Museum of Fine Arts

3 metaphor proposals

I will be going with the angel inside the 4 walls. This seems like the best metaphor for me personally, and the one that is most practical to do.

SRL Essay

The Survival Research Laboratories fulfill the side of dark side of fantasy that yearns for chaos and destruction. It is the side of our imagination that wants to be scared. It gives an adrenaline high that is mostly missing now in our day-to-day lives.
A good mainstream analogue to what the Survival Research Labs do is monster truck rallies. They are loud, exciting, and carry an air of danger to them. The main point of monster truck rallies is destroying a lot of cars. The two differ in that SRL’s shows actually have an element of danger to them. If they make one mistake during the show, people will be killed. Another form of entertainment that could be compared is horror movies. The entire point of a horror movie is to make the viewer feel fear and give him an “adrenaline high”. The two differ, again, in that there is no chance that the monster in the horror movie is actually going to come out of the screen and hurt you, while theoretically a show at the Survival Research Laboratories could.
Being art there is no objective answer to the question of the “yanks with tanks” moniker. It’s all really in the eye of the beholder. The artist’s intent never really is the final word on any subject. Both the artist’s vision of their work being art and the Dutch protesters calling them just yanks with tanks have the possibility of being correct. I don’t believe the Survival Research Laboratories promote or critique mechanized violence. I believe that they are bunch of guys that like to build crazy contraptions and put on an exciting show for the audience. The art world attempts to apply deeper meanings to every single thing that encompasses it, even when it doesn’t need it. Of course, my opinion is not really important, as is the nature of art.
The audience of SRL is people who live mostly boring lives that need to feel excitement every once in a while. The reason why shows are performed in places like The Netherlands and the United States is because they are first-world countries where the majority of the people live safe, middle class lives. The reason why they don’t perform in second or third world countries is because they already have enough problems to worry about, and there is not demand to feel artificial excitement as much.

Identity Essentials: Body part as a Landscape.

The main thing I focused on this project was the lighting. My main light source for most of the photos the flash, and I played with how close the camera was to achieve an overblown effect.

Nonsensical sentences used to create art.

Nice lights run white tiger.

 Fat song skips in a big soul.

Mean coyote fills black sky.

Lecture Assignment (3/4)

a. what is the purpose of this photo; why was it taken? why do you keep it? why did you choose it for this assignment? What is its significance to you?

    Taken of my brother in New Orleans. To show off his sweet hat. Because it is still on my phone. I chose this photo because it was of exciting time of my life. It reminds of the good times, unlike now where I have to work all of spring break on 3 projects.

b. What is the emotional relationship between the photographer and the subject? how does that influence the way the picture was taken? How does it affect the way you look at the photo? What is the photographer' atttude toward the subject? What is the subject's attitude towards the photographer?

    He is my brother. The photo was shot very close up. I love him very much. He loves me very much.

c. In what context is this photo intended to be viewed?, by who, for how long? Do you think you will still remember this photo in ten years?

    On the screen of my phone. By me, most likely for a couple of seconds as I scroll through photos. It is certainly possible.

a. what is the purpose of this photo; why was it taken? why do you keep it? why did you choose it for this assignment? What is its significance to you?

    To document our vacation in Tennessee. Because it is still on my computer hard drive. I like the poses and the emotion that everyone is feeling is clearly evident. It reminds me of a more carefree time. A time when I wasn't assigned 3 projects to do over my spring break.

b. What is the emotional relationship between the photographer and the subject? how does that influence the way the picture was taken? How does it affect the way you look at the photo? What is the photographer' atttude toward the subject? What is the subject's attitude towards the photographer?

    My mom is the photographer of her family. It was taken casually with the intention of just documenting family moments. I look back at it nostalgically knowing we are all 4 there. She loves us very much right here. Me and my brother are not paying much attention, while Dad is being silly towards her. 

c. In what context is this photo intended to be viewed?, by who, for how long? Do you think you will still remember this photo in ten years?

    On the monitor of either my or my mother's computer monitor. Most likely just me or my mom, for a couple of seconds as we go through the album. I'm not sure. It will probably be grouped with a lot of other photos of this era, and it will be remembered as a set.

a. what is the purpose of this photo; why was it taken? why do you keep it? why did you choose it for this assignment? What is its significance to you?

    The purpose was to document the birthday of girl. I don't keep it as I have just gotten it. I chose it because you can see the joy radiating off her face. It is significant because it shows the opposite of my life right now. She seems genuinely happy, while I am not at all because I feel overworked yet still have much work to do during my supposed break.

b. What is the emotional relationship between the photographer and the subject? how does that influence the way the picture was taken? How does it affect the way you look at the photo? What is the photographer' atttude toward the subject? What is the subject's attitude towards the photographer?

    The photographer is the mother of the subject. It is taken in a clearly positive light, though still professionally done because the mother is a photographer. I look at it cheerfully because the it is such a positive photo. I assume that the photographer loves and cares for the subject. I would also assume the same for the subject towards the photographer.

c. In what context is this photo intended to be viewed?, by who, for how long? Do you think you will still remember this photo in ten years?

   Online at Flickr. Anyone in the Flickr community, as long as they feel like they should. No, because it is a random photo I picked for an assignment my freshman year of college.