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Blog #8 – Arts RLS “Why the Renaissance and its Art Were More Controversial Than We Think”

Link to the RLS: http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/why-the-renaissance-and-its-art-were-more-controversial-than-we-think Summary: The perception of the renaissance is changing. In the period known as the high renaissance, we see the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Negel explained that there is a new controversy of Renaissance art because of not everyone having been brought up through the ideals of the renaissance movement. Negal sees the high renaissance between the 1400s – 1500s between two ‘calm’ eras. In this time was the invention of the religious art. The search for the religious art would have begun with Negal and the debate of over the proper function of imagery. “ religious art as a distraction from the message of the image—a tension between the making of beautiful pictures and the making of pious pictures ” (University of Chicago 2015). The text goes on and on, the jest of it is that because we come from different time eras and differe...

Blog #7 - Arts and Viewer discretion – discussion response:

  “A quick talk and hear me out here”, in today’s class, an extensively long class discussion occurred, the idea was about discretion when creating art and whose views matter in the reception of it as well as how/who would see this ‘art’. I would say that I was a “MAJOR” contributor to the discussion. In the way that I liked building in people’s ideas. I found that a lot of what I was doing was making new arguments although I never got to talk about my own views on the subject matters. I liked what Zain said, she talked about it is always the viewer's responsibility to exercise discretion when viewing things, the internet is a massive viscus place and the right mentality is needed to use it, if not a lot of “BAD” things may come up. Essentially, we are getting more than what we asked for. I expanded on that idea with the argument that with the search bar, comes great responsibility. In the defense of large film companies, the internet is a true meritocracy, where th...

Blog #6 - CSR IN THE MEDIA – Control what is said ‘13 reasons why’

Netflix as a media sharing platform has a Corporate Social Responsibility when in respect to their own actions when making their own content. It Is universally understood that ‘ Suicide ’ is a negative idea/view that is not encouraged in fact it is warned against. Television shows aimed towards adolescence is an area that requires a lot of discretion , to understand the ‘extent that adolescence will react with the show’. The text mentions “teens are particularly sensitive and exposed to quick and powerful changes in perspective to the world”. They would be quick to form opinions and act on them. It is said a trait that makes kids better than adults is that they don’t over analyze things, they would action on it, and so if it does not work out, they lean and don’t do it again. When an artist or writer in this circumstance should consider the extent his/her inquiry should take, they are not supposed to do too far and to be relevant not stay too safe, this is a really t...

Blog #5 - Look at emotions article - responce

Emotion. To what extent can we trust what is true? To elaborate on that, our emotions have a bad habit to recognize situations, judge and create feelings in an instant. Leading us to believe things we think are the correct but are far from. The article uses a great example where ‘Lisa’ goes on a date with a coworker, she agrees because of the stress of work. She thinks she likes him because she is a data with him when she does not even know him that well. The proposition forms the text describes a situation where we can mistake an infection for “love”. That sensation like anger, anxiety, hunger or illness is not as distinct that I might first assume, how we take that information and misinterpret them with the situation to creates a file of memory that we refer back to alone. In my own interpretation, I don’t think she is in love with the man. I don’t think that he is significant in any way to her. She is not in love with him, in fact, she is in love with what he...

Blog #4 - Somatic Marker Theroy

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Simple, we have an amazing ability to make opinions based on emotions. The somatic marker theory suggests that we can remember ideas, feelings, and emotions to particular events and situations that make us formulate opinions on the situation. The way we interact with the world, stimuli refer to our senses, (sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing) these are the sensory processes that tell the brain what to think in response to an Input, of which would be a situation (eating cake, being in a car crash), then the brain is the central processor that decides for an action, the brain does this thousands of times a day. In the end, it outputs out a motor process of in this case is an active memory, so when the same memory is repeated in life it can kick out the same motor response of emotion and reaction. By definition, we can say it is 'The link between emotions and decisions making. Damasio concludes that your choices are steered by your emotions.' - Our psychol...

Blog #3 - RLS: Emojis are dumbing us down.

First Order: * US library of congress accepted a 'translation' into emoji of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. * It wasn't until 2006 that the three networks came to some kind of consensus. * In October 2010, a hand-picked selection of 722 emoji characters were finally cemented into Unicode across sets such as.. Second Order: * "[IN CONVERSATION] we tend to imply things instead of explicitly expressing them" KQ: * To what extent can an image cause miss communication? * How can we know universal signs receive with the same emotion as they were intended.

Blog #2 – How long can a global language last?

Try to imagine a world with only one language. Everyone speaks and refers to the same language, the same set of words and references. The impact it would have on the world is quite simple and positive, although it can easily have a lot of negative impacts. To talk about language, you need to understand where language comes from . Language comes from cultures and how we live our lives. It often comprises of short terms and half ideas that are perceived as whole thoughts because the person being spoken to would have come from the same the same social background. If the same sentence was spoken to someone with the completely different background they would not understand a thing. For example, if I said, ‘let’s get an Uber and hit up a Pizza Hut’. To someone in a modern city like Las Angeles, everyone will understand right away. If you said it to someone in sub-Saharan Africa they would not understand a thing. You would need to first explain what Uber is, a car, the internet, the p...