what's in a name actually a whole lot more than you might think probably the first gift we receive from our families is our name a lot of care and thought goes into that selection even if some of us might like to exchange the gift and get another name but eventually we adapt it nick thing and come up with variations that suit us names can be very powerful some psychologists suggest that names determine the way we're perceived by others more fluid and easily expressed and pronounce names make some children receive us better and they end up socially being more successful of course then there is brock obama names have spiritual and religious significance most for all religions have some type of naming ceremonies in judaism there's a reluctance to even speak the name of god and christian exorcism uses the power of names to rid souls of demons of course names can follow a fashion the social security offices list for two thousand and twelve as the number one boy's name is jacob for girls it's a fear that's quite a change from the  when james and mary topped the list hi i'm billy bivins and this is make art feel better when we talk about creativity and on this show we're going to explore and glory in our names maybe we'll find out what's on the outside and maybe the inside of our names hi kim thank you so much for being here tonight wonderful you know i've known you for a while but i don't know what you prefer you really interesting i learned this in a group a number of years ago where they were trying to do a mixture and we broke into smaller groups of two or three people and everyone told the story of their name this your name have a story around it would what is your family ok it's lovely is it a family name no again your mother just pick something and your father oh yeah i think fathers and mothers have to somehow agree yeah what's going on from the south and of course in the south they my birth certificate is billy and then my middle name is facts and which was he was william faxon and it i hated the name when i was younger it was just so masculine i wanted to be a  opinion about it now you know well it's easy so yeah i don't want to pronounce and i used to like it a lot when i was a kid but i don't really have any feelings about it you know of me feeling ok well i you know whether whether it would be you you're not planning a career and in acting where you'd want to change your name and have a stage name now don't seem to do that as much there was a time you know in the fifty's and sixty's where interchanges change their names yet and they wanted isn't a variation of frank yet there are a lot of actors of of an era now i think they use their names yet you know and which is great and then come up with things all the other thing again ready for the show i thought it was profound growing up in the south and being aware of that the toff the african american culture coming from not having names because n and having your name all know there's another thing and because of having a young female as a guest and it comes up because i think for women it's different for us we're given a name and then many women get married and then change their last and yes yes what what is the feeling now among high school students and it's not something most people talk about but no i don't really know i guess most people aren't sure yet and probably well you may even have your parents may not have changed their names or the my mom changed her name from my dad ok didn't hyphenated now do you have friends that have hyphenated and and the issues that are involved and what have you thought we would do and i don't know what's going to happen but the idea is to make some art so that our names and there are no rules there are absolutely no rules we have some wire there's paper there's paint and brushes and you can ask me kim of anything that you would like and we can ok we can just see what happens and we can keep talking all and then we can not talk if we really get involved i was telling you the other stories behind me and i i think i will i will tell them on camera but because we are getting ready for the show i was thinking about names and my oldest son allen was a walk on football player at the university of georgia and it's very hard to be a walk on football player and he he played for four years he was so a one you know very courageous in many ways he was on the scout team and that means that you practice against the first string for a city not every player that plays in college gets to dress out if you ever seen the movie rudy you know well it's very very popular it's about a young man who walked on it notre dame and most of the players in notre dame the walk on never get to dress out you know what you're saying out means you get to actually go out on the field with the uniform all right and you saw on the sidelines but you dress up and so after three years alan finally got a chance to dress out for the georgia georgia tech game which is a very big game for emerged in georgia and it happened to be in atlanta while we all along the way when he first started playing football on some list his last name got put down as gio r d a in gore dan now it's lightning was gordon it's a pretty common name and it haunted him for but when he want but spell my name right because when you spell someone's name wrong it's going to take it very personally what do you have anything any preference materials i've got some more mature wire and i'll try to on your forehead monograms on clothing no it's not not i don't think that's fashionable right now there was a time when everybody had their clothes you know monogrammed really yes with your initials i yes is very that was back with the most popular name was probably james yeah the list was very it was interesting what are some other names livia was in the top five yeah for one of the four last year oh yeah it's very it's popular jessica has been at the top for about a bit yeah i for about ten years i was it was very very interesting seeing what the names of what was it and there were some we know that's all right i know but it's in the it's up in the top top fifteen and it's up there i guess is for last year so they're all like babies right now these are babies yes we'd have to go back about the yeah for for a hundred years michael's in the in the running and my brother is the third and there are other cultures but the south is pretty big about meaning people for relatives yeah my jewish friends tell me that the they were furious point they didn't tell anybody her name and i think that's a nice thing around is people do know the gender of baby soft yeah but i think if they're so they're smart if they don't tell people what the news is why is that because i think people that have a lot of of people that don't need babies for a week or so after they're born because they can't make up their mind oh yeah like my cousin my aunt did that with my cousin they couldn't agree on a name and so they ended up choosing it my other it is it seems to make sense i'm i'm concerned about all this i mean i as an art therapist i find the contrast which is quite beautiful between yeah the primary colors and then putting the stones i was thinking that if yes yes definitely also that the clay is a plastic clay but you selected all natural thing so yeah so there's a there's a real counterpoint going on and i think that's nice that i mean it may have been that there were natural things here that you could have or something else  and they are the the bright colors versus the natural but yeah are you do you see yourself as integrating you know like myself well i mean well also in the artwork in the way that you create i mean usually i just showed me how long i use a lot of break colors generally i don't use the browns in national colors but ok do you use natural materials ever and i usually use up oil paints an acrylic so i guess i don't know if those are natural and i think they're know yeah i've never tried real i'll side don't know how it compares i don't either company now now we've got something for the show we're going to have to get some we did a show an oil painting yeah and we actually made her own oil paint which well i had never you know you great to do it or maybe making homemade ice cream and you do it and it's really great and it's fun but you don't want to have to make homemade ice cream every show you exactly but it it has a wonderful consistency to it and and maybe your name will be at a gallery said would you would you make it more official and heavy kimberly or would you go with kim i don't know if i ask you haven't ever thought that far ahead