The overall feel of the song is mellow but upbeat, retro and groovy. The musical elements that gave off that vibe were the drums, with their upbeat-ness and rhythm, and the electric piano to give a grooving and retro feel.
The musician had to choose the combination of instruments to give the retro and dance feel to the song. It sounds like synth with guitar and drums and you just want to dance around to the song. You feel uplifted almost after listening to it and there is a sense of happiness and relaxation.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Semadores by Diego Rivera
Subject is two workers farming.
Occasion is the 1800's in Mexico on a farm.
Audience is identified easily by workers or laborers.
Purpose is to show the work these farmers do and how they are lower class. It is diverging from the idea of ideal communism.
Speaker believes in separating the classes because there will never be a perfect equal society, he is showing there will always be the lower class with the upper class. The farmers are the lower class, working hard for little money.
Tone shows a laborious and difficult attitude about farming while showing the lower class men are "just farmers" and don't mean much of anything.
The big idea the artist wants to make is the difficulty of labor and the separation of social classes. Diego lived in a time where communism was prevalent and the main idea of communism is equality. He is showing these lower class men doing hard work for upper class men and trying to show there will never be complete equality. He uses an abstract style of painting to show that we cannot relate to these workers because we are not in the same class as them. His brush stroke is very flowy and almost mixes the workers into the background, showing they are of little importance and would go almost unnoticed by people like us.
Occasion is the 1800's in Mexico on a farm.
Audience is identified easily by workers or laborers.
Purpose is to show the work these farmers do and how they are lower class. It is diverging from the idea of ideal communism.
Speaker believes in separating the classes because there will never be a perfect equal society, he is showing there will always be the lower class with the upper class. The farmers are the lower class, working hard for little money.
Tone shows a laborious and difficult attitude about farming while showing the lower class men are "just farmers" and don't mean much of anything.
The big idea the artist wants to make is the difficulty of labor and the separation of social classes. Diego lived in a time where communism was prevalent and the main idea of communism is equality. He is showing these lower class men doing hard work for upper class men and trying to show there will never be complete equality. He uses an abstract style of painting to show that we cannot relate to these workers because we are not in the same class as them. His brush stroke is very flowy and almost mixes the workers into the background, showing they are of little importance and would go almost unnoticed by people like us.
Wilco Response
Wilco's approach to creating a song is to deconstruct the ideas of the song to see if they can improve it, then make another draft after they deconstruct it. Once they have done that, they will continue to revise the song until they are happy with it.
My writing process consists of having a vague idea of what I will be writing or creating, then writing or painting whatever I have until I feel finished. Then, I will look back at my work and see what I can fix, add, subtract, or tweak.
My writing process consists of having a vague idea of what I will be writing or creating, then writing or painting whatever I have until I feel finished. Then, I will look back at my work and see what I can fix, add, subtract, or tweak.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Rock Around the Clock response
1. Nostalgia is a feeling of emotion or yearning for your past or a past time.
2. The images that come to mind during this music is a big dance room from the 50's. Everyone is doing the jive or swaying side to side and snapping their fingers, the girls have nice dresses, and the boys have suits.
3. The images that pop into my mind when thinking of my childhood are playgrounds, classrooms, and roasted pumpkin seeds. I used to always be on the playground, so when I think of playgrounds I automatically think of playing house or sliding down the fire pole and landing in the mulch; I remember the scent of new mulch so vividly. When thinking of classrooms, I go back to kindergarten when the class smelt like Clorox wipes and all of the furniture was hard and plastic. I would always sit in the corner and read the picture books by myself. My mother always made roasted pumpkin seeds during the fall when I was little and my mouth waters when thinking of the salty, crunchy feel of the seeds.
2. The images that come to mind during this music is a big dance room from the 50's. Everyone is doing the jive or swaying side to side and snapping their fingers, the girls have nice dresses, and the boys have suits.
3. The images that pop into my mind when thinking of my childhood are playgrounds, classrooms, and roasted pumpkin seeds. I used to always be on the playground, so when I think of playgrounds I automatically think of playing house or sliding down the fire pole and landing in the mulch; I remember the scent of new mulch so vividly. When thinking of classrooms, I go back to kindergarten when the class smelt like Clorox wipes and all of the furniture was hard and plastic. I would always sit in the corner and read the picture books by myself. My mother always made roasted pumpkin seeds during the fall when I was little and my mouth waters when thinking of the salty, crunchy feel of the seeds.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Poverty Painting
1. What contributes to poverty? Some things that can contribute to poverty are being born into it, being jobless, having a big family, having an addiction, lacking resources, not having enough money, lacking sharing, having limited education.
2. The artist portrays poverty by use of dark colors (the family's clothing, the background) and emotion in the subject's faces (they appear to be sad, tired, or weary).
3. The artist is portraying poverty with dark light: it's raining, there is a lack of sun, there is a gloomy atmosphere. The mother and son look solemn, their body language is nowhere close to positive. The artist is telling us poverty is hard to overcome, an example that is proved by the prison-esque bars behind the mother and her son. It is almost as if they are trapped in poverty, never able to escape. On the other hand, the girl in the picture is optimistic, looking forward with her bright flowers in her hand. It seems to the viewers that she has the most hope.
4. Two elements of art that enhance the author's message: The colors are mainly dark, but there is a little color in the flower. This could possibly display the little hope the family has, offering contrast from the dark scenery. The value also shows many ranges of the dark colors, showing the little girl with white because she has the most hope, while showing the mother and son with dark colors as if they are doomed forever.
2. The artist portrays poverty by use of dark colors (the family's clothing, the background) and emotion in the subject's faces (they appear to be sad, tired, or weary).
