Dreamweaver

Since we all go to tech, it's very interesting to see the school's influence on our project. In high school, I had to make a website for a project but comparing it to the project that we have to do in english now seems very elementary. After the Dreamweaver tutorial in the library, I was a little bit nervous making a website for the project because I'm not really creative in general and I'm not creative on the computer. However, I was really intrigued by Dreamweaver because of all functions you can do to create a website. I really like how Dreamweaver is for beginners to advanced people who are interested in web design.
When I started my first page for my group, it was actually kind of hard to get started. But after I starting to get used to it, I think it's really fun. I think if I was to change my major, I would change it to computer science. So far this is what my page looks like :

A Museum's End

Some people might think that museums are boring and are a waste of time, but they really aren't. If you go to a museum with bad expectations, at the end of thev visit, you views will change.In the Duncan article, she talks about a ritual's experience is to have a purpose, or an end. After, visiting a museum, the beneficial outcomes of musuems are compared to outcomes of traditional, religious rituals. When people peform some religious rituals, they are trying to seek obtain some sort of education out of it. Duncan explains that at the end of visiting a museum (museum ritual), the "visitors come away with a sense of enlightenment, or a feeling of having been spiritually nourished or resotred" (Duncan 479). Something unexpected will happen during your visit, and you will discover so many interesting things that it will be on your mind later after the visit. That's why so many people go to museums.

My experience is that I've always found something worth while in a museum. Everything in a museum is fascinating, even if the objects in the museum aren't aesthetically pleasing to look at. I really don't know when the last time I went to a museum, not including the High Museum. The Prado Museum in Spain is one art museum that I would love to go to because of the Spainish art.

My thoughts on the visual essay

The visual essay that we were assigned was actually hard to accomplish. There is so much that we could do for the assignment, but it was really about how you could all put it in one theme. I had a hard time thinking what I was going to talk about and how I was going to convey my theme through my pictures. I understood how difficult it is for photographers to convey what they want to say through their photos.

Everyone did such a great job. I really enjoyed hearing what they had to say about public art and how they incorporated that into themes. The visual essays that really stood out were the ones that were really out of the box. The evolution of the trashcan was probably my favorite just because I wouldn't have ever thought of that idea and the presentation was great. Other good ones had to do with nature and public art and advertising.

Labyrinth and Thread

In class Thursday, we discussed 4 case studies that was analyzed in the Mitchell essay. The case study that I was assigned was Labyrinth and Thread: Camera Lucida by Barthes. It basically discussed the relationship captions and images have with each other with using Barthes' book of photographs of his mother as an example. What really caught my attention is how the photographs that Barthes, used from other photographers, all relates back to his mother. How could random pictures relate back to one's mother? The answer is perception. What one person sees in a picture is different from another one's view of a picture. The captions that Barthes that describes or analyzes the picture is the "thread" that leads the observer through his book of photographs the "labyrinth". If you apply that to all pictures, you can relate that to a number of things.

Walking around Atlanta

I was really excited about taking pictures for our visual essay assignment. There is so much public art in Atlanta that you just have to be inspired by it. I was nervous about taking the pictures with different perspectives and angles because I'm not much of a photographer. In the end, my pictures came out pretty well in my opinion. Here's some of my photos that I took-

The Wonders of Public Art

Public art is all around us. We see it through architecture, gardens, murals, and sidewalk chalk, billboards, etc. I believe that public art is for those who seek public art and those who don't. Public art only has a message if you seek it out. Public doses so much for the community. Public art highlights the surrounding area and attracts new people to the site.

Symmetry

In my biology class, we were studying the process of evolution. In a homework assignment of ours, there was a picture of that showed a bird evolving into a fish; or it could be the other way around. I thought it was interesting and I researched more in the artist who created the picture. M.C. Escher is a graphic artist who is inspired by math to create art. Many of his art is symmetrical. I find that Escher's artwork is fascinating and beautiful.