BAUHAUS

A German Architech, Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus school in 1919. The Bauhaus school, was an academy of art and design. Bauhaus literally means "house for building" therefore it was known as the greatest place for architects. The purpose of the school was to rebuild German after the war, and establish a new means of social order. 

 The Bauhaus's ideals were that the artists had to understand their social responsibilies of community, and in return society had to accept and appreciate the artists.

The artists of the Bauhaus academy had one main goal when it came to design, and that was that they tried not to use decorative elements. They simple wanted to create architecture that was in pure form. Other goals of the school were to have the artists work together, strengthen their ideas, and maintain their progress. Bauhaus was known as one of the best institutions for art in the design in the twentieth century.  The Bauhaus school helped make Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius known as the masters of modern architecture.

Un Chien Andalou- An Andalusian Dog

surrealism: suh-ree-uh-liz-uhm]  

–noun

a style of art and literature developed principally in the  20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.

 

 

An Andalusian Dog is exactly that.

It is a 16 minute silent film that has no real logic. The film is completely random with no defined plot. The flim seems to use dream logic by jumping from thought to thought. Although it jumps it is said to have a flow called "Freudian free association" that was popular during the 1920's. "Once Upon a Time" to "Eight Years Later" and the cutting of dead donkey's eyes...it all seems a little bizarre to me!

 

 

GRID PROJECT.

For my grid project, I got a picture of Marilyn Monroe, and played with the resolution of the picture in order to make the image have a blurred appearance. As you can see the pixels in this pictures are a lot larger, this is what I used for my grid. I transformed my grid by replaceing the square pixels with hole punched circles from magazines. My goal was to totally change the texture of the image; therefore by using hole punched circles (some circles having words on them) I was able to distort the image as much as I could. While doing this, I tried to match the colors as close as possible to the original image. Although this was a bit time consuming, it relaxed me and I really liked doing it! Enjoyyyy.

TeTriS....Movies Creating Video Games

Tetris was originally created in Russia in1984 by Alexey Pajitnov. The word "Tetris" comes from Greek prefix tetra (four) and the game tennis which was the designers’ favorite sport. Pajitnov based Tetris off of another game he had already created called "Genetic Engineering". For some reason Pajitnov never patented the game of Tetris. While working with a partner on the project ( Vladim Gerasimov) Pajitnov only received little publicity for his creation. Once Tetris travels to Hungary, Robert Stein the president of a British software company tried to get access to the rights of Tetris on a PC from Pajitnov. There became some conflict when dealing with the rights of the game Tetris between Stein and Pajitnov. In the meantime an IBM PC version is released that becomes a huge hit. People were becoming extremely addicted to it. Tetris was known as "the first game behind the iron curtain".

I think movies create video games similar to the movie, because if the movie was a hit, people will most likely spend the money to buy the game. A children's movie such as Toy Story was such a hit therefore it was smart to come out with a video game for kids to play. Making video games about movies especially children's movies allows the children to become a part of the movies they love. It gives them a sense of control over the characters that they love in the movies. This is smart on the creators parts because if the movie was a hit, and the video game was a hit, then it would be easy for continue creating different versions of the game that people would most likely buy. This is also known as cult branding.

MZTV

I'd like to start off by saying that I want to go to the museum of television! Trip to Toronto, Canada anyone?

Interesting things I've learned from this website:

1939 NY's World's Fair opened with the theme "Building the World of Tomorrow". Here people introduced new products to consumers. These consumers had no idea how much these new products would impact their lives. (Ex: Plastic and Televisions)

John Vassos created the motto of " Radio Living Room of Today" this stressed that a radio was the perfect furnishing for every living room and that everyone should have one. It was a device that was a combination radio/tv/record player/recording system/stereo system.

Marilyn Monroe's career started all because of television. "Movies made her a star. Television made her a legend." Marilyn's first televised work was in a gas commercial for the gasoline company "Royal Triton" (1950)
I also learned that the classic beauty was often nervous when being filmed or interviewed.

WIRED: Cinema's Evolution

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/cinema-breakthroughs-busts/?pid=1205&viewall=true

I like the idea of this technological timeline for cinemas. It really does show how far technology has come over the years. By reading this article I learned a lot of things I never knew about the entertainment industry. I learned that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was America's first animated feature film. I also learned that it was filmed in the time of the Great Depression therefore people of all ages went to see it, and it helped remove the stresses of society for  the 83 minutes that the film lasted.

I also found out that the first color 3D film was Bwana Devil. Although it was a flop it remained popular, yet no one knows why. (Possibly because it's said to have "man-eating lions" in it?)
I thought the 360 degree Circle Television was really amazing, even though technology has come a long way since 1955, I would definitely want to go see a film that was playing on a 360 degree screen.

mysterious travelers.

http://www.otr.com/Mystery.shtml

When listening to these old radio shows, I find it more affective if you close your eyes. When I listened to Mysterious Travelers with my eyes shut my mind could easily fill in the details of what the characters looked like and the scene they were set it. I like that every time you listen to it, the visuals in your mind of the characters and the setting can change. The perception for everyone can vary from person to person which I feel is an important part of these radio shows because in this case the radios are using technology yet it is still giving the listener room to use his/her imagination. Unlike T.V shows today, the program gives you all of the information you need to understand what is happening. With modern technology, there leaves the viewer no room to experiment and be creative. It is interesting to see what information tuners obtain from entertainment when they are not allowed to use both vision and hearing.

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