In my visit I went to the museum Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on ca pus and I found a really interesting gallery. The artist was Elizabeth Keith and all the paintings were about the oriental culture. There were several different paintings. The first ones that I looked were all about people. About an old man, a woman, a daughter, a mother with her child or two friends that seem that they were chatting. I thin that the author is trying to express by the paintings how are the oriental people, how they look alike. Then I saw some paintings about landscapes. They were really nice but irreal, like fantasy. Some of the landscapes had waterfalls with tigers, dragons and kind of oriental angels on them. The last paintings that I saw were about two houses. At first I thought it was the same house, because they look alike, but they were in different parts of the day: one of them was I think in the afternoon, and it was all snowed and the other one was at night. Then I looked better and I realized that they were two totally different houses.
The name of the author is Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956). She went for the first time on her life to Tokyo to visit her sister and she stayed there because he loved the oriental culture. When she was in Tokyo she made several visits to Korea. The first time that she went there an important independence demonstration was taking part in Korea. And I think that in all her art work she tries to express how is the people in Korea in those though times. Also she felt impressed with the beautiful landscapes of this country so she did some of the paintings of these landscapes. Her work was well received in Japan even though there were problems between Japan and Korea. Even one of her paintings about the house that I was talking before became a woodblock because the people in Japan thought that this could be popular as souvenir for foreign visitors. This painting was called East Gate Seoul. In every one of her paintings I think that Keith is trying to express her experience in Korea and how were the people and the landscapes.
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
Art and Technology Article 2
This time I found an essay that is talking about art and technology and the influence that technology has on art. The essay is really interesting, and discusses how the technology and the people that work in technologies are connected to art. And also I really like because one of the main points of the essay is that the role of the new technologies has changed a lot and its influence in artworks has increased in recent years. I like this main point because this is the point that I defend since I start to read about the topic art and technology. In my opinion the evolution of the technology has had an important influence in the artwork that an artist can create nowadays.
Another really interesting issue that appears in this essay is that with the new technologies “Interactive artworks that could transform viewers into participants were envisaged and created using the media available at that time. Today the opportunities for including audience participation have been increased significantly by the widespread availability of digital technology.”(Candy and Edmonds, 1). I think that this is really important because now you can use art in many different ways that maybe you could not use them years ago because the technology was worse or less develop.
“Interaction in Art and Technology”. Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/2.1/Candy/
Another really interesting issue that appears in this essay is that with the new technologies “Interactive artworks that could transform viewers into participants were envisaged and created using the media available at that time. Today the opportunities for including audience participation have been increased significantly by the widespread availability of digital technology.”(Candy and Edmonds, 1). I think that this is really important because now you can use art in many different ways that maybe you could not use them years ago because the technology was worse or less develop.
“Interaction in Art and Technology”. Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/2.1/Candy/
Art and Technology Article 1
The first website that I found when I was searching for the art and technology topic was a website about a company called Art of Technology. I found this company really interesting because is what they do is one thing that we are discussing in this week´s assignment. The company offers services to design a lot of different things but always applying the technology. They can help you to design in software and hardware. In my opinion this is a very interesting company because they can help you with a lot of different things and in different areas such as medical, aerospace or fixed and wireless communications areas. This is a company that is really creative and innovating in all the areas that they work in. This company has several different competencies such as studies and system design, electronics development, design and layout, software design and development or system miniaturization.
I think that this company is really connected with the readings of this topic because they combine art and technology b using the new technologies to design in the different areas that they work. So this is a clear example that with the improvement and advancement of the technology we can make art easier and the development of the art is clearly combine with the development of the technology. The better the technology gets, the better the art is going to get and the better the access that we have to art is going to be.
Art of technology. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://www.art-of-technology.ch/english/index.html
I think that this company is really connected with the readings of this topic because they combine art and technology b using the new technologies to design in the different areas that they work. So this is a clear example that with the improvement and advancement of the technology we can make art easier and the development of the art is clearly combine with the development of the technology. The better the technology gets, the better the art is going to get and the better the access that we have to art is going to be.
