Interesting Artists and Newspaper Inspiration!

7/10/2013 Our L2L group today had the fear factor!  It's safe to say that the majority of us were crapping ourselves, sorry, scared!.  Part of learning to learn is to learn how to do presentations.  We need to be able to do justice to our artwork, or the artwork of other people by being able to present well.  So we talked about how to do this, with gestures, eye contact, posture, visuals, engagement, interest etc...
It was brilliant watching the presentations about artists many I hadn't heard of and am now delighted I have.  I will be looking up more about a good few such as Virginia Davies, Gerhard Richter and Andy Goldsworthy.  
My presentation went okay, I was nervous and my voice sounded weird, I forgot to say how the background was supposed to be like 70's wallpaper and a few other things; but I was happier than I was the last time I had to stand up in front of everyone so that was something.

Our assignment today is to buy a newspaper, read it, pick an article and then to create an artistic response to it!.........................   there was also a short talk about politics; social, cultural and economic-connected to destinies, hmmm


I started to plan out possible lines of
investigation from the article with a mind map.  The article itself, taken from The Guardian newspaper, was about Peter Higgs, The Higgs boson and the Nobel Prize.  Although I am interested in these I found that my response just had to be about how I feel about the daily newspaper being a source of information (or misinformation) in the first place.  Something I feel strongly enough about to quite shamelessly say I NEVER buy a daily newspaper.  There are some possible reasons that I could think of to buy one such as listings: births, deaths, marriages, sports results and fixtures, events both local and global, cinema, TV, radio etc   For a truthful in depth (or even surface) look at a subject a daily newspaper would not even rank at all in my mind.  I did have a look at Peter Higgs online an saw that he has several videos freely available where he is explaining the Higgs boson.  I'm sure there are books too; but that is something I'm yet to check out.  There is an official site for the Nobel Prize with listings of winners and history.  For a more in depth look again I think there is a lot of information out there and being discerning about the sources could lead to a true picture of it's part in society.  There are many questions to answer in this regard!

So I personally think if there is any subject that you care about it is well worth the time and effort to go searching out truth for yourself....it leads you to a greater understanding and ultimately I feel much happier when I do that rather than relying on shoddy journalism filling my head with nonsense.  We have access to information like never before=lets use it!

Nb this article said 'continued on page 2'.....it wasn't and no sign of it in the rest of the paper....