fennig, my wellness teacher, because he prepared for his classes meticulously and it showed. Glen Griffin, for somehow balancing fun with rules in such a way as to allow us to work and play at the same time.
I've learned that creativity dwells inside all of us. It can be nurtured or stifled. It can be allowed to flourish, and it can be crushed completely.
Creativity is a productive force. You can't sit on your couch and be creative. You have to get up and make the creative thing happen. So don't be lazy. Get up and paint a picture instead of watching that tube. Write a song, a poem, a book.
You may be the most creative person ever born, but you'll never find out until you get up, grab that brush, dip it in paint, and smear it on some canvas.
Thank you all for a great semester.

Mr. Sushi

You see the size of that piece of sushi?
Unbelievable.
Yesterday I was invited by by friends at school to join them for some school is over sushi.
My new acquaintance Nick works at Mr. Sushi in Addison. I went there and took 2 friends with me.
We arrived late so the food was almost ready when we got there. Nick took the liberty of ordering for everyone.
We had 2 courses of delicious appetizers and there it came. Not one, but two giant boats filled with every kind of sushi on the menu.
The firs boat had a variety of different things but the second boat had the biggest rolls I have ever seen. Two of these were the length of the chopsticks. It was filled with crab, shrimp, yellowtail, albacore, salmon, ikura, and vegetables.
I have never in my life gotten full on sushi. It's been a day and I'm still full.
That’s how you host a party.
All of us agreed that we would visit this place again.

I got in

My only goal this semester was to make it into the creative school at SMU called Method. I posted a blog about the upcoming applications. I found out two days ago that I made it in so now I can actualy show you my application. IAs I said before, we were given a broad question and our task was to answer creatively.
Our question; Why Now?
I had several ideas and I wrote them all down and picked, what I thought, was the best, to turn in.
Getting into this school is a dream come true for me. How funny is fate?
When I got into SMU I was extatic because I would leave here with a grat degree no matter what. I didn't even know that inside the advertising school there would be such an awesome program. Made just for me.
I got to this point nearly blindfolded. Fate led me to it.
In this program I will be doing what I've been dreaming of doing since I remember.

Stormy Waters

As the nickname may imply I used to be a DJ. I Played ar many venues including Dallas Market Hall, Red Jacked, The Lizard Lounge, and Bronco Bowl.
Soon I grew tired of playing other peoples music. I started to feel like a Juke Box. So I decided to write my own.
This piece is called Stormy Waters and is a story about a fisherman heading into the angry sea to feed his family.
Most of my songs have a story but no words.
Please listen to this all the way otherwise you'd miss the climax and resolution.

Book Review

The World Is Flat
by Thomas Friedman

Since last semester I have been hearing about this book that is a must read for anyone studying advertising, and really, everyone else.
The book is about the flattening of the world. How outsourcing, insourcing, immigration, and education is allowing countries which used to be lower on the economic scale to start competing for our jobs here in America.
After the dot-com burst we were left with a powerful infrastructure that wires the entire world with fiber optic cable. Now, those 75,000 really smart kids that graduate from the 11 extremely hard to get into schools in India don't have to come over here. They can have my job from wherever they are.
Thomas Friedman discusses these 10 forces which flattened the world, and he continues with solid advice on how to make it through this shaky era.
The World Is Flat is a well written book and is easy to read and get into.

The Gateway Drug

OK. This is a tired old argument. We have all heard about the fact that marijuana is illegal even though cigarettes and alcohol is more likely to kill one. My argument for legalization is slightly different.
People know marijuana to be the gateway drug. In my opinion this is entirely true, but the reason it is the gateway drug is because it is illegal.
The only place you can have access to it is on the black market, where, guess what… You also have access to coke and heroin. If marijuana was legal it would cease to be the gateway drug, and vice-versa, if cigarettes were to become illegal they would be dubbed the new gateway drug.