When I first looked at this image, all i saw was this beautiful house and I didn't even notice the smoke stacks until looking at it closer. I think that this is what is so appealing about this image, and the whole series, because many of them are just normal landscapes with huge smokestacks in the background. These smokestacks look as though they fit naturally into these environments, when in reality they do not at all. I cannot imagine living in this kind of setting where there is a coal fired power plant in the middle of my home. "Coal-fired power plants present myriad of environmental hazards. Burning coal releases carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air, in addition to equally toxic solid by-products that erode from nearby landfills into local ecosystems." It is shocking to me that although there are supposed to be state and federal regulatory bodies to regulate this process, this system is flawed and there is nothing being done to protect the environment and the community in Ohio. I think it is necessary for the government to start getting involved and start doing something to change this so that we can start eliminating our negative impacts on the environment, and help to create a better place for future generations to live in.
This last lecture’s discussion of materials left me a little dumb founded. I am confused as to what we, as productive creators are supposed to use to build and make. If all of the raw materials for art making and other means of construction are so harmful to the earth and to our bodies than what are we supposed to craft with? It has been presented that the materials available to us are volatile in one-way or another. It seems that aluminum is not eco-logically efficient in it’s making and other metals must be harvested and thus the earth suffers. Fibers require massive unnecessary growth (i.e. cotton) while protein fibers (wool) mandate that sheep be feed excessive amounts of grain in order to maintain healthy coats that are used in spinning. Paints, inks, and dye are harmful when disposed of and are made from chemicals and other latex or oil bases. Paper comes from trees and we are all very aware of the current overuse of paper. It is frustrating that all of the materials that I like to create with are hazardous to the earth and to my body. I have an issue with land art in that the artist is manipulating the environment by misplacing and mismatching elements of the earth. It seems counterproductive. Also, not all creative people can be land artists, and even if they wanted to be, the natural world would be so askew by the manipulative forces of aesthetic.
This image is very bizarre and interesting to me. There are two different things that catch my attention in this piece. First the smoke stacks, is quite the obvious imposition on this landscape. It is a subtle destructive force that creeps into the background of this piece. It almost looks like the villain that is lurking in the shadows. It somewhat obvious compared to the other point of interest, which is the house itself. The house has probably been build on coal production (as seen in the background), and I think it is a way of viewing the product of the smoke stacks. It smoke stacks automatically register as pollution in many Americans’ minds, but the home is the product of the coal industry. The house is also sitting on land that used to be forest. The trees have been cleared into a neat acre or two for this home and driveway. The nice and peaceful house has been built on quite a bit of destruction, and that is what is most interesting to me about this piece. The land has been completely transformed due to the industry we get to peek at in the background of this piece. I really like the parallelism between the house and the smoke stacks. I think that Daniel Shea has really created some interesting themes in this piece of artwork.
An interesting topic brought up in todays discussion is the use of misleading labels on products in todays market. I never really realized before how many products claim to be green or natural, and how many of those products are full of bullshit. Everything now seems to claim the properties of helping or protecting the environment, more organic and naturally, and not using chemicals. The thing that I don't understand is why dont we make products like this to begin with? I think the green community needs to take a second look at what were buying. I appreciate the fact that people are trying to better the environment but i think are efforts would be better spent in areas where we can actually make a difference. It is important to consider every products past what the label states. Its the ingredients that matter and the embodied energy, considering these factors will help improve our green purchasing.
WEEKLY RESPONSE In this weeks lecture we watched a movie that had no words just images. In these images we saw how people went throughout there lives doing things, and showing what people do to survive etc. the progression was of different cultures and different places, toward the end of the film it showed tons of technology, and Asia and how everyone was soo consumed in the electronics, and over consumption. I thought this film was very interesting because it didn’t even have to explain what it was doing, as soon as I saw the clips of the overconsumption and technologies I saw the tension and the comparison. It really helped in showing how we as a society and as a culture overuse and how we rely on other people and objects to do what we need done, and in this case it shows how we pretty much can do nothing by ourselves. I really enjoyed this film, although watching all of these same ideas and images makes it really hard for me to do what I want in my life. I want to be a graphic designer and advertize, I want to help sell all of these objects. We are learning how horrible everything we do is and im one of the contenders selling all of these items.
