Remixing Google Image Search
Key Words: Insperation Creativity Epiphany Seeing Society I absolutely think that this project should be considered art. It has the aesthetic aspect of art, it is visually stimulating. It also took some time and effort to craft. I think Dissanayake would see the cultural aspect of this art, this is my interpretation of what […]
Filed under Unit 09 | Comment (0)Remix Discussion
There seemed to be a common theme with all of the sources from this week. They all share the conclusion that for creativity to exist in the modern technological world, current copyright laws cannot continue in the way they operate now. This is something that I am very interested in learning more about and what […]
Filed under Unit 09 | Comments (2)Art, Games, and Technology Research
In the article “Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins” Beverly J. Jones describes a phenomenon that happens in human life and culture, that is there are patterns that are followed in culture. These patterns are then applied to technology and art. The author clearly states the thesis of her paper by saying, “It is a […]
Filed under Unit 08 | Comment (0)Art, Games, and Tech
After watching the TED talk by Jane Mcgonigal she makes the claim that there is a massive untapped resource in people who play a lot of a certain type of strategy games. On this point I agree with her, there is clearly a massive resource potential that has not existed before. However I am not […]
Filed under Unit 08 | Comments (2)Creative Spirituality Reflection
I think that “spirituality” is defined as a connection with the self and the world that is not immediate and mostly not physical. Spirituality is the practice and actions that make up a personal proximity with the beyond. To be spiritual is to be connected with the idea of beyond physical, with that cannot be […]
Filed under Unit 07 | Comment (0)Creative Spirituality
In the reading for this week, Alex Gray’s The Mission of Art, he is really trying to make a distinction between looking and seeing. “There is a vast difference between looking and seeing- a difference which is fundamental to the artist’s experience.”(73) He says that seeing determines every aesthetic decision, it is our source for […]
Filed under Unit 07 | Comments (3)Enjoying Horror Research
In the “Dead Letter: The Aesthetics of Horror” from The Harvard Crimson Jude Russo opens by discussing a very graphically morbid painting that hangs in a famous museum (Prado Museum in Madrid). The painting is so graphic, it depicts a man eating a baby, that there is a discussion of why did Goya (the artist) […]
Filed under Unit 06 | Comment (0)Enjoying Horror Discussion
I think an excellent example of Diegetic sound comes fairly early in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Buffy is in a classroom and starts to dream in this dream there is a little girl with a small wooden box singing a song with a bit of a nursery rhyme cadence. The song seemed […]
Filed under Unit 06 | Comment (1)Personal Adornment
I don’t think that I am someone who is overly concerned with style, I tend to dress for comfort and my roommate has told me I “Just put stuff on.” I think that being colorblind has a small part to play in this, the nuances of color variation are unfortunately lost upon me at times […]
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