Do You Draw What You See?
If I asked you to draw a house what would it look like? What about a person? Would you draw a stick figure? We often learn to draw things in a certain way, even if that’s not what the object looks like in real life. This collection of things we know simply by being taught…
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The Semiotic Way
I’m jamming out to some pandora studying when all of a sudden some bears carrying toilet paper pop up on my screen, and my Halsey changes to a dreaded jingle that will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Before the jingle even tells me, I already know what these bears…
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Candy Canon
Think quick, what were your top five candies as a kid? When posed with the question most people have very similar answers. KitKat, Reeces, Sour Patch, Skittles, Hershey, mostly big name brand candies. Now, it’s possible that these candies are just so good they are so many peoples kid favorites, but I have a different…
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Greece from Their Eyes
The following post is a description of the Statue of Athena Promachos from a tourist girls point of view: I was just a little girl the first time I went to the city of Athens. It was very large to me back then, before that my world had always stayed rather small. Though there were…
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Shanna Fliege’s Demo
Shanna Fliege’s Wrapped Whale. To see more of Shanna’s works please visit https://www.shannafliegel.com/ I found the demo and presentation very educational. It was interesting and she bounced back and forth between her art and life experience very fluently. There was one part of her demo that stuck out to me very much though. The fact that…
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Hagia Sophia
Neon lights flashing, screams and laughter whipping through the air, sweet and savory smells all around. Most people grow up experiencing their local fair or amusement park. It’s a building block in many American’s childhoods, and memories from it are often full of nostalgia. But how come people across a fairly large nation can resonate with the description…
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