This blog that has now become Apanda's Addiction has gone thought some radical changes. Before I did not have a true theme to this blog, there was any true substance but just general information. I think that this blog has now developed into something that has finally created a true topic that has a good foreground. The theme is now about the entertainment industry and how we (an audience) interpret of why do we want to be entertained? My Internet personality (Apanda) generally talks about main stream media. For my final project I decided to redo my Photoshop project since I did not have a theme to stick to before. Since they were my weakest pieces my new Photoshop images can now relate towards the final theme more appropriately.
The old Images that I have submitted were random, and more focused towards movies. In comparison my Photoshop images in one way answers the question; why do we want to be entertained? My answer to this was that it allows people to escape to another world form reality. So I used myself (the Internet personality) to interpret items that you interact with to access the entertainment. My online character used the item as a portal way to a new reality. Thus I used examples of things that I have read or was entertained by; The game Prince of Persia, the song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, book Luxe series, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles a manga by CLAMP, Movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. Each had an item of taping into that reality; game controller, book, screen light, comic, MP3 player etc. Each photo in a way allowed my online character to escape to another world with in the entertainment industry. I think it really relates to more of why we watch and become enlighten by entertainment. The creativity of these artists has shown the good and bad of the entertainment of the industry.
I think that Lee Manovich touches one some of the topics of the entertainment industry that would be in concerns to my theme. The comparison of what is real within the cinema and what is digitally enhanced.
Rather than using the lens to focus the image of actual
reality on film and then digitizing the film image (or
directly using an array of electronic sensors) we can try to
construct three-dimensional reality inside a computer and
then take a picture of this reality using a virtual camera also inside a computer
This statement concludes the paradox of digital photography that we are making things more realistic from using something that does not truly exist but also id reflected from the reality of the world. In a way digital photography reflects reality into a non existing world.
"Jurassic Park" blends the future
super-vision of computer graphics with the familiar vision of
film image. In "Jurassic Park," the computer image bends down
before the film image, its perfection is undermined by every
possible means and is also masked by the film's content.
An example of entertainment that Manovich explores the validity of the digital film effects but has also has followed with in the paradox of digital photography. Just like how we look at the movie today Avatar. We find that they create this world of reality but is actually would that does not exist within human mankind and reflect human characteristics.
In conclusion I feel that I have some good points about the entertainment industry but due to the fact that I found my theme so late in the span of the semester. Thus I have not fully touched everything about the entertainment industry but it became a great learning experience on how to approach a blog with a theme. All my works within this blog have just scratch the surface of why do we want to be entertained.
Bibliobiography
http://manovich.net/TEXT/digital_photo.html
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