The Bite system works on the premise that words trigger images which trigger ideas.
A. SOURCE STATEMENT about your core message.
Arts 2 People is a community in Asheville, North Carolina. The main goal of Arts 2 People is to reach out to different local artists of all ages who have a common interest for the arts. This organization gives people an opportunity to experience making art, while allowing them to support themselves in a career, bring culture to the community, and network. Arts 2 People offer arts-in-education classes to the underprivileged. There is also mentoring to help future professional artists.
1.NATURE:
How does this thing look and feel? Imagine you are describing the object to a being from another
planet. Jot down every attribute you can think of, and do this for each main term in the title or core
message.
· Arts: visual expression, freedom, skill, craft, creativity, design, illustrating an idea, saying a statement, a hobby, painting, drawing, music, dance, poetry, singing, photography.
· People: human beings, identity, individual, make up population, male, female, old, young, different races, society.
· Community: people, public, working together, a group, sharing ideas, being there for one another, friendly.
· Asheville, NC: big city, mountains, Blue Ridge parkway, nature, beauty, happening, arts, culture.
· Main: central, crucial, major, important, specific.
· Goal: object to attain, something to strive for, purpose, hope, dream, work hard, prize at the finish line.
· Reach: attain, catch up to, to stretch, out of touch, going further in distance.
· Out: not there, absent, gone, not being included.
· Different: unique, unlike the rest, separate, distinct, uncommon, individual based, special, doesn’t match, varying, diverse.
· Local: neighborhood, close by, small town, community, individual, in the area, down the street.
· Artists: talented, creative, conceptual, natural or taught trade of the arts, skilled.
· All: everyone, anyone, everything, no limitations, no standards.
· Ages: number or time, measurement of how old or young, youth, childhood, adolescent, adulthood, mature, old age.
· Who: the one, in reference to someone, people in general.
· Have: ownership, allowed, entitled, given, earned.
· Common: shared, average, everyday, regular, routine, not surprising, simple, accepted, casual, understood.
· Interest: liking, attraction, curiosity, care, excitement, passion, hobby, importance, significant, enthusiasm.
· For: to be with something, pro, to agree with.
· Organization: arrangement, group, affiliation, association, official, establishment.
· Gives: sharing, contributing, allowing, supplying, to help.
· Opportunity: chance to succeed, give extra of something not available, possible, option, connection, convenience.
· Experience: background, skill, familiarity, past involvement, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, acquaintance, exposure, practice.
· Making: create, build, accomplish, arrange, construct.
· While: during a period of time, occurrence.
· Allowing: permit, approve, authorize, license, to give, support, permission.
· Support: help, approve, give structure, hold up, stand for.
· Themselves: independent, for oneself, strong, support oneself.
· Career: job, occupation, calling, field, employment.
· Bring: carry, share, take, transfer, transport something.
· Culture: diversity, difference of people, values of people, experience, practice, delicacy, learned behavior, skill, enlightenment.
· Network: system to connect, social connection, share resources.
· Offers: to give, share, award, put forward, volunteer, suggest.
· Arts-in-education: learning and teaching the arts, sharing knowledge with others.
· Classes: course of study, school, teaching a trade or other subject.
· Underprivileged: less fortunate, poor, people who need assistance.
· Mentoring: Guidance to others, influence, advisor, someone to look up to, confidant, person who recommends things.
· Help: provide, give, offer, assistance, aide, relief.
· Future: what is ahead, coming up, destined, inevitable, prospective.
· Professional: skilled, trained, proficient qualified, sharp, specialist.
2. SOURCE-
Where does the main action come from? Does it result from choice? Who or what causes an individual, an agency, a company?
· Arts: people create art, corporations, advertising to an audience, media, nature, influences from past experience, expressions of feelings while going through things in life.
· People: group of more than one person. Come together to make more.
· Community: come to form a group of people in different cities.
· Asheville, NC: location founded by people, rising/growing city.
· Goal: people inspired to achieve something in the community.
· Different: diversity of various kinds of people wanting to stand out and have a voice of their own.
· Local: people in the neighborhood living around each other.
· Artists: people who have interest in art, have a passion to do art, ambition.
· Interest: ideas or activities people enjoy to do.
· Organization: formed from a group of people with a common goal or interest to accomplish with similar points of views.
· Opportunity: differences in the class systems, inequality, create need for equality, making more rights for people.
· Experience: learning a practice, past jobs help people gain experience.
· Making: spare time, jobs, people wanting to create.
· Support: family, friends, associates, people who care for others.
· Career: a life’s work of dedication, past experiences built up.
· Culture: family heirlooms, ancestors, history, traditions of people.
· Network: community, people interested in sharing, people looking to get ahead.
· Arts-in-education: teachers wanting to share knowledge and teach students who are hungry to learn.
· Classes: students in the classes and the schools who hold classes.
· Underprivileged: differences in the class system, money, opportunities available.
· Mentoring: counselors, teachers, parents, family members, anyone inspired to help others.
