After interviewing various people during seven years, Richard Saint John had etablished the 8 secrets to success.
The first of them is "Passion". Richard adds that when someone has to do something, he has to do it for love and the money will come later, but the money hasn't to be the first goal.
The second thing is to work. And work hard. The best is when doing a hard work doesn't exclude having a lot of fun.
The third "secret" is named by Richard "Good". It means that we have to concentrate ourselves on our capacities, things in which we are endowed.
After that, Richard mentions the "Focus". On his opinion, everyone has to choose only one thing and focus on it.
The next secret is to "Push ourselves". He clarifies saying that we have to exceed shyness and self-doubt. Furthermore, Richard takes here the opportunity to relax the atmosphere joking about our mothers' role in this processus.
The sixth lever to succes is to serve. It means to serve each other, by an exchange of resources whether or not it is funds.
The penultimate secret that Richard told us is "Ideas". This word include meanings like listening, being curious, asking questions, making conections,...
Finally, the last thing mentioned by Richard is to persist when we are in face of the failure.
About me, I would start saying that I don't really know the secret to success. And this is a luck! Because, on my opinion, to success is not a goal. The only thing we can do is to learn about our failures. But those one will exist forever, the absolute success doesn't exist. However, my way to avoid failures as much as possible is to be independant. Indeed, I think it's unavoidable to be able to live alone before sharing a flat for example or living with somebody. During my life, I was often faced to diferent situations in which I was obliged to be independant A memory that I can cite to explain my point of view and my way to function is my first travel accross France hitchhiking. I've discovered that beeing independant allow saving money sleeping in a tent instead of the hotel or fishing some shellfish and seafood,...In addition to permitt saving someone's money, beeing independant can means to travel diferently, doing hitchhike, as in my memory just evocated. Generally, when I do not hitchhike, I hate going away at parties located far from my home without my car or my bike. It allows me to decide when I want to move and I can go home no matter what happens. To conclude, I'll bring your attention on the fact that, to me, being independant help me growing up in my young woman's life.
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
how art can gives shape to change
The work of art I've choose is a black and white photograph.
It appears when Thelma Golden is talking about the works of art currently realized by young black artists, and this genration's capacity to bring us to a particular energy. It represents a head shaved. On the skull of the person, the Nike Company's logo is engraved.
On my point of view, many principles are very important in this work of art. First of all, the angle's choice is particular. Indeed, this photograph draw its inspiration from a very classic artistic genre: the portrait. And yet, what is changing in this work of art is the fact to leave only see the back of the skull and the character's neck. It means that the first identifying element of the character, the face, is hidden. I think this choice isn't insignificant. It participate to rub a maximum all the identifying elements of the character.
An other comment reinforces this hypothesis: the skull is shaved. In my conception, according to many cultures across the world, hair is a symbolic part of the human body. Indeed, the color, the length, or the hairstyle participate to determinate the identity of a person in our society.
Why all these choices from the artist?
May be to send a message linked to the Nike Company's logo. I think that this work of art is here to remind us that this company is currently one of the bigger in the world, its products are broadcoast around the whole world, all of that in a context of globalization and so, standardization of our behaviours, cultures and identities. I interprète this work of art as an alarm, necessary not to forget the kind of society in which we are living and its rules.
When Thelma Golden says that artists are catalysts for change and not only content providers, I totally agree with her. In my conception ever explained in the last article I've published on my blog, the real change, the "global revolution" will come when people will realize that they aren't isolated, that the power to change is in the hands of the collectivity. And Yet, to this, it's necessary to allow the dialogue to exist.
On a material point of view, the first requirement to allow the dialogue is to occupate a space. Museums can be a public space adapted to this kind of reunions. According to the theory of Jürgen Habermas, a public space can be defined as a processus during which a public endowed with reason appropriate the public sphere governed by the authority and transform it in a sphere where criticism against the nation's control can exercise.
Dialogue between citizens has many points of entry. To Thelma Golden, museums can be the perfect places to allow this circulation of ideas.
The second material requirement to obtain the dialogue is the work of art as an object.
Works of art are artistic productions so they must be considered as cultural properties. Like any product in a context of globalization, they can travel across the whole world. According to my last comment on the photograph I've choose to defend after, I think that every kind of art is trying to send significations to its public.
How do images work?
Using some principles or specific technics during their creation, images acquires a power to do people thinking about themselves and each other, or about the society and its way of operating. What it's represented is often what it can be. It's an escape from reality, from the real life, to discover a space governed by imagination. A space in which all is possible. But the possibilities we can see are determinated by who we are, it always provides from our representations and feelings.