11/9/10 Jackie San Fillipo ADP III- Rotz Weekly Statements
What I like most about this photograph is that at first glance, it looks like a lovely, and perfect place to live. But when you look deeper, you see the smoke stacks in the background. At that moment, it became grotesque to me. It made me link all the beautiful things in the photograph to ugly things like manufacturing and pollution. For every gorgeous residential area in our country, there is also a landfill, factory, refinery, just something underneath. This photograph is extremely powerful for this reason. It makes you think whether what you know is real. Is something still beautiful if what it took to make it was ugly or harmful? In today’s lecture, we ranked 10 items from highest to lowest in terms of how much energy it takes to make each one. Like this photograph, it was not what I expected. A gallon of unleaded gasoline takes just about the same amount of energy to make as a can of coke! Why? It’s actually not the aluminum the coke is contained in, but the high fructose corn syrup. Wine from France costs the same amount of energy to ship to our country as it does to ship to any part of our country from California. A bottle of Apple Juice was impossible to place, because it contained juices from SEVERAL different countries, and who knows how they all traveled to the same plastic bottle? Like the house with the smokestacks behind it, there are many things in our society worth taking a second glance at.
Last week’s discussion was a showing of a movie. As I watched this movie, I was confused, and not sure where it was going. All I was getting was the idea that other cultures can exist without technology, but these representations of these cultures seemed not too appealing to me. All I could see was how they lacked a sense of refinement. As the movie went on, it progressed through wasteland cities, to dances from various cultures, and finally, to Asia. Asia in this film was the element that finally made the movie make sense to me. While the dancing cultures were not as developed, they were happy, and they had a sense of freedom. The Asian cultures that were surrounded by technology were congested, and people are consumed by electronics. They are freed through the strength of their society, but are held captive by all their technology. Today’s discussion brought up the idea of how reliant we are on labels, and how they are not necessarily true. When people go into the grocery store they will buy whatever is labeled with the most appealing label to them or not, without bothering to see how true the label is. I have roommates that constantly buy a certain juice because it says “natural flavoring”, but there is nothing any more natural about this juice than Sunny Delight. In almost any juice you can find a small amount of real flavoring from fruit, but this is miniscule compared to the amount of corn syrup and artificial coloring and flavors.
I honestly have no idea what Lasn is talking about in Spring. Lasn seems to me just angry and has a lot of angst and just wants to complain about everything in the world. On page 123 he is pretty much saying that there is not use in protest or any type of demonstrations cause people will forget about it easily or the government won’t be moved by it. That idea to me is just beyond ridiculous. For example, the riots, protests and demonstrations of the Civil Rights movement had a significant effect on not only the American government but also the world. Also, the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War also had a great impact all over the world. It may be true that it is hard for one single person to start something that will significantly change the world but it wouldn’t hurt to try. This person has no hope, no faith in not only people but also himself. Lasn seems to look very low on people and to me it seems like a reflection of himself. It’s important to have faith in something. My faith is in God and I know that with him, I can do anything I set my mind to as long as it is in his will. Lasn has no faith in anything; so I guess it makes sense that he is so negative all the time and complaing about everything. One thing however that I in a way agree with is about feminism. Lasn states that feminism now is pretty much about the individual female instead of women uniting together. I noticed that during the presidential election of 2008. Everyone was trying to push women to vote for Hilary Clinton just because she was a woman without even thinking if she would be a good president. Don’t even get me started on Sarah Pailn. Some people think Sarah is wonderful and people should vote for her and like her cause she is in the government and a woman but honestly, by the time I graduate, I will be more qualified to be a governor than her.
