Eulogy - Alyssa Burnside

My Creative Life Eulogy

The life of Alyssa Burnside is one of a simple dream. She grows up drawing and letting art guide her. Kids in her elementary class would often ask her to draw them their favorite cat since they thought she had an amazing talent. As life went on, she grew into ideas of what she wanted to be. A graphic designer was one, an animator for Disney was another and she finally stuck with a Game Artist. She loved playing games as a young girl. She was always fascinated by the artwork the game would have, especially video games. 

When she went off to college, her goal was to work hard and learn as much as she could about art so that she could fulfill her dream of becoming a game artist. After the first year of college, she went off on a mission for the Mormon Church. After a year and a half, she returned and found a wonderful young man to marry. They both went to college and were amazing artists. They both motivated each other and pushed themselves into success. After graduating from Snow College they both moved up to BYUI where they had their first child and continued to learn more about art. Alyssa was a stay at home mom while also finishing her Bachelors in Fine Arts. 

After college, she and her husband moved on to greater heights and started to work on their careers. Alyssa was able to work from home with a small game company. This gave her the chance to be with her children. She stayed with this company until her oldest was able to take care of the younger children. At this point, she moved to a bigger game company and was able to go in a few times a week to work. Once her children were all on their own, she started going into the company more often and bacame the one of the best game artists they had. 

Once her children started having kids, she retired so that she could focus more on her family. She continued to do her art in a more minor and at home way. She loved to paint and started to take it up again. She's wanted a study at home for years and finally, she was able to get one built in her home. Her children and grandchildren love coming to play and see grandma's artwork. She often would let them into her studio and create their own pieces of art. 

She continued like this until she died at the age of 95, happy as can be. 

Walking A Line - Alyssa Burnside

My Walking A Line

While Driving with my wonderful Boyfriend one beautiful day, an argument started. We normally fight about the stupidest things and we end up laughing about it afterward, but this fight was different.  It was still over something stupid, but we acted like it was the biggest thing in the world. We were so mad at each other that I could tell we needed some space. So, I told him to pull over and let me out. I wasn't very far from home, just a mile or two so it wasn't a big deal to me. He was glad to after I told him that he and I needed a break for the rest of the day.
We pull over and he lets me out. I didn't have much stuff with me other than my film camera so I started taking pictures on my way home. The road was pretty straight, so I just followed it home.

Persona - Alyssa Burnside

My Persona

Throughout the years I've traveled the world with my family and friends. I love to go hiking and biking around Europe. I love to work out especially outside in the environment. I spend my time taking pictures and working on my degree in photography. 

   

A Moment in Time - Alyssa Burnside

My Moment in Time

While standing in the snow listening and feeling, I came up with the words, cold, peaceful, quiet, inner warmth and happiness, spiritually connected. I used these words and decided to paint those feelings into this watercolor painting. The light blue background is where the cold is and the purple background is the inner warmth. The darker spots of blue that connect to the purple are spiritually connected and peaceful. The parts of the splotches that fan out and fade into the background are the quiet moments. The purple represents happiness. 

My Five Year Plan - Alyssa Burnside

My Five-year plan

Jessica Carbine student show submission

Jessica Carbine

well I submitted my meditation to the student show it didn't get in due to technical difficulties but I'm still glad I did it

Jessica Carbine Do It

 I chose the Feldmann, Hans-Peter homework (or do it yourself 1996) on pg.(159). basically for this project you were to choose a picture frame it and know as much about this person as possible it works best if your sure this person is dead.  I have chosen and framed my picture and I have made up some background information for her.

She died young leaving behind two little girls and a loving husband he was not her first husband and the two girls (Emily and Adelaide) were not his.She had been marries once before when she was young he was the father of the children but that marriage ended badly and she never saw her first husband. 

When she married her second husband they sought out a quite life and bought a cabin on a lake. She enjoyed her time there with her husband and her children and sometimes her other family would visit as well. 

She liked to take long walks out on the lake especially in the winter when the lake was frozen over. It was on one of these walks that she walked to far out on to the lake and fell though the ice and that was the end of her story and the beginning of a new one.

Jessica Carbine

Days 27-30 Mar, 15-18 Thursday-Wednesday

well this is my last journal entry post I think my math might of gotten messed up somewhere along the way because I thought I split up the pots more evenly than this but all well.

I did it I wrote in my journal everyday I feel like the project was a good success I found my self more reflective since doing this experiment and I actually look forward to writing in my journal each day. I liked this project and I'm going to keep writing in my journal as much as possible 

Jessica Carbine

Days 21-27 Mar, 7-15 Thursday-Wednesday

I decided to

I decided to try my chrysalis on my self so for this entry I'll be going over what I imagined in my chrysalis meditation

I imagined my garden as a big open clearing in the middle of an aspen forest, it had a small center with rose bushes and a fairy house then the rest of it open space with a lot of tall grasses and wild flowers.

My caterpillar was pretty typical it was green all over with orange spots along the spine and it was furry. I felt strange I wasn't exactly uncomfortable it just felt strange.

when I made my cocoon I felt like I was making a present for a friend and I wanted to make it just right then I realized it would be for myself and not a friend. I guess that means that I get caught up in helping others.

