Curation

Along with creating a Tumblr for my curation topic, I have found some photos of successful people with tattoos and a website that explains that tattoos are no longer the reason for someone not getting a job. I never realized how many doctors have sleeves of tattoos and are still respected in the workplace. The one thing I do need to do more of is researching why tattoos are considered unprofessional and why many people are rejected jobs because of them.

I don't have as many photos as I would like to have to prove that people with tattoos can be successful, so I need to look up more photos. I was also thinking of doing some personal research to find successful people I know that have tattoos. I also need to find more interviews or articles online about tattooing the workplaces and why it is or is not acceptable.

I think Tumblr is the perfect way to do this project. It allows you to add links easily, you don't need to do any crazy computer coding to add pictures to your website, and you can make it look good as well as keep your work neat and clean.

Blogging Around

Captured Thought: Saying Good-bye
By: Brittany B.

Brittany wrote a great blog about saying good-bye to our peers and what is going to happen to us all when we go to college. She made some great points throughout this entry, especially when she mentions Peter Pan and how he said to never say good-bye, because then we all forget.

Brittany, this post made me really upset. I loved what you said throughout the whole blog post, but it really got me thinking how far I have really gone with everybody in our class. I don't want to have to forget all of the memories I've made whether they were good or bad. All of the memories make you who you are and with saying good-bye comes forgetting most of the things we've done up to this point in our lives. Very well written, I loved this.



Change of Mind: Art and Dimension is Everywhere!
By: Mark J.


Mark wrote a great blog about modernism and postmodernism. I can agree with a lot of things Mark said, such as how commercials give off many interpretations. As I watch a lot of commercials, I will often think to myself how mediated our realities actually are.

Mark, I still don't understand everything about modernism and postmodernism completely, either. I also like how many commercials give us all an opportunity to interpret them in many different ways. I liked this post, I can easily relate. Well written, Mark!

Best of Week: Social Mediation

Throughout the week, we have focused on modernism, postmodernism, and mediation. Only when we really focused on it was when I realized how important social mediation is. We all watch football games, read magazines, see articles on Yahoo! News, and see things on the news, but we never actually know what really happened in anything we read or hear about. Do we really think the police are telling us everything there is to know about that specific murder case? Do we really think the media is going to tell us what that celebrity was actually doing or the real reason for them pushing away the paparazzi? No; and we will never actually know the truth. We only know what we are being told or shown, nothing else. This is when I realized how important it is to not get caught up in the media.

So many people are angered with celebrities when they do something wrong, but not many people tell the story from their point of view, only the paparazzi's. Most of us yell at the television when something ridiculous happens in the sport we are watching, but we aren't actually there, so we don't know what it was like from the perspective of the referee and why he made that call. Mediation could be such a huge problem, but it's also a huge help. Some people can't afford to go to a concert or go to a sports game, so the television and the news help in that way. I just wish that the people that can afford it would make the effort to attend these events so mediation doesn't get in their way of the actual understandings of them.

Connection: Grit, Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison

In class, we learned about grit. Grit is one of those things that I only need to hear once and it will stay with me forever. Grit is perseverance and passion for long-term goals. I made a couple connections with this idea in mind.

First, Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was fired from his own company and he said he was devastated and considered a public failure. Though his own company didn't want him, he never gave up. Technology was his passion and he loved working with it with his whole heart. Because Steve Jobs had grit, he was able to accomplish so much more than he did before he was fired. He never gave up on what he loved and I truly believe he is an inspiration to many. He will live on through technology for a very long time because he kept up with what he loved.

Second, Thomas Edison. When Thomas Edison went to school, his teachers thought that he was "too stupid to learn anything" and was fired from a couple jobs because he was "non-productive." It took Thomas Edison 1,000 tries to invent the light bulb and when he was question about his 1,000 failures, he answered with, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." Though Thomas Edison kept failing at inventing something that could change the world, he never gave up and he eventually did change the world. Imagine the world today without light bulbs. Thanks to Thomas Edison, we all don't have to live in the dark.

Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs were two people that showed a lot of grit throughout their lives. They will both live on as an inspiration to many.




This site came in handy: http://boomercareermakeover.com/2012/02/22/5-famous-men-who-never-gave-up/