{"id":17513,"date":"2010-06-07T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=17513"},"modified":"2010-06-07T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:21:16","slug":"dangers-of-art-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/17513","title":{"rendered":"Dangers of Art School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YfBIBcnrcBI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YfBIBcnrcBI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re closing in on spring finals at the Art Institute. And I just got this note from a student:<\/p>\n<p><em>School is like being hit by an invisible bus. A bus full of sardines, and being driven by a monkey. After being hit, the monkey flips you off, leaving you speechless and confused. So basically school is stinky and is going bananas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m thinking the \u2018everything is due\u2019 pressure is starting to sink in. And that I&#8217;m the monkey. And wow, I get to drive <em>An Invisible Bus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>in perspective<\/strong><br \/>\nBut in all the melee going on right now, I\u2019d like to see something more positive come of this. Usually the positive part hits when standing in a classroom filled with incredible final projects &#8211; which <del datetime=\"2010-06-03T07:23:53+00:00\">I hope<\/del> happens next week.<\/p>\n<p>This is my spin. It\u2019s what I do these days:<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m a game show host in a forced labor camp.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; I was recently talking with web instructor and confidant Bill Mead &#8211; and we both agreed that we really love teaching in a creative environment. Because our students really are <em>nuts.<\/em> In such a great way.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s so cool. It&#8217;s fantastic to be around all that creative energy <em>all of the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world needs more creative and fun people. Who work hard. Who can change the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>more learnt in school<\/strong><br \/>\nNew video (above) from Raina and Brent as part of their <em>totally random<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/17043\">What I Learned in School<\/a> series. <\/p>\n<p>What started as a few photos is now a series. They\u2019ve been making these pretty much on a weekly basis at this point.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Dangers of Art School\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/17513\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re closing in on spring finals at the Art Institute. And I just got this note from a student: School is like being hit by an invisible bus. A bus full of sardines, and being driven by a monkey. After being hit, the monkey flips you off, leaving you speechless and confused. So basically school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,50,49],"tags":[121,126,58],"class_list":["post-17513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-education","tag-design","tag-education","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17598,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions\/17598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}