Reflection: Changed perspectives

It's truly unbelievable how simple experience can flop a stereotype completely over on its side. Our adventures to these few tattoo parlors has rendered me speechless in regards to my original view of these lincoln shops. The project in its entirety has allowed for us to open our own world to an entirely new community and lessen our ignorance of its principles and culture. If I am to be honest, I think all three of us, in our own way, were quite terrified about the idea of branching out to this seemingly scrutinizing district of "colored" individuals. The thought of dark clothed, rugged looking, painfully antagonizing rough rider artists rendered me shaken up. This did not seem like a safe place to conduct research. But as we break down these walls of insensitivity, we all come to a better place of understanding. These places weren't scary at all. Not even in the slightest. We had successfully flopped our fears of uncertainty and gained knowledge that will better serve us in years to come.

I think the group factor of this project really contributed to increased research development and jumping over certain insecurities. There was a grand amount of work included from each of us that helped our project move further down the path of success. Whether it was interviewing candidates, taking pictures, blogging, or researching, we had a grand time together moving through this community with ease. The amount of information we obtained was crucial to each one of us and we had no problem inputting what we needed throughout our project.What really struck me as interesting was the entire blog aspect. At first, we weren't sure how to run with this program, or even what program to use. We considered Tumblr, and other miscellaneous website, but blogger from Google was ultimately the best and most user friendly for us. Setting up our posts was pretty cool as well, from designing a font, to including a poll, and posting numerous blogs to provide a presentable scene of information and insightful experience. I had so much fun contributing in this assignment, and I wish more classes would take this project for its worth and mold the young minds to think differently about what they don't know. Some say ignorance may be bliss, I say it's a miss.