Ideas, schmideas

At the moment, I'm trying to think of ideas for the fourth nine weeks, or possibly to replace some from this section. I'm not really doing that well. I do sometimes come up with interesting plans, but that's usually at midnight when I can't sleep, but I'm too lazy to write them down, so they never truly come to fruition. I do know that I want to do some self portraits though. I know they need to be in color, possibly muted or bright depending on what statement I'm trying to make, but I was thinking I might use crayon. I'm no t really sure if that would work. I plan on playing around with it at some point in the next few weeks, but we'll see.
Also, I've been watching a lot of the Oprah channel, because I can't find the remote, and there was a show about children with schizophrenia and it really got me thinking about how little we deal with problems like that as a society. When we think of diseases like that, it's usually over dramatized and they're all crazy chanting nonsense, but that's really not it. We also don't think about children having these problems because we have the naive mentality that all children are happy and perfect beings of rainbows and butterflies. I'm not really sure how that will be incorporated into a project, but yeah. That's what I've been thinking about.

100% Concentrate is good in this situation.

Coming into the third nine weeks of AP Art hasn't started off extremely well. I feel as if my river of muddy ideas has suddenly been damed. I still think that I've stuck to my idea of innocence pretty well, but I'm not sure how the rest of the year will flow in relation to the beginning. I've been trying a lot of different things in order to get ideas or feelings, but some of those methods have also dried up just as my idea river has. Some things that have really helped me are surprisingly the two things that hurt me the most in other classes; TV, and the interwebs. I find that watching Disney and Nickelodeon helps me see what children now are like, what they're 'innocence' is. I watch those silly shows that make me chuckle and I wonder if that is really what nine year olds are going through. Do they really wonder if so-and-so thinks they're pretty enough? Skinny enough? Dumb enough? And I have all these ideas flowing from this, but nothing seems to be making it onto the paper in the form of written, detailed, projects. The second thing that has been a great help to me is the internet, especially sites like Pinterest and Tumblr. On the internet, I can get a real feel of what other people of my generation think of the concept of innocence. My proposal of the fictional, barbie doll, body-type and how that mentality is ruing the minds of our young women actually came from photos I found on Pinterest. I'm just hoping that I can keep up my work ethic and not get distracted by the thrills of the interewebs.