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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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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