La Strada I had a couple of ideas when we were talking in class about how the director of La Strada chose to give the mother so little screen time even though she was dominating the dialogue and was so emotional. As Jeff pointed out this was the ’50’s and one of the golden rules…
Today in class we agreed that there are less options in terms of directing/controlling focus on the stage than in the cinema. I want to bring up the way lighting is used on stage. Though it does convey emotional reaction with color and mood, etc., I primarily want to focus on how it’s used to…
I just had a question about something that was mentioned briefly in the very last lecture we had covering semiotics. We were talking about how syntagms imply time as a factor and rules in a sequence and gave the example that certain tasks are structured in a sequence, online shopping for example. So, tasks are…
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I started out just writing out keywords and major ideas we’ve had about phenomenology so far-things like intersubjectivity, ethnomethodology, and authors like Dourish and Metz. At the same time I had a couple of “concrete examples” that I find interesting. When I looked at the two parts together(theory & example), one of my concrete examples…
What: A Special Presentation Who: Stelarc When: October 24, 2007 @ 7:30pm Where: Fine Arts Building Room 015 “Stelarc, one of the world’s most innovative artists, has been performing and creating multidisciplinary projects internationally since the late 1960’s… his goal has been to look at the body as a tool that can be enhanced by…
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I know in class we sort of focused on how macro and micro were different. We used the example for macro that an author doesn’t really write a novel, but that the novel is essentially produced by the author’s position in society and outside factors like economics. And micro is focusing on the individual versus…
So we were talking about the idea of intersubjectivity being that people form groups/communities by sharing prejudices, horizons, lifeworlds (or similar pieces of a particular facet of their lifeworld) and therefore respond in similar ways to stimuli. We made an important note to the effect that in this case there really is no objectivity. Then…
I’d like to go back to the subject of Erik’s example about material vs. tool vs. designer with the tool being a hammer, wood the material, and the carpenter the specific “designer.” Though it seems clear, remember we reached a point where the line begins to blur between material and tool; for example, a hammer…
When Jeff was talking about how early film was just a single uncut scene (the factory workers leaving for the day) and the revolution of film through montage, I thought about how, interestingly enough, we’ve almost come around back to the beginning. Maybe only among the super nerdy film circles, you’ll hear about how blank…
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