Dan Guglielmo
Journal Entry 3/30/09
Visual Argument – Response
Author: Sasha Quintana
Picture: Final Four Tournament bracket
Summary: Sasha’s argument is a lively one around my household, she chose to represent the NCAA 2009 FinalFour bracket – with her version of predictions on the tournament’s winners and losers. She suggests that the Final Four will include the UConn Huskies, Michigan St. Spartans, the Villanova Wildcats, and the UNC Tar Heels. The Argument goes on to suggest that the Tar heels will win the entire tournament.
Visual Argument: Anyone familiar with college basketball will immediately recognize the bracket arrangement on the page. College basketball enthusiasts will be drawn to it more quickly because the schools that are being shown are all done via mascot representation. If you didn’t know the mascot, you wouldn’t know the team.
Her use of color is great, each team is well depicted, and there is a giant orange basketball as the baskground image. The tournament bracket lines are strong and bold, and the argument of who she thinks will win – UNC – is upfront and clear. This argument is well done, and done in good taste. Tis the season for March Madness and her argument, done visually, is again – done well.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The image we decided to use was the Eiffel Tower at night time. We decided to use triangles and squares when recreating it because we saw those shapes more prominent in the design of the building. Plus, those shapes give it a more rigid, more slender, and more chic look. Since the tower has spaces and isn’t solid, we decided the abstract gluing of the squares and triangles depicted it best. The other group responded to ours by guessing it, but after careful consideration. One said a rock concert, which I could see. I think, if we had another chance, we would make it bigger, that way it has more of a tower feel. We just made the tower too big for the paper we were using! All in all, though, I think we did a good job of accomplishing the Eiffel Tower with construction paper and shapes.
~Michelle
~Michelle
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Millionaire Matchmaker - Reality TV
Sadly I admit I watch an obscene amount of reality tv these days. In my moments of respite from the demanding and often infuriating world around me, I recluse myself to my den alone watching one piece of reality trash most - The Millionaire Matchmaker. This show is aired on the Bravo! network and in turn is mostly catering to a female audience. The premise - a thirty something Jewish New Yorker hits Los Angeles and starts a successful business that pairs millionaire men and women with beautiful and exotic dates. It's a show that portrays American gluttony for capitalism and breast implants. Again, sadly, I watch this show.
In the particular episode I chose for this class, the millionaire man was named Bruce, a 45 year old stock broker who's net worth was in excess of $45 million. His ideas of a perfect woman was a 19-25 year old who loves to travel, have children, and wishes to share his 35,000 sq. ft Malibu home with him. The matchmaker then made a modest attempt at psychotherapy, telling Bruce that he was dreaming and that a woman that young would never hold his attention and that she would eventually leave him. Her half hearted maxims are aimed at lending another emotion to the show other than SEX SEX SEX, MONEY MONEY MONEY! Eventually, the matchmaker collects 10-15 girls and arranges a cocktail party where the "audition"/auction is held. Bruce picks 2 mini dates that consist of 10 min, and then has to pick one for a real date on a later episode. Bruce indeed chose a twenty something, blonde, with visible plastic surgery.
This episode was thematic in that it is a Romance based show. The relationship expert is trying to lend her advice to bring about "true love" as she calls it, yet her hollow reality she lives in doesn't create the right ethos. As a viewer, I found myself practically smiling and giggling at the superficiality that was rampant. It's obvious true love cannot be found under the pretense of "Millionaire Matchmaker". As each of the girls were picture perfect and all with above average talents - the show was making the argument that millionaires all deserve "perfect women", no matter the looks or personality of the man himself. In this case, Bruce was a charming fellow after all, however not all of the Millionaires are.
Reality TV this is not, comical and entertaining television with vivid sexual overtones - yes! That, after all, is why I watch this show. To laugh at life, while it's whizzing on without me, for those brief moment at least.
Dan Guglielmo
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