Public Art Influences

When I first relaized what Shimon Attie was doing on the buildings of Manhattan, I wasn’t particularily interested. It didn’t seem that having writing projected in the walls was going to be effective. I still don’t think that it was that great of a project after seeing the final outcome. It was interesting the way [...]

Fashion

Fashion is one of my favourite things. I love creating new pieces, and designing different clothing. I do design stuff myself, and sew it myself, but only for myself. I am always aware of the new trends, and I try to stay ahead of them. I find it particularly interesting how it is so easy [...]

Manufactured Landscapes

The documentary “Manufactured Landscapes” by Edward Burtynsky was an eye opener for me. I have seen the film twice before, so I was already familiar with the theme of the movie. Its relation to visual culture though was a little but difficult for me to decipher. At first, I sort of thought that the techniques [...]

Visual Culture in Cyberspace

So, I origianally wrote this blog a while ago, and it has mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth, so I am going to attempt to rewrite it again!
Anyways the topic of discussion was visual culture in cyber space. I would like to mainly focus on discussing the impact that the internet and the [...]

The “true” meaning of pictures…..

So, the movie that we watched this week in lecture was quite interesting. It was a documentary of a photographer named Shelby Lee Adams, and  his work involving images of families, mostly the Napier family, in the Appalachian mountains. Well, the first thing that came to mind when I heard the Appalchian mountains was Virginia. [...]