Blog 4A

Seth Godin's "Brainwashed"

Acknowledging the Lizard
The lizard is the part of our brain that holds us back. Its the part of the brain that tells us to not take risks. However, if you resist to take risks as a creative individual, you will never be rewarded. Acknowledging the lizard means to understand what your fears are, learn from them, and overcome them because if you don’t, you will not be able to break your boundaries that you have created for yourself.

Fail
This layer stood out to me because I agree, failing is part of the creating process. People love it, you hate it, people hate it, you love it. Seth Godin talked about making art in a previous layer. Doing art stuff is a great hobby, however, when it becomes a field you practice and go to school for, it becomes your career. Failing can only go so far. Yes, sometimes you gotta say fuck it and just do some stuff you want to do, but every other time, it is your job (literally), to do it right. Creating is very methodical and when you have a budget and when your working with people, you can not fail. The film industry is harsh and if you have a name for yourself in it, you have very little breathing room to fail.

Don’t reinvent yourself...know yourself.


Relation to Blogs
I don’t think these two layers fully pertain to our class assignments, but they definitely contribute. In relevance to the Fail layer, this blog is a way to help us analyze our opinions and constructively analyze/critique other classmates work and help us realize what we would like to improve on. You can either half-ass the assignments just for the grade or actually put effort into the readings and other assignments. Blogs are a great way to ship and organize your ideas and work. The best part about blogs, in relation to the lizard, is if being embarrassed is one of your major set backs, you don’t need to worry about it. You have the choice wether or not to reveal your name or just your ideas. I think the blog exercises/assignments is a cool way to get your feet wet in different areas of media.