Tuesday, November 27, 2012

scopitones videos now and then!

now
vs. scopitones
then

Scopitones was cool because it really illustrated the postmodern crisis in all of the covers i never even knew about such as this one.

Friday, November 23, 2012

losing my phone; confusing a campus

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Propaganda vs. Advertising

First let me post the definition of each word for your viewer needs.:

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument

Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to continue or take some new action

As you can read from the definition they are very similar and yet propaganda seems to have a negative assosciation with it while advertising is just a part of ur everyday lives. In my opinion advertising can sometimes be like propaganda as it is selling something without showing the side f its competition but advertising is usually considered less harmful because it is selling a product instead of an idea. Sometimes advertising crosses the line into propaganda when it is selling an image or idea along with the product, like in the video we watched in class about us being the product of television, advertising can be a way of selling social norms to a public subtly, this is a form of brainwashing as much as propaganda speeches are.This is dangerous. A society that is uninformed about all of the sides of adervtisements and images and products, can be easily swayed into being emotionally attached to something false.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

eva and adele and flash mobs

Eva and adele like to say t hat they invented their own sex. They are a couple who has used plastic surgery makeup and clothing to become more or less the same person. They also enjoy claiming to be from the future.Eva still has her man parts but won to have her sex changed to female because that is who she feels she is on the inside. The couple has been together 22 years. I like that they are absurd, but i dislike how into their own image they are. They are shameless self promoters, because they have to be t make money, but its less respectable than an artist who is strange as hell trying to be normal and still pulling through as themself anyway, like man ray.

As for flash mobs, i love them. I would love to be apart of one like the freeze one because i can't dance, but i liked this one alot it was so upbeat and happy i couldn't help but smile too. what a cool thing.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

iconoclasts

Iconoclasts deliberately destroy religioous icons with some kind of religious or political motive. Orlan was an iconoclast when she dressed as st. theresa and turned her into a sexual figure, dancing with crosses that were not always upright. Orlan was an extreme feminist so her art was done with a feminist statement of the way women were viewed and used in cultures and religions.

Friday, November 2, 2012

i wish to say and joseph beuys.

The i wish to say blog is a project by Shannon Oring to get peoples voices heard. she has a type writer set up on a page for people to dictate what they think the president should know, she then sends them to the whitehouse. To this dates she says that more than 2000 postcards have been sent to the whitehouse. The website is very interesting to explore and if you look further you can find other projects like the "creative fix" where a bunch of people are taped saying in one minute what they would do t fix the country.
Joseph bueys was an interesting artist, perhaps most well known for explaining art to a dead rabbit, which is both strange and beautiful. He had kindof a naturalistic statement in a lot of his pieces
This kindof got me talking with my room mate about insanity and artists and why it's ok for artist to be crazy and not committed to a looney bin and what we came up with is that most off people are artistically inclined but the only people to be able to live real lives are the ones who do something with their talent and make it a career. Some serial killers believe they are artists and who's to argue? but they are not able to contain their art to even the edge of accepted insanity and are therefor not celebrated.