TV in a New Perspective

A place I have spent a lot of time at and enjoy going back to is my parent’s house in Cleveland. When I go home I spend a lot of time in the family room watching TV and catching up with my family. We have two dogs that are always making a lot of noise, making it sometimes impossible to watch TV. We also have two cats, who also like to join us on the couch. You can occasionally hear a purr or two over the noise of the dogs. What I want to show in my sound clip is what I hear when I watch TV.

MP4 video

For my project I first recorded my dogs barking and fighting with one another. I also recorded one of my cats purring. I imported these videos to iMovie and then transferred them to itunes as sound clips and edited them in Garageband. I mixed each sound up to create what I hear when you put all these sounds together. I then decided to find a clip of white noise on the TV to use as my video clip to go along with the sound I created. I decided to use white noise to show that without sound you cannot really watch TV.

Carver Cathedral

I enjoyed reading about the blind man in Carver's article Cathedral. I think he has a lot of important things to teach us. Even with his disability he does not give up hope and lives every day to the fullest. It is impressive the things he is able to do and how much he knows. Having no eyesight, he makes up for it with his other senses and intellect. I think there is a sharp contrast between the husband and the blind man. The blind man is caring and motivated while the husband is rude and could care less about being productive.

The husband bothered me a lot in this article. From the way he talked and acted it seemed as if he did nothing with his life besides drink, smoke and sit on the couch all day. He came off to me as annoying, insensitive and was very negative about everything.  I feel bad for his wife and do not understand why she would stay with him. I guess love overpowers in this case. The sad part is that people like this do exist in our society. I hope one day these people will come to see that they can make an impact on the world if they try harder. Maybe this article and others like it will help them to mature into better people.

Wallace This is Water

I think David Foster Wallace touched on a lot of important ideas in his commencement speech “This is Water.” I liked his suggestion of trying to focus on others around you and not just yourself at times. His explanations of the reasons behind why a person may appear and act the way they do are somewhat stretched but not impossible. You never know what may be going on in someone’s life and it is only fair to give them the benefit of the doubt. Of course we are not perfect and Wallace makes sure to mention the fact that we are all self-centered because that’s how we view the world, from our own perspective. We cannot avoid this fate no matter how hard we try.

One thing that troubled me in this article is that it is about commencement and entering the work world. This thought frightens and excites me at times, but Wallace’s article makes me dread it by how boring and awful he makes the working world sound.  His description of working and repeating  it all over again give no insight into the enjoyable moments of working, he makes work sound like something we should dread.

Movie Project

By : Alex, Tyler and Rachel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iltKjU6xXJc&feature=youtu.be

Wexner Visit

     My experience at the Wexner Center was very enjoyable.  This was my second time visiting the Wex and I could not have had a more pleasant experience. One of the curators was very eager to talk to me about Annie Leibovitz’s work. She at first approached me with a pamphlet explaining one room of the exhibit. When I went to give her the pamphlet back she asked me if I had seen the house wives exhibit yet, because it was one of her favorites. I told her I had not so she took me to look at it.  After giving me the history of the piece it became one of my favorites too. I liked how Annie had them looking plain on one wall and dressed up on the other. After showing me this piece the curator then took me to see some more of her favorites. The curator was very friendly and informative and even told me about one of Annie’s friends who had passed away. This friend was the subject of a lot of Annie’s work.
 
      Annie Leibovitz’s artwork was entertaining to look at. I liked that she used famous people as the center of most of her pieces. I feel like that draws a huge audience in because it helps when people know what they are looking at. I also liked how none of her pieces were just normal photography but people in their environments or in abstract positions. Annie Leibovitz artwork was definitely different than anything I have seen before.