Everyone as One

Matt Harding's belief in unity is expressed through his actions in his video and his essay. True, our world as we know it is getting bigger and bigger. To a point where it is nearly impossible to understand everyone. Where it is hard to imagine everyone as one. But, as Matt Harding points out, he is able to do something as simple as dancing to unite everyone, in which no one is alien to anyone or anything.
I had never even thought about the world's unity, let alone how hard it would be to unite the people. But something so complex can be done in such a simple way. And I learned from Matt Harding that to do something as big as uniting everyone, you need to do something that everyone knows how to do, and that is by movement. Movement through dancing. And not a complicated, routine either. Just movement.
Matt Harding also pointed out that the problem is that people's brains have not grown enough to be able to take in this humongous world we live in. We may have brains of cavemen, brains that have not evolved the speed the world has, but in time, we will get there. Just as Matt Harding does, we need to break the unity up into little sections, little things we can do to be successful. Matt Harding's way of uniting people has touched me, and so has his essay. Now I understand more about unity, and that it is not as complicated as it may seem. Even with a big world like the one we live in today.

Love Through Your Dance of Life

Love is of the essence.
"Life is an oxymoron; you need to balance opposite concepts. I believe in our dance of life, in living through the movements to express ourselves. I believe in loving these movements that we need to do everyday. I believe in love."















"Moon Dance"
Alfred Gockel.

Colors of a Dream

As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes is a poem about dreams, like a lot of the other poems Langston Hughes writes. I chose this poem to annotate and make an iMovie on because after skimming through the choices we had, I thought this was easiest to interpret. Basically, it is about someone's dream fading as one grows older. I also made this connection with the Susan Boyle and Paul Potts video because they showed their persistence to achieve their dream while a lot of people were doubting them. This poem talks about normal people who aren't like Susan Boyle or Paul Potts. Normal people who usually forget about their dream because of the lingering cynicism in the world. And because this happens so often in the world we live in, this is why I thought this poem was a fairly easy poem to annotate.
For Langston Hughes' poem I chose soft music that I felt implied a sorrowful person reminiscing to when his/her dream was still vivid in his/her mind, and as the music goes on a lower scale, the time when darkness overshadowed this person's sky. Its tempo also helps with the mood of reminiscing and sorrow. As for the pictures, I chose light colored paintings for the first few lines to show that this dream does exist. And this person knows it. Most of the paintings used in Langston Hughes' poem were painted by the same artist. His technique is to blend colors and make it a hint of abstract. Not a clear image, but still justifiable. For the middle of the poem, I chose darker colored paintings since the light of this person's dream has vanished because the dream has faded away. And then again it turns into a lighter color showing the dream is back.
For my own poem, I chose colorful paintings by all different artists because I was talking about me having a multi-personality. I also chose pictures that were literal such as the dictionary but I think it makes a big impact too because it is not a plain picture of a dictionary, but instead composed in an interesting way. I specifically chose the paintings to have a blend of colors for the bit about the chameleon because a chameleon needs to blend in. Apart from that painting, I chose my paintings to have an intensity of colors to symbolize the different personalities that live in me. Unlike the music for Langston Hughes' poem, the music for my own was more cheerful. I chose this song because it isn't as depressing as the previous one, and it also goes with the rhythm of my poem. I think the change of instruments was a good transition in terms of music between the two poems. And lastly, I think the 2 end clips for my poem makes a big impact because the words are isolated and has a distinct alignment.