1." At the same time, television projected the world of the 1960s directly into the public's consciousness, transmitting dramatic, disturbing images of the Vietnam War Mixed with scaled up images of consumer objects which attempted to hook the viewer into believing that both kinds of images were of equal importance." (64)
Is the author saying that the attempts of subliminal advertising on TV in the 1960s, served as a vessel for "postmodern consciousness?"
2. "'In Conceptual Art", wrote Sol LeWitt, "the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work... all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.'" (73)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The Medium is the Massage Discussion Questions
1. Marshall McLuhan says, "This feeling is an aspect of the new mass culture we are moving into-- a world of total involvement with everybody else and in which nobody can really imagine what private guilt can be anymore" (61).
Does this quote have a direct correlation with the massive social networking that occurs every day on Facebook, Twitter or Myspace? These people tend to publish their every action, feeling and thought. Does this combine everyone and erase the boundaries associated with the term "private?"
2. "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land." (McLuhan 75)
What does McLuhan mean by "we look at the present through a rear-view mirror?" Does he mean, technology of the future is fast approaching today? Then, how does that connect with marching "backwards into the future?"
Does this quote have a direct correlation with the massive social networking that occurs every day on Facebook, Twitter or Myspace? These people tend to publish their every action, feeling and thought. Does this combine everyone and erase the boundaries associated with the term "private?"
2. "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land." (McLuhan 75)
What does McLuhan mean by "we look at the present through a rear-view mirror?" Does he mean, technology of the future is fast approaching today? Then, how does that connect with marching "backwards into the future?"
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Assignment 2: Animation
Artist Statement: This assignment was my first attempt to animate in Photoshop. I found it very time consuming but fun. It consists of 28 frames at .2 sec each. Since I have multiple areas of animation I worked in each frame separately to achieve multiple movements. In time I am sure I will perfect the timing progressions.
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