· Help: anyone who wants to help others.
· Future: choices being made in the present.
· Professional: practicing over and over repeatedly.
3. HOW DELIVERED-
Is it sent by mail, does it rain down from the sky? Is it a request or a demand? From what direction does it come? Does it barge into view quickly or does it seep in unnoticed until enough collects to be seen?
· Arts: from the mind’s imagination, expression, time, motivation. represented in a visual form for people to see.
· People: social groups, gatherings.
· Community: working together, neighborhood.
· Goal: the result of hard work and dedication.
· Different: comparing other around and taking in differences.
· Local: living in a community brings a sense of local feel.
· Artists: requested for jobs, students, entrepreneurs.
· Interest: reflections of what drives people.
· Organization: official groups in a community.
· Opportunity: benefits offered in community to help inequalities.
· Experience: the jobs people obtain.
· Support: offering help to those that need it.
· Career: the amount of experience one gains equal to the job received.
· Culture: acceptable to community as interesting.
· Network: gathering at social events, festivals, where people are.
· Offers: random opportunity.
· Arts-in-education: classes for people.
· Classes: anyone interested.
· Underprivileged: effects of inequality.
· Mentoring: those who seeks to help others.
· Help: opportunity to others.
· Future: effects of choices.
· Professional: experience, training, jobs.
4. SIZE-
What space does the object occupy, both physically and emotionally?
· Arts: varies in form, small to large depending on the project. Can be anything from a drawing to a monument. The content of art can have a lot of meaning to different people.
· People: individuals, groups of people can be small or large. People can take up space on a worldwide level coming together or on a city/state level.
· Community: the heart of people is in a city. Communities are made of neighborhoods, towns, or special clubs who form groups. Sizes vary.
· Goal: measured by the person/people taking the goal on. Goals have levels of importance, some can be lifelong goals, or some are simple day goals.
· Different: cannot be measured.
· Local: depends how close something is in relation to where people live.
· Artists: no specific.
· Interest: an amount based on how many things people like.
· Organization: the size of the group small or large.
· Opportunity: small & large, life-changing.
· Experience: can be small or large, but the value cannot be measured.
· Support: not measureable in worth, can be a little or a lot of help.
· Career: status measure of how much money to success.
· Culture: size of population.
· Network: how many people you connect with, become like a family to help you move ahead.
· Offers: depends on how much or what is being offered.
· Arts-in-education: amount of people interested.
· Classes: number of people in classes. Small or large.
· Underprivileged: percentage of population, small or large group.
· Help: the amount of things you do for others.
· Future: not a specific size.
· Professional: not any size, status in relation to others.
5. WEIGHT-
What is it’s density, both physically and emotionally? Is it a crushing burden to carry, or is it featherlight? Is the thought oppressive or can it be easily shed?
· Arts: can be light or heavy depending on the piece, on an emotional level it can be stressful to create.
· People: physically people weigh different amounts, people can be burdens on one another.
· Community: No weight, can encompass a lot of work which is a certain amount of responsibility people share.
· Goal: can be a crushing burden to carry or can be simple thing to attain.
· Different: there is no physical weight, can weigh different measurements of worth to people.
· Local: descriptive in relation to other things, no weight.
· Artists: weight varies, the worth of someone’s art can influence people.
· Interest: importance to people, no physical weight, can be compared to other things.
· Organization: varying weight, can be weighed on the impact the group makes in the community.
· Opportunity: no physical weight, has enlightenment for people who benefit from them.
· Experience: no physical weight, only meaning of value to life.
· Support: no physical weight, feels like a large part of life that everyone needs, makes life easier.
· Career: common burden everyone wants to figure out in life, no physical weight, only a superficial weight.
· Culture: important to people from other culture, can be a burden or easily accepted.
· Network: importance to who you know can help you, no physical weight.
· Offers: value to help people, no weight.
· Arts-in-education: chance to express oneself and do art, no physical weight, importance in relation to other subjects to not forget art, meaningful part to people who enjoy art.
· Classes: small or large group of people, weight depends on the size of class.
· Underprivileged: people who carry a great deal of weight on their shoulders and are not able to have the same opportunities as others, not specific to weight in a physical sense.
· Help: assistance, no physical weight.
· Future: can be a burden or something to look forward to.
· Professional: weight of class, higher status.
6. WHY GIVEN-
What is the basis in human need, the motivation for giving this thing? What is expected in return? Why is it being done? Who stands to gain from the exchange? Do both the giver and the receiver benefit, or is the advantage lop-sided? Is the item being sold or is it being bestowed as a favor?
· Arts: people do art to escape, express themselves, for fun. Art gives people a sense of individuality that cannot be fulfilled with any other subject. Individuals creating art benefit but making work and sharing with others.
· People: take part in the community, open to many different kinds of people.
· Community: opportunity to help one another, share experiences, make the living environment a better place to live.
· Goal: give people a chance to change. The one’s who make the goals benefit and other around them can too
· Different: people can learn from one another.
