Festive season

 Festive season is here.

It has been a very tough year for me , but I'm glad that I was able to withstand the bad days.  

I met great people throughout the year and I'm still growing strong with the people I already knew from before.

Semester 1 was very hectic I must say.

A lot of sleepless nights and junk food along with laughs, tears,misunderstandings,fights but most importantly happiness.

Safe travels to everyone,and ma all of you enjoy the festive season.

Codes of Gender

It's funny how we find the methods of advertisements normal.


In advertisements, the codes of gender are easily identified and ads are something all of us are familiar with which makes it easier to explain. 

Females in ads are always portrayed in a very vulnerable manner.

Hands:In advertisements, women are in most case touching themselves in such a way that they are bodies seem to be something fragile and vulnerable. When featuring an object, they seem to lightly stroke or barely hold the object. This gives that they are not in control of the object, in fact its as if the object is controlling the female.

Females in ads are also shown to be unaware of their surroundings to a point where they sometimes seem to be dead.

They are always in unusual positions that seem to be distorted and are sometimes shown doing things young girls such as putting the finger in the mouth as if they are nervous.

This is an example that shows that women don't necessarily leave girlhood.

With males, its the exact opposite. They are shown in such a way that they are in control.

They are always focused and are aware of their surroundings.

They are always ready for action. This also shows that boys need to prove that they are ready for manhood. With their hands, they are always in control of whatever it is that they are holding.

When both men and women are together, we can clearly see that men are always aware and alert of what happens around them whereas with the women that's not the case. Its as if the male is in charge of everything and the woman is just there to "serve" if I should say.

These all seem very normal until a male does what the females do and the same for females as well. This is where we can easily identify that the things done in advertisements are not as normal as we think they are.

For example, the male in the picture above would be considered gay and not masculine enough to be a so called "real man".

This should make you think an ask yourself what a real man is.

In fact, what is a real man?

  

Ancient Egypt

Fun facts post

Ancient Egypt

The old Kingdom

The Old Kingdom is a period of time in the ancient history of Egypt which it spanned out from 2686 to 2181 BC. The “Old Kingdom” is also known as the “Age of the Pyramids” because this is the period where many pyramids were built. The Old Kingdom also marked high points of civilization in the Nile valley.

It consists of four major dynasties from the third to the sixth dynasty. Dynasty 3 began with king Netjerikhet  who is known as Djoser. During the period of Djoser numerous pyramids were built as pharanoic burial places. The oldest pyramid is the two step pyramid of Djoser. This pyramid was built at Saqqara about 2650_2625 BCE  by the famous architect of the ancient world, Imhotep. The material which was used for the pyramid was Native limestone.

Dynasty 4 was the period of Snefru who had three pyramids built in Meidum and Dahshur. The Great Pyramid of Giza belongs to his son Khufu.

During dynasty 5, six kings had sun temples in Abusir which were built in addition to their pyramids. The temples were built for worshiping purposes but also closely connected to the cult of the deceased. The sizes of the pyramids had decreased and become less significant during this period.

AT the end of the Old Kingdom which was Dynasty 6 the power of pharaoh weakened in favor of regional governors which no longer belonged to the royal family.

Art

For Egyptians, art was not meant for enjoyment but it played a role in Egyptian religion. It included paintings, sculptures in wood and stone. The primary principles of Egyptian art are frontality, composite, composition and scale. It is believed that when something/ someone was important, their sculptor would have to be bigger/larger than the rest. Frontality means that the art was directly viewed from the front. Because art  was used for functional purposes there was no tradition of individual artistic expression.

Different colors had different meanings, for example black meant goodness blue represents the sky and gold represents the sun.

They used copper tools for building the pyramids as well as for art purposes.

Food

The Egyptians ate milk and other dairy products, bread, wine, meat, fruits and also veggies. Bread was a very popular in Ancient Egypt. The bread was made out of grains such as wheat. They also added nuts, milk, salt and yeast to the bread dough. They drank beer along with the bread on the regular including young children.  Egyptian food was “incomplete”without the inclusion of poultry for example ducks and swans. All classes could afford to eat poultry products daily.

