4A. Written response to Brainwashed:

http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/66.01.Brainwashed

Acknowledging the Lizard:
Basically the Lizard is the little scared kid inside everyone of us that doesn't like being made fun of.  But it is an important part being an artiest to be different and to have some of our stuff laughed at or made fun of.  Without this then we couldn't perfect our artistic skills.
Learn:
This layer basically says that we never stop learning and it is important that we never stop.  If we stop learning then we stop growing as a person and artist.  It is by learning we can make our art better and grow as a person as well.

Personally I hate these blog assignments and they do nothing to help my creative process.  For me creating something can not be taught, but is learned through hands on experience.  I have a hard time learning when someone puts limits on my creative projects.  All these blog assignments due is busy work.  I don't get anything out of them other than it being fairly open in the sense, the blogs, are not to strict.  Kind of like do this, do that, and do one of those.  It is more open ended questions to be answered. I better way to spend my time or "class time" would to be handing out tutorials to follow and we recreate them without any limitation on the creative process (of course).