Imagine a piece of art that you have never seen before; it’s a one of a kind, one you won’t find anywhere else. When you experience the amazement of going into Infinity Lights, an art piece at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Stanley Landsman, you will be an awe of the art piece: Not only from how advance it is but also by what Landsman was trying to say.
Taking that first step into the piece Infinity Lights, you feel as if you’re in outer space, maybe even in a different galaxy. Perhaps when you look closer around you, you will see lights filled with brightness, and notice that they form up in a million rows, that eventually come to an end. And after that, the thought strikes you, what was the artist trying to say in this fascinating piece? A mind boggling question it is, there are answers. In my view of this piece, I believe what the artist was trying to say was that life only comes once, which most of us know. And that it is filled with millions of little moments that make up your life. In this case those memories in your life are all those tiny light bulbs in the piece of work. When their rows come to an end , and there are no more lights except the plain color black that fills up the space, that unfortunately is where life ends.
So maybe next you’re sitting around doing nothing like a lazy couch potato, just remember Infinity Lights by Stanley Landsman, and remember what he was trying to say. Maybe Stanley Landsman looked around in life and saw people holding back from enjoying their life. Maybe while noticing that, he also noticed that they weren’t filling it with great memories to leave life with. Maybe Stanley Landsman made this piece for people like you who don’t realize what life is, a thing that you can fill with great memories that only comes once.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
The Mall
Imagine a place with all kinds of stores for clothing, food, cologne, shoes, the whole works. What if you got to live there? Yes, I said you could live there, and there is called the mall. Filled with everything it would be a privilege to live there.
Living at the mall would be quite fun obviously, but you are probably wondering “Where would I sleep?” Well there is quite a variety of places to sleep, such as the Boston Store furniture section, or the Sears Furniture section, or if your really don’t care at all you could sleep on the benches in the food court or the nice couches by the lovely fire place, or any other place you might find comfortable, or by a store you love to go to in the mall.
Living at the mall you could visit a store whenever you want as many times as you want, which may be a little overwhelming for you if you’re a big time shopper; on top of visiting those stores you would get to be buy exactly what you want, and if they don’t have it in stock you can order it from them and pick it up in a couple of days. All this shopping would even make some of the biggest shoppers of all time tired and they would need to re fuel.
The food court to me is like heaven on earth. I mean come on, you only get just about every style of food there is fast food of course, and some gourmet here and there, and of course everybody’s favorite pizza. Or if you just want a drink or a little snack, you can always go to Starbucks, Orange Julia’s, and Aunt Annie’s. By now with all this shopping you have probably racked up quite a bill.
In life people work, and while they work they get paid for it. Sure work can be boring, but it you want to shop you need to work, because in order to shop you need money and that is exactly what work does for you. If you find work boring, you obviously didn’t realize you could work in the mall at any store of your choice. I mean think about it, any store of your choice. If you ask me I say it can’t get much better than that. You could work at the store you shop at the most and get employee discounts; heck if you wanted you could work at more than one store. And on top of that you could pick your working hours that fit in with your schedule. Now my friend, work isn’t as bad as it sounds.
That place that has just about everything called the mall that is not too far from magnificent, is quite the place. You my friend have witnessed what it would be like to live there, which many people don’t get to do. Maybe next time you’re at the mall you might remember this story. Maybe next time you visit the mall, you apply for a job there. Maybe after that you find yourself spending more than half your day there. Maybe, Just maybe you will live in the mall.
Living at the mall would be quite fun obviously, but you are probably wondering “Where would I sleep?” Well there is quite a variety of places to sleep, such as the Boston Store furniture section, or the Sears Furniture section, or if your really don’t care at all you could sleep on the benches in the food court or the nice couches by the lovely fire place, or any other place you might find comfortable, or by a store you love to go to in the mall.
Living at the mall you could visit a store whenever you want as many times as you want, which may be a little overwhelming for you if you’re a big time shopper; on top of visiting those stores you would get to be buy exactly what you want, and if they don’t have it in stock you can order it from them and pick it up in a couple of days. All this shopping would even make some of the biggest shoppers of all time tired and they would need to re fuel.
The food court to me is like heaven on earth. I mean come on, you only get just about every style of food there is fast food of course, and some gourmet here and there, and of course everybody’s favorite pizza. Or if you just want a drink or a little snack, you can always go to Starbucks, Orange Julia’s, and Aunt Annie’s. By now with all this shopping you have probably racked up quite a bill.
In life people work, and while they work they get paid for it. Sure work can be boring, but it you want to shop you need to work, because in order to shop you need money and that is exactly what work does for you. If you find work boring, you obviously didn’t realize you could work in the mall at any store of your choice. I mean think about it, any store of your choice. If you ask me I say it can’t get much better than that. You could work at the store you shop at the most and get employee discounts; heck if you wanted you could work at more than one store. And on top of that you could pick your working hours that fit in with your schedule. Now my friend, work isn’t as bad as it sounds.