Art of technology. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://www.art-of-technology.ch/english/index.html
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Creative Spirituality
How do you define “spirituality”?
You can define spirituality in a lot of different ways. It depends if you try to define sprituality through the religion or without the religion. In my opinion spirituality is somethig that the man uses to get away from problems and also to reach the satisfaction. Sometimes you can live hard moments but you can pass those moments if you go through spirituality. I think is related also with your imagination and is misterious. Is something that implies your soul,your thoughts, your heart, is something more than physical, is somthing that we can not only give one definitions becasue everybody have their own definition about spirituality.
Does spirituality differ from religion?
I think that spirituality differs a lot from religion. Sometimes spirituality and religion might be related and you can find spirituality through your religion or viceversa. But also I do think that spirituality does not neccesarily means that has to be related to religion. I think that there are a lot of cases of people who are spiritual active and make a lot of their life decissions based in spirituality and maybe these people don´t have a religion in what they believe.
How do you define “creativity”?
Creativity is something that a person creates and is original or a person´s imagination, something that is out of the normal status. A "creativity" person is somebody who is trying to do something new, something that a normal person won´t even think of it. I also think that "creativity" is one skill that you born with. In my opinion you can not become a "creativity" person by practicing or something like that. You just are creative or not, that´s it.
What is the source of creativity?
I think that there could be several sources of creativity. The first of all of that sources could be your own imagination, the creativity of an artist can come from his or her imagination, and in my opinion this could be the strongest source when you are looking for creativity. Also you can have external sources for your creativity. I t could be something that inspired you, a moment in your life, a person, a monument, a city, you can get creativity from several different sources but the first and more important is ypur own imagination.
You can define spirituality in a lot of different ways. It depends if you try to define sprituality through the religion or without the religion. In my opinion spirituality is somethig that the man uses to get away from problems and also to reach the satisfaction. Sometimes you can live hard moments but you can pass those moments if you go through spirituality. I think is related also with your imagination and is misterious. Is something that implies your soul,your thoughts, your heart, is something more than physical, is somthing that we can not only give one definitions becasue everybody have their own definition about spirituality.
Does spirituality differ from religion?
I think that spirituality differs a lot from religion. Sometimes spirituality and religion might be related and you can find spirituality through your religion or viceversa. But also I do think that spirituality does not neccesarily means that has to be related to religion. I think that there are a lot of cases of people who are spiritual active and make a lot of their life decissions based in spirituality and maybe these people don´t have a religion in what they believe.
How do you define “creativity”?
Creativity is something that a person creates and is original or a person´s imagination, something that is out of the normal status. A "creativity" person is somebody who is trying to do something new, something that a normal person won´t even think of it. I also think that "creativity" is one skill that you born with. In my opinion you can not become a "creativity" person by practicing or something like that. You just are creative or not, that´s it.
What is the source of creativity?
I think that there could be several sources of creativity. The first of all of that sources could be your own imagination, the creativity of an artist can come from his or her imagination, and in my opinion this could be the strongest source when you are looking for creativity. Also you can have external sources for your creativity. I t could be something that inspired you, a moment in your life, a person, a monument, a city, you can get creativity from several different sources but the first and more important is ypur own imagination.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Enjoying Horror Article 2
The second website that I found was this one person talking about his opinion about horror movies. He states his opinion, and then he formulates question so the people can put their opinion in the website. His opinion is that he does not like horror movies at all. He had such bad experiences in his childhood so he does not want to experience that again by going to the theatres to watch a horror movie.
I totally agree with him, in my opinion he is really smart because if you have bad experiences watching horror movies why should you watch them again? You are going to suffer and you are going to be scared for sure so I do not think that is a good idea to repeat such a bad experience.
But there are a lot of people that have a different opinion and do not agree with me. Some people in this website leave their comments and they say that they really like horror movies because they like the sensation that provokes to them the horror movies. I understand that not everybody feel the same and I respect the people that feel this way, I just do not understand it how can you find pleasure watching a horror movie.
