Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Logical Argument?

As audiences entered the film theater the lights dimmed and they looked into a screen together as an audience - this audience becomes united in their viewing/perspective

The film actor breaks the control of production and enters the screen - they create the culture

The Mood was one of Illusion - An illusion of intimacy with celebrities - fan mail - gossip mags etc. (para-social)

With TV things changed a bit - The film entered our living room and the ordinary became featured, news - talk shows - reality TV - everyone got 15 minutes of fame - Warhol

But still there was a unified TV audience and it can is still passive, watching not producing, waiting not seizing

Then things change - The mood gets a bit more errie - ambient
With laptops - cell phone texting - instant communication

All of sudden fame is at peoples fingertips - people connect with friends family and meet new people through loose but deeply felt ambient intimate relationships-

In this environment of ambience all identitiy is felt a tid bit like a celeb -

Our houses are no longer built of walls with a one way window (TV) blasting culture - instead we create a house of glass - an image of ourselves that we anyone can see in so that we can look out -
Our glass houses reveal that the neighbors are human - as are we - all too human - Our city is moving and fluid and mourning the architecture of place

We see failures, beauty, dreams of each other and we see that we are not the same because we look out the same window, but rather because we all have thousands of different windows, we can create something new, creation itself becomes the image - craftspeople of culture - who find joy in the labor instead of the product -

****I think this is how the assignment is supposed to be********

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