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I added one more slide to this. It reads "sin kills" which I think helps solidfy the fear of god message that I think a lot of people have.

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I added a few more pictures to show more annymostiy between god and man. I wanted to show the difference between the original relationship (god creating adam) and what came after, first a fear of god, and now a confusion and distance.

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I changed the order of the slide show so that it made more sense.

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Pictures

This is the first set of pictures i'm going to use on my slide show. the slide show is meant to show the evolving relationship between man and god. I want it to be the popular view of religion, so i'm using resources from the internet. I'm not looking at the context the images are used in.

Ideas for Final Project

I may make a slideshow to show different interpretations of this picture. It may culminate in a photoshopped interpretation of my own. I think I'd like to discuss the seperation of man and their religion, and how it has changed through time.

Final Projest Idea

I think I'm going to do a photoshop collage to mod this image.

Well I've got my philosophy (ben folds)

I disagree with the philosophy of Aristotle in terms of the state allowing censorship. I think having censors and filters on the information that is given to the public is absolutely wrong. Some people believe that this effects children in particular, and I can understand that. The innocence of children is extremely important, but I don't believe that knowing about the world is going to destroy a child's innocence. “Grown up” information does not need to be forced down a child's throat, but stories like “the stork” and other misleading tales makes it much harder for a child to understand the world.

Having filters and controls on what may reach children does not seem to be right to me. I believe that children (and society for that matter), can handle much more than we give them credit for. In my opinion, they are good in nature, and thus will not be completely corrupted by being given knowledge. This may roam a little from Aristotle's philosophy concerning censorship, but it is a huge part of mine.
Withholding information, and even something like literature, is not beneficial to those who are out of the loop. People should be privy to any information that effects their lives (such as the status of weapons of mass destruction in enemy countries), just as students should be allowed to read whichever book they choose. Banning books and firing teachers who teach them anyway, in my opinion, is equal to withholding important information from the public. I can honestly see no point in it.

In my slide show, I begin with the image of a young child, essentially unaffected by the world, who is a clean slate, ready to receive information. With my passion for a non-censored world, I do not wish to force children to grow up. I want to be very clear with that. I love the idea of childhood innocence. However, I think placing a veil over a child's view of the world will make the transition to adulthood much harder. I followed this image with images of people's faces and mouth's covered, to show how smothering censorship can be. I finished with an image of a snake on an apple tree. To me, this is a very powerful image.

I believe the story of Adam and Eve is extremely interesting, and the result of the story speaks volumes of the consequences of withholding information. In my interpretation , God would not share his knowledge with Adam and Eve, and so Eve became curious. This is a natural reaction for one who knows they are in the dark. It makes me incredibly nervous to know that the government is withholding important information from me. At the end of the story, Eve and Adam are banished from their paradise. This may be a story of how being given information (or taking information) will banish you from your childhood innocence, but I would much rather live outside of ignorant bliss rather than within.

My philosophy in relation to Aristotle, is completely opposite. I do not believe the government should have control of censors, just as I believe that book banning is insultingly horrible. Everyone is worthy of the information that may effect them, and so I think Aristotle is wrong in his philosophy.

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Definitions

Pimp- to improve something by making it flashy, spending an obnoxious amount of money on it, and generally showing off who you are and how much money you have

Hack- old, cliche', overused,

Mod- to modify or change for the better or maybe for the worse

Oppenheim: Glove for Parkette (Revise)

With a pink background, the brown, worn gloves stand out. The red veins look like those that might be within human hands ( I couldn't say for sure.. I don't know what those veins actually look like.). The gloves don't look like actual hands, while the veins seem to be painstakingly realistic.

This could represent the fakeness that we often put on our outsides to cover up the inside. We dress up, put make up on, do our hair, act a certain way in order to cover whats truly on the inside. This picture puts the inside out, and shows us what maybe we don't wan to see. It ignores the squeamish aversion to the human anatomy, preferring a more streamlined and generic outside.

I'm not sure what the word Parkett means, but it makes me think of park. I think this kind of pertains to the image. Parks are supposed to represent nature in a more urban setting, but generally they are trimmed, mowed, perfectly manicured version of nature. Nature is dirty, overgrown, sometimes ugly, much like the inside of our bodies. They are perfect or pretty. I may try to reverse the effect of the gloves, by showing a human hand with a generic version of the insides of our hands

My Comic!

My comic has four panels. It shows a small worm like demon who wants to go for a swim on a sunny day. Unfortunately he spots a shark in the lake! He then realizes its his purple friend playing a trick on him. They go swimming together. Although they are the same type of demon I made them two different colors so you can tell them apart.

I decided to not use words in my comic. Since the first two panels only had one real character in them I decided a thought bubble would suffice. In the third panel the purple worm is winking, which shows that he is kidding. In the fourth panel, the pure joy on their faces shows their emotions where words could not.