There are two more kingdoms in the Egyptian history but I chose one of those three since there is so much history when it comes to Egypt.

What is intelligence?

Most of us believe that intelligence is determined by how great you are at memorizing  and how good you are at taking a test, which is used to see how much one remembers.

Well Ladies and Gents, that is not what intelligence is.

So what is intelligence?

According to Howard Gardner, an intelligence is conceptualized as a bio-psychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value to a culture.

I know of 8 different types of intelligence.

Musical intelligence: It is the ability to produce and appreciate rhythm and pitch.

Bodily-Kinaesthetic intelligence: The ability to control one's body movements and handle objects skillfully.

Mathematical-logical intelligence: The ability to think conceptually and abstractly and capacity to recognize logical or numerical patterns.

Verbal-spatial intelligence: ability to thing in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and accurately.

Verbal-linguistic intelligence: well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to sound, meanings and rhythms of words.

Interpersonal intelligence: Ability to detect and respond appropriately to moods and desires of others.

Intrapersonal intelligence: capability to be self-aware and in tune with inner feelings,values,beliefs and thinking processes.

And last but not least, naturalist intelligence is the ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature.


It is possible for one to have multiple intelligence.

I have more of the musical,kinaesthetic,logical,visual,interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.Knowing this has helped a lot when it comes t my growth as an individual because in school majority of us where taught that one is intelligent only if they are good in Mathematics and Physical sciences which is not the case.



If we were all good at the same thing it would be a very boring place to be.


Which of the intelligence do you have?
Let's talk about it.

Animal in me

 In the previous week I took a test on animalinyou.com  and it turns out that my spirit animal is a....Horse!

According to the site, Horse personalities are those strong, capable people that breeze through life with envious ease. This is a very accurate analysis when being compared to my personality. It further says this free-spirited,friendly,sensible and ticklish personalities are sensitive to criticism and hate being ignored.

Horses take charge of their lives at least until a special someone comes along who they're happy to keep.

These wonderful creations are too very supportive,ready to go anywhere and support any burden for the good of the relationship.

Horses love outdoors, and so do I. The strong physique is maintained by physical activity and their personalities  display personal charm confidence. Some tend to take advantage of the helpful spirit but horse react by saddling up and running off without a word.

They are more social when they are with their friends to think deeply about something or discuss plans of the day. I enjoy all forms of activities such as dancing, swimming etc.

Another week of greatness

Yet another week of animation which had its ups and downs but I made it through. So this week's highlight was me sleeping on campus.

Since Wednesday, I had to sleep on campus because of 2 assignments which I received for animation principles. Well, I pretty much did not sleep because I had to work throughout the night from Wednesday until Saturday morning. Luckily some of my classmates stayed over so it was not really that difficult for me not to fall asleep.

My life drawing for this week was not so great because I was way too tired to function. Otherwise, it has been a very interesting week because I also got the chance to know more about my classmates.

One step closer

This week has been hectic. I have quite a few assignments due for next week but I'll survive. Monday was not as exciting, I just had my history of art and my animation design lessons. Usually I have my  life drawing on Thursday, which is quite awesome because you never know what to expect.

It was very interesting because life drawing has been quite challenging for me from day one and as the weeks pass I have seen some improvements.

 During the process of the life drawing lesson, we draw the entire figure as we see it but what was different about this week's lesson was that we had to draw a specific body part of the figure. This was even more challenging for me because we had to draw the feet and since I started with animation, I've never drawn feet throughout my lessons in life drawing.

We had to add so much detail to the drawing but unfortunately I couldn't add all the details I wanted to incorporate. On a lighter note, even though I did not finish the drawing I am quite happy with the product that I had.

So basically this week, I have taken another step in overcoming one of the challenges which I face every Thursday which is quite awesome and that (I must say) was definitely the highlight of my week.