The use of particularly graphic photos, depicting the effects of war on Iraq, conflict with the otherwise happy and exuberant nature of the Kodak commercial, further highlighting the emotional deficit between the images. This is similar to comparative images of women in Iraq in the mid 1900's versus similar images...
For this think piece, I selected the animated film, The Lion King. I purposefully picked this film for its contrary nature to both of this week's readings which emphasize the importance of realism in film: Eisenstein, “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form” and Bazin, “Evolution of the Language of Cinema.”...
This collaboration between Conor Maynard, Anth, Beckie Eaves, and Jake Barker demonstrates what Hosokawa would consider voluntary artists in The Walkman Effect. Although far from being street artists performing live music, these musicians create for passers-bys, who stumble across them on YouTube. While the connection may not be as intimate...
This project piece, rather than focusing on a particular data set, or the questions that could be posed given a set of data, focused instead on the ImagePlot tool. To showcase a possible use case scenario, while also demonstrating how to use the tool, the author of this guide choose...
If we take a moment to break down two forms of the word truth, the Roman Veritas and the Greek ἀλήθεια (aletheia), we come up with the terms: vir or man, a or not, and lethia or forget. So, through this linguistic breakdown, we can define the search of truth...
The Web 2.0 infrastructure gives new meaning to identity. It is easier than ever to portray yourself in a specific light than ever before. At the beginning of the Facebook hype, many of my friends (myself included) had two Facebook accounts – one for our families, and one for our...
This advertisement from LEGO® is a great example of how signifiers and signified combine to give meaning to signs. The object or sign of a plane is characterized by features such as its wings, its function of flight, and the term "airplane." The cognitive representations of these features allow us...