And the final signification keep by the viewer of the work of art is completely personal. It never be exactly the same as an other viewer. It is right cause every signification is depending on the education, the past, the experiences lived by the viewer. And this is the difference between the ways of interpreting the work of art who will give place to the dialogue.
To conclude, we are obliged to admit that artists are first of all content providers cause the processus to allow the change need some material medias as a photograph can be. But they are catalysts for change when their works of art once being broadcoast permit dialogue between people.
Remind us: a work of art is defined as a work of art only when a viewer is watching it. Without a public, art can not be. Without people, change can not come.
It appears when Thelma Golden is talking about the works of art currently realized by young black artists, and this genration's capacity to bring us to a particular energy. It represents a head shaved. On the skull of the person, the Nike Company's logo is engraved.
On my point of view, many principles are very important in this work of art. First of all, the angle's choice is particular. Indeed, this photograph draw its inspiration from a very classic artistic genre: the portrait. And yet, what is changing in this work of art is the fact to leave only see the back of the skull and the character's neck. It means that the first identifying element of the character, the face, is hidden. I think this choice isn't insignificant. It participate to rub a maximum all the identifying elements of the character.
An other comment reinforces this hypothesis: the skull is shaved. In my conception, according to many cultures across the world, hair is a symbolic part of the human body. Indeed, the color, the length, or the hairstyle participate to determinate the identity of a person in our society.
Why all these choices from the artist?
May be to send a message linked to the Nike Company's logo. I think that this work of art is here to remind us that this company is currently one of the bigger in the world, its products are broadcoast around the whole world, all of that in a context of globalization and so, standardization of our behaviours, cultures and identities. I interprète this work of art as an alarm, necessary not to forget the kind of society in which we are living and its rules.
When Thelma Golden says that artists are catalysts for change and not only content providers, I totally agree with her. In my conception ever explained in the last article I've published on my blog, the real change, the "global revolution" will come when people will realize that they aren't isolated, that the power to change is in the hands of the collectivity. And Yet, to this, it's necessary to allow the dialogue to exist.
On a material point of view, the first requirement to allow the dialogue is to occupate a space. Museums can be a public space adapted to this kind of reunions. According to the theory of Jürgen Habermas, a public space can be defined as a processus during which a public endowed with reason appropriate the public sphere governed by the authority and transform it in a sphere where criticism against the nation's control can exercise.
Dialogue between citizens has many points of entry. To Thelma Golden, museums can be the perfect places to allow this circulation of ideas.
The second material requirement to obtain the dialogue is the work of art as an object.
Works of art are artistic productions so they must be considered as cultural properties. Like any product in a context of globalization, they can travel across the whole world. According to my last comment on the photograph I've choose to defend after, I think that every kind of art is trying to send significations to its public.
How do images work?
Using some principles or specific technics during their creation, images acquires a power to do people thinking about themselves and each other, or about the society and its way of operating. What it's represented is often what it can be. It's an escape from reality, from the real life, to discover a space governed by imagination. A space in which all is possible. But the possibilities we can see are determinated by who we are, it always provides from our representations and feelings.
And the final signification keep by the viewer of the work of art is completely personal. It never be exactly the same as an other viewer. It is right cause every signification is depending on the education, the past, the experiences lived by the viewer. And this is the difference between the ways of interpreting the work of art who will give place to the dialogue.
To conclude, we are obliged to admit that artists are first of all content providers cause the processus to allow the change need some material medias as a photograph can be. But they are catalysts for change when their works of art once being broadcoast permit dialogue between people.
Remind us: a work of art is defined as a work of art only when a viewer is watching it. Without a public, art can not be. Without people, change can not come.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Drawing upon humor for change
Lizza Donnelly was born 1955. She’s an American cartoonist, best known for her work in The New Yorker. During her intervention as a public speaker, she argues that the cartoon, especially the drawing using humor, has a real power to change attitudes. In the context of this conference, she works more precisely on the status of women worldwide. In her speech, she relates her own experience, first as a little girl, then as a woman, to explain how medias or society in general constantly dictate to women how they should behave. After that, she specifies that humor is the best way to change that: “humor takes what we know and twist it”. She believes that change will come from women who are in her view guardians of tradition.
In my point of view, yes, we are formatted since childhood. Yes, some things must change. And yes, humor can help people become aware of the need for these changes. But I don’t think this is the only way. Before lampooning what is wrong in our societies, people must first be informed. And despite what someone are currently saying about an "information society", even today around the world, information is a luxury. I don’t think that we can only rely on caricature drawing to obtain a general awareness. indeed, most parts of the world's people and more women are educated through oral tradition not using the mediation of technologies.