Industrialization is a crazy thing. Not to long ago cowboys were settling differences with quick draw and discovering the wild west. Now all of a sudden power plants are coexisting with classic farmland. Southeast Ohio is on the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains which is a really beautiful chunk of America. It’s sad to see these smoke stacks looming with a quiet darkness in these photos. Shea did a good job in showing how the power plants are intrusive in a very subtle way at a glance but to the people who have called the countryside home their whole lives it’s monumental. The photo of two smoke stacks casting there shadows over a field shows exactly what I’m talking about. They are just shadows to someone driving through town but to the locals they have a much different meaning. Shea did a smart move including the locals and their daily life. Seeing the faces of people who reside their makes it more of a personal message, something easier to identify with, especially if you’ve ever spent time out there. I’m curious to see what the same place will look like in the future to measure the progression of industry that has occurred in a lifetime. I’ve lived in a decently large city the majority of my life and I’m definitely not aware of the speed things like this are happening at. My hope is to live in the countryside later on so I better put a stop to this madness.
When I first looked at this photo, it reminded me of Joe’s house that he showed us in lecture. An isolated, luxurious yet humble, home. It’s clear to see that this home is built far away from the nearest main road. The surrounding forest gives an actual scale of how large land of the homeowner. But at the same time you have to go beyond the woods to get the true meaning of this photo. The large smokestacks show that intentionally or unintentionally industrialization has slowly been formed on domestic grounds (or vice versa). If you get a chance check out any info on Delray, Michigan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delray,_Detroit. Unlike this photo, Delray is actually a city that has had multiple industries invade people’s homes with their pollution. Driving by it makes me nauseous, so living there could not be an option. It has been said that some people in the Delray area have had serious health/ mental side effects from living next to these industrial sites. It makes no sense at all for companies to invade people’s homes.
Lindsay Avino
ReplyDeleteADP III
Weekly response
11/9/10
When I first looked at this image, all i saw was this beautiful house and I didn't even notice the smoke stacks until looking at it closer. I think that this is what is so appealing about this image, and the whole series, because many of them are just normal landscapes with huge smokestacks in the background. These smokestacks look as though they fit naturally into these environments, when in reality they do not at all. I cannot imagine living in this kind of setting where there is a coal fired power plant in the middle of my home. "Coal-fired power plants present myriad of environmental hazards. Burning coal releases carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air, in addition to equally toxic solid by-products that erode from nearby landfills into local ecosystems." It is shocking to me that although there are supposed to be state and federal regulatory bodies to regulate this process, this system is flawed and there is nothing being done to protect the environment and the community in Ohio. I think it is necessary for the government to start getting involved and start doing something to change this so that we can start eliminating our negative impacts on the environment, and help to create a better place for future generations to live in.
Caitlin Murphy
ReplyDelete9 November 2010
Weekly Statement
Materials.
This last lecture’s discussion of materials left me a little dumb founded. I am confused as to what we, as productive creators are supposed to use to build and make. If all of the raw materials for art making and other means of construction are so harmful to the earth and to our bodies than what are we supposed to craft with? It has been presented that the materials available to us are volatile in one-way or another. It seems that aluminum is not eco-logically efficient in it’s making and other metals must be harvested and thus the earth suffers. Fibers require massive unnecessary growth (i.e. cotton) while protein fibers (wool) mandate that sheep be feed excessive amounts of grain in order to maintain healthy coats that are used in spinning. Paints, inks, and dye are harmful when disposed of and are made from chemicals and other latex or oil bases. Paper comes from trees and we are all very aware of the current overuse of paper.
It is frustrating that all of the materials that I like to create with are hazardous to the earth and to my body. I have an issue with land art in that the artist is manipulating the environment by misplacing and mismatching elements of the earth. It seems counterproductive. Also, not all creative people can be land artists, and even if they wanted to be, the natural world would be so askew by the manipulative forces of aesthetic.
