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For this last event I went to the Hammer Museum, a free museum that displays all sorts of contemporary art. This museum displays all sorts of different artists but after talking to one of the workers she said they like to show up and coming artists to give them a chance to be seen. At the Hammer I focused my time on the Judith Hopf exhibit, who is a German artist who focuses on sculpture.  Her work utilizes materials that would most likely be found out in the yard such as bark, wood chips, and brick.  Her project at the Hammer consists of brick sculptures that are "animated" and appear cartoonish.  The pictures below and to the side show me next to the brick penguin and the brick feet. I feel the brick feet are a good representation of how we need to slow down and enjoy the life that surrounds us without worrying too much about the future or past. This one hit me pretty hard because I'm finishing up my first year of college and it feels like it went by in the blin

Space has been a point of interest of mankind for our entire existence. From the days of Galileo as he used his small telescope to try to prove the earth revolved around the sun, to our current world in which we have powerful telescopes able to see deep into space. We use all sorts of technology to explore space so its fitting that we end with this topic because it brings all the others full circle. Galileo and his telescope. In the video "The Pale Blue Dot" Carl Sagan gives us a reality check and shows us the furthest picture of Earth, which not surprisingly looks like a pale blue dot. He goes onto describe how insignificant Earth is compared to the rest of the universe and how "the earth is just a small stage in a vast cosmic arena". On our small stage however we have created a society that competes with each other to be the "momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. By taking a step back and looking at it this way we see how in the larger view of th