Learner's Journey Log: Lights, Camera & Publish!

In this activity, everyone had to watch at least 4 films/documentaries and to write words of appreciation for them.

1. Embrace the Shake - from TED Talks by Phil Hansen

This documentary gave a moral to never give up and just keep on doing it unless you succeed in it and one can even get new possibilities to overcome its problems. Mr Hansen had nerve damage in his hand due to which he couldn't draw straight lines or circular dots. This made him so upset that he even left his art school. But the best part, he didn't give up even after and found an alternative to draw even with his shaky hands and squiggles. The paintings e made after that miracle were unbelievable. In fact, I become a huge fan of him after watching all of those artworks. His paintings are great but the was of creating them felt a little weird and little disgusting and even thinking about it but great part no one's gonna tell he created actually with that. He also introduced a new type of art, i.e. goodbye art which is also a great way of showing art. This guy is totally weird with ideas and no one could actually make like what he does.

2. How I became 100 artists? - from TED Talks by Shea Hembrey

Mr Hembrey is a very humorous and storytelling person, he loves to talk about his childhood, how his father kills the flies from his BB gun. He is a contemporary artist but he wasn't impressed by the art exhibitions he saw instead he made his own biennial. His artworks use 3 H's - Head, Heart and Hands i.e. some interesting & intellectual ideas/concepts with passion, heart and soul and are greatly crafted but not esoteric. I am so impressed by his spirit of work and masterpieces. The artists of his biennial were created by him and there were 100 of them from all around the world by their unique bios, passions in life and art style. Finally, he made the art of those artists and finished his biennial work within 2 years. Their art pieces were so astonishing and very unusual to say. No one has seen this kind of artwork before. There is also a unique thing to his art is that everything was reals and made in reality nothing was being edited. I represent the true art of that person and how much dedicated he his for his work. I am so much impressed by his work, I can't even imagine how he had done all this in 2 years and this type of innovation is so amazing.

3. Art with Wire, Sugar, Chocolate and String - from Ted Talks by Vik Muniz

Mr Muniz is a punctual and down to earth person and with all these qualities his arts are also mind-blowing. He got only 15 mins to explain everything and it felt very short time span to watch his amazing art illusions. In the starting, he showed a dog with a duck as his skin pattern which really is seen unless he mentions it. He then briefed his journey with a lot of jokes and made the whole conversation pretty interesting. He never wanted to make images instead he made a very unusual combination of art called relics (a mixture of found objects, product designing and advertising) in which he showed a clown skull, the rocking podium, a half tombstone and many more; they all were so funny to hear and watch and I can't even imagine how he eve thought of these ideas. Then he displayed his other arts which are line drawings but in the 3D world; the craziest person I had seen. He made sculptures with the cotton imagining it as the clouds. Then he made line drawings using wires and clouds made by jets, compositions with strings and dust, portraits with sugar using dot representation on a black sheet, drawings with colour in Mosaic swatches, Drawing in earthworks and at last with the noodles. That guy never ends with surprises and shocks.

4. Intricate Beauty With Design - from Ted Talks by Marian Bantjes

Mrs Bantjes is a very bold and courageous woman and she talks with firmness. She is a graphic designer as well as a typographer and a person with transitive personal stories. After 20 years of graphic designing, she didn't go on that way instead she pursued a more personal approach, followed strategy, heart and passions towards her work that gave her a huge success. The way she used both typography and graphic designing are incredible. She shared a lot of inspirational thoughts in her speech which really motivates me. She made unimaginable fonts using sparkles, flower petals, sugar, pasta and other unusual materials. She also made many difficult puzzles using fonts covered with some unreadable graphic designing on them, some science diagrams, some heresies of the design world. She was also very interested in greeting Valentines to her colleagues and for that, she made her each friend a unique designed heart with their names and also with many used greeting cards. This type of designing and typography was bizarre to me, those were really great salutations. There are no words for her true passion which made her grew so much and helped to achieve her goals and there is no end to her typographies.