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| That IS Batman... |
Let's do this. Alright so I got so much to talk about and so little time. I have graduated and now I am officially on my way to college. I have made so many mistakes in the past few weeks if not months. I have two brand new and slightly morbid and depressing pictures which focus on social problems. I even have batman. This post has been in the works for a long time and honestly when all is said and done my posts never live up to what I want them to be but I can always try, and isn't that what matters that we try.
Speaking of trying lets open up with some Great NEWS!!! That is right graduation, it is that time of year where seniors throw there caps up in there real high saying ayo gotta let go! We moving on from highschool to live our lives and I'm done trying to write the tune of Dynamite! I love the songs meaning. Not much doing on the artist though. I imagine that in the writing of this song Homeland Security picked up on a lot of planned bombings at night clubs. Oh well we all make mistakes right? I guess in my years of HighSchool though I made more then the normal amount so I guess what I should do to wrap it up like winter is just talk about what I did wrong. A LOT. Point of
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...Crazy Clowns
That is right, crazy clowns. I know in school they teach you to transition fluidly between paragraphs but in all honesty this is more of doubling back then a transition. A lot of my school mates were a bunch of crazy class clowns. The kind that didn't realize what teachers have to go through. Now I don't fully know what teachers have to do but to go through a class full of Hot Shot teens who think they know everything takes a lot of guts, will power, and in some cases I think caffeine. So I have some shout outs to a few of my brave teachers since I don't have time to list them all and for the sake of anonymity I will only shout out what they taught. So far the certificates of being a bad ass teacher go to the math department, sociology, psychology, history, and social studies. The teachers I had who did those classes ran them beautifully and even though I might have hated the curriculum they taught I loved being in the class thanks for making school tolerable.
The Main Point:
(I like colons)
It wouldn't seem so weird if you knew what he went through...
Now at first glance (and all the glances afterwords) these photos are disturbing and don't seem fitting in what started off as an upbeat post. Really though I need to be honest, I can lie when I makeup stories about myself for a joke, but when it comes to well being and the real world I am down to earth and serious. Some people have problems. Recently mine have been shining through like a lighthouse in a thunderstorm. When my problems shined through I didn't really expect much to come my way. Yeah that's right I forgot I have great friends. A month or two back I was suicidal, and going through a rough time. But with a little help from my friends I got back on track and realized that even though I do have these problems, that putting them aside I can focus on problems that apply to the entire world instead of being selfish and taking my suicide attempt as a problem for myself I thought of my sociology class and how a sociological problem is a problem that applies to a society. I did these two pictures to address the problems I saw the ones that pushed me over the edge. The issue I saw was stereotypes.
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That definition is courtesy of dictionary.com now the first three definitions are ones that are irrelevant (or irrelephant) to the current discussion but the fourth one. The one that says quite plainly, standard conception or image invested with special meaning. That is what drove me over the edge. It's really stupid to think that we could as a civilization be stuck on defining people by traits. As a society we need to move past that. Seriously. I know there are people out there who will read this and say "that's not me I don't discriminate by any silly traits!" but if you have ever once squinted your eyes to make fun of an Asian, or put on a fake accent and pretended to be ordering Mexican. You have done it this doesn't mean you are a bad person. You might have done it in jest, you might have insulted someones sexuality as a joke; but its not a joke when someone ends up cutting themselves because they are too girly, and it's not a joke when people go home crying because they get picked on on a day to day basis. It isn't always a joke even if you intend it to be. So you can either not make the joke. Or tread carefully and risk hurting someone. Looking through the yearbook at the end of the year and seeing all the quotes which boil down to... "When life gives you lemons make lemonade." I have to laugh, because life won't stop giving you lemons each second of your life is an opportunity to change something to be something better to be greater to do something. Or to put it in that cliche way, to make lemonade.
(I like colons)
One teacher had a pretty big impact on me for making me aware of the problems in our world, so taking in his footsteps I plan on lighting some of these problems up in my own way. Let me start by saying how this applies to me though. For the past few weeks I have had a miserable time getting through life. The last two pieces of digital art I did which have been holding this update up and those pieces are.
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| My parents say I am beautiful but the medias image is what matters... |
It wouldn't seem so weird if you knew what he went through...
Now at first glance (and all the glances afterwords) these photos are disturbing and don't seem fitting in what started off as an upbeat post. Really though I need to be honest, I can lie when I makeup stories about myself for a joke, but when it comes to well being and the real world I am down to earth and serious. Some people have problems. Recently mine have been shining through like a lighthouse in a thunderstorm. When my problems shined through I didn't really expect much to come my way. Yeah that's right I forgot I have great friends. A month or two back I was suicidal, and going through a rough time. But with a little help from my friends I got back on track and realized that even though I do have these problems, that putting them aside I can focus on problems that apply to the entire world instead of being selfish and taking my suicide attempt as a problem for myself I thought of my sociology class and how a sociological problem is a problem that applies to a society. I did these two pictures to address the problems I saw the ones that pushed me over the edge. The issue I saw was stereotypes.
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noun
1.
a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods,for making metal printing plates by taking a mold ofcomposed type or the like in papier-mâché or other materialand then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
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a plate made by this process.
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Sociology . a simplified and standardized conception orimage invested with special meaning and held in common bymembers of a group: The cowboy and Indian are Americanstereotypes.
That definition is courtesy of dictionary.com now the first three definitions are ones that are irrelevant (or irrelephant) to the current discussion but the fourth one. The one that says quite plainly, standard conception or image invested with special meaning. That is what drove me over the edge. It's really stupid to think that we could as a civilization be stuck on defining people by traits. As a society we need to move past that. Seriously. I know there are people out there who will read this and say "that's not me I don't discriminate by any silly traits!" but if you have ever once squinted your eyes to make fun of an Asian, or put on a fake accent and pretended to be ordering Mexican. You have done it this doesn't mean you are a bad person. You might have done it in jest, you might have insulted someones sexuality as a joke; but its not a joke when someone ends up cutting themselves because they are too girly, and it's not a joke when people go home crying because they get picked on on a day to day basis. It isn't always a joke even if you intend it to be. So you can either not make the joke. Or tread carefully and risk hurting someone. Looking through the yearbook at the end of the year and seeing all the quotes which boil down to... "When life gives you lemons make lemonade." I have to laugh, because life won't stop giving you lemons each second of your life is an opportunity to change something to be something better to be greater to do something. Or to put it in that cliche way, to make lemonade.
-Cheers
A.O
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