Thursday, April 28, 2011
another article on the documentary Catfish.. lawsuit??
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/lawsuit-seeks-expose-truth-catfish-55969
Catfish
Web 2.0 is basically more user friendly, easier to use, and allows users to post absolutely anything they want. Which can be bad or good. This relates to the movie Catfish, because a women name Angela posed as 15 or more different Facebook profiles. She created a whole second life for herself, and actually posed as all these people with different personalities and lifestyles. This is a pure example of why the internet and social networking sites can become dangerous. Nev believed this woman Angela was the mother of two girls Abby and Megan. Abby was a fantastic painter and duplicated Nev's photographs into paintings. Megan was a beautiful girl who which Nev was attracted to and started a relationship with over Facebook, calls and text messages. He knew nothing else about this family other then what he saw on Facebook. Web 2.0 helped people adapt to using the internet in a more advanced way. Little did they know what can be revealed when learning how to use the advanced technology of the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 made it easy for people to hid behind a computer screen, and post absolutely anything from arguing with someone and not confronting them face to face, to giving users the ability to create a second life and reveal untruthful facts and issues about their lives.
Facebook and other social networking sites can obviously be abused by the user. These social networking sites allows users to portray themselves as someone completely different then who they really are. Sites like this make it easy for people to lead a double life, and create a new life for themselves if they are unhappy with who they really are. Which I believe is how Angela felt, she felt unhappy with her own life so she created multiple lives so she can experience what is would be like to be a beautiful young girl like Megan. Also to have a good looking guy become to interested and committed and she never had to meet him, because their relationship was all through advanced technological communication. As creepy and unreal as this sounds, this is what Angela did.
Facebook can be beneficial and abused at the same time. Facebook can be used to keep in touch with long lost friends and to meet knew people in a GOOD way. When the user becomes to involved things can get risky. A social networking site like this is really not monitored and gives access to everyone in the world to create a profile and post pictures, videos and text about themselves. What is scary is people can pose as some different just like Angela did. Nev believed everything Angela told him, she was posing as Megan a young girl, all of Megan's friends, and lying about her daughter Abby being a wonderful painter. What it looks like to me is Angela wanted to be all these things, a painter, a beautiful young girl and Facebook allowed her to portray herself as these these things and to engage in this double life of hers that she created. At one point of the movie it seemed to me as it was hard for her to define what was real and what was fake. Its as if she confused her real life with her fake life. When Nev approached her about this second life she was pretending to lead, she continued to lie about some things. How Megan went to rehab for drinking, and how the pictures of "Megan" on Facebook was really a family friend. Non of this was true, its as if she couldn't identify what was real and what was fake, its like lying became a part of her every day life and she didn't know how to live her life without lying.
Throughout the years technology has grown, and more advanced technology is coming about and it is becoming easier and easier for the user to communicate with the outside world. Emails, chatting, searching the web, posting on Facebook, making blog entries, can all be done in the palm of your hand on your cellphone. When the World Wide Web first came out I remember having to wait about 5 mins for the internet to dial up because it was connected to a phone line. Now it takes seconds to log onto the Internet and everything is completely wireless no more sitting in front of a desk waiting a few mins to log on the internet to check an email. Technology has evolved into something that can be easily abused, technology is a wonderful thing and many people now would never survive without it, but in many ways can effect society and the way of life in a negative way.
Facebook and other social networking sites can obviously be abused by the user. These social networking sites allows users to portray themselves as someone completely different then who they really are. Sites like this make it easy for people to lead a double life, and create a new life for themselves if they are unhappy with who they really are. Which I believe is how Angela felt, she felt unhappy with her own life so she created multiple lives so she can experience what is would be like to be a beautiful young girl like Megan. Also to have a good looking guy become to interested and committed and she never had to meet him, because their relationship was all through advanced technological communication. As creepy and unreal as this sounds, this is what Angela did.
