Thursday, April 24, 2008
"The perks of being a Wallflower"
One of my first book to ever read and actually enjoy for my own entertainment was "the perks of being a wallflower". This book brought tears of happiness and sadness. The book is by Stephen Chbosky and he writes the book like a variety of letters. The letters are anonymous but he gives the name of Charlie to the character. Charlie is a troubled high school student going through his only friends death. He is very worried that he is not going to fit in high school. He actually fits in with the theater scene from the school. He goes through his everyday life until one day he realises something is not normal with him.
FEED
After finishing reading "Twighlight", I've taken upon myself to read "FEED". FEED was writen by M.T. Anderson. This book is also a science fiction book. The book is also very futureristic. The main characters name is Titus. Titus is troubled with his feed which is this chip installed in his brain. This chip can actually work as a computer once you log in. After Titus goes to the moon for his vacation hes chip is hacked into and has caused some danged.
White painting
Controversial image created by Robert Rauschenberg was "white painting". He just basically got a blank canvas and exposed it to the world as art. This caused people to become confused. Usually when you think of art you think colors and images. This piece was just blank what he wanted to show was that even a white image can be art. The modernist era brought us anything can be art anything that is new could also be art
Twilight
I recently finally finished reading one of by favorite books "twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. The book is an amazing science fiction/ vampire/ drama based book. The main character's name is Bella. She falls in love with a vampire high school student called Edward. Edward doesn't bite humans he bites from animals blood. He consider himself "vegetarian vampire". Bella is stuck in this town in Washington were is just twilight day and night. The title of the book comes from the towns appearance.
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola or better know as Andy Warhol a famous artist of the 60s ,70s and is still known today. Warhol created a new a new way of an art technique which was called hyper reality. Hes creation of Marilyn Monroe was one the most famous work ever created by him. Andy used in a portrait of Marilyn Monroe loud colors such as yellow for the hair. He used blue strong color for the eyes. He also made Campbell soup creation were he got the idea out of a supermarket stand stacked with Campbell soups.
The Dinner Party
I was amazed to see Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" exhibition. In her artistic point of view she is consider a feminist artist. In her exhibition her master piece its an upside down triangular table. To the sides of cloth of table are names of famous woman writers. In top of the table are the anatomy parts of the uterus of the women body. The upside down triangle represents the female symbol.
Streams-Of-Consciousness
I was recently reading about a way of witting called "stream of consciousness. This way of writing is stating down all unedited thoughts of the character. Virginia Woolf and James Joysce exceeded to creating story as such. In one book called "freshwater: a comedy", by Woolf she writes about her great aunt Julia. In this book its a comedy and the characters are basically allowed to express their inner thoughts.
Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck is known for his realistic sculptures. He was born and raised in London. He began working for a television program making the crafts for kids on the show. What Mueck didn't like about some sculptures was that from an angle they didn't look real. What he set his mind to do was create sculptures that would look realistic from any angle. He now has expositions all over the world to see his work. My favorite sculpture that I've ever seen is the one that he created called "boy". In my view of the sculpture the boy is bending down almost sad. The sculptures size is 490 x 490 x 250 cm .
Guillaume Yann Tiersen
One of my favorite composers of all times Guillaume Yann Tiersen otherwise know as just Yann Tiersen. He is a French composer known for his french folk music and his amazing piano skills. One his best know song is "La Valse d'Amelie". He made the soundtrack for one of my favorite movies of all times "Amelie". The director of this movie Jean-Pierre Jeunet and well the movie is french and has english subtitles. He is one of the main composers of Europen Classical music. He uses a variety of instruments to give it a sence of softness like a toy piano, the melodica, and xylophone.
Juno
Amazing movie, one of the best that has come out this year "Juno". The director is Jason Reitman the creator of Ghostbuster II. Juno is a troubled girl in high school. Her world becomes tragic when she finds out she is pregnant. Surprisingly, the first time i saw the trailer for this movie i thought it was going to be one of the worst movies of the year. What i learned is don't always trust the trailers to show you how the movie really is. Well to continue with the movie information Juno is now pregnant but has decided to give the baby up for adoption. Paulie Bleeker "the cheese to her macaroni" is the father of the baby but is completely in love with Juno. At the end my favorite scene they are both singing a song together and playing guitar called "Anyone Else But You" by the moldy peaches.
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