I like the feeling of pain, or the soreness you get when you could barley move after hitting the gym…how it started Elementary school used to fight every day(lost every fight). Middle school used to cut myself in random places just to feel pain, fights but not the much(won every one). High school played football at the start number 87 but grades fucked me up, no fights,cut like once a year, ran every morning around the Bronx zoo. Took a semester off just to work. College go to the gym 3 days a week, run everyday, no fight, no cuts

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Essay on how I did the pencil glasses for art class

When we was asked to do a project on recycled items that we normally throw away the first thought I had was a boat made out of pencils, then a house made out of pencils but that all seemed every difficult and time consuming, I sat in the living room trying to generate ideas with my sister that had the taking previously. While we sat there generating ideas my sister asked why pencils, My response was that I had a whole bunch of pencils and I don’t use them at all. After half an hour of pondering I still hadn’t decide on anything, I got hungry and decide to make some cup noodles soup, the vapor of the noodles soup fogged my glasses. While cleaning my glasses, the light blob on top of my head sparked a few times then lite up. I started working immediately, in my mind I already pictured how it looked. I grabbed a bunch of pencils, crazy glue, a sharp knife, one of my old glasses, black permanent marker, plastic rap, and a cable cutter.                    

First thing I did was scrap the yellow color off the pencils which took awhile. After ten cleared up pencils I cleaned up all the residue. Secondly I colored each pencil black with the black permanent marker; this step was my favorite part because I love the smell of the marker. I really can’t explain how I did it but I was working hard cutting, snapping, glueing, thinking of other ways to do it. It was done just the way I pictured it in my mind. I compared the pencil glasses to my real glasses, and I came to the concultion that it was not done, I wanted the pencil glasses as realistic as it can possible be. I noticed the legs on the glasses didn’t close, and the end of the legs didn’t have that curvy look to it. I’m pretty much blind if I take off my glasses so while I was examining the two I was wearing a spar pear of glasses, and once again that light blob on the top of my head lite up. I started snapping my spar pear of glasses and used the cable cutter to cut the parts I wanted nicely. After all the work i took another look at it compared the two, but no! it did not suffice, I had to add my own little design to it, and since it’s a pencil glasses, why not a small little pencil as the design.         

Finally the last part was to put the plastic rap as the glass part on the pencil glasses. This final project made me realize how creative someone could be with useless items to create something unique. It also made me realize I could do anything if I just put mind to work and put in the time. One thing I could say about this art class is that it makes you think outside the box from the start to the end.