Myths

I find myths to be extremely interesting. Listening to two men talk about it for an hour and a half, not so interesting. Everything the two said was very insightful and true but I simply cannot engage into a film that's an interview or Q & A with monotone voices. It was pure torture especially since I like myths. The one thing that I found truly interesting was how we shouldn't merely read myths but we should experience them. That is truly powerful as anyone can read something but if you put yourself in the hero's position and imagine that's you in the same situation, suddenly everything becomes alive and it's a lot more interesting. Reading something is looking at words and not retaining them. Putting yourself inside the myth is engaging in another world and that's absolutely fascinating.

Manipulating Your Environment

I found this article on manipulating sunlight very interesting. I've always found the Earth's "relationship" with earth, for a lack of a better word, very interesting. How the poles will either get 24 hours of sunlight or 24 hours of complete darkness just baffles me.

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/bringing-sunlight-to-windowless-rooms

Shakespeare Workshop

Today, I had a Shakespeare workshop. I learned about the invisible musical undertone of Shakespeare, how there are certain things to emphasize. You can emphasize words as you coloquialy would and it would work, but emphasizing the proper words hinted by this invisible musical undertone makes the line or sonnet much more powerful. I really loved how interactive the workshop was. Everything was very loose and the environment was very friendly. What I loved was that everyone was having fun with the Shakespeare. Sure, everyone was a bit nervous, but we all did it and took the instructor's advice well. The best part was that the instructor was having fun which allows us to feel free and have even more fun. I really hope we have this workshop again soon.

Positive vs. Negative

The media tends to focus on negative things. As do I. I'm not the most optimistic of people, I see things realistically, usually the more negative side of that reality. I wouldn't say I'm a full on pessimist though because I do have positive thoughts as well. I found this page interesting because maybe the reason myself and plenty of other people focus more on the negative side of reality is because the media, which surrounds us all at every moment, focuses on the negatives.

http://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/why-good-news-is-worth-reporting-too

The Wicker Man

After seeing both the original version of "The Wicker Man" and the remake, I can say that I did not like either of the movies. I usually find most movies that involve some blood sacrifice something along the lines of that boring and predictable. They always end in the same way. You can start watching the movie and figure out what's going to happen in the end. I feel if the movie continued with the murder mystery instead of going onto a blood sacrifice scheme, I would have enjoyed it more. Each murder mystery movie is different. The mystery is different every time so it's not predictable, for the most part. There's still something that grabs you into the conflict of the movie. I really was into the conflict towards the beginning of the movie, the parts pertaining to the murder mystery but the very second sacrifice was mentioned, I disengaged in the movie. The conflict died there for me. And so did the rest of the movie.