VISUAL LITERACY LESAR
Sunday, April 24, 2011
DANA SAYDAK #12 of 12
"Devoid of a personality of his own...he developed a parasitic, mirrorlike survival skill. He learned to capture and reflect the character traits of people who's affection and friendship he sought." (152)
Chapman was able to develop the ability to take on the personality traits of those he wanted to be. This is perhaps why he was so determined to connect to Lennon and Holden, from The Catcher and the Rye. He saw qualities in both people that he aspired to have himself. Personally, it seems as though he wanted to kill Lennon in order to take over his life and hopefully become him. The image is of a man looking in the mirror. This whole concept made me think of looking in the mirror and seeing nothing. With no personality of your own, to look in the mirror and see yourself must be utterly confusing, and I would imagine you'd begin to see nothing at all.
Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down (London: Virgin Publishing, 1992), page 152
Friday, April 22, 2011
Tom Cope the main antagonist of the story is about to leave his apartment when he sees a man and a woman staring at him through the downstairs window. He heads back up to his room and becomes very paranoid that those were f.b.i agents. He has no reason to believe that they are because all they did was stare at him but what the audience knows that Cope doesn't is that they are actually f.b.i.agents Austen and Hopkins and they didn't chase after him because he was carrying a bag that could've been a bomb of some sort
Author- Richard Preston
Title- The Cobra Event
Publisher- The Baltimore Publishing Group
Year- 1997
Page- 360
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Danielle Grava 12/12
Evan Adams #12/12
Image: http://tucsoncitizen.com/lizard/files/2009/06/breccia.jpg
Myall Budden # 12/12
“I now had more gold than I’d ever had at one time before, but it somehow seemed that it wasn’t enough.”
Sometimes in life, it seems that you can never get enough. Perfection is an image that people have strived for since the beginning of time. Yet, people haven’t got over the fact that the simple things in life can bring happiness upon you. In the picture below, you can see that the image is filled with perfect points of the pencil. The image is beautiful, but the pursuit of perfection is an understatement of the overall picture. By pursuing perfection, you are setting yourself up for failure. Perfection is something that is unattainable, but people persistently try to pursue it. The below image is a perfect example of how people will go for perfection, yet settle at beauty.Perfection will bring nothing but misery, because it is a misconception and an unattainable mysticism. I believe the quote above correlates excellently to the image below because of the persuit of perfection and its unassailability.
David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), page 222
http://library.artstor.org/library/iv2.html?parent=true
Thursday, April 21, 2011
ALEXANDRIA ASCIOTI #12/12
Arron Lambie, Blog # 12/14
EMIRI HASHIMOTO#12/13
LISA . LUGO BLOG POST 12/13
I think Frank's sense of being defeated is automatically linked to Mary Elizabeth, because he always thinks he lost her. Even though he has an image of Mary Elizabeth, this is when she starts to show a much sexual and adventurous side of her. I think the author chose to include this personality trait in this part of the book for the sense of surprise, and also because it leaves a decision for Frank again. The decision that has kept him from having a future with Mary (Cockfighting or her). Therefore, I chose the picture of Jennifer Aniston because it shows an innocent face that is tempting an individual to chase her. This woman is his temptation, his choice, his love that cannot understand his passion, yet forces him to question his intuition; she's an his angel with a devil twist. She is his unreachable desire...
Charles Willeford, Cockfighter (New York: Vintage Books, 1972), page 220
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/would-jennifer-aniston-undergo-plastic-surgery
Ashley Hushka, Blog #12/12
Oh, the awkward drives after a fight, or break-up with a partner. It can be nice to drive in silence with a friend in a car, just embracing the moment, but when you're on bad terms with someone it can be the most awkward drive of your life. So many things want to be said, but each person is holding back. I chose this picture of a dark forest because that is one situation I never want to be in by myself or with someone else. Not only would it be awkward, but scary because you would not know what to say to make the situation better.
Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1990) pg. 167
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Hessa Al Rumaihi Blog # 12/13
There is nothing more beautiful than the mutual feeling between two lovers. The way your gut feels every time you hear that special someone's name, the way your whole mood changes when you see them calling you, just the thought of them makes you smile.
In this quote, Pandora is joined together with the first person she fell in love with, when she was only ten years old. The moment she looked into his eyes she knew that he was the one, the person she dreamed about every night. After twenty six years, and three marriages later, they meet up again in another country and she realizes how deep her love for him was. Pandora knew her love for him even though she was a young girl that didn't understand the meaning of love. I chose this picture because I thought it was the most relevant photo to the quote, as you can see the girl is staring right into the guy's eyes with so much love because she knows the feeling is common and real. She is laying down, her ears pressed to his chest because its the most beautiful rhythm she has heard.
Carly Gaffney Blog #12
A person's eyes can say a lot about how they are feeling at a particular moment. They are a good source of emotion. Only experts have figured out how to control the emotion their eyes show. For instance, models are experts on how they control emotion in their eyes. They know how to show seduction, fear, and even smile with their eyes. I'm sure it took a lot of practice and looking in the mirror. I think the emotion that is easily seen the most is sadness. Most people can tell if a person is sad by their eyes, sometimes the glassy look of an eye is the easiest indicator. The look of the eyes in this picture can convey many emotions. I see a slight sadness as well as a cautious look. Your eyes can't hide true feelings. If a person really wants to know what someone is thinking the best thing to do is just look into their eyes.
