Monday, November 19, 2007

Trek Assign. 2

2. Describe, with details, two situations during Trek 01 and/or 02 in which you felt unusually peaceful, at ease, or contemplative.

If this question refers to the situations in which feelings that were invoked while watching our classmate's pieces of "Art," then there was the time when I had to listen to three sound clips, all of which were water doing something, from three individuals who thought they were artists, and the day when I had to watch a wiggling stick and a spinning marry-go-round spliced into each other. Both of which made me contemplative.
After hearing water do everything under the sun recorded "uniquely," I thought to myself, how can anyone of these people actually think their stuff is "Art." They all recorded the same thing, water ooo-aaa. And then I began to contemplate as to why my professors thought each clip had any meaning at all. Most people thought my sound clips were wonderful "Art" clips which brought out emotion and feelings from within, when all I was trying to do was prove this was all nonsense. Mic's in bottles, I mean come on. No artistic eye was put into my recordings but others put it into theirs yet all the sound clips brought out feelings and thoughts. But how could they from mine if I purposely put no effort into my recordings at that. I can understand others but mine? Proving that "Art" is what you say it is... BULLSHIT!
Situation number two happened when I had to watch a stick and a marry-go-round edited together. After watching his clip the artist explained what the meaning behind it was and how it conveyed this and that. I thought to myself, a stick and marry-go-round shows use what? I didn't get that at all, all I got out of it was him trying to be an artist. Well try making something good. The situation made me contemplate why I was even here if I wanted to be a director. The experience upset me.

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