comics and graphics

Last Wednesday day, we evaluated our class. As you recall, concepts and development is a new course and we are the Ginnie pigs. After a long list of likes highlights and low lights, I can safely say that was a waste of time. To be frank, I think that should have been saved for the end of quarter when we have a more developed concept of concepts and developments.

Later on, we saw more of TED's youtube videos. Two of them, Scott McCloud and John Maeda, and two of them I could have gone without hearing them. McCLoud presented his passionate for comics. At an early age, he was encouraged by his father to pursue his passion and talent, which says a lot considering his father was blind. As he said in the video, it gave a new meaning to the term, blind faith.

McCloud believed in four simple rules that can make you a success, not just in art, but in life:
-Learn for everyone
-Follow no one
-Watch for patterns
-Work like hell

McCloud states that his career felt natural because he embrace his nature. Something very similar to what Sir. Ken Robinson said, follow your passion. No matter what you plan to do in this world, be sure to have a passion for it. That are a handful of people in this world who get to do what they want. Faith or no faith, guidance or no guidance, just be sure to be one of them.

The next speaker, John Maede, spoke about his passion for graphics, and his child like curiosity. After taking a cheap shot on how he resembles the character in the so-and-so for Dummies, he brings up the concepts of complexity and simplicity. We love complexity in art but not in life. We like simplicity in task, but no in beauty. We want more when we want to enjoy, and less when we have to work. Maeda, however, finds beauty in all. Whether, its a dead moth or Cheetos, he takes a picture of it and convert it into art. People, like him, are one of those rare kinds of of souls, who's curiosity was either nurtured or unbreakable. As a result they will never grow bored.