“Horror Movies for People Who Hate Horror Movies”,(August, 2006). ´The Tattered Coat´. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2006/07/08/horror-movies-for-people-who-hate-horror-movies/
I totally agree with him, in my opinion he is really smart because if you have bad experiences watching horror movies why should you watch them again? You are going to suffer and you are going to be scared for sure so I do not think that is a good idea to repeat such a bad experience.
But there are a lot of people that have a different opinion and do not agree with me. Some people in this website leave their comments and they say that they really like horror movies because they like the sensation that provokes to them the horror movies. I understand that not everybody feel the same and I respect the people that feel this way, I just do not understand it how can you find pleasure watching a horror movie.
“Horror Movies for People Who Hate Horror Movies”,(August, 2006). ´The Tattered Coat´. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2006/07/08/horror-movies-for-people-who-hate-horror-movies/
Enjoying Horror Article 1
The first article that I found was about a professor of Kansas State University where it says the professor’s opinion on why we like to watch horror movies? Leon Rappoport, is the name of the professor, says that people like to go to watch horror movies because we live in such a civilized society that we feel really safe and we search in horror movies what we do not have in our lives. Also he says that there is much more teenagers that watch horror movies than adults. The reason, according to Rappoport’s opinion is that these teenagers are looking for something new in their lives. They are in a difficult stage in their lives, between children and men, and they are looking for different feeleings so they can find these feelings watching horror movies. Also according to Rappoport : “ There seems to be this general quality that almost all of us share in enjoying a certain level of threatening stimulation or hazardous stimulation,” “The ability to do something that seems to go beyond the usual range of things.”(1).
I agree with Rappoport in the way he thinks about why teenagers go to the horror movies. I think he is right because they go to feel like they are adults. But I do not agree with the last quote of the article, with this quote he is saying that we go to horror movies just for fun, or because horror movies are different but in my opinion there is nothing fun on going to have a hard time to the theatre to watch one of this movies.
‘Why we like horror movies’ Leon Rappoprt’s opinion, (October 1997). Retrieved November 3, 2007, from
www.k-state.edu/media/WEB/News/NewsReleases/listscarymovies.html
I agree with Rappoport in the way he thinks about why teenagers go to the horror movies. I think he is right because they go to feel like they are adults. But I do not agree with the last quote of the article, with this quote he is saying that we go to horror movies just for fun, or because horror movies are different but in my opinion there is nothing fun on going to have a hard time to the theatre to watch one of this movies.
‘Why we like horror movies’ Leon Rappoprt’s opinion, (October 1997). Retrieved November 3, 2007, from
www.k-state.edu/media/WEB/News/NewsReleases/listscarymovies.html
Saturday, October 27, 2007
The Art of Personal Adornment
First of all I have to admit to I take a lot of time to choose the clothes that I want to wear any given day or to buy them when I go shopping. I like to think what I am going to dress, if that is going to match, if that t-shirt is ok with those pants or even with the shoes. I think that all of this is because I believe that dressing good is fundamental in your life, you should know how to dress appropriate in any different occasion.
I do not think that I really change the way that I dress, since I buy the clothes that I want. Since I was 15 years old or so I star to buy my own clothes and the way I dress everyday. And honestly I do not think that I will change the way that I dress but I do think that when I’m done with college I will have to change the way that I dress to dress appropriate with the job that I will have.
My family is catholic and they have classis values, so do I, so I do not think that dress weird or really different I just dress ‘normal’ and I think that ‘normal’ is really subjective but with it I mean that I dress with jeans, shirts, shoes or maybe a polo, not anything else. But every cloth that I wear I choose it carefully.
Sometimes the only thing that you could see in the clothes that I am wearing is that I am wearing something about my country or maybe my favorite team sport. So because I am from Spain and my favorite team is a soccer team: Real Madrid, you could see me with a shirt, a wristband, a hoodie, something that represent this
I do not think that I really change the way that I dress, since I buy the clothes that I want. Since I was 15 years old or so I star to buy my own clothes and the way I dress everyday. And honestly I do not think that I will change the way that I dress but I do think that when I’m done with college I will have to change the way that I dress to dress appropriate with the job that I will have.
