Whitney Helms' Blog

This week in our Fostering Creativity class we started our group projects! I enjoy working as a team, but only sometimes. I am someone who always likes to work on things way before they are due. However, whenever I am working with a team, I always feel like it takes a little bit longer to complete the tasks or projects because we all work at our own pace. This can be difficult for me and I end doing a lot of the work just because I do not like waiting and I tend to get stressed out! This is definitely something that I need to work on and I want to become better at!  A positive of working in a team for me is getting to hear other's ideas or approaches to certain things. Sometimes I can get stuck on a certain task or project for a while, but when I am collaborating with a team, hearing different perspectives allows me to work more efficiently and it broadens my ideas as well! As of right now, this has been the second group project that I have been assigned since the pandemic of COVID...

The creative person I have chosen to study for my creative individual paper was James Balog. James lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is famously known as a photographer who expresses the relationship between humans and nature within his work. James had previously emphasized endangered animals, old-growth forests, and polar ice within his photography. In 2007 his art took a major shift. James wanted to further combine the insights from art and science to produce an innovative, shocking, and most eye-opening depiction of our changing world. He is passionate about climate change and wanted to express its impacts within his photography. It took him a while to figure out a way he would be able to express climate change within his photography, ultimately deciding that the world's glaciers are the best evidence for the climate's increasing temperature.  As previously mentioned, James set out in 2007 on his best-known project, where he began to study the impact of climate change on the w...

I have always loved Harry Potter. I remember being little and my mom reading the books to me before going to bed. When I was a little bit older, I began reading them on my own. I remember when "The Half-Blood Prince" came out, I literally had my mom and my aunt take me to the theaters to see it close to ten times! Then when the final movie came out I went to the midnight premiere, that will be a night I will never forget!  The First time that I visited the theme park in Orlando, Flordia I was only twelve. I was with my family and I walked in specifically with my mom and aunt. As a twelve-year-old at the time, I was in such shock! It was such a crazy thing for me to be experiencing. Now it has become something that I look forward to visiting each year! Every year since then in the month of October I have gone. Because of COVID this year I will not be going around the time when I usually always go. I was looking over many pictures I have of the Harry Potter World there at Unive...

A few weekends ago I went to a farmer's market while I was in Steamboat Springs here in Colorado. I love going to farmer's markets because you can find so many cool and unique things. I typically love buying local honey at the farmer's markets near where I live in Denver. This particular farmer's market in Steamboat had more than just food items, they had unique products like candles, jewelry, and art pieces. I enjoyed looking at all the art sections that they had there, I even bought a small card with a drawing of two whales on it. The market felt very welcoming and I enjoyed this fun Saturday morning activity.