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From a stand-up comedy I watched this week, I forget the comedians name.

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 A waitress at Friendlies my friends and I had, she was sociable.

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Text Received from my roommate last night, describing a person showering in the stall next to her in the dorm.

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Quote from the Simpsons, I relate.

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(These last 6 were for 2 weeks ago, just got my camera back to upload them to my computer. The ones posted after this were from some of last week and this week!)

My friend Meghan

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I actually texted this to my friends on a Saturday Night, read it the next morning, I don't think DVDs was the phrase I was trying to express. 

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Random kid who is friends with one of my friends, people call him Cookie, and he uses "dope sauce" as an adjective.

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My friend Casey and I had to work 9-12 hour shifts on Black Friday at American Eagle, so we got a lot ( too many) of energy drinks, this was said hour 4 into the night at 4am.

"Okay maybe we over did it"

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My friend Emma

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My friend Alex

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https://youtu.be/j0dTv3NVDCg

Response to 5 Video Artists

1. Jan Svankmajer

I watched, Alice (1988) and 4 Dark and Light. I really enjoyed 4 Dark and Light it was whimsical and a little creepy. His work seems to be mainly stop motion video with no dialogue. His videos had very accurate sound effects however, filling the space making dialogue unnecessary. Overall I was very interesting in his videos, usually with video artists I find myself bored while watching them, but his work really caught my attention.

2. Eve Sussman

I watched clips from 89 seconds of Alcazar, and Studio 360. Eve's style is very different, and she uses a lot of strategically laced dialogue in studio 360. I didn't completely follow what was happening in that film, and it was kind of boring to watch because i just wanted to know the narrative or plot ot what i was watching. The clip of 89 seconds of Alcazar seemed really interesting and I wish i could watch the full film. Overall her style was really cool, and her back ground music and dialogue was original which caught my attention.

3. Joan Jonas

While searching around the internet looking at pictures and videos of her work, I thought everything she has done is pretty awesome. Her one exhibit named Light Time Tales, looked really interesting and cool. I have never seen an art exhibit where an artist has so many different videos set up in one room on different sized screens, and different meanings. In one of her interviews she said that the videos set up in the room cause the viewer to view them in almost a 3D sculpture like perspective, and i thought that was so unique. Personally i have always thought video art as boring, but her exhibits look so energetic, and exciting.

4. Valie Export

I watched her 9 minuet film called .....remote....remote...(1973) and the preview to her film called Invisible Adversaries. The 9 minuet film was just her sitting in a chair clipping her cuticles. I thought this was odd, and i am sure there is a big deeper meaning too it but i did not get it. Her work is the kind of video art I don't understand, or really enjoy at all. I felt uncomfortable, and anxious while watching her video, and that might be the point of the artwork, to create that sense of emotion, but overall i wasn't that interested in her style of film making.

5.Fred Forest

His work was very unique and his website was different from any kind of artists website i have come across. A lot of his work was based in mass media and on the internet. I have never seen an artist who utilized the internet and "cyberspace" the way he was. His work is interesting but it was hard to find a lot of concrete videos and performances to look at online, so i did not get a well rounded impression of him.

Homework Response- The Asethetics of Narcissism

This reading was hard to follow, and brought about a lot of confusion. Although the words were lengthy the artworks depicted in the reading were very intriguing. What I extracted most from the reading was the sense of self, or identity that artworks display. The viewer’s interaction with the artwork creates the artwork, thus making many different selves for just that one piece. This concept of narcissism in art reminds me of an artwork we talked about in intro to visual studies. Sugar Baby by Kara Walker is a huge sculpture that is supposed to be a homage to the unpaid and overworked black slaves from the past, a nice tribute to African American culture, and a remembrance of what happened in the past. However, people who viewed this sculpture ignore these messages completely, and just used this artwork as a back drop to many selfies, videos, and suggestive pictures. This is a prime example of Narcissistic action involving art that is prevalent in today' society.

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HI SORRY FOR POSTING A BUNCH TODAY, I have just been lazy with uploading, but have had all of these in storage for the past couple weeks

" I live my  life like a dragon." -Grace Helbig, you tube video

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My best friend's father sent this quote to me via pinterest.

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Honestly have no idea who said this, I write down funny phrases in my phone at random points of the day. I don't believe that this was the original quote, and suspect a auto-correct  regarding "nana," happened. So, that then leaves me to the conclusion that this was jotted down on a Saturday night.

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just google it

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An online post that displayed a picture of a girl who looked like Beans from The Even Stevens, a old TV show on Disney channel. My friends and I laughed very hard at it.

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" I thought that all ants were one ant and they were all named Anita"- Jenna Marbles, you tube video

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" If the country were a body, and colleges were the different parts of the body, Pitt would be the skin between the asshole and the penis..." A text received from my friend Emma.

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My friend Sarah

Homework #6

The site i found most interesting was Lucas Maassen's website. His Brainwave Sofa was so unique. When you first look at the sculpture you aren't that impressed initially, but after you read that it is a brain wave from a EEG scan it really makes you think about the piece in a new way. I like how new advanced technology is being brought into art processes these days. This artwork combines, science, personal information, technology, and sculpture. It's pretty awesome how much the art world has progressed.

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A tweet I came across, I have this thought about 5 times a day.

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Random intoxicated man on the streets of North Philly.

