Raul Cuero

Raul came from a very poor town in Columbia which greatly influenced his success.  His parents had never learned to read or write and he vowed to never be like them so he knew he would have to focus on school in order to succeed and leave his poverty stricken town.  One of Raul's important ideas is that people expect others to behave in a certain way, in order to be creative one must look away from the norm and come up with new concepts and ideas.  In order to be creative one must be a good observer,  in order to do this you have to look around every once and a while and go outside in order to make observation about nature and how we exist.  In my work I believe that having conversations and observing the world around me will help boost creativity.  Also along the lines of what Raul finds important is being committed to my work or as he puts it, "do everything with intensity".  He believes that being creative means you cant be afraid of failing or having ideas shot down because other wise you will never leave the norm that is needed to really be creative.     

Art used to be magnificent, but boring as well.  If you asked someone long ago what art was you would get the typical paintings on canvas or maybe a marble statue.  However, in today's society we tend to accept almost anything to be art in its own way.  Many artists have created abstract styles where they take a bunch of nothings and make it a something.  Also the use of computers and other electronic devises are visible all around the art community.  Juan Carlos Delgado is one artist whose work is very different from the old paintbrush.  He uses technology to create pictures that look as if they could be grasped or come right off the page.  This style could be characterized as multimedia because it uses new technologies to create a work of art.   

Introduction
I believe that this course will be the most hands on, in terms of projects, that I take at this university.  It may not be the most relevant to my major (Economics), but it will still be very important in my development as a student.  Working on projects that may be outside of your expertise is what strengthens ones skills going into the work force.  This course will help me with skills involving technology and my knowledge of modern media and how it shapes the world we live in.