I ended up people watching in a pizza/bar place near campus. It’s funny; I never realized how often I spend time observing people in public. They are fascinating. Coming up with my own explanations for certain eye-catching characteristics of people has always been a somewhat enticing area of interest for me. There could be a […]
Deresiewicz, W. (2012, October). A Matter of Taste? The New York Times Sunday Review. Retrieved April 27, 2014 from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/how-food-replaced-art-as-high-culture.html. “A Matter of Taste?” is an opinion piece by Portland author and essayist William Deresiewicz about food as an art form. Deresiewicz claims that since about 1994, food has replaced the culture of high art, […]
Elizabeth Telfer’s speculations about food as art deal with some very intriguing and important issues pertaining to art in general. Whether we classify food as an art form or not may not be fully answered until we first make some important distinctions. The distinctions that Telfer herself emphasizes, argues, refutes or proves, include the issues […]
Palaeoanthropsychobiological is an adjective coined by Ellen Dissanayake which attempts to describe art for life’s sake. The breakdown of the word is as such: palaeo – older or ancient, esp. relating to the geological past, the “Paleolithic Period.”Anthro – from anthrop, meaning human or humanlike; psych(o) – of the mind or mental processes; biological – […]
Western American culture as we know it is filled with contradictions when it comes to subject of “the arts.” On a superficial level, there may be simply a spectrum of societal artistic value in our lives – from the bourgeois, high art to what we refer to as pop culture. I think that much of […]
Family Integrity Personal Development Friendship Wisdom —————————————- Independence Creativity Community Enjoyment Health Loyalty Service Expertness Leadership Personal Accomplishment Prestige Security Location Power Wealth My number one top value is family, and while at first glance it may not seem to be upheld on a regular basis, since I live two-and-a-half hours away from my parents […]
As music educators in training, we are constantly encouraged to refine our value systems. If we are going to impart knowledge and share learning with future generations, it is imperative that we are firm in our beliefs but also open to the beliefs of others. So how do we form such things? Values, as Lewis […]
In search of something interesting and meaningful to learn, I came upon Leo Babauta’s post on his blog Zen Habits, called The Cure for Your Distraction Syndrome. At first read, sitting in my room with upwards of ten different tabs open on my laptop, I had to smile. Since I am a person who struggles […]