Blog 2 on reading

Photography and art use to be based on religion. As the article said it is more about politics now. I think that its not all about politics though. It is more about politics than religion today. It has become more about what the artist makes it. People are making art and photographs about everything these days. Digital photography has helped to move that along like film did when this was written. I also think digital has made art less about religion and less about politics too. Today photograph is so much different than when this article was written. In the past religion was a huge part of art now it has faded away. Politics have sorta taken its place and many other things have become part of art as well. People make art about world problems today.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

This article is talking about art being reproduced. In years earlier art was not reproduced one reason may have been because it was harder to do to reproduce. In today’s time it has become so much simpler. I think that the techniques have been copied or reproduced like when a new technique comes out everyone wants to know how it is done. But the actual image was not always. Now with the technology that we have it has made it a lot easier. People can go online and just take the image and make it their own. Many people go to the same spot as another person in photography wise to try and get the image. Before all the technology came about like it said in the article the only form of art was brass and copper. I think many people want to become like the person that made the image in art or photograph and they just copy the kind of work that they do or even an image that they have. With the portrait world the poses are almost the same to become someone you have to come up with something new. When portrait photography began one person had a pose that they were know for and it has become a pose that is well known now. The same way with the way the portrait is edited I look at the studios near my house and they are all using about the same amount of saturation in their photographs because they have saw someone else use it and copied it. I think most of anything these days have become a reproduction many songs you hear on the radio are remakes of songs in the 70’s and 80’s.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

I agree and disagree with the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?.” I agree that it has changed the way we read. We just skim the reading online or jump from one article to another. When I am online I know that if I find an article that is long I can find one that is shorter than that one or I scan the article. With the Internet it makes it easier to find what you are looking for unlike when you had to find a book or an encyclopedia to find it.

I disagree that Google is making us stupid I think that its not just Google it is the whole Internet that makes us not want to read or keep our attention. We usually have more than one page up at a time and jump from one thing to another when we are online. We also rely on the Internet too much anything we cannot remember we just go to the Internet and look it up. It makes us become dependent on the internet and not remember like we use to. If technology keeps going then the next generations to come will become totally dependent on the internet and will not have to remember anything. They will also become less likely to pick up a book when they can go to sparknotes or any website and find the summary or what they need to take a test. It will make them become less intelligent if they never read and always use the internet for there needs.

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I think that with the growth of internet that people do more collecting and sorting that actually looking at them images. Before Internet began to get really big people use to go to art shows to see the work and that meant they actually looked at it. Now with the Internet most people have multiple pages up and have other things going on around them. Many people glance at the image and go on to the next. People do not admire the work like they use to. Some people the only images that they see are on advertisements and they do not think about the work that have been put into it just that is a billboard or pop up. The Internet has increased the accessibility to get to see the images but I think that people abuse it. Instead of really looking at the images in person they would rather pull it up on a web page and look at it. The person that looks at it does not get other people’s opinion on the work. They do not think about the real meaning that the image is to convey. Many people just look at the physical things in the image when they glance at it. If they would take the time to look at it and really analyze that the photographer is thinking when they take the picture they would understand the work more. I believe that the internet will keep growing and collecting and sorting will become more popular than looking at them images.