Short Film

The short film we watched in class today seemed to follow the lives of the one man and then a few other people in his life. It started with 6 clowns moving their heads in time with the other clown to music. This scene in itself set an example for the rest of the film, in that is represented the focus on elegant and graceful movement set to music. This theme was continued throughout the film with several dancers, the hula hoop girl and dancing with men with hula hoops. Every scene was very eloquent while the music was old fashioned and at times depressing. Depression also seemed to be a theme in the film. The man in the beginning was angry at his job and wanted a change, he then was with a woman but managed to make her depressed. The man’s friend did not have legs and also seemed a bit depressed. But the depression was released at the end when the man without legs was helped out by the first man in walking down the beach and he appeared to have legs, and the hula hoop woman found a man to be with. 

I love drawing and I think this would be the coolest project of all time

Jeff Wall

­I have taken some time to look more at the picture showed in class by Jeff Wall. I think the picture is a very interesting representation of the original painting by Manet. I really think that without the explanation of the piece, the audience would have a difficult time connecting the two works. While there are plenty of similarities between the two, and the connection becomes much more obvious once the process is explained, I think the final photo taken can be considered a completely original piece of work. Inspiration is drawn from everywhere, so just because Wall allowed the Manet piece to consciously inspire his work, doesn’t mean that the replication of the one has to entirely mimic the other. There are many other occurrences of this type of replication in all forms of art, but one especially obvious is music. A cover band many chose to recreate a particular song exactly as the original artist had previously recorded it; while at the same time another group may completely change everything about the song keeping only the lyrics or the themes the same. I found this cover of the Modest Mouse song Float On, which is one of my all time favorite songs.

Modest Mouse cover

Original Song

Summer Insects

I love summer, and I havw found that one of my favorite things to photograph are the insects that go along with this time of year.

In Class assignment 1

Addition: Fire Hydrant

First change to track image

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