POEM: join me in anxiety

join me in anxiety
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stained, lost - at a loss
not wanting to speak
scared, shaking - mustering
SPOKE - stop
and the room reacts
but it's underwater
enhanced sound waves
I hear it all
the whisper at the front
the diss
the laugh
and suddenly
I am on stage
SWEATING
my mind screams
"THINKG OF A RESPONSE"
and I blurt...


the anxiety jitters
I'm shaken
I hear good feedback
and I force a florish
I hear negatve returns
and I build my own hell

and the force flows
i am on fire, from the face back
burning centered on my soul
sequestered without console
looking for a laugh

found the escape button
make them giggle
they won't stare
not if you can joke

and again suddenly
I am the star
on the stage
making the crack
sharing the slack

anxious with delight
I sit back silent
un-won
but forgiven.

M

Mitchell Tremblay
Graphic Design Student,
SparkMuse Designs

Finding The Story Exercise!

Be sure to click to expand.

Phase #1: Assignment Due next week

What is due:
Post the assignment as a Web site on your account, with the following pages:
index.html must be your 60x60 icon with an image map linking to the menu
menu.html with 6 hyperlinks:
1. Global Issue & description, & Local issue and description
2. The Dimension and description of the dimension
3. The Metaphor and explanation of the metaphor as it relates to the issue/solution
4. Look & Feel ( typefaces, colours, animations, visual style, music style)
5. Project Resources (people, equipment)
6. Project Budget ( Costing in the number of hours) & Schedule (detailed list of all the tasks that will need to be completed)

Annual Conference 2009: Fighting for Rights & Fighting the Right

Annual Conference 2009: Fighting for Rights & Fighting the Right

Saturday, February 28 @ 9am - 5.30pm
Hart House at U of T, 7 Hart House Circle
INFO: lawunionconference@gmail.com; www.lawunion.ca

Registration fee: full conference: $45 ($15 for students) or PWYC single session: $15 ($5 for students) or PWYC

KEYNOTE: Dying for Water

IS THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO WATER SLIPPING THROUGH OUR FINGERS? Tony Clarke, Founder and Executive Director of Polaris Institute, Ottawa, and co-author of Blue Gold: the Fight to Stop the Theft of the World's Water

Panels:

ABORIGINAL: Fulfilling the Promise of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Mission Impossible?

CORPORATIONS: Corporate Social Responsibility: An Oxymoron?

CRIMINAL LAW: Sex, Silence and Crime: Prosecuting People Living with HIV/AIDS for Not Disclosing

ENVIRONMENT: Wind Power: Green Energy or Greenwashing? Ontario: How's the Water?

CHARTER OF RIGHTS: The Homeless Have Rights! Implications of Recent Court Victories for Rights to Housing

IMMIGRATION: Conservative Attacks on Immigrants' Rights

INTERNATIONAL TRADE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Free Trade with Colombia: Free of guilt?

LABOUR: Justice for Migrant Workers: Legal and Activist Strategies

U.S. MILITARY TRIALS: Omar Khadr: Child Soldier, Torture Victim, Alleged Terrorist, Legal Anomaly

Call for Artists

Call for Artists
Toronto Multicultural Website Project: What image best represents your ethnic identity?

CAMH is now accepting original art work, artists/writers/photographers/video-graphers, to participate in a Toronto Multicultural Website Project that best depicts your ethnic group/population. The calls are for a response to the question What represents your ethnic identity?

The chosen designs will appear on the main page of a new Toronto-based website that will symbolize and serve each ethno-cultural community in the city. Images produced in any medium are desired – including photographs, animation, paintings, sketches, graphics, mixed media, textiles and more. We are looking for submissions that visually represent each of the many different ethnic groups in Toronto.

One image for each ethnic group will be picked for the site. Prizes will be awarded
to the chosen artists.

Please photograph your work and send (as a jpeg) with personal contact information to torontoincolour@camh.net by March 1st, 2009.

For further inquiries please contact Aileen O’Dowd at 416-535-8501 ext. 7616 or email aileen_odowd@camh.net.

Call for artists/writers/photographers/videographers: Toronto Multicultural Website Project. Please visit: www.camh.net for more info.

Week 03: Metaphor for the Issue

This week we will complete Phase I, the following:
1) confirm our local issue
2) write up a phase one document
3) submit an icon for use on the web site (60 x 60)
4) decide on the dimension for the issue
5) create a metaphor for the issue
6) participate in a creativity exercise
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Design Step #1: Define the problem, is completed
Design Step #2: brainstorm for solutions
Design Step #3: collect and study related ideas
Design Step #4: Sketch... start sketching, gathering material for the site.

Week 02: TRANSCEPTION

Read the TRANSCEPTION handout article and web linked pdf (see course readings) and be prepared to answer the following questions in class.

Questions to be discussed during the class:
1) What is transception?
2) What are the nine dimensions of evolutionary guidance media?
3) What is your global problem?
4) What is a local example of this global problem?
5) What metaphor might be used to tell the design solution story?