· Local: convenient to all that are a part of the community.
· Artists: give each person a voice, to share their life story, experience, of message that want to reveal.
· Interest: ways to grab people’s attention and make them listen.
· Organization: way for people to come together, learning experience, meet goals within the group.
· Opportunity: gives everyone a fair chance that they might not otherwise get to have. People who offer benefit from helping others, and those helped get assistance to make things easier.
· Experience: makes people who they are, helps people succeed in life.
· Support: gives people encouragement.
· Career: give people an identity, way to make a living, enjoy doing what they do as their work.
· Culture: makes us more knowledgeable, interesting to compare differences from our own ways.
· Network: bring people together, help them connect, work within a community.
· Offers: giving to those who need, good for the ones giving and those receiving.
· Arts-in-education: extra interest outside the usual studies of math and english. Give people a chance to learn more about the expression and creative aspects of art.
· Classes: place to learn for those who would like to, give teachers a job.
· Underprivileged: result of those who cannot afford some things.
· Help: generous thing to do.
· Future: inevitable, happens no matter what, time continues.
· Professional: result of knowing something beyond what is taught, practice that has gone beyond and become technique.
B. THEN: Play word games introducing (1.) synonyms, (2.) antonyms, (3.) cliches and or (4.) inverted meaning to the concept/lists you have made.
· Arts: imagination, craftsmanship, expertise, knowledge, profession, trade, painting, drawing, dance.
· People: humans, person, population, individuals.
· Community: group, association, group, neighborhood, local, common people, public.
· Goal: objective, hope, purpose, target, wish, aspiration, intent.
· Different: opposite, distant, individual inconsistent, distinctive, variant, particular, unequal diverse.
· Local: neighborhood, community, connection.
· Artists: painter, designer, architect, performer, entertainer.
· Interest: attention, curiosity, affection.
· Organization: alignment, arrangement, group, affiliation, association, body, business, company, system.
· Opportunity: option, favorable circumstance, advantage, chance, luck, accident.
· Experience: skill, knowledge, know-how, practice, training.
· Support: help, approval, assistance, comfort, encouragement, friendship, loyalty.
· Career: course, path, job, lifework, vocation, work.
· Culture: ability, convention, values, experience, knowledge.
· Network: connections, organization, personal gain, socialize.
· Offers: suggestion, proposal, action, attempt, proposition.
· Arts-in-education: arts instruction, arts learning, arts direction, arts coaching.
· Classes: sort, classification, department, school, section.
· Underprivileged: deprived, handicapped, impoverished, delayed.
· Help: advice, assist, benefit, aid, support.
· Future: destined, approaching, coming up, forthcoming, impending, inevitable, subsequent, later, prospective.
· Professional: able, adept, proficient, qualified, sharp, known.
(2). Antonyms
· Arts: science, math, english.
· People: animals, plants.
· Community: disagreement, dissimilarity.
· Goal: hopelessness, pessimism, disbelief, discouragement.
· Different: similar, like, resembling, same.
· Local: foreign, global.
· Artists: clod, audience, fan.
· Interest: disadvantage.
· Organization: disorganization, solo.
· Opportunity: bad luck, misfortune.
· Experience: ignorance, immaturity, inexperience.
· Support: block, disapproval, opposition.
· Career: entertainment, recreation.
· Culture: sheltered.
· Network: divide, separate.
· Offers: refusal, taking, with drawl.
· Arts-in-education: ignorance, unaware.
· Classes: disorganize, scatter, separate.
· Underprivileged: privileged, rich, wealthy.
· Help: obstruction, stop, harm, hindrance.
· Future: present, current, past, ages ago, history, earlier, recent.
· Professional: amateur, unprofessional, unskilled.
(3.) clichés
· Arts: paintbrush, paints, paint pallet.
· People: stick figures, hands, silhouette, holding hands.
· Community: cityscape, houses, many people.
· Goal: gold medal, reaching finish line, light bulb.
· Different: different colors, culture, race, small & large.
· Local: stores, neighborhood.
· Artists: painter, sculptor.
· Interest: pop culture, movies, celebrities.
· Organization: group pictures, holding hands, discussions.
· Opportunity: welcome, rainbow, sun, light ahead.
· Experience: time, clock, years.
· Support: friends, family, anyone willing to help.
· Career: briefcase, cubicle, business man/woman in clothes, nurse, doctor.
· Culture: globe, different races, diverse picture.
· Network: holding hands, talking, meeting new people, coffee shop.
· Offers: coupons, ribbon, letters, announcements.
· Arts-in-education: chalkboard, painting, finger-paints.
· Classes: desks, chalkboard, empty classrooms.
· Underprivileged: poor, different cultures, starving children.
· Help: help wanted sign.
· Future: time, clock, calendar.
· Professional: briefcase, lawyer, doctor.
(4.) inverted meaning to the concept/ lists you have made.
· Individuality is not important
· Not accepting of culture
· Community is separate from people’s hearts
· Power of arts, weakens the power of knowledge