My family is catholic and they have classis values, so do I, so I do not think that dress weird or really different I just dress ‘normal’ and I think that ‘normal’ is really subjective but with it I mean that I dress with jeans, shirts, shoes or maybe a polo, not anything else. But every cloth that I wear I choose it carefully.
Sometimes the only thing that you could see in the clothes that I am wearing is that I am wearing something about my country or maybe my favorite team sport. So because I am from Spain and my favorite team is a soccer team: Real Madrid, you could see me with a shirt, a wristband, a hoodie, something that represent this
Friday, October 19, 2007
Food as art Article 2
Food as art Article 2
This time I am going to talk about one article which name is “Postcard: Spain” and it talks about one couple that love art so they go to spain to visit one the creators of the art that they like and they realize that the artist is actually a cooker who has been recently named as artist of the year in one magazine called Documenta. And this artist is the main cooker of one restaurant: “El Bulli”. Also in the article they describe how this cooker does his plates and works of art.
I think that this article is really related to our discussion. First of all the article says that the one cooker was named artist of the year for one magazine, this is very impressing and a good argument to state, once again, that food can be art in many ways. The way that this guy, Ferran Adria, cooks is comparable to the work of an artist that does paintings or sculptures. He has in his restaurant an amazing number of different plates and meals and each of this ones have a different taste and a different look.
If somebody wants to go to this restaurant of the artist-cooker is the northeast of Spain and it could be around “$500 for dinner”, a little bit expensive, in my opinion, but maybe it is worth it!
Source
Abend, Lisa. (2007, August). Postcard: Spain. Retrieved October 20, 2007 from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653650,00.html
This time I am going to talk about one article which name is “Postcard: Spain” and it talks about one couple that love art so they go to spain to visit one the creators of the art that they like and they realize that the artist is actually a cooker who has been recently named as artist of the year in one magazine called Documenta. And this artist is the main cooker of one restaurant: “El Bulli”. Also in the article they describe how this cooker does his plates and works of art.
I think that this article is really related to our discussion. First of all the article says that the one cooker was named artist of the year for one magazine, this is very impressing and a good argument to state, once again, that food can be art in many ways. The way that this guy, Ferran Adria, cooks is comparable to the work of an artist that does paintings or sculptures. He has in his restaurant an amazing number of different plates and meals and each of this ones have a different taste and a different look.
If somebody wants to go to this restaurant of the artist-cooker is the northeast of Spain and it could be around “$500 for dinner”, a little bit expensive, in my opinion, but maybe it is worth it!
Source
Abend, Lisa. (2007, August). Postcard: Spain. Retrieved October 20, 2007 from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653650,00.html
Food as art Article 1
Food as art Article 1
The first website that I search for is one were they assumed that food is art because that is their business, let me explain this. This website is a site where you can buy real pieces of art made with food. Almost all of the products that you can buy in these place are made with chocolate. They say in the website that they can do everything that you want with chocolate and some of the things are unbelievable art works such as paintings, sculptures, etc. They do much more things like shoes, chess, jewellery…
In my opinion this relates to our discussion because in this website they are assuming that food is art and that you can do so many things with food and consider them as art. For them there are not discussion in if we consider food as art or no because they demonstrate that food could be art easily.
I found this website very interesting because I thought that you could do art with food, but the things that they show in this website are amazing. They can do almost everything that you ask for with chocolate. There is one sentence in the main page of the website that say: “Food is art can create anything in any food substance from chocolate to gravy!” and I think that if we do not consider this as art what art is going to be then?
Source
Food is Art, Prudence Emma Staite. Retrieved October 20, 2007 from http://www.foodisart.co.uk/
The first website that I search for is one were they assumed that food is art because that is their business, let me explain this. This website is a site where you can buy real pieces of art made with food. Almost all of the products that you can buy in these place are made with chocolate. They say in the website that they can do everything that you want with chocolate and some of the things are unbelievable art works such as paintings, sculptures, etc. They do much more things like shoes, chess, jewellery…
In my opinion this relates to our discussion because in this website they are assuming that food is art and that you can do so many things with food and consider them as art. For them there are not discussion in if we consider food as art or no because they demonstrate that food could be art easily.
