Anastas Sia

My palette

My partner has been teaching traditional art for more than 10 years and he has noticed a steady decline in students' willingness to learn. It's like they are doing everything to avoid actual work cause its too boring and hard, to the point that students started complaining to higher ups that their teacher "demands too much of them" even though his teaching style didn't change, if anything he became softer over the years, now he can't even say the truth sometimes because pointing out one little mistake discourages or offends the student It's obviosly that damn phone, I would know, Im struggling too sometimes And he has been asking them, and judging by their answers the phone is their second brain, while the first one atrophes. Its probably impossible to get the same results he was getting with his earlier students because he cant force awareness on them, but there have to be ways to nudge them in the right direction. If any of you guys have any ideas or resources it would be greatly appreciated. How would you adapt to the situation?

@Michael569 thanks for your input, we'll have to consider that His students are in the range of 18-22 and up, most of them say they want to be artists, but only about a third of them actually mean it, the rest don't even undestand what that means or they just say it to justify their presence there? Even those who try, fail to reach the standarts of the previous generations of students. They have more freedom than ever and yet fail to see what they want and move towards it. I think this might be a global problem of the younger generation, i feel it in myself as well, no matter how much i fight it. Even the standart of the Academy of Repin in Petersburg is dropping, which was practically THE standart. Ive seen it and heard from their teachers when I was there for practice, the problems are similar.

I was sleepy after both Moderna shots and had a slight temperature rise next day, just for a couple of hours tho. The worst thing was I couldn't swim in the pool

It shouldn't really matter. But from my experience people are born like this. My first crush was a girl and I didn't even realize until I started to compare the love I felt then to the love I feel now in a heterosexual relationship. I barely had any lgbt influences, but I wasn't homophobic either. maybe people could transcend their preferences at some point (doesn't necessarily change who they sleep with) but i don't know how that would work yet, i didn't have a preference to begin with lol

this is the anthem they made us sing everyday before classes in school and college. this only made many of us resent the authorities more.

i feel like the makers of these songs are more like an orange/green but they are fighting against a red/blue government. there are english subtitles

found my old drawings from when i was 13-14 its so cool to see how my art develops, its like a separate entity moving through its own stages, it went from stage purple to stage red(putting my frustrations on paper) in my younger years, now Im studying academically and learning stage blue, orange and green, and later I'm hoping it evolves into something great

@UDT @thisintegrated if you think youre at stage yellow or above, how was it like going through stage green for you? cause I see a lot of bias here. Maybe you should hang out with left-wing, lgbtq people more and try to understand their perspective, it would be a huge benefit any way you look at it. you know that many lgbt people cant live their truth because of society and/or the people around them? I live in third world country, its ILLEGAL to be gay here. Is that not censorship? I see a lot of discriminatory views in my family, in regular people, in politics, and now here. masked as some kind of advanced idea. if anywhere youre being silenced it is because your views are getting old and people see that they are hurtful. the world is gonna become more sensitive before it calms down, so what? though I dont think were gonna see a stage yellow government or society in our lifetime. @UDTlanguage changes all the time. whats your point? all I see is fearmongering. if some crazy little portion of progressives decide to ban the word "black" altogether and only let black people use it, society wont accept that. it wont happen. but if youre gonna say the n-word and be hateful of course people will dislike you. in your own experience how has left-wing censorship affected you? Im not talking about something youve read on internet or seen in the news, you choose the media you consume.

by what standards are we even ranking girls? assigning numbers to people is so weird to me

Haven't sculpted in a long time, this was kinda spontaneous

@Nahm Thank you An update: Since I created this topic I've only watched a few educational videos including Leo's which I deliberately searched for. I also clicked on some videos I usually watch but it quickly stopped being interesting. When I was out I've opened twitter a few times but realized that it gives me absolutely nothing of value, it's not even fun, so I put my phone down and didn't want look at it again. I "knew" that it gives me nothing of value but I guess now I've experienced it. I still don't have a regular meditation practice so I'm gonna start a journal and work on waking up on time which is easier now because I don't stay up late watching videos. This is only day 3 so I can't relax now!!! I also set up a launcher on my phone so my homescreen looks like this which is so convenient

My average usage is 12 hours a day. I can't even grab a paint brush or do anything at all without having my phone with me, anything I do is with background noise of youtube videos or music. Everything in my life suffers because of this, but I'm so unconscious I can't comprehend to what extent I'm fucking myself over, and I'm too undisciplined and numb to stop. When I first discovered actualized.org, at 16, I meditated 2 hours that day and managed to meditate an hour a day for two months after that. Then it was on and off, in total I think I have 5-6 months of meditation experience in two years, I'm 18 now. I haven't meditated consistently in over a year, and everything is becoming worse. No motivational video is going to help me. My stupid monkey brain is making this seem more complicated.