Facebook can be beneficial and abused at the same time. Facebook can be used to keep in touch with long lost friends and to meet knew people in a GOOD way. When the user becomes to involved things can get risky. A social networking site like this is really not monitored and gives access to everyone in the world to create a profile and post pictures, videos and text about themselves. What is scary is people can pose as some different just like Angela did. Nev believed everything Angela told him, she was posing as Megan a young girl, all of Megan's friends, and lying about her daughter Abby being a wonderful painter. What it looks like to me is Angela wanted to be all these things, a painter, a beautiful young girl and Facebook allowed her to portray herself as these these things and to engage in this double life of hers that she created. At one point of the movie it seemed to me as it was hard for her to define what was real and what was fake. Its as if she confused her real life with her fake life. When Nev approached her about this second life she was pretending to lead, she continued to lie about some things. How Megan went to rehab for drinking, and how the pictures of "Megan" on Facebook was really a family friend. Non of this was true, its as if she couldn't identify what was real and what was fake, its like lying became a part of her every day life and she didn't know how to live her life without lying.
Throughout the years technology has grown, and more advanced technology is coming about and it is becoming easier and easier for the user to communicate with the outside world. Emails, chatting, searching the web, posting on Facebook, making blog entries, can all be done in the palm of your hand on your cellphone. When the World Wide Web first came out I remember having to wait about 5 mins for the internet to dial up because it was connected to a phone line. Now it takes seconds to log onto the Internet and everything is completely wireless no more sitting in front of a desk waiting a few mins to log on the internet to check an email. Technology has evolved into something that can be easily abused, technology is a wonderful thing and many people now would never survive without it, but in many ways can effect society and the way of life in a negative way.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Exit Through The Gift Shop
The film, Exit Through The Gift Shop was a very interesting film about street art. It was narrated by a member who chose to remain antonymous. He wore a black hood and talked in a deep voice. He went by the name Banksy, he decided to film an artist Thierry Guetta and his new experiences with creating street art. Thierry Guetta is a very creative person. He started off with street art and little having little knowledge. He later in life ends up opening his own art gallery which had over 2000 people waiting online to see his art. He created many different interesting projects, many i felt were recreated art, such as the mona lisa, and other famous art work which Thierry created in his own artistic ability. Thierry Guetta was a french born who started out as a blooming street artist who had a lot of potential. Throughout the movie we never actually see Banksy create any work, as the film focuses more on Thierry's work. Thierry's art show "Life Is Beautiful" was held in Los Angeles California, tickets sold or obscene amounts of money and people waited online for hours to see art work created by someone who started out knowing very little about street art. Which later bloomed into outstanding work of art.
Does the fact that the work is illegal change the meaning of the work?
The fact that the work is created illegally gives much more meaning to the work. Obviously people aren't creating the work for money. They take time out to create this art, and put hard work and dedication into their work. Their work demonstrates emotion and feelings, and artist put their full heart into their work and most of it comes from deep down inside. Yes, street are is looked down upon, and many feel it it looks like disaster on the streets. The people who are creating this art are just speaking their minds through their creativity and images on the streets. I believe it empowers the work because it is done illegally, and it gives more meaning to the work because it is created with feeling and expression. Where other artists and artwork are created with passion as well but also the artist is being paid for their work where as street artists to do it willingly.
Artist have a very special talent. They are able to create work with their feelings and emotion. Its amazing that everyone has different ideas and imagination, and every artist creates different pieces. Thierry had a talent that was very unique he had a lot of passion for his work, and it all paid off in the end when his art show was a hit.
Does the fact that the work is illegal change the meaning of the work?
The fact that the work is created illegally gives much more meaning to the work. Obviously people aren't creating the work for money. They take time out to create this art, and put hard work and dedication into their work. Their work demonstrates emotion and feelings, and artist put their full heart into their work and most of it comes from deep down inside. Yes, street are is looked down upon, and many feel it it looks like disaster on the streets. The people who are creating this art are just speaking their minds through their creativity and images on the streets. I believe it empowers the work because it is done illegally, and it gives more meaning to the work because it is created with feeling and expression. Where other artists and artwork are created with passion as well but also the artist is being paid for their work where as street artists to do it willingly.
Artist have a very special talent. They are able to create work with their feelings and emotion. Its amazing that everyone has different ideas and imagination, and every artist creates different pieces. Thierry had a talent that was very unique he had a lot of passion for his work, and it all paid off in the end when his art show was a hit.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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