When I was inside my cocoon I like I was having a long night full of fit full sleep. I kept waking up and looking at the clock and realizing I still had a long time to wait until it was time to get up it felt like it would never end.

when I burst out of my cocoon it was sunset with the sun most of the way down. It was a beautiful sunset with lots of colors and I watched it while my wings dried. I looked in the mirror and I was a lunar moth I had big green wings with white trim and yellow speckles and I felt so accomplished and proud in my new form.

eulogy - ryan smith

This is a poem by Dylan Thomas, I know I didn't write it but its been my favorite poem since middle school...

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

syyystem monologue over vocoder - ben sang

My roommate got a vocoder and I gave one of my syyystem monologues while he played chord progressions over a beat he made

https://soundcloud.com/brightsidebenj/syyystem-where

Low Blood Sugar Poster Mock Ups - ben sang

Jessica Carbine Chrysalis Meditation Script

Jessica Carbine

Chrysalis Meditation

Supplies list

• comfy inexpensive chairs or mats perhaps a big sleeping bag 
• Journals  communal and personal perhaps spiral binders 
• Pens 
• knowledge on symbolism and how to interpret  

welcome this is a guided group meditation

There is no right or wrong way to do this meditation

Your experience may be as vivid as you like or as simple as you like

After each section we will go around the circle and you may share your experience with the group if you wish. Then at the end if you wish we will go over your experiences and we will go over your experiences and I will help you to interpret them if you wish. 

Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden a garden you work hard to maintain you tending to all the flowers and plants.

•  Describe the garden, what dose the landscape look like?
• What kind of plants do you keep, do you have any favorites?
• What is the atmosphere of the Garden?
• The Garden represents the things in your life that have shaped you and the attributes that you want to nurture.
• I will now give you time to write about your meditation you may write in the journals provided so that your experience may inspire others or you may write in your own private journal. 

You feel yourself growing smaller and smaller your skin becomes ruffled you you feel a sense of change about to come upon you. You stop shrinking and find yourself on the leaf of one of your plants there is a mirror in front of you and you realize you are a caterpillar.

• Describe yourself 
• What plant are you on
• What color are you 
• How do you feel in this new form
• The caterpillar represents you in your current state. It represents the things you dislike in yourself.

You begin to eat and you fill yourself until you feel as though you are about to burst. Your skin begins to feel tight and uncomfortable, you realize it is time to change you can no longer be a caterpillar. You must become something more, so you begin to spin your chrysalis.

• What attributes do you add to your chrysalis that you feel you will need in order to fortify so it can protect you in the coming weeks
• What will you take with you into your transformation
• The chrysalis represents what makes you feel safe and what you want to see in your self 

You are in your chrysalis now describe how you feel

• Are you scared?
• do you feel safe?
• Is it dark?
• This represents how you feel in this transitional period 

Suddenly you can't take it anymore you feel you are done with your change and you burst out of your chrysalis tearing yourself free. The sunlight beats upon you warming you to your new form you are now transformed. Again you are faced with the mirror what do you look like now describe yourself?

• What are the colors that make up your wings?
•  If you a specific butterfly or moth what kind are you?
• Are you something entirely new meant for your eyes alone 
•  How do you feel now that you are done with your transformation?
• The butterfly or moth represents the kind of person you want to be. 

Now take a group opinion on how they felt about the meditation and ask if they would like to go over it.

Jackson Jenkins 5 year plan

goal setting ryan smith

My five year plan starts after I graduate with my BFA from USU. During those five years I hope to secure a job where I can sock away money to purchase property to rent out. This is a different procedure than residential property since I am making a living on running it. My plan is to acquire a space without taking out a mortgage since I will be unable to with my likely income, so I will have to purchase the property upfront and pay in full. An ideal space would be a warehouse or a house further from the downtown area where property costs would be cheaper. 

I plan to rent out the property to other artists in the area who are looking for a studio space, as well as use part of the space for my own work. I would spend the next year or so renovating

Jessica Carbine 5 year plan

Jessica Carbine

Go to southern Utah university

earn my bachelors over the next two years

Get back into symphony orchestra

join a guitar class and get better at guitar

continue making art by

getting better at sculpture

sketch every day

continue witting in my journal 

get an internship in graphic design or with the park service

use this internship to get in to a good career

get a part time job at a local coffee shop

use this to become more financially stable and get my own place  

save up money

go on a trip at least ounce a year

five year plan - ben sang

Nathan Adair - 5 Year Plan

My Five Year Plan :

I want to be in New York City at one of three schools. Juliard, New School of Music and Manhattan School of music.

DO IT Rylan Christensen

I hate the news but from time

Do It - Alyssa Burnside

DO IT

I smiled at a stranger today. I didn't know her, and I doubt I've seen her before, but I stopped and smiled at her. She was very pretty but looked a bit down for some reason. She walked along outside in the warmth of spring and I figured a smile from a stranger would maybe brighten up her day if only just a little bit. When she saw me smile she smiled back. her faced seemed to glow a little bit more when she smiled. I can tell I had cheered her up, if only a little bit. We kept on walking and passed each other without a word.  I don't think I'll see her again, but who knows.

do it - ben sang

This is my take on the Ricky instructions/poem:

A grid of twenty puncture marks in cardboard, all made with relatively the same motion and force, but slightly different shapes based on small variables. Each ricky mark is then individually named. Giving them names leads to personification and develops a layer of character to each mark.

At first I began naming them in order, but as specific names came to mind or certain shapes stuck out to me, I would name them accordingly. These movements in naming are recorded on the cardboard with arrows.