Slavoj Zizek at Occupy Wall Street

Part 1 & 2, submitted by Fariha

Line Game

Has anyone ever watched Freedom Writers? Well it's about a teacher who wants to inspire a class of kids living in the ghetto. There's a game she plays where there is a line in the middle, and students have to step on the line to answer "yes" and stay in their spot to answer "no." The questions get more and more intimate.
We played that game at our after-school recreation orientation today. Towards the end we were allowed to ask our own questions. I asked if anyone thought the world was getting worse. Everyone stepped on the line, for "yes," except me.
I wondered what that meant.

Alan McGlashan - The Savage and the Beautiful Country

 

Submitted by Donne

Listen

 

from tumblr, submitted by Mike

Occupy Wall Street

Check out these pictures from the occupy wall street protests. Amazing.

 -Fariha

I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film on Occupy Wall Street

 

"Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry"

The video (thanks, Betty) brings up something I remembered from class today. Nietzsche says the greatest human power is the ability to overcome it's own will to life, and it is this power that overcomes all the constructed safety of the society we know, and the security we have in our lives. The will to life is overcome through feelings that "explodes suddenly" such as anger, fear, voluptuousness, revenge, hope, triumph, despair, and cruelty.

Those feelings seem destructive...

but apathy is not an explosive emotion

Art Here Contest!

 

Hey guys,
I was at a Seneca training today and I saw a poster for Art Here
It's a Canada-wide contest for your art to be displayed on indoor advertising boards...i.e., those posters inside washroom stalls
(maybe not the best example)
I thought it would be fun, especially since so many of the entries from everyone are in a visual form anyways.
I think I might also submit some of my old cartoons from 2nd year...
What do you guys think? I love art... I'm excited!

P.S. Donne, this would be perfect for our paintings ;)

Our painting, "The Mission"

Sample panel from my old cartoons:

Sample from the contest website:

Please

Source: tumblr

Breathing

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee

Resiliency

Submitted by Donne