Into the Abyss

Next month or so are going to be intense for me, so going to drop off the radar for a while and give it my all. See y'all on the other side!!

Peace!

Surronded by Books

The only thing better than spending every waking hour surrounded by books, is being able to spend it outside writing your own story.

Westwood Homeless, Brilliant Painter

A familiar face to many of the students attending UCLA living in Westwood village. William Laga, characterized as a tall, slender, and shabbily dressed homeless man, could often be found at the corner somewhere by CPK, strolling about and often mumbling to himself. The schizophrenic man, who has lived on the streets for more then three decades, finds peace for his shattered mind on a blank canvas with an array of colors. He makes a weekly trek of 16mi to Pierce College to sit in on art classes and take a weekly shower at their gym. However, his story remained unknown to the countless bystanders about him.

On Christmas Eve of last year, art patron, Marcelle Danan, stumbled across him as he sought refugee from the rain. Seeing his innate talent she brought him to her house, and for the next few months supplied him with art supplies to fuel his passion. With the help of Danan, Laga has begun to sell his paintings and is becoming a internationally recognized painter. He is currently working in Paris, France. The story originally aired on KCAL 9.

A Touching Story: Amazing Painter, Homeless Man

Homeless Painters First Art Show

The Pavlov Altoid Theory

In neuroscience class, we learned about conditional learning. The experiment described in class was a tone followed by a puff of air given to the eye of a rabbit. After sometime the rabbit was able to clsoe its eye in anticipation of the puff of air at the signal of the tone. This reminded me of a prank done by Jim (played by John Krasinkni) on Dwight (Rainn Wilson) on the show The Office. I need to try this out on someone!