Monday, January 30, 2012

Kelli's Triptych



I feel like I got better progressively, because I like the first one the least and the last one the most. The idea began as different ways people escape, or get taken away from reality (drugs, sports, sex, etc.). Since I only used 26 images I ended up halfway through just focusing on my own portals to imagination (a photo of Kaskade, the flower, chairlift, etc.).

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Walter Benjamin Reading

My two discussion questions:

Based on Benjamin's statements or your own opinion, do you think actors are able to maintain their own "aura" or personality? Or do they seem to lose themselves by having to constantly portray and communicate a different aura?

Is it good or bad that in today's society film mobilizes the masses all at once, rather than at various times as paintings once did?