I found this website very interesting because I thought that you could do art with food, but the things that they show in this website are amazing. They can do almost everything that you ask for with chocolate. There is one sentence in the main page of the website that say: “Food is art can create anything in any food substance from chocolate to gravy!” and I think that if we do not consider this as art what art is going to be then?
Source
Food is Art, Prudence Emma Staite. Retrieved October 20, 2007 from http://www.foodisart.co.uk/
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Life Values Assessment
First of all I want to describe what I did today: I woke up and then I went to school because I had 1 class, also I had one tutor, so I went to the tutor and then to my house to eat. After eating I went to practice tennis and conditioning and after this I studied a little bit, took a shower and had dinner.
In my top 5 values, the first one is family, and comparing to the activities that I did today I talked a lot with my dad during my lunch and also I was chatting with my sister, for me is so important to keep the family at the first step and as a priority. Other top-5 values is health and today I had a very healthy day, eating an equilibrated diet and doing a lot of exercise during my practice, without health you can´t have anything in your life.
Also I want to comment that one of my top values is wealth and and every day I try to study hard and practice tennis hard so I can reach my goals and have wealth in the future. The last thing that I want to say is that is ok if you want to be wealthy in the future but you have to try to reach your with loyalty, honesty and integrity and having always there your friends
In my top 5 values, the first one is family, and comparing to the activities that I did today I talked a lot with my dad during my lunch and also I was chatting with my sister, for me is so important to keep the family at the first step and as a priority. Other top-5 values is health and today I had a very healthy day, eating an equilibrated diet and doing a lot of exercise during my practice, without health you can´t have anything in your life.
Also I want to comment that one of my top values is wealth and and every day I try to study hard and practice tennis hard so I can reach my goals and have wealth in the future. The last thing that I want to say is that is ok if you want to be wealthy in the future but you have to try to reach your with loyalty, honesty and integrity and having always there your friends
List Live Values
Family
Health
Wealth
Friendship
Loyalty
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Integrity
Power
Honesty
Personal Accomplishment
Leadership
Security
Personal Development
Expertness
Enjoyment
Independence
Prestige
Wisdom
Location
Community
Service
Creativity
Health
Wealth
Friendship
Loyalty
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Integrity
Power
Honesty
Personal Accomplishment
Leadership
Security
Personal Development
Expertness
Enjoyment
Independence
Prestige
Wisdom
Location
Community
Service
Creativity
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Meaning of "Vamos Rafa"
I was searching for tennis blogs and then I found this blog about the spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal: http://hcfoo.com/2007/10/whats-meaning-of-vamos-rafa.html
In this blog the creator explains the meaning of "Vamos Rafa" which is a phrase in spanish that means "Come on Rafa" and he type this phrase in the back of his shoes. Also a lot of spanish and southamerican players yell "Vamos" when they win an important point or match
In this blog the creator explains the meaning of "Vamos Rafa" which is a phrase in spanish that means "Come on Rafa" and he type this phrase in the back of his shoes. Also a lot of spanish and southamerican players yell "Vamos" when they win an important point or match
Berdych, Tursunov, Verdasco into Semifinals
The 24-year-old Tursunov booked his place in a fourth ATP semifinal of the season after defeating World No. 164 Yeu-Tzuoo Wang of Chinese Taipei 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and one minute on Friday.
Tursunov, who clinched his second career ATP title at Indianapolis in July (d. Dancevic) struck 14 aces and saved five of seven break point opportunities in recording his 22nd victory of the year. It was his third career win over Wang.
Verdasco, who is placed seven spots below Tursunov at No. 36 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings, recorded his second career win over Nicolas Mahut of France 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 in two hours and 26 minutes on Friday.
The 23-year-old Verdasco also reached the semifinals at Kitzbuhel in July (l. to Monaco). He improves to 27-23 this year.
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