This opening and group of projects is much more interesting to me because they are much more music driven. The videos were very intriguing and I even enjoyed the video game videos. I had no idea that it was so difficult to get a game with a decent story line to be made by publishers. I also thought the music aspects were enlightening. I found out about a sight called HypeMachine which I had never heard of until now. It consists of a bunch of different artists from all sorts of genres whose music is shared by bloggers and rated. It is a great way to kind of filter through all the music there is out there today. The creativity video by Ted Talks was very interesting in the way she looked at creating new things. I thought it was a good way to keep things in perspective and not put too much pressure on ourselves though I don’t really know how I feel about it. If it’s not taken too literally and instead looked at for the message it’s trying to convey, I think it’s great advice. We’re all just trying to express ourselves through media and we have to realize that not everything we create is going to be a masterpiece. However, those countless mistakes are what lead to the masterpieces. So, when we make those mistakes we can’t be too hard on ourselves and when we see others make mistakes we can’t be quick to write them off as failures. It’s just like the theme of this class. It takes 10,000 hours to become truly great at something and even then who knows? And we also can’t be too quick to let our egos grow just because we create a masterpiece IF we create one. I think it’s important to remember both and that’s really what I took away from this opening this time around. It’s all about trying to keep things in perspective on both ends of the spectrum.
