sketch up day 1

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.

Quotidian Project- Project 19

"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

Quotidian Project-Post 18

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

Quotidian Project- Post 17

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

Quotidian Project- Post 16

said by my friend Gab

Quotidian Project- Post 15

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

Design

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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