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This may sound like emo writing, in fact I am sure of it. But one word and one word alone can only describe the feeling I have right now and that is powerless. People are fragile things. We tend to look to others for companionship in this world and believe in the idea that “no man is an island.” But why do we depend so much on friendship and intimacy to feel as if we truely exist? Why can’t we know that we exist with the power of our own abilities and our actions and not through others. That is why I feel powerless, because I am thousands and thousands of miles away from someone who needs that and my words flee from me and I can’t console this person. As much as they tug at my heart and they say they miss me, I am powerless to do anything about my current predictament. powerless

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This day Dana took us to another interest exhibit, it was a mixture of art and technology fashioned in a most interesting manner. Students like us were given a couple months period to create words of art fashioned with technology. Some of the pieces did not work due to overusage by the public, but the ones that caught my eyes were not necessarily the pieces we went there to see. The video projector where a person had to imitate a silloutte of the character on the screen was most particular because of the fact that the person didn’t know if those shapes were predetermined by the artist or if they were randomly chosen. With a trial and error process of performing the countless shapes over and over, it was determined that they were the same each time. Moving farther into the studio there was the metalic sound machine AKA Sound metal which proved to be interesting in the sense that the sound could change with the holding of hands and opposite polarities on each metal piece. The overall the piece of art that caught my eye the most and was possibly the most entertaining for the class was the “travel through time” piece. This is an amazing programing job with people recognition and the ability to replicate their image no matter what they do. I can’t even think of the schemantics that went into creating such a piece, but I do know that it was fairly entertaining and for that I applaud the creator or creators. Overall, the entire exhibit was a wonderful experience, even though I wouldn’t be as creative or skillful to create such a piece by myself or even with a team, I respect the artists and their abilities to look “outside the box.”

How did Marker perceive “the function of memory”? Explain your own thoughts on this idea and the role of images in our construction of self and our collective history.

Marker perceives the function of memory as away to travel through time. Well technically not necessarily that idea but that was the plot of his first film that we saw La Petite. Memory can be used as a strong marker in our lives as corner stones to our past. Meaning now matter how much we try to forget a certain memory in our lives, if it had a strong impression within our minds and in our lives, an influential factor it can be said to be then it changes who we are as a person. People tend to remember images alot more than individual memories or significant times periods in their lifetime. When i walk down the street and see something that catches my eye, it reminds me of a past time when that object was significant. Our past makes who we are today, our actions and actions done to us are significant in constructing our personas and generally make us a better or worse person. Make shows the significance of images as a part of our lives. No matter how much we try to believe that these images don’t influence our lives they will never disappear and we tend to dwell on them.