3. The artist is portraying poverty with dark light: it's raining, there is a lack of sun, there is a gloomy atmosphere. The mother and son look solemn, their body language is nowhere close to positive. The artist is telling us poverty is hard to overcome, an example that is proved by the prison-esque bars behind the mother and her son. It is almost as if they are trapped in poverty, never able to escape. On the other hand, the girl in the picture is optimistic, looking forward with her bright flowers in her hand. It seems to the viewers that she has the most hope.
4. Two elements of art that enhance the author's message: The colors are mainly dark, but there is a little color in the flower. This could possibly display the little hope the family has, offering contrast from the dark scenery. The value also shows many ranges of the dark colors, showing the little girl with white because she has the most hope, while showing the mother and son with dark colors as if they are doomed forever.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Poverty Response
Live Free and Starve:
Chitra Divakaruni suggests in her article that when The United States passed a bill that wouldn't allow the import of goods from forced child labor factories, the nation failed to think past their own minds and into the world of these children. She says the children lived a very different life and to them, being able to have money to eat or for their families was much more important than the freedom we Americans know so well. To oppose her side, I say that Americans were doing the right thing. To be raised in a country where freedom is allowed is such a wonderful opportunity, it would only make sense to spread the philosophy to other nations. By not purchasing from factories that force children into working, we are decreasing their sales and hopefully putting the indentured children out of work. As Divakaruni says, "If the children themselves were asked whether they would rather work under such harsh conditions or enjoy a leisure that comes without the benefit of food or clothing or shelter, I wonder what their response would be." Although the author has a point, saying the children would be without food or clothing or shelter, the ultimate reason the bill was passed was because the harsh conditions they were working in was so unethical to our standards. Because we know of freedom and its joy, we could only want to spread the idea of freedom into other countries. Because the concept of indentured children is so wrong to us, it must be universally wrong by the vast majority of our country's reasoning.
The Singer Solution to World Poverty:
Peter Singer feels that Americans should be doing more than they are to help those in deep poverty. He also states that although we are often quick to chastise those who do something horrible (say selling an unknown homeless kid to organ peddlers), not donating to those in need is just as bad. Singer blatantly shows his point, "In the end, what is the ethical distinction between a Brazilian who sells a homeless child to organ peddlers and an American who already has a T and upgrade to a better one, knowing that the money could be donated to an organization that would use it to save the lives of kids in need?" It is agreeable that Americans could be doing more to help the poor or sick, but in no way does being face to face with a child in need compare to being thousands of miles from those you could potentially help. To take affirmative action, one must act as soon as they have the chance. If you have a situation right in front of you, you should take immediate action and help whatever is going on. You have the direct opportunity and if you choose to ignore it, you know for a fact you have potentially ended any chances a person had. Americans could do more by sending money to non profit charities that benefit the sick or poor, but when they are face to face with a problem, they must address it.
Chitra Divakaruni suggests in her article that when The United States passed a bill that wouldn't allow the import of goods from forced child labor factories, the nation failed to think past their own minds and into the world of these children. She says the children lived a very different life and to them, being able to have money to eat or for their families was much more important than the freedom we Americans know so well. To oppose her side, I say that Americans were doing the right thing. To be raised in a country where freedom is allowed is such a wonderful opportunity, it would only make sense to spread the philosophy to other nations. By not purchasing from factories that force children into working, we are decreasing their sales and hopefully putting the indentured children out of work. As Divakaruni says, "If the children themselves were asked whether they would rather work under such harsh conditions or enjoy a leisure that comes without the benefit of food or clothing or shelter, I wonder what their response would be." Although the author has a point, saying the children would be without food or clothing or shelter, the ultimate reason the bill was passed was because the harsh conditions they were working in was so unethical to our standards. Because we know of freedom and its joy, we could only want to spread the idea of freedom into other countries. Because the concept of indentured children is so wrong to us, it must be universally wrong by the vast majority of our country's reasoning.
The Singer Solution to World Poverty:
Peter Singer feels that Americans should be doing more than they are to help those in deep poverty. He also states that although we are often quick to chastise those who do something horrible (say selling an unknown homeless kid to organ peddlers), not donating to those in need is just as bad. Singer blatantly shows his point, "In the end, what is the ethical distinction between a Brazilian who sells a homeless child to organ peddlers and an American who already has a T and upgrade to a better one, knowing that the money could be donated to an organization that would use it to save the lives of kids in need?" It is agreeable that Americans could be doing more to help the poor or sick, but in no way does being face to face with a child in need compare to being thousands of miles from those you could potentially help. To take affirmative action, one must act as soon as they have the chance. If you have a situation right in front of you, you should take immediate action and help whatever is going on. You have the direct opportunity and if you choose to ignore it, you know for a fact you have potentially ended any chances a person had. Americans could do more by sending money to non profit charities that benefit the sick or poor, but when they are face to face with a problem, they must address it.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round"
After hearing Round & Round, I was pleasantly surprised. I am quite picky when it comes to music but I was able to enjoy the song without strings of criticism running through my head.Growing up, I was raised on every type of music; my father is a college music professor and always brings home different albums and songs for us to listen to. I found Round & Round had a nostalgic 90's sound quality to it, almost a fuzzy feeling. As my facts, I pointed out a lot about the beat and tempo of the song. It had a not too slow but not too fast tempo with an enjoyable beat and I found those two combinations a perfect mixture. I would definitely consider myself having a bias to liking this song because it is similar to the songs I often listen to in my free time while also being close to the songs I used to enjoy as a child.
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