Author Archives: LSullivan

 I really enjoyed Brendan’s composition of the ferris wheel, the angle that it was shot from gave an interesting aesthetic to the picture itself. I believe some of the minimal details within the frame such the blurred colors from the far away hanging lights in the back gave the fireworks a mesmerizing and repetitive after […]

It can be highly disputed that we live in a very “unreal” world. Although, we do whatever it takes to create different types of false realities, whether the topic can be expressed as global or self awareness, this collides with how we try to justify and present something with a soothing level of truthiness. This […]

The quote I chose from Debora is: “The Spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image. “The Spectacle of Life is an article that is a guideline of media, population, demand, and capitalism. The Spectacle is supposed to be the videos people record and post to their social media blogs and sites. […]

“Video has the ability to travel across space and time as well as offering a short-term, anti-ageing aid to vanity. It can also bring space and time together.” With the clear differences in video technology from the past and today, it is distinguish the time difference as seen on the quality of the videos. However, […]

Guy Debord’s text is about how images have affected our reality, how media turns reality on its head, meaning that nowadays we can take a picture and edit it to a point where we are unrecognizable. I also couldn’t stop but think about special affects in this case. We watch all this movies in awe […]

Guy Debord describes in his work “The Society Of The Spectacle” how photography has impacted how people think of their outer appearance. One interesting point he elaborates on is how pictures are taking away from the actual moment of life when photos are being taken because the photos are not necessarily the moment but merely […]