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My friend Alex said this

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Homework #5

I have read this article before in my intro to visual studies course this year. Walter Benjamin's theories and concepts talked about are very interesting to me. Due to new technology art's meaning and audience changes. The lithograph made it easier for common, middle class people to view art. Before these enhancements to the art world, only high class people got to experience, and own art. Benjamin describes how for the first time the reproductions of art are becoming more important than the actual master pieces. The only thing that the original has compared to it's reproduction is this sense of "aura." The authenticity of an original artwork that is tied to its history and tradition. Although this aura is rather important, one can argue that the representations assist in building up the aura of the original even more. For example, everyone and their mother knows what the Mona Lisa is and reproductions of this masterpiece over time have helped disperse the picture out into society, which further popularizes the want, and need to experience the original's aura. In a sense, the reproductions, prints, online pictures, and even video's displaying an original artwork are advertisements for that artwork.

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"Do you want to get a turtle?" text received form my roommate after my midterm this week. She got a turtle, his name is Tim

there he is

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I over heard a random kid say this sentence in the cafeteria. God bless that girls bed.

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My friend Kevin, he doesn't seem the type of person to have a perfected cartwheel.

Spelled with a K for Kevin's cartwheels, he wanted that.

Project 2

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said by my friend Gab

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said by random person walking in front of me on Broad Street

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Sugar-Homework 4

I have never really thought about sugar in the way this article does. Obviously I'm aware that an absurd amount of sugar is used to make mostly all artificial food items, like the pop-tarts mentioned; however, I have never thought about, in a sense, we do go to the grocery store to directly and indirectly purchase sugar. “If you go into a supermarket, you see that most of what’s lined up there is to sell sugar."

Another quote that struck me was the amount of money companies spend on advertising. I have read articles similar to this before, but no matter how many times i hear the dollar amounts that companies spend on creating advertisements, it still shocks me. "Kellogg’s spent $32 million last year in advertising Pop Tarts alone. Coca-Cola spent $269 million advertising its flagship product (Coca-Cola). Pepsi spent $150 million just to advertise the brightly colored sugar-water that is Gatorade. It's the sugar water for people who do sports." I could only imagine what a world would where money was spent on helping people in need, or money put towards higher education facilities, rather than being used to manipulate people into buying cookies. It's a really sad truth about society, we always seem to be spending money on the wrong things, and honestly I no matter how many articles are written like this, corporation will still invest their money in items that don't impact the world in a positive way. It’s just another morally wrong issue that is practiced in our world today.

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Homework #3 Manufacturing consent

I had no prior knowledge about Noam Chompsky before watching this movie. The initial message was kind of hard to grasp, but after re-watching some parts I began to pay closer attention. Over all this documentary said a lot about Noam Chompsky himself, and he was a pretty magnificent successful person. A part in the film shocked me a little, he was being interviewed and the reporter had mentioned how much he respected and studied his one essay. Noam proceeded to say, "Oh when I wrote that I was 12." It sealed the deal about how extraordinary he was as a person.

The movie talked a lot about who controls America. Large cooperation and businesses, like the New York Times control what we see and how we should feel about news around the world. Although this information is not necessarily new it is still shocking to hear about. A huge problem that I believe will always be an issue in America is the fact that the news is never 100% true. Imperative information is usually left out to almost brain wash viewers into forming one overall opinion. It's very terrifying we live in a world like this. 

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"That shit is delicious, and I can't have that!"- Boy I met named Rip. This was his only reason for hating having diabetes.

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"My second son will be named Optimus Prim"- Dane Cook

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" So, long story short I took his skateboard, and now I'm selling it."- Random Philly local from previous post. 

The next day we ran into him again, he was selling umbrellas.

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" I walked into my room, and there was my 13 year old son, NAKED, with two girls. As a parent i was like you're dead boy, but as a man i was like YEAHHHHhhhh"- Random local who came up to my group of friends who was trying to sell a skate board to us. This was the backstory as to why he wanted to sell his skate board. 

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"So, the I scooter-ed 2 miles to his house" - my friend Ant. He road a razor scooter two miles to his friends house for unmentionable reasons.   

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"Yo I got us some corn"- Random guy on walking on the street holding corn.

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"Progress looks like a dead sheep"- Greys Anatomy, character Meredith grey 

WEird

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"who parked their, car on my sandwich?" 

This is from a series of youtube videos titled the ASDF movies, they are very funny. Although the videos are funny, the more humorous thing about this post is i spelled "sandwich" wrong in the picture and didn't realize until right now.  oops.

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Watch Dane Cook's stand up comedy on Netflix, you will understand.

Project #1- Half Forest Half City

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Said by random person in my class. They were looking at this picture,

it took the person 15 min to understand the pun.

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My friend Emily went to a fancy breakfast this weekend. She wasn't that pleased with the place, she wanted more of a diner atmosphere apparently

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"At least we have our health," said by one of my professors. I was not having a great day and this sarcastic comeback to all my complaints put a smile on my face.

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Ethics of digital manipulation response

This article was a very easy read. The main points of this I agreed with and found out a lot of new information about digital manipulation. It is true that currently in society images are always manipulated and never display a complete and truthful representation of the subject that was photographed. Although I knew this was a common occurrence in today's society I didn't realize that photo manipulation dated that far back in history. This provoked me to do more research on the history of photo manipulation.

Another point I want to bring up about the article is that I do believe that not all manipulated images are considered art. In the article, a statement is said about how people expect and want fictional images in movies but get angry when we view fake or altered images in news or business advertisements.  I completely agree with this statement. When we as citizens believe something to be true then find out it is completely false we get scared and enraged because the media has fooled us; however, when we go into a scary movie for example, we know images are altered and what we are viewing is fiction, thus we are less scared about the images we are viewing.

This quote wraps up nicely his main point about when an alteration of a image becomes a problem.

"It only becomes a problem, and a question of ethics, when the artist or photographer lies about his motivations, methods, and conclusions, and presents images with the purpose to intentionally deceive."

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"They aren't just going to sniff your juice" said by a friend named Alex. The word sniff used in this context made me laugh. The background is vibrant just like Alex's personality.

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