That place that has just about everything called the mall that is not too far from magnificent, is quite the place. You my friend have witnessed what it would be like to live there, which many people don’t get to do. Maybe next time you’re at the mall you might remember this story. Maybe next time you visit the mall, you apply for a job there. Maybe after that you find yourself spending more than half your day there. Maybe, Just maybe you will live in the mall.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Speak
Imagine your first day of high school as a freshman; You're nervous, majority of the time you don’t really know what you’re doing, and you are really eager to find out if you have any friends in your classes. Well what if you didn’t have your friends? How would that make your day? Unfortunately for Melinda in the book Speak is the scenario. Young Melinda's life has changed since she went to that party over the summer. The author of this book made the book the way it was for different reasons.
One of the first decisions that the author made was making the main character a girl. You ask well why not a boy? That party over the summer that Melinda went to, is where it all begins. Most of the time in the real world girls are victims more than boys are; sadly but true that’s the case for Melinda. Since Melinda was the victim she happened to call the cops, and that’s the part where she doesn’t have any friends anymore. Making Melinda a girl also helped with how depressing the author wanted to make the book, because boys are known to be big dudes that never cry where as girls are sensitive, and very emotional. During art class in school, I look around and I see boys goofing around, and just doing enough to get the art project done; and then I look again and I see girls taking their time and expressing their emotions in the art work, which comes into the roll of Melinda drawing the tree in art class. For more than 70% of the time Melinda is depressed, she even said “I’d bet they’d be divorced now if I hadn’t been born”, referring to her parents fighting all the time. Now if it was a boy that was Melinda, it would be ohhhh big deal my parents are fighting. All and all if the main character wasn’t a girl the book wouldn’t be as depressing and as gloomy as it is, it definitely would not be the same story, that the author had chosen it to be.
Depression is the main mood of this book, even if it may not be to too many people’s liking. In fact, I believe this book should not be read until kids are past 8th grade for the following reason. Melinda was an average middle schooler, but since that party, where she was assaulted her life has been miserable; When you have 8th grade girls perhaps even boys read this book while they're in 8th grade it may creep them out a little a bit. Also the author does even a better job of making high school, sound like torture(not good), because the author revolves the book around one character; And sorry to say, makes it sound like that’s the way every high schooler’s life is going to be, which is far from the truth. Melinda is that one in every twenty students that has a bad high school life. Also the author does a superior job of making senior boys sound like big monsters that are predators to girls, and again, Andy Evans is every 1 in 20 boys that is like that. Last but not least she makes the principal sound like some lazy couch potato that doesn’t do anything, when in fact principals take great responsibility in their jobs and are always trying to improve their school.
The author Laurie Halse Anderson made it sound like your Freshman year in high school is one of the worst times of your life, when she is just giving a perspective of an oddball. All these reasons lead up to as why I don’t like the book, and that this book would be a waste of time for you to read if you’re not older than 8th grade.
One of the first decisions that the author made was making the main character a girl. You ask well why not a boy? That party over the summer that Melinda went to, is where it all begins. Most of the time in the real world girls are victims more than boys are; sadly but true that’s the case for Melinda. Since Melinda was the victim she happened to call the cops, and that’s the part where she doesn’t have any friends anymore. Making Melinda a girl also helped with how depressing the author wanted to make the book, because boys are known to be big dudes that never cry where as girls are sensitive, and very emotional. During art class in school, I look around and I see boys goofing around, and just doing enough to get the art project done; and then I look again and I see girls taking their time and expressing their emotions in the art work, which comes into the roll of Melinda drawing the tree in art class. For more than 70% of the time Melinda is depressed, she even said “I’d bet they’d be divorced now if I hadn’t been born”, referring to her parents fighting all the time. Now if it was a boy that was Melinda, it would be ohhhh big deal my parents are fighting. All and all if the main character wasn’t a girl the book wouldn’t be as depressing and as gloomy as it is, it definitely would not be the same story, that the author had chosen it to be.
Depression is the main mood of this book, even if it may not be to too many people’s liking. In fact, I believe this book should not be read until kids are past 8th grade for the following reason. Melinda was an average middle schooler, but since that party, where she was assaulted her life has been miserable; When you have 8th grade girls perhaps even boys read this book while they're in 8th grade it may creep them out a little a bit. Also the author does even a better job of making high school, sound like torture(not good), because the author revolves the book around one character; And sorry to say, makes it sound like that’s the way every high schooler’s life is going to be, which is far from the truth. Melinda is that one in every twenty students that has a bad high school life. Also the author does a superior job of making senior boys sound like big monsters that are predators to girls, and again, Andy Evans is every 1 in 20 boys that is like that. Last but not least she makes the principal sound like some lazy couch potato that doesn’t do anything, when in fact principals take great responsibility in their jobs and are always trying to improve their school.
The author Laurie Halse Anderson made it sound like your Freshman year in high school is one of the worst times of your life, when she is just giving a perspective of an oddball. All these reasons lead up to as why I don’t like the book, and that this book would be a waste of time for you to read if you’re not older than 8th grade.
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