September 2011
Cultural Texts
1. Life is hard? Compared to what?
2. Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals and ugly people.
3. Your life is not your story. Your story is your life.
4. Going to a church doesn’t make you any more christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
5. If life ain’t just a joke, then why are we laughing?
Photoshop Reflection
My experience with Photoshop was overall pretty good. I only ran into a few issues with layer effects. Which was being unable to figure out how to undo it, so I just deleted that layer and restarted it since I wasn’t too far into the project. I enjoyed messing with the opacity, shadowing, and effects the most. I feel like the shadows gave it a nice depth and generally just looked nice....
Visual Culture
Visual culture is art and other visual mediums that exhibit history and culture of the world. It could be anything from a still photograph to a TV commercial or a video clip on the Internet. It helps us understand our society and make sense of it. Visual culture has a great power over everyone, especially today’s youth. Commercials on TV and ads in magazines lead people to buy exactly what they...
