First, I want to mention that I tried really, really hard to insert a video from Chris Coleman, but couldn't figure out how to do it from vimeo. (The only options I could find were from YouTube videos or personal videos).
The other thing I want to talk about is how uncanny I find it that not only in Art 101, but also in my Anthropology class this week, both Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz were part of the reading and/or presentation. What a strange coincidence!
- "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more."
- ―Dorothy Gale
- "Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."
- ―Luke Skywalker, to C-3PO[src]
Additionally, one of the main points my Anthropology teacher has been making is that humans are "meaning-makers"; we are bound by making sense of stuff. Isn't that also the point of the excerpt from "Understanding Comics" that we read? I'll use the same quote I used in my official blog entry again, "by stripping down an image to its essential 'meaning' an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't". Considering these two opinions together, one can see
why we can take an extremely simple icon, and turn it into a personal experience. We
have to make everything mean something!
I think this
means that somehow I was guided by the universe to take these two classes simultaneously in order to enhance the experience of both! Sweet! I love it when that happens :).
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