Katie Klimkowski
ReplyDelete11/8/10
This image is very bizarre and interesting to me. There are two different things that catch my attention in this piece. First the smoke stacks, is quite the obvious imposition on this landscape. It is a subtle destructive force that creeps into the background of this piece. It almost looks like the villain that is lurking in the shadows. It somewhat obvious compared to the other point of interest, which is the house itself. The house has probably been build on coal production (as seen in the background), and I think it is a way of viewing the product of the smoke stacks. It smoke stacks automatically register as pollution in many Americans’ minds, but the home is the product of the coal industry. The house is also sitting on land that used to be forest. The trees have been cleared into a neat acre or two for this home and driveway. The nice and peaceful house has been built on quite a bit of destruction, and that is what is most interesting to me about this piece. The land has been completely transformed due to the industry we get to peek at in the background of this piece. I really like the parallelism between the house and the smoke stacks. I think that Daniel Shea has really created some interesting themes in this piece of artwork.
Alex Gardnerdont
ReplyDeleteAn interesting topic brought up in todays discussion is the use of misleading labels on products in todays market. I never really realized before how many products claim to be green or natural, and how many of those products are full of bullshit. Everything now seems to claim the properties of helping or protecting the environment, more organic and naturally, and not using chemicals. The thing that I don't understand is why dont we make products like this to begin with? I think the green community needs to take a second look at what were buying. I appreciate the fact that people are trying to better the environment but i think are efforts would be better spent in areas where we can actually make a difference. It is important to consider every products past what the label states. Its the ingredients that matter and the embodied energy, considering these factors will help improve our green purchasing.
Sam Goldman
ReplyDeleteWeekly response
11/9/10
WEEKLY RESPONSE
In this weeks lecture we watched a movie that had no words just images. In these images we saw how people went throughout there lives doing things, and showing what people do to survive etc. the progression was of different cultures and different places, toward the end of the film it showed tons of technology, and Asia and how everyone was soo consumed in the electronics, and over consumption. I thought this film was very interesting because it didn’t even have to explain what it was doing, as soon as I saw the clips of the overconsumption and technologies I saw the tension and the comparison. It really helped in showing how we as a society and as a culture overuse and how we rely on other people and objects to do what we need done, and in this case it shows how we pretty much can do nothing by ourselves. I really enjoyed this film, although watching all of these same ideas and images makes it really hard for me to do what I want in my life. I want to be a graphic designer and advertize, I want to help sell all of these objects. We are learning how horrible everything we do is and im one of the contenders selling all of these items.
11/9/10
ReplyDeleteJackie San Fillipo
ADP III- Rotz
Weekly Statements
What I like most about this photograph is that at first glance, it looks like a lovely, and perfect place to live. But when you look deeper, you see the smoke stacks in the background. At that moment, it became grotesque to me. It made me link all the beautiful things in the photograph to ugly things like manufacturing and pollution. For every gorgeous residential area in our country, there is also a landfill, factory, refinery, just something underneath. This photograph is extremely powerful for this reason. It makes you think whether what you know is real. Is something still beautiful if what it took to make it was ugly or harmful? In today’s lecture, we ranked 10 items from highest to lowest in terms of how much energy it takes to make each one. Like this photograph, it was not what I expected. A gallon of unleaded gasoline takes just about the same amount of energy to make as a can of coke! Why? It’s actually not the aluminum the coke is contained in, but the high fructose corn syrup. Wine from France costs the same amount of energy to ship to our country as it does to ship to any part of our country from California. A bottle of Apple Juice was impossible to place, because it contained juices from SEVERAL different countries, and who knows how they all traveled to the same plastic bottle?
Like the house with the smokestacks behind it, there are many things in our society worth taking a second glance at.
Teresa Dennis
ReplyDeleteNovember 9th
Weekly Response
Last week’s discussion was a showing of a movie. As I watched this movie, I was confused, and not sure where it was going. All I was getting was the idea that other cultures can exist without technology, but these representations of these cultures seemed not too appealing to me. All I could see was how they lacked a sense of refinement. As the movie went on, it progressed through wasteland cities, to dances from various cultures, and finally, to Asia. Asia in this film was the element that finally made the movie make sense to me. While the dancing cultures were not as developed, they were happy, and they had a sense of freedom. The Asian cultures that were surrounded by technology were congested, and people are consumed by electronics. They are freed through the strength of their society, but are held captive by all their technology.