Mickey Spillane, The Snake (Bath: Chivers Press, 1964), page 30
http://root.kevinmillsphoto.com/images/Eyes/original_eyes.jpg
KAITLIN CONGO #12/13
Nader Hakim Blog #12
I chose this quote because it explains the worst feeling a human being can go through which is being helpless and not being able to do anything about it. all one can do is live through it and endure the pain or helplessness that comes his/her way. it is the worst feeling because it makes one feel like there's not point in living no matter how small or unimportant that thing that makes him/her feel helpless is. the image i chose emphasizes this feeling to a great extent, because personally if I'm helpless all i wanna do is sit in a corner and think about nothing but that problem and how bad it's making me feel.
Stephen King, Gerald's Game ( the penguin group, 1993) page 284
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/images/helpless.
Gavin Berry #12/12
BRIAN STANIS POST 12 OF 12
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
CECILIA EVANS-#12 of 12
CARINA DOMINGUEZ BLOG POST 12/14
SARAH JACOBY BLOG POST #12/13
I selected this quote because I am always impressed by how well King can put into words concepts that many of us have trouble even grasping. I believe one of the reasons that relationships can be tough and require work is because men and women think and view the world very differently. Both opinions are unique and good in their own way however it does sometimes make certain aspects of life more challenging. Love is an intense emotion and King does an excellent job of explaining how love may be viewed differently by men than women. King has the ability to take concepts that seem complex and break them down so he can expalin them on a fundamental level, making them simpler to understand. Some may think relationships are crazy and complicated however if one admits and accepts that women and men just think differently then they could better understand and handle their own relationships. I selected the photo below because it demonstrates the bond between two people in a loving relationship, despite their different understandings of love described above by King.
Ala Salem; #12 of 13
Monday, April 18, 2011
KRISTIN HOLLOWAY #12 of 13 posts
KRISTIN HOLLOWAY #11 of 13 posts
Katie Faunce post #12
AMBER FAHRNER BLOG POST # 12
In the context of the novel the chapter is talking about the death of someone, this quote is not directly referring to the death of that person, but the way it is put in the context its make the chapter seem more appropriate. When I read this quote I thought of the show Dexter. We had watched the pilot episode in class where we learned that Dexter was a killer on the side. I had previously watched the other seasons of Dexter and in season four their is a vivid scene that came to my mind. When the wife of Dexter is killed she is found in a bloody bath tub. I decided to pick a different picture then just the actually scene of her in the tub. This picture is a promotional picture for the season 4 i think it is a little more subtle than the quote it doesn't show a knife or the soap stinging. The picture is mostly white, their are white walls, and floor and the bath tub as well. Then you have the bathtub that is filled with blood and having it come out of the faucet. The picture is subtle but strong in meaning. I see this picture as indirectly representing the quote.
Chuck Palahniuk, Diary Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, 2003), page 225
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16000000/NEW-Dexter-Season-5-Promotional-Photo-Bathtub-dexter-16089888-359-500.jpg
Sunday, April 17, 2011
DANA SAYDAK #11 of 14
"Death in a beautiful and elegant place seemed the only alternative to the razor-blade fear of walking through life without a personality that he could recognize, from one moment to the next, as his own" (p.137).
Mark David Chapman intended to commit suicide upon arriving to Hawaii. Chapman felt like he had no purpose in life and wanted to die in an beautiful place. The irony was that the beauty invigorated life back into Chapman and made him want to live. Chapman was inspired by the beauty that he was surrounded in to make his life worth something, he wanted to live to continue to see more beautiful things. The image is of Hawaii to capture the beauty that Chapman was seeing. It captures the serenity of the location and shows accurately the reason that Chapman found in living.
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Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down (London: Virgin Publishing, 1992), page 137
Friday, April 15, 2011
Gavin Berry #11/14
Hessa Al Rumaihi Blog # 11/13
All this quote reminds me is of being back home and being around my family. Everybody gets homesick and stressed out to the point that they are so sick of everything and everyone around them and just want to be back home and relax and do absolutely nothing. As i was looking for pictures of houses I chose to stick to this picture because i felt it was the most relaxing photo and the most that reminded me of home. Its the time of year where summer is coming and everybody is ready for a holiday and to be back home. The time of year where you're not stressed and not thinking of any work, and instead thinking of the new adventures you'll encounter during the sun kissed season. Everybody needs to go home sometimes, everyone for different reasons. Obviously in the quote above, Pandora had different reasons to go back home, dont we all?
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Danielle Grava 11/13
"Then I realized -- he can't go home, and neither can Molly and Willy, never, until the Tooth Fairy is out of the way."
KAITLIN CONGO #11/14
Chris Whelan 11/14
I chose this qute because of the similarities between our past relationships with Russia and the one in this book. It talks about the space station which is like the space race back in the 1960's. It also goes on to talk about how the Black Death is being engineered in Russia as a weapon just like the arms race we had with Russia during the Cold War
Author- Richard Preston
Title- The Cobra Event
Publisher- The Baltimore Publishing Group
Year- 1997
Page- 287
URL-http://www.etftrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/russia-flag.jpg
Evan Adams #11/13
Image: http://www.frozencrystal.com/places/images/westhelix/dungeon.jpg