Rants by Sam

Learning and growing as a person is a never ending process, carrying on from birth to death. We are always presented with situations that give us opportunities to learn something new, whether that new thing be pleasant or less than so. This is reflective of Mcluhan’s concept of a Global Village. This is so, because of the intersectionality of lessons learned throughout one’s life. If you exist, your experience, and if you experience, you learn. Everyone has stories to tell, something that they went through that taught them something, whether that be practical, comedic, or plain random. Every single human on earth had stories and experiences that make them unique. Big Things Watch your tongue With the final project of this term, I aim to prove the point of a global village by talking about the stories and experiences that I have had throughout my life that have allowed me to learn different lessons that shaped me into the person I am today. I seek to do so by having 6 mi

Ones first exhibition can often seem like an anxiety inducing task; Presenting your work to the critical eye of both your peers and outsiders alike for possible critique being one of the hardest things an artist could do. Preparing for the past exhibition was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I had never imagined just how meticulous it was, whether it be the scarily accurate measurements put into hanging things on the walls, to the set up and grueling procedures to format the room efficiently for the flow of attendees. It was definitely an eye-opener, and gave me a newfound respect for the work that artists put into more expansive exhibitions. I did not experience much anxiety, most likely unlike my peers, when it came to actually presenting my work. I had the photos I wanted to use for it in mind since the day I took them, and I knew how I wanted them placed on the wall exactly. Having been in art classes my whole life, and having been part of several exhibitions of

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist from New York. He was born in April of 1904, and died in February of 1967. During his life, he graduated from Harvard and taught physics at the university of California in Berkeley. He conducted ample research in quantum mechanics and nuclear  physics, and his development of the hydrogen bomb deemed him the title of the “Father of the atomic bomb”. Source . A portrait of Oppenheimer. Source   He worked closely on the Manhattan Project, which was the first true test of Nuclear weapons in the New Mexican desert. Upon the detonation of the hydrogen bomb, the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita came to him, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”. He understood, deep down, that his work with nuclear physics would alter the course of history forever, and that the world would never be the same. The mushroom cloud of the bomb after  the Manhattan Project detonation. Source Oppenheimer’s assumption was correct, for t