Projectio Finale

A short video of talking mass media/politicians via Photoshop, Image ready and imovie. it will be a satirical piece mocking those lovely aspects of american culture EVERYONE loves!!

Dan

Website

I propose a promotional site for april 7th's PIRATES vs. NINJA day. i plan on giving information and photos of previous PVN days. it will be comedic yet informitave. yup.

response to "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

I thought Walter Benjarmin's article on Mechanical reproduction was, besides being very long, kind of interesting. I was paticularly caught by his claim that the mass production and subsequent availability of a work of art to the common man lowered the apriciation of the piece. I personally beleive that the mass reproduction of works of art sort of ingrains their presence into the imortal tombs of history, so to speak. I do not see this as a bad thing at all, even though i do agree that alot of respect for the actual piece is lost in the process.

Much of this article is spent on the nature of the public that views these mass produced art pieces. I can agree that the public is the eternal absent minded apriciaters.

this is something i'm working on for fun/drawing class. yuppers....

Dan Ellis
Wednesday 4-10 Emac
9/6/06

Emac movie response

I thought Pirates of Silicon Valley was an interesting depiction of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates' careers and the history of their companys. Microsoft and Apple are the two biggest computer software companys in the world, and this movie did a good job of portraying their intertwining stories. I thought the movie was shot fairly well and, for a docu-drama, wasn't unberably over-dramtic. The acting was pretty good, the story flowed well, and overall i couldn't say that i wasn't interested throught the film.

Though i knew that windows wasn't Bill Gates' idea, I hounestly had no idea that Microsoft stole Apple's ideas stolen from Xerox. I think it's fairly ironic that all of these fantastic, world changing computer programs were not developed by their initial companies. I used to have an old Macintosh that i used frequently, and though i noticed the simularity between it's OS and Window's, i never made the corelation between the two. Overall, Pirates of Silicon Valley was an enjoyable educational expirience for me. That, and there were three (!) Moody Blues songs on the soundtrack.