Tracy's thoughts on things

I am a firm beliver in putting your phone away when you're with family or at a sporting event or on vacation, because there is simply no need for it. What ever happened to living in the moment and taking mental pictures? We live in a society were we take pictures just to post onto social media. We upload photos and videos to our Snapchat and Instagram for other people to like and comment. Before I continue I would like to point out that I have an Instagram and a Snapchat but have considered multiple times deleting, because I opened my eyes and realized the dent it was making on my life. The dent being that I became so obssesed with trying to find the right angle, people, and place to take one stupid picture that wasn't going to bring me or anyone joy. I started doing things for the pictures instead of for myself. I was too busy capturing the moment, that I forgot to live it. Now, I realize that it really doesn't matter. If someone happens to take a picutre, great. I might p...

A Measure of Time had a very interesting beginning paragraph that really caught my attention and had me thinking. You can make anything sound beautiful and majestic. In the first paragraph, the author was talking about a cancer therapy machine and how it was "a cake of crumbly powder" and there was a dust that was "eerily glowing in the sultry dark". If you didn't know that he was talking about a stainles steele cylinder, you probably would have guessed that this was a passage taken from a fairy book or something. Words can have such an illusion on situations. Words have the power to persude a judge to either lock someone in jail for life or let them roam the earth. Words can make two people fall in love or out of it. When I was reading that paragraph I had to stop and think about how I wasn't reading a fantasy book. I was reading a book about how these two young men discovred Radium, which is a chemical element not some pixie dust.

Guerilla art is when an artist anonymously creates art in public places, almost always unauthorized. A famous example of that is Charging Bull,  which was created by Arturo Di Modicav. In 1987 the stock markets crashed and people everywhere were affected. Two years, $350,000, and 7,000 pounds later, Di Modica created the famous Charging Bull. It was meant to "encourage representation of a booming economy". The people who ran the New York Stock Exchange weren't very pleased with the sculpture and wanted it removed, which it was, but after outrage from the public the city agreed to put it back up again.  It's been at the same spot for almost 30 years. Guerilla art is a great way for someone to express themselves whether it be politically, creativly, or for just some fun. Another popular peice of artwork that people think is guerilla art is Confident Girl. But it's not. Confident girl was "commissioned as part of an advertising campaign developed by McCann, a gl...