Welcome back folks. We’re here with part the second (2) of our glorious Cray Cray Yay Yay blog posts. If you missed the first post, too bad, go read it now, and bonus points if you have any feedback for that. Anyways, the Crazy train has gone EVEN FURTHER off the rails. Any PLP students reading this, blink twice if they are holding you hostage.

The main idea of this project was to make us into mindless capitalis- wait no… it was to “INSPIRE” us to “Be Crazy” and “Change the world”, but using metrics like profit to measure the impact of something. Basically, PLP started by telling us about the 1997 Apple “Think Different” campaign. This campaign showcased people who changed the world, or thought outside of the box. These people include Gandhi, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatzo the 14th Dalai Lama, and Amelia Aerhart.

My group’s topic was “Artistic Expression”, which sounds cool until you realize it’s just examples from every other presentation, just with our own spin on it. Myself, Tom, and Keenan were tasked with making a thesis, and after many revisions, we decided to base our project on the statement “Those who are crazy enough to infuse the world with their artistic vision inspire a transformation, calling on others to craft a more vibrant tomorrow.” Basically, the crazy ones are the ones who lead the innovation and don’t do all of the work themselves.

I think my group worked together really well in generating ideas and finding appropriate images, but where we stumbled a little bit was actually putting the metaphorical brush to the metaphorical canvas, as well as coordinating changes and scripting.

On the topic of scripting, let’s talk about that for a little bit. Even though this presentation was done without a script, we still needed an outline for our presentation, and this went through at least ten different versions with different topics and different orders of the slides. Eventually we decided on Nirvana, MoPop, and Dale Chihuly as the topics we would talk about, as well as some intro and conclusions. And this worked AMAZINGLY. We were more concise in our topics and were able to go deeper into our understanding of the topic than other groups were able to.

You can look at some of our research here:

https://ducks-cross-qgb.craft.me/MzCMzaVjTS5OSj

I was able to understand what it means to change the world, how people do that (Crazy Ideas), and how society pushed back.

I felt like I was very confident in my speaking, but I think I spoke a little too fast. Making things up on the fly was very fun, but also a little too much stress.
I 100% Botched the opening presentation, but I’m not letting that stop me because Ms. Willemse was able to give a better explanation to everyone later on in the night. On the other hand, I feel like I spoke too much during our presentation and didn’t let my team tell their fair share of the story.
I think that the photos that I took and the notes that I took helped us craft a more concise story that focused on the important details instead of just rattling off dates.

I’ve covered the rest of the story of our learning in my prior post, so you can read that. Working with my group (Tom and keenan) we made a slide deck and a script that we presented at a pechakucha night. Enjoy it below:

If I were to summarize my learning, it would be as follows: “Anyone can change the world if they have a crazy enough idea, and the know how to actualize the change they see” There have been countless Chihulys and Gehrys that have died in coal mines or of plague. The world needs more people who aren’t afraid to be different, and needs people to be open to change. Anyone can be crazy, and once everyone is crazy, nobody will be, meaning society can function in the utopias foreseen in the past.

see my group members posts here:

once there published anyways…

 

p.s. I found that this project was a little bit to heavy-handed in the implications.