masterpiece consultations: round 1 notes

Here are my notes from the first round of Masterpiece Consultations.  Some of your topics have evolved, so please take a moment to review your piece and make sure I got it right.  Please also take a moment to skim everyone else's topics/needs/wants and comment to this post with questions, suggestions, resources, and introductions.  Together, we are smarter than any one of us!  Mahalo.

Jacob

• topic:  guitar/music (& possible link to nature-- maybe through Joey's project, or the Yosemite trip and Laura/her students?)
• needs: inspiration, collaborators
• wants: to express and evoke timeless feelings through music

Marcel

• topics: 
• 1) researching qi
• 2) sleep paralysis & astral projection
• needs: research design & data as appropriate
• wants: 
• 1) to model a positive alternative to being a disenfranchised cynic
• 2) to invent an alternative to "choosing the best of the worst" life plans (college, family, working in a cubicle)

 Kurt

• topic: gap year journey to Africa
• needs: books/articles on Africa, introductions to people in Africa, media/fundraising advice, time
• wants: to "put God on trial" by testing/investigating the world in an attempt to satisfy my own curiosity about the way things are

Jared

• topic: biomechanical engineering
• needs: research, case studies, mentors/advisors
• wants: to help people without limbs

Cameron

• topics: 
• 1) starvation
• 2) neurology of sleep
• needs: access to food banks, distribution, articles/research
• wants: to feed the world

Shenaya

• topic: neurology of racism
• needs: resources, neurologists
• wants: to learn about racism

Jayce

• topic: 
• 1) time travel & the butterfly effect
• 2) family medicine
• needs: study parameters, opening question
• wants: to make connections with people

Gianni

• topic: "a different story" -- alternate narrative structure
• needs: research into writing and story
• wants: to design something new

Bianca

• topic: music and children
• needs: to develop "wood drum activity" for kindergartners; materials; budget/fundraising
• wants: to share inspiration through music

Anaya

• topic: documentary on people pursuing their passions
• needs: access to subjects, filmmakers, resources; budget
• wants: to tell inspirational stories we don't get via mainstream media

Bailey

• topic: art of the year
• needs: a way to curate
• wants: to accomplish something that I can see all the way through

Lilly

• topic: immortality/ learning from ancient civilizations and people
• needs: contact at Getty; people to go; resources on Ancient Greece & Rome
• wants: "for people to understand where I'm coming from and realize it's OK to stop and look back, and to take our history more seriously"

Hikaru

• topic: technology
• needs: sites/online resources; access to computer history museum; contacts at Google, Samsung, Intel, and/or Apple
• wants: constant innovation, and new inspirations/ideas/visions for technologies that will benefit society in the future so as to guide career choices

Erica & Dani

• topic: http://equalityamonghumanity.tumblr.com/
• needs: people to tell their stories; time
• wants: to spread, scale, and sustain this effort over time

Omar

• topic: shifted from micro evolution to music
• needs: collaborators
• wants: to share a positive message and explore the uniting features of sharing music

Courtney

• topic: Special Olympics dance event & soccer game/ July world games
• needs: people, volunteers, money
• wants: to create sustainability for events & insight on how to most effectively present

Miles

• topic: curriculum with a sense of humor
• needs: camera, time, coordinated shooting & production schedule
• wants: to experience connections with people through humor and learning

Alyssa

• topic: fashion
• needs: new blog, models, clothing/sponsoring designers &/or boutiques
• wants: to help people understand and manage their outward appearances

Elizabeth

• topic: happiness project (started with comment on Edgar's blog)
• needs: responsive applicants, money/help with budgeting
• wants: to make people happy 

Suzel

• topic: bringing a cosmopolitan sense of civilization to a small community
• needs: t-shirts, mentors, dance organization
• wants: "to have my dream come true"

Jisu

• topic: music
• needs: lyrics, time
• wants: to explore music

Haley

• topic: architectural design & residential remodel
• needs: introduction to Mark Cabrinha
• wants: to explore how environments make us feel

Matt

• topic: why do so many people not live their dreams?
• needs: introductions to sports agents
• wants: "to be my dream"

Tia

• topic: homelessness
• needs: introductions to homeless people & service providers
• wants: to help the public see this issue through others' eyes

Lupita

• topic: reading by generation
• needs: to talk with librarian in Guadalupe
• wants: to share love through reading

Tyler

• topic: narrative/story design
• needs: to learn about story structure 
• wants: to create a wearable concept album (i.e., something that other people can enjoy through watching, wearing, using, or experiencing-- one of those things that you just have to pay attention to all the way through)

Jeff

• topic: building a game computer
• needs: materials
• wants: to learn through building electronics--"to build myself as I create something tangible in the world"

Taylor

• topic: animal rehabilitation
• needs: contacts in the field
• wants: to learn more about it

Chrystal

• topic: to provide opportunities for teens in Santa Maria
• needs: people, time
• wants: to give young people a greater chance of success

Lukas

• topic: traveling as a rite of passage
• needs: time
• wants: to share love of outdoors by providing skills that aren't found in classes-- how to bring yourself to nature and document what it's like to live in that environment

Chase

• topic: the search for Stoke
• needs: "got a car, surf racks & a board so I'm pretty set"
• wants: to tap into the universal source of Stoke

Laike

• topic: connection between your identity and your interests; how who you are shapes what you care about (and vice versa)
• needs: a plan
• wants: "to connect with true north"

