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.