Blog 2

Hello everyone,

            In the second blog for my Art 211 course, I have to watch an interview of  doctor Raul Cuero, a microbiologist. He was discussing about creativity and advice for our everyday life. He was born in the small town, then move to bigger city and start to play basketball. Later on, he decided to pursue his creativity in education. During that time, he been through a lot of hard time because of racism. Doctor Cuero has a book, talking about himself. He talks about the reason why he wrote it in the beginning of the interview. He said many people were surprise about his high level education because of where he came from. Therefore, he wrote the book to prove that people should not prejudice. 



            Through the video of interview, I learned that in our life, creativity relates on how you process nature in connection with your assistance. In order to do it, you need to have a good observation of nature. Everything come from nature. You have to allow yourself in the nature to understand it. In our world nowadays, there are many people expect you to be in a particular way and you are being limited to that expectation. You have to change their perspective by do things they don't expect that you can do by using creativity. Creativity is based on innovation and the unknown. You need to do the unknown by thinking "outside the box" because people know what they expected.

            In many families, so many technologies are being used and lack of interaction. Everyday, we need to be more interactive with each other, communicate with ideas. This is how we generate creativity in our daily life. When you want to do something, you need to be committed and focused. The intensity in our work will make the process feel completed. Everything must have a process. It takes time because creativity is a steps process. One of his great advice is that we should learn by doing. Take critics and prejudice as encouragement to be better.      

Work Cited

"Microbiologist Raul Cuero PhD on Sparking Cerativity on Living Smart with Patricia Gras.mpg" YouTube, uploaded by HoustonPBS, 24 May 2010, 

              https://youtu.be/ZugtaO85T_Y

ART 211 First Blog

Hello everyone,

         My name is Dat Huynh and this is my very first blog. I'm eighteen years old. I'm an international student from Vietnam. I can speak Vietnamese fluently and English is my second language. I really like ice cream. I love soccer and my favorite soccer team is Real Madrid. I enjoy watching movie, playing soccer and playing video game. This is my freshman year in University of Tampa. My major is Mathematical Programming. My major basically is a combination between mathematical and computer science. I'm planning to be a computer programmer. However I may change my major in the future.

             My first feeling of the class is very interesting and enjoyable. Everyone in the class seem very friendly. At first, I thought this course is only about drawing pictures. But after the first class that I attended, I found out that this course is more than just drawing, and art is not just about drawing. The professor is very nice and friendly. She is also very easy to talk to. Even though I missed the very first meeting of the course, but she was willing to help me caught up with the classmates.

                What I'm expecting from the course is that this will be a fun class. I can learn more about art in general. I also want to know how technologies can be related to art. As well as how we can use technologies for artistic purposes. With this good class environment, I think I will have a great time throughout the course. 



Dat Huynh