Sean

• topic: love
• needs: people, mentors, stories
• wants: to change my outlook on life

Connor

• topic: golf club business
• needs: introductions to business mentors (such as Doan Winkel)
• wants: "to start on a path I can travel for the rest of my life"

Val

• topic: teaching American history
• needs: to learn a period of American history well enough to teach it; to study greatest teachers
• wants: the experience of teaching a course

Terry

• topic: spreading appreciation of nature
• needs: time to backpack; ways to present
• wants: to change one person's perspective, and to pursue a degree in environmental science

Bridgit

• topic: healthy living through early dance education
• needs: young students, research on mind/body
• wants: to learn and share patterns/habits of living life in a healthy way

 Yun Soo

• topic: orchid business in Korea --> "travel as a means to understanding"
• needs: to meet new people, grow awareness of business and relationships
• wants: "to inform the way I think about the future"

Haley

• topic: Memorial Day Weekend Yosemite trip
• needs: $100 deposit from participants, fundraising plan, & program collaborators
• wants: to share Yosemite with others in a meaningful way

Stephanie

• topic: learning about ourselves & world around us through connections with animals
• needs: 
• wants: to help others be their best selves without being judged

Will

• topic: a world without hate
• needs: resources, people, time
• wants: to get past "the wall" and see people as fellow humans with feelings and desires

Eric

• topic: technology in the modern world
• needs: mentor, coding resources, experience
• wants: to figure out how computers work on the inside in order to determine where our culture is going with them on the outside

Jhaicelle (http://searchingforwomenleaders.tumblr.com)

• topic: femininity in fashion and leadership
• needs: access to people, resources; time
• wants: to create a world in which women feel welcomed, needed, and inspired to assume leadership positions

Antonia

• topic: exploring racism in politics and religion through journalism
• needs: interviews, link to expository comp blog, research
• wants: "to cure biases that make me and the world sick"

Michael

• topic: using our minds to achieve the improbable
• needs: resources, research
• wants: "to learn about something I actually want to learn about"

Henry

• topic: investigating, questioning, and challenging censorship
• needs: to begin
• wants: to ensure that authorities can't arbitrarily restrict what we think, feel & express

Jordan

• topic: in pursuit of Flow
• needs: research
• wants: "to not settle; to reach beyond and give myself something greater to strive for"

Daniel

• topic: seeing "the amazing" through other people's eyes
• needs: 
• wants: to capture meaningful moments in time through photography

Annie

• topic: cookbook for people with Lupus
• needs: access to Photoshop
• wants: to publish

Alex

• topic: baseball
• needs: more knowledge of managerial styles (starting with Don Wilson)
• wants: to continue legacy

Sierra

• topic: fashion
• needs: mentors (met one at a funeral!)
• wants: to create a marketable blog

Hannah

• topic: health clinic & one-week soccer camp
• needs: collaborators (Rushdi? Imanie?)
• wants: share passion with others, especially children

Judith

• topic: science camp
• needs: mentors, resources, time
• wants: to help kids

Shailynn

• topic: career in medicine
• needs: mentors to observe in surgery
• wants: to help people behind the scenes

Naiomi

• topic: music and collaboration
• needs: to continue developing composition and relationships
• wants: to create a song that connects people whether they know each other or not

Victoria

• topic: to become a more effective support system for others
• needs: to learn what others are doing
• wants: "to learn about myself through helping others and being a part of everything"

Taylor

• topic: the psychology of serial killers
• needs: research
• wants: to try and answer the question, "How could someone DO that?"

Ephraim

• topic: neurology/ experiment in Alzheimer's (students to interview patients and self-assess risk)
• needs: existing research, protocols for research on human subjects
• wants: to spread awareness, embark on a search for the cure

Matthew

• topic: synesthesia
• needs: artists; protocols for effective research on the self/mind
• wants: to create research material for other people

Mellany

• topic: seeing the "amazingness" of the world through the eyes of people I've only just met
• needs: camera, time
• wants: to share a perspective on the world through photography

Noah

• topic: ending world suck by re-imagining teens
• needs: connections with teens (introduction to Izamar); game plan
• wants: to go out with a self-directed bang instead of an oppressed whimper

Alec

• topic: raise awareness and reduce stigmas associated with the use of psychedelics
• needs: platform for information-sharing
• wants: to open minds to facts over propaganda

Joey

• topic: go outside --> video
• needs: people to go outside with him
• wants: to create relationships through shared experiences that lead to memories

Aaron

• topic: comm/unity through basketball
• needs: resources, mentors
• wants: to understand my life through basketball

Imanie

• topic: chronicler
• needs: time, opportunity to connect with writers
• wants: to be published

Eric

• topic: human nature (inspired by Woods' "Nullification") & fair government
• needs: milestones, dates; project schedule; classical texts on government
• wants: experience in thinking about this for future application

Melissa

• topic: Who are we behind the facades?
• needs: resources, Elizabeth
• wants: to find the good in other people

Siera

• topic: high school transformation video
• needs: participants/contributors; transformative pics and videos; to "get deep" & research growth and change
• wants: to help everyone end high school in a happy, content, successful way

Stevie

• topic: spread medicine to the Third World
• needs: resources, Albert Schweitzer bio, doctors to interview, time
• wants: to give back to the world by helping people in need become happier and healthier

Ashlyn (thank you! :)

• topic: body image/ video
• needs: resources, online survey, research data on the impact/s of making fun of someone's body
• wants: to help people look more positively at themselves and others