Assignment 9

It irritated me how closed minded the man was. I liked that in the end it seemed like the blind man had opened his eyes. He understood that being blind had something special about it. It was like he could see the world in his own way. I think being blind for a day would be a very good learning experience. There are so many things that I tune out throughout the day. I always liked those games where someone will make a sound and you have to guess what made the sound. I almost never guess right. I also think it is so interesting that when one of your senses doesn't work, your other sense increase to fill the gap. The blind see more that me in certain ways. Because that man was blind, he needed to pay attention to the details he was given more. I take my sight for granted and don't often remember the way things look when trying to recall. The blind man has to learn things about something to be able to understand it, because of that they remember it better and sometimes understand it better.

MP 4

Abduction

Everyday I go to my sisters and help her watch her foster children for a couple of hours. TJ and Tori are one year olds and they don't know words yet but they make a lot of noise. I usually listen to music in the car on the way over. I hear my engine turn off and I hear my door shutting as I get out. Now that its fall I notice the leaves on the ground crunching under my feet as I walk to the door. While I am there I listen to the babies playing with all of their automated toys but mostly they talk to each other with goos and gaas. Almost everyday one of them cries because I come around their nap time. If I were to close my eyes I would know that I am at this place because of the baby voices. They each have their own individual, recognizable voices. 

I put a filter on they baby voices and it ended up sounding really creepy so I decided to make it into alien voices. I also thought it was sort of funny that I used the voice of a baby (someone completely helpless) and made it into a frightening noise.

Assignment 8

Response to This is Water

I lived with my sister when I was a senior in high school because she had 2 children under the age of 3 and her husband was deployed in Afghanistan. While I lived there I learned that I need to have a job that I love and I do not want to take my work home with me. My sister, Ellen had the same problem that Wallace had. She would spend all day at work and then come home and see her kids for a couple of hours before she went to bed. I saw a little piece of my future by living there and I had to grow up fast. I had duties of a parent when I was 17 years old. I learned how hard taking care of kids was because I basically played a parent for a year. Not a very good one. I know that this article was about learning and being open minded, but it mostly just depressed me for my future. I do have to admit though, that college has definitely made me a more open minded person. I question things more now. I'm learning that even though I don't understand something, that doesn't mean its wrong.

Assignment 7

Kaprow "Blurring of Art and Life"

The most interesting part of this article was when he said that we routinize brushing our teeth and we probably routinize the majority of the things we do through out the day. Now that I think about it so many of the things I do everyday are just part of my routine and I am not really in the moment. I don't know where my thoughts are at during those moments but they are not focused on what I am doing. Sometimes it stresses me out if I realize that I have to do something everyday for the rest of my life. When I got my braces off, my dentist gave me a retainer and told me I had to wear it every night forever. That really stressed me out for some reason. I don't like to imagine myself as a 50 year old women, putting my retainer in before I go to be. I guess it's nice to have things as a routine when its something you don't enjoy doing, that way your mind can be elsewhere.

Shadow Buddies Video

By :
Angie & Lindsey

Assignment 5

The Wexner Visit

When I first arrived, I was not expecting the Annie Leibovitz exhibit to be as big as it was. The first thing I saw was the video in the room called The Box. My first impression was not very good because it was very different and creepy. However, I think that is what a lot of her pieces were about, being different. As I started to walk through the photographs I noticed she used a lot of skin to capture attention. There was one image in particular that stuck out to me. It was of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He was completely naked hugging her, while she was fully clothed staring off into space. It seemed odd to me because only one was naked. I wonder what she was trying to show. She almost seemed indifferent as he clung to her.
Another photo that stuck out to me was the picture of the Rolling Stones fans. It was a picture of them up against a fence and if there wasn't a description I would have thought something terrible was happening to them. Some of them seemed distressed and they were all smashed against the fence uncomfortably. It shows how our culture looks at celebrities with almost an insane admiration. It is an interesting part of our sociology and I liked that she captured it.