Today’s discussion brought up the idea of how reliant we are on labels, and how they are not necessarily true. When people go into the grocery store they will buy whatever is labeled with the most appealing label to them or not, without bothering to see how true the label is. I have roommates that constantly buy a certain juice because it says “natural flavoring”, but there is nothing any more natural about this juice than Sunny Delight. In almost any juice you can find a small amount of real flavoring from fruit, but this is miniscule compared to the amount of corn syrup and artificial coloring and flavors.
Rebecca Aguilar
ReplyDeleteSpring CJ
I honestly have no idea what Lasn is talking about in Spring. Lasn seems to me just angry and has a lot of angst and just wants to complain about everything in the world. On page 123 he is pretty much saying that there is not use in protest or any type of demonstrations cause people will forget about it easily or the government won’t be moved by it. That idea to me is just beyond ridiculous. For example, the riots, protests and demonstrations of the Civil Rights movement had a significant effect on not only the American government but also the world. Also, the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War also had a great impact all over the world. It may be true that it is hard for one single person to start something that will significantly change the world but it wouldn’t hurt to try. This person has no hope, no faith in not only people but also himself. Lasn seems to look very low on people and to me it seems like a reflection of himself. It’s important to have faith in something. My faith is in God and I know that with him, I can do anything I set my mind to as long as it is in his will. Lasn has no faith in anything; so I guess it makes sense that he is so negative all the time and complaing about everything. One thing however that I in a way agree with is about feminism. Lasn states that feminism now is pretty much about the individual female instead of women uniting together. I noticed that during the presidential election of 2008. Everyone was trying to push women to vote for Hilary Clinton just because she was a woman without even thinking if she would be a good president. Don’t even get me started on Sarah Pailn. Some people think Sarah is wonderful and people should vote for her and like her cause she is in the government and a woman but honestly, by the time I graduate, I will be more qualified to be a governor than her.
Ben Paskus
ReplyDeleteADP 3
Weekly Statement
Industrialization is a crazy thing. Not to long ago cowboys were settling differences with quick draw and discovering the wild west. Now all of a sudden power plants are coexisting with classic farmland. Southeast Ohio is on the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains which is a really beautiful chunk of America. It’s sad to see these smoke stacks looming with a quiet darkness in these photos. Shea did a good job in showing how the power plants are intrusive in a very subtle way at a glance but to the people who have called the countryside home their whole lives it’s monumental. The photo of two smoke stacks casting there shadows over a field shows exactly what I’m talking about. They are just shadows to someone driving through town but to the locals they have a much different meaning. Shea did a smart move including the locals and their daily life. Seeing the faces of people who reside their makes it more of a personal message, something easier to identify with, especially if you’ve ever spent time out there. I’m curious to see what the same place will look like in the future to measure the progression of industry that has occurred in a lifetime. I’ve lived in a decently large city the majority of my life and I’m definitely not aware of the speed things like this are happening at. My hope is to live in the countryside later on so I better put a stop to this madness.
When I first looked at this photo, it reminded me of Joe’s house that he showed us in lecture. An isolated, luxurious yet humble, home. It’s clear to see that this home is built far away from the nearest main road. The surrounding forest gives an actual scale of how large land of the homeowner. But at the same time you have to go beyond the woods to get the true meaning of this photo. The large smokestacks show that intentionally or unintentionally industrialization has slowly been formed on domestic grounds (or vice versa). If you get a chance check out any info on Delray, Michigan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delray,_Detroit. Unlike this photo, Delray is actually a city that has had multiple industries invade people’s homes with their pollution. Driving by it makes me nauseous, so living there could not be an option. It has been said that some people in the Delray area have had serious health/ mental side effects from living next to these industrial sites. It makes no sense at all for companies to invade people’s homes.
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