Is humor changing with cultures? Yes, inevitably. Physiologically, we are all entitled to laugh when our brain perceives a contradiction that he is unable to explain. But what we find offensive or contradictory change according to our culture, our education. Thus, we find funny situations what we face in our daily.
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
WWOOFING!!!
Hye everybody!
I just want to explain you what "woofing" is because I'm going to become a volunteer in next June. The WWOOF (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) is a global network of organic farms that intend to accommodate anyone wishing to share his life and his work in exchange for room and meals.
In my opinion, it's a good way to cross different goals: travel, discover a country, a culture, a way of life, meet other people, spend some good time with local populations, learn techniques of farming and ranching environmentally and, for sure, improve my english!
One of the main advantages of this arrangement is the price: 20 € membership per year. It's also why I can tell you this organisation: I suppose that you're students and you're like me: you're broke! This registration gives you an instantaneous access to the list of hosts that offer to welcome you in their houses, anywhere in the world!
If you want more informations, please tell me, I'd be happy to answer!
"school days", or a typically teenager vision of the mobile phone's role
From the 07.03.07 to the 09.27.07, we discovered for the first time on the japanese TV channel "TV Kanagawa" the cartoon "School Days", directed by Keitaro Motonaga. This manga is an adaptation from a video game specialised in the simulation of dredge. It staged some teenagers: first of all "Makoto", a shy young men falled under the spell of "Kotonoha", who take the same train as him every days after school. And then, there is "Sekai", Makoto's friend, who'll try to improve his relationship with his ladylove.
So, this novel is talking about one of the most important teenager's concern: the love, and how to fall in love! It also deals with subjects such as friendship, school setting, and, less explicitly, the role of the mobile phone as a mediation tool necessary in any kind of inter-personal relationship among the teenager population (remember: the story revolves around the photography of Kotonaha taken by Makoto with his mobile phone!).
This is also from this light that we will try to analyse "Scool Days". Indeed, I remember that when I was younger, it seemed to me capital to get the last fashionable gadget that all my classmates had already got. Now, I find it stupid nevertheless I think this phenomenon has increased for the new generations. But where this belief in the technic' supremacy is coming from? How simples machines have managed to make themselves indispensable in the construction of communication between people? Broad issues...I believe this is necessarily the result of crossing multiple factors that we can not make an exhaustive list. However, we can assume that the wide diffusion of fictions such as "School Days" at popular listening hours with teens acts as a standard framework for these beliefs and practices...
So, this novel is talking about one of the most important teenager's concern: the love, and how to fall in love! It also deals with subjects such as friendship, school setting, and, less explicitly, the role of the mobile phone as a mediation tool necessary in any kind of inter-personal relationship among the teenager population (remember: the story revolves around the photography of Kotonaha taken by Makoto with his mobile phone!).
This is also from this light that we will try to analyse "Scool Days". Indeed, I remember that when I was younger, it seemed to me capital to get the last fashionable gadget that all my classmates had already got. Now, I find it stupid nevertheless I think this phenomenon has increased for the new generations. But where this belief in the technic' supremacy is coming from? How simples machines have managed to make themselves indispensable in the construction of communication between people? Broad issues...I believe this is necessarily the result of crossing multiple factors that we can not make an exhaustive list. However, we can assume that the wide diffusion of fictions such as "School Days" at popular listening hours with teens acts as a standard framework for these beliefs and practices...
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
about me
Hello everybody
My name is Ines, I come from Chartreuse and I live in Echirolles since three years. Currently, I live alone after had shared my flat with my boyfriend during the two first years.
My academic career is quite "inconstant" cause I've started one year in performing art at Stendhal after the baccalaureate. After that, I've worked for some Non Governemental Organizations and, in septembre, I enrolled in géography. The next year, I've got to choose a speciality: I went in the Urbanism Institute of Grenoble. Finally, I've left my urbanism studies in septembre 2010 to return to Stendhal but in the information-communication course of study.
Concerning my hobbies, I love cooking, spend time with my friends and "throw parties"!
So, you currently know the most important about me!
My name is Ines, I come from Chartreuse and I live in Echirolles since three years. Currently, I live alone after had shared my flat with my boyfriend during the two first years.
My academic career is quite "inconstant" cause I've started one year in performing art at Stendhal after the baccalaureate. After that, I've worked for some Non Governemental Organizations and, in septembre, I enrolled in géography. The next year, I've got to choose a speciality: I went in the Urbanism Institute of Grenoble. Finally, I've left my urbanism studies in septembre 2010 to return to Stendhal but in the information-communication course of study.
Concerning my hobbies, I love cooking, spend time with my friends and "throw parties"!
So, you currently know the most important about me!
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