Thing 7

Thing seven is about Flikr and how to use it. I found it really easy to use. there were a lot of really interesting pictures and groups to browse. I started my search by looking around the most recently added pictures. There were a few that I really liked, but, I ultimately decided to search for something a little more noteworthy. I searched through a French tag and found some really beautiful pictures including a few artist renditions of the... well, Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic variety. I finally settled on a picture on on the twentieth page of the philosophy tag that I searched. It was taken by Cody DeMatteis and was taken in 2008 and posted to icanhascheezeburger.com.  The picture is of a cat with a piece of cheese on its face, and, it has a quote form a post modern philosopher named Marshall McLuhan much like the now popular memes that are all over our social media such as Facebook. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."

As soon as I saw this picture, I fell in love! First of all, the picture itself is pretty hilarious. Second of all, the quote enhances the picture in quite a remarkable way. I see this picture and see a funny image of real life: it isn't cruel, it isn't cute, it just is. To take it a step further the quote is a great explanation of the death of creativity in life and the resurgence of kowtowing to the masses instead of doing something new. An example of this is all the movie remakes in the last several years. I don't know if it's just laziness or if it really is lack of originality, but, don't those two things go hand in hand? There is just such an overwhelming fear of what is out side the box that people are more than willing to think on the edge of it, but, they never take the big plunge and say what is REALLY on their mind. That flows into the new direction and changing face of education right now. We can't be afraid of stepping outside the box and trying new things to get our points across to our students. The reason there is so much pressure on us as future teachers is because the things that worked twenty years ago aren't working as well now. It's up to us to continue to improve ourselves and be creative even when it seems too hard.  Is that what was really meant by the picture as a whole, I doubt it. But, I do know that that is what it means to me.