"You is important"

   My favorite line from The Help is "You is kind, You is smart, You is important". I love this quote. It is so honest and the broken English adds to its sincerity. Not only does Aiblileen take care of her "babies" by bathing and clothing and feeding them, she loves them. It's sad but the children she nannied got more love from her than they did from their own mothers. Which can sometimes apply to today. My mom is a stay at home mom, but I don't think that's the choice for me. I, like many women if the United States, want to juggle work and my family. So while we work, someone has to be taking care of our kids. Hopefully, we all have someone caring and loving and devoted like Aibileen, but hopefully we too are nurturing and enriching and loving as well. I just hope that I have a greater influence on my children than their daycare teachers.

          Although Aibileen is critical of the self-centered ways of the white people she serves, she never holds prejudices against the kids. She loves them so much. I like the insight I get from this book on the lifestyles of the people she nannies for. It is so easy to be critical of other people when we read books. The kid is the Blind Side had no friends and I would watch that and think that if he were real, I would be friends with him for sure. He was such a sweetheart, so nice. But then I look at all the people at school with no friends, not to be mean. And I’m not befriending them am I? Im sure they are just as nice as Blindside. So when I see criticisms in books I try to analyze my life and make sure I’m not doing the same thing, only maybe not rudely ordering around my help, but possibly not valuing those who voluntarily help me.

 
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"Chalk board Imagination"
 The pictures don't really do them justice, but these are some of the coolest videos on you tube. This teenage girl, Molly Watkins, spends an average total of ten hours for each minute-thirty video,which covers drawing, editing, and filming herself in in front of her pieces. My Favorite video of hers is called "Go Do". In the video she chalks herself into her animated art and interacts with her work, though she does not show the actually drawing being constructed, only the finished pictures. Soon shes blowing a few flowing bubbles, proceeds to pop all but one, which systematically evolves into a yo-yo which she trains, then it bounces away as a ball. And that's only the first 30 seconds. Watch smiley little Molly in her chalk world and be amazed. If her movies weren't such a long process, I guarantee Ellen would have recruited her for an episode by now.

http://www.noemiegoudal.com/thelovers1.html

Naomi Goudal's pictures
Look closely and you will see that the rushing waterfall is not water at all, but a flowing sheet, and the underside of the pier is no more than a canvas artistically placed under the ceiling of an old, rusty parking garage. Naomi's art is appealing because for one it is very unique,and sneaky. I love the way she put illusions into ordinary, and real life settings, painting a whole story into a block of normality. The picture for this piece of art didn't end up allowing me to post it on here
 
 

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 3d paintings drawn on sidewalks
These are so cool! The picture with the ice is drawn on flat pavement. None of the people are drawn in, they are real. Its funny because while walking down the street, or viewing a picture you get the impression there is a giant whole in the ground. The biker too, is a real person who is crossing the chalk plank bridge to cross the, crack, in the sidewalk. My favorite though is the houses. The houses are real, road is painted. It looks like the houses are in danger of plummeting to hell. Hopefully their red hot bases are stable enough to support them.