Can you see me?

If your reading this then I have found life and am now living. Please do not morn my existance it is a good one. Dispite all the attractions death brings I did not fall into the brink. So now I continue on this path where ever it takes me. Hope all is well with you. What ever choice you make I hope you make peace with it. This may be our last communication but do not fear life can be good dispite the well known to the contrary.

If its good enough for Neilson...

I just watched the latest episode of House M.D. and it was realy good. I've said in the past that I would talk about tv if I felt it worthy. I don't have a tv so hulu is my sorce of media. This episode was great not for the acting which was as good as any other episode but the dercting and writing was amazing. There was a point when the camera panned with Chase and Formen as they made a remark in refrence to a sceen earlyer then the camera changed derctions and focused on the pationt. This was when I thought 'huh mabye somebody new is derecting this' I should have got the clue with the opening shot of the first act (right after opening credits) but the qualety dosent stop there the choice of music for this episode is brileant. It is barly notesable and most of the time it's barly obove silence. This under-use of the score realy drives home the on screen profomences and helps the story feal vary realistic. The story itself is quite good with notesable use of b-plots that tie in to the main nicely. They leed tence moments into funny ones and make great speculation to the open ended questions left. Not to mention how one Leeds into another is incredably smooth and there is a defanit flow to this episode that was perfected in edeting. I should mention the irony of the fact that the pationt in this episode is a carear bloger. If it is for this reason that i type this then may the gods have mercy on my… well enyway. All in all somthing worth talking about.

Actually Art?

I apologize for the following and you can stop now for time saving.  

              In a picture that is vary common in college dormitories there are two women kissing.  Appropriately the title of this peace is called “Kiss”.  Though the image is of a provocative nature I still contend that it, and others like it, are of the same intellectual value as, say, the “V–J day in Times Square”.  The photo though of a more tame nature than others I am putting in this category should still be on par with other works of the time period. 

              Firstly the picture is a black and white, with two women, one brunet and one dark blond, on a bed in white underwear.  The two models are embracing each other in a very loving fashion and are lip-locked with there eyes closed.  All the attention is in there faces and that’s were the eye drifts.  Evan though the models are working they seem to be vary comfortable and relaxed which helps the captured moment look more intimate.  The picture as a whole seems to bring out a feeling of sexuality.  Though the two subjects are female there short hair and slim futures do not suggest an extreme femininity but merely the relationship of two people in an intimate act. 

              Conversely the war photo has a very notable image.  The two subjects being of opposite genders make this picture more conventional.  With a New York background there is more for the eye to process but one finally rests on the two kissers.  In contrast the sailor is wearing dark clothing while the nurse is wearing a white uniform.  This takes the attention away from the faces, which are hidden, and brings it to the couple as a whole.  The two parties involved are in a more forceful kiss than the other picture, this seems to lessen the sexual nature and instead it has a more romantic feel. 

              The question that seems to come up is if a picture has a more evocative, provocative, or erotic nature than is it as good as a bowl of fruit?  I contend yes.  Though the pictures provide different reactions, they still have one and that is the point of art is it not?  Over the centuries there have been many styles of art and this modern version is simply a representation of our time, specifically our relationship with sex.  Though some people might have trouble dealing with this relationship there is one in all of us.  Over the past few decades the general populous has accepted a more liberal view on pornography.  This has caused some more extreme peaces to be labeled as art that in the past would not be seen as such. 

              Art in all its glory is a great representation of the prosperity of the culture.  From the Greek vases to the Indian religious figures there has always been an element of sex.  Through time how explicit the art has been has changed but it is has always there.  So therefore no matter how erotic an image can get there is still a possibility that it has an artistic value.