May 2008
1 post
Final Exam Part II
Media literacy has been a class unlike any other I have taken while at school. I’ve had the usual business courses and then decided to take this because of my interest in advertising, and as the semester comes to an end I have come to appreciate advertising and the media such a great deal. What I like most about my newfound media literacy is my ability to see beyond what is in front...
April 2008
16 posts
RESPONSE #10
One of my favorite paintings is by Dali, called Clocks. I remember seeing it for the first time and just looking at it trying to decipher and understand the message and the images I was looking at. In a word, the experience was surreal for me, and I see that this painting is truly surrealism. Its almost as if the painting is a dream within art which challenges the real and the imaginary by...
RESPONSE #9
Some art is just art seemingly, you can tell without any further explanation. Other art must be more closely looked at, and even further, some art is seen as just a norm of society. For instance, pop art looks at different elements of society like cartoons, ads, etc. which are in fact art, its just that they are so common in society that people really don’t see them as art. Pop art...
RESPONSE #8
I have always been a fan of classic art, but when I went to MOMA last year I remember seeing paintings of cubism and I really liked how they were put together. While there are a number of different reasons why artists use cubism, I see it as different characteristics and elements that are seemingly random coming together to form a unique painting that has balance and somehow becomes an image from...
RESPONSE #7
Last year I learned a lot about Marxism and I saw the term commodity fetishism in the book. We learned a lot about how people give just simple objects this life power because they think more of them than social life. They see value in only objects and material goods and spend their time and money just trying to buy more and more material possessions to give them a life all their own. It has...
RESPONSE #6
I remember talking about reproductions earlier in the class and i was thinking about how art is reproduced in so many ways in everyday life. An example is a picture of art on shirts, i see this all the time, and one artist that is shown on shirts a lot is Van Gogh. His art is reproduced and therefore takes on a different meaning in he sense that mass amounts of people can see it. This can be...
Docile Bodies
Docile bodies according to the book are those which submit bodily to social norms. The three photos/ads which I have found show this submission. Clothing ads, especially those which are for more controversial clothing lines often show docile bodies. Abercrombie and Fitch shows a male model giving into the social norms of the perfect body, very muscular and in very good physical condition. ...
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Glamour as defined in the book is sort of a therapeutic ideology that allows a consumer to believe that a product will somehow change their lives in a positive way. It will make their dissastisfied lives complete in some manner through the use of a particular product. Like the main character in the movie says, he’s trying to sell to the housewife who has a dissatisfaction with their...
Uses for brick...Adobe Flash Player Assignment...
1. Something to weigh down objects, keep them in place, i.e tarp 2. weapon 3. door stop 4. build a wall for protection 5. seat 6. create a path in a garden 7. knife sharpener 8. for a brick with holes like the one on the example, you could use it to plant seeds 9. paper weight 10. stencil
March 2008
3 posts
RESPONSE #5
Although visual truth can be a very serious matter as we discussed in class with paintings we looked at, when thinking of visual truth I think of pictures that distort reality. These pictures can be very simple but somehow make an object or place look fantastically different from reality. For years I have watched the Yankees and have always wanted to go to the stadium because it has looked so...
February 2008
14 posts
Lost: Jack the Hero →
Through the media every person becomes a spectator. Through the images we see, we grow to desire to become something. Though many times these desires lie within our unconscious, we see hint sof them throughout our lives. In recent years, we have seen through the media fear, especially after the events of 9/11. As a nation we are held back by our fears towards those of other races and...
RESONSE #4
As we talked about Serrano’s “Piss Christ” picture and how our ID sees it as beauty while our ego and superego draw us to a more logical conclusion of its questionable nature, I immediately thought of Warhol’s “The Last Supper.” When we look at such a masterpiece there is a reaction of beauty and appreciation, and then we see that instead of a man next to...
Reaction to Documentary
If one man can change the way all of society thinks, whose to say that humans really are independent thinkers who can make rational decisions. Edward Bernays single handedly did this in the early 1900’s when he persuaded the American public to endorse war and changes in society such as women smoking in public. To him and his uncle Sigmund Freud, humans are creatures who keep their...
RESPONSE #3
2/4/08 The discussion in class today about tastes and how our values and perspectives have turned to culture brought us to talking about universal beauty. We looked at several different pictures but when asked why are they universally beautiful, it is hard to explain in words. I remember being home over break and my mom had an Anne Geddes calendar. As I looked at it I thought of how these...
January 2008
11 posts
RESPONSE #2
I find that after looking at the two Marlboro cigarette adds in class, I have always found adds for cigarettes as very interesting. Our perceptions on the effects of cigarettes have changed so dramatically over the decades because of increased awareness on the health risks associated with cigarette smoking. I have always found old cigarette adds somewhat humorous because of the tag lines and...
RESPONSE #1
After our class I decided to look at some different video game adds. I was compelled to after we discussed that video games seen as “violent” could be considered anti violence campaigns. The game that came to mind was one my boyfriend has had which i see everytime i go his house and overlook. Call of Duty is a video game based on shooting and killing, however it almost is showing...
britney's downfall →
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Assignment 1
I looked at the information on tumbl.us for a bit and just absorbed the different information that was being passed on from the creator of the images to the viewer. While to me some of the images just seemed to be images at first glance such as the skull made of legos, I found that pictures like the one of the computer screen (fyoop) were conveying messages very clearly. This image seemed to...