Harry Bliss, a one-of-a-kind artist from New York, came to talk to the Innovation Academy today. He caused inspiration throughout the classroom with his incredible and unique artwork. Mr. Bliss was the youngest to a family of artists. He was a waiter roughly seven years. Although his story to the top began as a waiter, he practiced, created, submitted, failed, and succeeded in making his artwork become the cover of The New Yorker. Not letting failure stop him, but instead help him in the process. "Accept Failure as part of the process and you will succeed." ~Unknown From then on he kept at it. Submitting up to 50 pieces of artwork and ending up with one getting chosen. Branching away from his spectacular covers for the New Yorker, he helped authors with their book covers. He then went on to make his own children books, such as Bailey. A lesson taught by Mr. Bliss: "Although it is very important for others to admire your work, you first need to admire your own work if not how are others supposed to?" Harry Bliss touched on this specific topic. Explaining that he first makes sure that the humor in the cartoons are appealing to him and then to others. Emphasizing, if you don't even find your own work funny how are others going to? Be proud of your work and show it off, don't just expect others to enjoy it when you don't. I do have to end with the fact that the humor Mr. Bliss puts into his cartoons is remarkable, astonishing, and unique. Check out the rest of his creation at: http://harrybliss.com/
Comment from the author (you can comment as well:) I believe that his career is an ultimate duo career. How come? Well because it is both his job and passion. I believe that one of the key concepts of finding happiness is through doing what you love and are truly passionate about. That gave me a great inspiration into fighting for what I love and to never give up on my dreams.
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Today we had our first EVER Ted talk. Each and every one of us presented. While the first person commenced their presentation, I started to tremble with nervousness, burying my face in my hands and tugging on my hair. So I thought to myself, mostly thinking about every negative possibility that could ever happen to me while up on stage. For example, what if during my talk I blanked out and just stood there in awkward silence. What would I do then? Maybe run? But what if I tripped? I would be stuck. I lifted my head and looked for re-assurance. By watching one of my peers presentations, I realized how she overcame her nervousness. As she surpassed it, I imagined myself doing the same. I then started to think positively. Not realizing how nervous I was anymore, but how I would look forward to the presentation being over and how I would feel then. My name was called up to the stage. I got up from my seat and walked to the stage excited, but still nervous. As I walked to the stage I quickly grabbed the mike and the clicker. I was ready. Immediately, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, clearing my mind and focusing only on what I was about to say. I then opened my eyes and started talking. As I finished my first slide I pressed on the clicker to move to the next slide, nothing happened. I clicked again with confusion and nothing happened. I walked across the stage in order to get to the computer to see what was wrong. I clicked to move to the next slide and my presentation went blank. I got even more nervous, sweat started to drip down my forehead and I had no idea what to do. I looked at Mr. Topf. He got up from his seat and came up to assist me. My presentation for some odd reason was not working; therefore, Mr. Topf spoke these words, "Stefan's presentation is undergoing tech problems. Until this problem gets resolved, we will have to continue with the following presentation." I was in a crisis. I told Mr. Topf I would get this resolved. I sprinted to the Innovation Academy classroom, picked up my laptop and then kept sprinting until reaching the secondary tech lab. I went to the teacher there and told him I was having trouble with my presentation, that it kept going blank. He then saw my laptop and handed me a mini HDMI cable that would then connect my Microsoft surface to the projector. I quickly surprised him by shouting "Thank you!" I rushed out of the tech lab and headed toward the PAC theater. One of my fellow peers was presenting so I sat down next to Mr. Topf and listened. As my peer finished his presentation, I told Mr. Topf that I was now all set to present. He responded by telling me, " Stefan you will go last." There was one person left to go before me. Then it would finally be my turn to get up on stage. This time, I felt ready. Already having gotten up on stage and started what I could, actually made me realize that I wanted to go back up and correct what I did wrong. With a second chance in front of me, my peer was done, I got up on stage and gave it my all! The Myers Brigs test is a test that helps you understand what kind of jobs would fit best for you. Today in class we took this test. Don't be fooled by the word test, it basically asks you questions about your self. For example:
In the end you basically find out what type of person you are and how that affects what job fits best for you. Next to the word extrovert, there is an E. That letter makes up part of what type of person you fit with. Doing more of these exercises you get a letter. I ended up with INFP. Mr. Fischman who came to give us this test/exercise explained what jobs would fit best for each type of person. He told me that a psychologist would be a great fit for me. I was excited because I really find that job interesting. Now click this button and fill out the test/exercise to then receive your 4 letters ? Once you receive your four letters, click the button below to find out what those four letters mean! You will be amazed!
During the incredible week of ICC, the Innovation Academy worked hard on producing videos explaining what was happening each day. The videos include behind-the-scene footage of the sports and activities that occurred throughout the week. Besides working hard on the videos, we were able to have fun with it, making it natural. For example in one clip I was able to play both the anchor and the reporter, throwing the mic up to myself. Go check it out please!? ICC has been an enormous tradition at the Roosevelt school for about 33 years now. ICC is a week full of fun packed competition between the four high school grades: Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. Today, each grade went up to show of their cheer. Which they had been practicing non-stop. It was exhilarating. Everyone was chanting, screaming and going ballistic for their grades. Full of spirit and attitude, each grade presented their cheers. From the facial expressions I noticed parents, younger students, and teachers were all caught with amazement. Stunned with all this hard work, one grade had to win. In the end, the Junior class surpassed the others gaining points of victory to the start of the competition. |
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