Visual Literacy

Last week I explained the college we did in art appreciation and last class we sent our colleges around the class for people to guess what the pictures represented. I must admit, I was excited to see what people thought about my college. I hoped they would guess correctly on what my pictures represented. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in my results. The whole point of this project was to test people’s visual literacy but based on my results the 3 people who had my college visual literacy isn’t that great. They looked at my art and saw what was there but not what each picture represented. For instance, I put a picture of a dog on the college. Instead of reading what the dog was doing (it was lying down, which was representing laziness) they just said I liked dogs. Maybe the people who got mine didn’t take the examination of my art seriously.  I got a good great so, oh well I guess. Maybe I’ll post the college next week to see if you can guess!

Me with no words

Were supposed to blog about what we talk about in class, so I will…just not Mr. Sweeney’s class. Haha, well at least not in this blog. Anyway, I take art appreciation with Ms. Delano which I thought I wouldn’t enjoy (Does art appreciation sound interesting to you?) but overall it’s a pretty cool class. She assigned us to make a self-portrait without using a picture of ourselves or words. Basically were making a collage with pictures to describe ourselves. First, I thought this was going to be difficult but when I started looking up pictures it became fun to describe myself without words. Of course it’s a little challenging but if it were really easy, I don’t think that would be fun. I got stuck a few times because I ran out of words but I just asked s few people who knew me well to help me get back on track. The collage is due tomorrow and I’m excited to see what people think of it. Maybe for my blog for next week I’ll explain what I did. J

Writers block I guess

Today I planned on writing my paper to turn it in next week. It’s been an hour and here I am eating waffles as I think “this is going to be harder than I thought.” My topic is whether abortions should be legalized or not in America, which is a very heated topic. I’m not sure why I’m stuck but a possibility is that these waffles and 106 & Park are distracting.  On top of that although abortions are serious business, it’s not a topic I personally jump out my seat for but I picked it because it was one of the most heated topics we came up with in class. Maybe it would have been a better idea for me to brainstorm more to pick a better topic to make my paper easier but I already started writing and don’t want to start over with such little time. Hahaha. Although I rather have a different topic, I enjoy writing and this paper, like every paper I write, will be a good one.

No idea which to pick

Wednesday in class we filled the board with Pop Culture topics to write for our first paper. Out of over 50 topics I have narrowed it down to 3. The first one I was considering was about the show “Bad Girls Club”. If your unfamiliar with the show is about pretty woman between the ages of maybe 21-25 who consider them self bad girls or bad b***hes. I was going to write about the pros and cons of this show. But unfortunately I can’t figure out how to turn this into an argumentative and not bias. The second topic I was considering was the show “Beyond Scared Straight”. This show is about out of control teens taking a tour of a jail to get them to realize that they need to change. I was thinking about how they should have that program associated with schools everywhere and how it may not be a good idea. Although this is a good topic I’m not sure if that’s argumentative enough or what kind of research I would have other than statistics about out of control teens or maybe examples from the actual show. My third topic was abortion but that’s a common topic so I don’t want to write about it. Hahaha. The rough draft is due Monday so I need to decide quickly.