I'm not really sure how I would change it. I'm pretty happy with how "Going Swimming" turned out. Maybe I would add dialouge, or a few frames to continue the story. Perhaps I would have the red worm playing a trick on the purple worm.

Modified Collage

This is the second version of my collage. I added a few more layers to it. This version contains some veins from a hand, as well as a large glove in the background. Now there are four versions of the human hand on my collage. Each one shows a different interpretation of the human hand, how they are represented in our lives. One is scientific, a map of veins. The second is what we see on the outside, without diving in too deep. The other is reaching out to God, a hand looking to be held, representing the human need for connection. The fourth is glove, covering any imperfections, looking just like everyone else's.

I also changed the background to pink, to look a little more like Oppenheim's. I think this makes the center stand our more, and look a little more interesting. Pink is not a color found in any of my images, just like it was a kind of random color for the original picture.

I think my collage looks pretty cool. I like all of the layers in it...now it actually means something to me. I didn't really think much of Oppenhiems....but mine seems pretty cool.

Collage 1

This is my first version of my collage. I chose to add a park in the background, because the word Parkett stood out to me. I don't know if that is someones name or if its about a little park, but thinking about park in the context of Oppenheim's image seems cool to me.

I chose the map of the park because I thought it showed just how opposite from nature a park is. It is plotted and planned, and there is really nothing natural about it. I thought this was similar to gloves. Gloves aren't really like real hands.. they are generic and don't really mimic what real hands are like.

The gloves also made me think of fakeness of our materialistic lives. We cover up and change what we really our (our anatomy, our veins) in order to look more generic. I chose to show an image of real hands and the drawn hands of Adam and God from the Sistine Chapel as different levels of realness and fakeness.

Oppenheim: Glove for Parkett

With a pink background, the brown, worn gloves stand out. The red veins look like those that might be within human hands ( I couldn't say for sure.. I don't know what those veins actually look like.). The gloves don't look like actual hands, while the veins seem to be painstakingly realistic.

This could represent the fakeness that we often put on our outsides to cover up the inside. We dress up, put make up on, do our hair, act a certain way in order to cover whats truly on the inside. This picture puts the inside out, and shows us what maybe we don't wan to see. It ignores the squeamish aversion to the human anatomy, preferring a more streamlined and generic outside.

I'm not sure what the word Parkett means, but it makes me think of park. I think this kind of pertains to the image. Parks are supposed to represent nature in a more urban setting, but generally they are trimmed, mowed, perfectly manicured version of nature. Nature is dirty, overgrown, sometimes ugly, much like the inside of our bodies. They are perfect or pretty. I may try to reverse the effect of the gloves, by showing a human hand with a generic version of the insides of our hands.

Summary of Comic Strip

Basically in the comic I posted, Charlie Brown and a friend are discussing criticism. I'm guessing its Charles Shulz commenting on criticism of his work, but I am only guessing. They believe it is nearly impossible to please vast amounts of people. They are the only two in the strip, and they remain stationary, standing at a brick wall, often seen in other Peanuts comics.

Comic Strip

The original publish date of this Peanuts comic, by Charles M Shulz, was March 8 1962.

http://comics.com/peanuts

Modifications

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Scanned Pictures

7 Demons- KIC Scanner Drawn Words-Flat Scanner

Gallery Ekstatsis

The air is still and silent, voices are rarely raised above a whisper, for fear of disturbing others viewing the artwork. Shuffling feet scuff the stiff grey carpet, and pencils scratch at the course paper of sketchbooks, notes hastily being made. Although the room is small in square footage, it is airy and open, with blank white walls, befitting a gallery. There is a large square column in the center of the room, providing more wall space for artwork. Although there are no windows to the outside world, the room is bright, almost glaringly, so no aspect of a masterpiece will go unnoticed.
In the corner of the gallery, standing alone near the information desk is a white stand, about three feet high, with a glass case on top. It is square as well, and glints in the bright lights. The thick glass protects a large piece of the work that is a cross between a painting and a two dimensional sculpture. It too, glints and shines, although no shiny paints have used to create it. It is made of ceramic or clay tiles, cut to fit together somewhat like a glob shaped puzzle. It’s been glazed, and looks to weigh at least 7 pounds.
The large glob has a base color of deep blue, looking something like the night sky of a strange galaxy. Brightly color plants float in the blue, in hues of orange, red, and yellow. A pale blue sidewalk comes racing from the center of the piece, and a section of it escapes off the side of the glob, standing freely from the rest. Small dots, like stars, dot the night sky, and brightly colored thin lines swoop around like the track of a planet’s orbit. The tile is cut at strange angles, interrupting the calm chaos of the piece of art, reminding the view that they aren’t gazing at the night sky.

View from the Pamela J

This is from my last day working on Star Island, in Rye, New Hampshire. This is the Pamela J, the boat used to transport Pelicans (workers on Star Island) to and from the mainland.