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What I found interesting about chapter four was the Perspective in Digital Media. Digital Media is the codes and conventions of realism that have been continued to change in the context of electrical visual technologies. I thought this section was interesting because of the example of video games they provided as Digital Media. It was neat to know that television or movie program it unfolds our eyes that the requirement that we interact with others or with the actual technology. As for video games it basically requires the negative elements of the game to able to interact with other users as a condition. Video games was interesting to know how people view on them than besides television or movie on how they make it the differences. Basically the video games, the viewer only connects with the physical, embodied experience that is beyond something to experience of the looking. For me, I personal think that as I play Wii video games, I personally think that it gets into a lot of physical for me as well as looking much of the time instead of television or movie. There is a lot to see and what to see what is happening while you are playing. Also it is really cool to see how these digital media artist people created and it amaze me. I just find this section easy to know because video games can caught you in your eyes more than the television or movie. I just find this section easy to understand rather than understanding the Realism and Perspective.
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
I think that this quote is very good. In my opinion, I think that Scott Adams express this quote about inspirational for anyone. Everyone do make mistakes, it happens in everyday life. Creativity comes with expressing ideas of the art. It is like I call it as putting it as a test. Once you create something, you think you make mistakes at the end. Mistakes just comes into a picture. Sometimes it is necessary to be creative in art or the ones that are not. Is being inspirational with something makes you make mistakes? Absolutely!
For an example, when I was in middle school, I was doing track and I was inspired by Marion Jones who was a pro track runner and the fastest woman in the world. She never made mistakes at her races while I was still in school so I still make mistakes by false starting the blocks or not winning the race. I continue with that all the way until college and I was never mad at myself for making those kind of mistakes. It happens and I learn from that. But being as creative, I learn a lot of things about Marion Jones and watch her moves on the blocks and her leg and arm forms. I created that in practices.
Making mistakes is part of everyone's life but it shouldn't let you stop doing them just because you make a mistake. You keep on going on something you love to do and that is what I did with track. So I agree with Scott Adams and it is something I will look back at this quote.
Overall my reaction of being a voyeur is probably good. Sometime you can always look at something you like to do. I like be a voyeur on watching t.v. shows, watching people or look at someone you really like, for an example, I look up at Carrie Underwood everyday because I am a huge fan of hers. What I do, is look at her blogs, talk to fans, look at pictures and everything but I am not a bad person who stalks her but only support her. Sometimes it is not wrong because this is something that someone loves to do or that is around you everyday. But sometimes the problem is that if you are using it as a corrupt way by being a creeper or stalking someone or something else. Like for an example, one girl really likes your boyfriend and she does everything to your boyfriend to do anything to make your boyfriend break up with you. This makes you want to stalk her on facebook or else where because you are so mad even mad at your boyfriend. That can be a really bad problem. I do not do any of that.
In the movie "Rear Window", Jeffries broke his leg and has to stay in the wheel chair for so long and he decides to watch his neighbors outside the window and looking at what is going on around him. But he saw something every day as he thinks a man across from his apartment kills his wife so he investigate. To me, I think Jeffries was doing the right thing because he can see what is going on and can tell something is wrong. So he is doing the right thing to figure out with the man and then arrest him. I think being a voyeur can be a good thing and that people knows what is going on around them.
Reading throughout the chapter, I found that gaze was about how to establish relationships of power. The act of power is the most awarded to the person who is either looking and/or observing the piece of art as it explains the relationship of us viewing the piece of art. The power of gaze directs the affects of many aspects by viewing art such as identify the difference between the key aspects including the gender, race, language and culture. Gaze is also the object and not who subjects look. By reading the section about gender and the gaze as it caught my attention, the history of the paintings were towards for the most part geared toward the male viewers. But what was surprising is that the female was nude as being the possession of the male artist or male viewers. In this section, there were many pictures of nude women and they were represented as their nude bodies towards the viewers.
Today, many women does not show nude but mostly part of their sex appeal. These kind of sex appeals are examples of popular magazines, perfumes, clothing line, or any other appeals. Many women are shown as sex appeals to catch someones attention to get the viewers to buy the products. Part of the idea of the gender and gaze can still be shocking as you can see the differences between the past and the present and how they compare to be different.
