Well,
here’s the grand finale.
The
background information. . .
I have never read a book that I
didn’t like, but I despise many magazines. They are full of trashy gossip and
demeaning snippets, hold nothing of true intellectual value, and are not
thoughtfully engaging to our cognitive growth.
(Despite
my overall disdain of these poorly bounded pieces of “literature”, I do not
think poorly of anyone who reads them. They are just not in my taste, but I
also don’t presume that everyone who reads these types of magazines are trashy
or uneducated.)
After the first assignment of Seeing
Sideways, it become more evident to me that I want to continuously grow as an
individual—intellectually, spiritually, and abstractly. We had to incorporate
who we were based off of the creation of the egg, and while it initially seemed
like an odd correlation, it made more sense after the matter. With every
project that we created, whether we knew it beforehand or not, aspects of our
being went into the process and emitted from the outcome.
The underlying essence of every
assignment I have completed for this class shows in my Altered Book: my desire
to expand cognitively and creatively; to keep an active and immersed mind; to
enrich myself continuously.
The altering
process…
I will be honest, I started on this
project entirely too late. Procrastination has become an unwanted and bitter
ritual this semester… hopefully I can break it for the following years of my
schooling. But also, rather inconveniently, I had fallen sick the couple weeks
leading up to this deadline and was more focused on sleeping and trying to stay
alive at work.
I chose three pages as the main
puzzles, but glued several of the pages together in order to create thicker
pieces and to fully utilize the magazine into my project. Next, I poorly
outlined a puzzle on the three pages and begrudgingly cut out the pieces.
The
First Puzzle
Why do we
have to bash butts? Yes, big butts are cool. As are small butts. All butts are
beautiful—large or tiny, round or square—and you don’t have to bare two sets of
balloons to be butt worthy.
The
Second Puzzle
It worries
me that people could think that Selena Gomez is now “fat”. She is still a
dainty princess. But even if she feasts like a queen and puts on sixty pounds,
she will still be beautiful. Also, most importantly, food is fantastic and we
should enjoy ourselves.
The
Third Puzzle
Everyone
wore it best. All of those ladies look fabulous.
Lastly,
I created a cover photo for the Mason jar container in Photoshop. Mason jars
are sweet as hell for whatever simplistic reason.
And to quote my “I Got This Covered”
assignment blogpost…
“Puzzles stimulate your mind to find
patterns, utilizing dexterity,
spatial reasoning, and
logic; it keeps your mind active in both
hemispheres of your brain,
like exercising a muscle to keep it
in top shape. It’s a form of
critical thinking that more people should
practice—and in more ways
that just with puzzles—to keep themselves
alert and mentally healthy.”
I changed an unengaging magazine
into an interactive game. This is a stimulating use of a magazine so that the
mind actually benefits from using it. I love puzzles.
Fin.
