Rejection at its FINEST!!

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I am a rejected freak

I really enjoyed the visual rhetoric project. I was able to express myself in a new way. I really enjoy photography and the fact that I got to go knee deep in it and really get my hands dirty was exciting. The only obstacle I came a across was faulty models. There was a lot of people who were interested, but then the day they were supposed to shoot came up with an excuse to not come or some crazy reason, like I do not have a model body.I even tried to explain to them that I wanted someone without a model body because it would make the photos more authentic to me and the story I am trying to tell with them. I think i would edit the photos differently and pose some of the photos differently. While looking back through photos I got new ideas and saw things I didn’t like and wanted to fix in some of them. Also I would like more time to edit these photos and really play around with lighting, color, and effects.

Through these photos I really brought out the function of pathos. They cause of rejecting someone from your click or group can have negative effects on someone such as cutting or suicide attempts. The VR project really made me look back on the past and experience what I went through in high school. I had to tap into the emotion of what I felt. The VR project became very pathos for me. I started to establish what started to cause my isolation personally and what I did to overcome it, or lack their of. I hope my photos really give the viewer a since of self. I hope they open peoples eyes and really see what people go through in their day to day life feeling alone or out casted. I hope people taking something personal away from my photos.

Hello? Is anyone there? Its me Jesus...

Have you ever felt alone? Outcasted? the fucking freak who has no friends? Well that was me in high school. I never had this feeling of fitting in. I had friends and was very social, but a part of me always felt like it was on the outside looking in. This is where my visual rhetoric project will start, but not finish. I want to state exactly how I felt no one else , not some random person, but me (or a fake me while I take the pictures). The stages I went through of isolation and evolving into who I am today, or who I want to become. Today I received a tweet from Lady Gaga saying that another gay teen took his life due to bullying and I asked myself was he outcasted? Maybe my project isn't about being isolated or outcasted, maybe its about bullying. I don't really fucking know where I want this to go and I don't even know if it has a finishing point, but I know it has a beginning. This thought came to me while Bronte Price was kicking, smashing, and cussing at my door because I locked her out. Why? I wanted to be alone, and she felt alone and that moment in time. Maybe it really started when I told her my first idea and it was questioned and I didn't have answers, or maybe it was because she blew me off one to many times! All I know is that i now have an idea and I know where I'm headed. I think I'm gonna be using Logos at least in my VR project, and maybe a little bit of Pathos. How you might ask. Well Courtney that I don't really know either. I think I have put my self where I am in a hole and I have more questions rather than answers. You know what to me that is okay, but to you probably not so much. This project is no longer and the outcome or the grade you give me (well it is because I can't fail), but the process and the digging I'm gonna have to do to uncover how I felt, what I went through, and the things I did. I'll have to uncover the point where it all began, and honestly I don't know where that is either. This is the start and lets see if I can find the finish.


P.S. The title? Yea i don't know where that came from... I just typed something

PepsiCo Recycles???????????

The photo I took was of a trash and recycling can by Pepsi. They are promoting recycling bottles and cans, but in return they are going to help disabled U.S. Veterans.  Pepsi is using a form of Ethos and Logos for this ad. Ethos is being used as Pepsi is a very creditable soda company around the world. People know who Pepsi is and their logo. Pepsi uses logos by saying if you recycle we help out a disabled veteran, which can change into if you recycle YOU are helping out a disabled veteran. Making this statement of the recycles helping the veterans makes them the receiver or audience and Pepsi posting this ad all over the us makes them the messenger. Putting this on the trash/recycling can they are getting people to recycle used bottles and cans, and are tapping into peoples' emotions for the veterans. The U.S. has a way of showing this images of amputated or injured veterans from either past or present wars.  The "real" American will feel guilty for them and want to help them and their families out by doing whatever they can. Pepsi found a way to tap these strong emotions people have for them and are also promoting going green in the process. 


I rather enjoyed taking the VR photos around the loop. I'm glad we didn't get to pick our groups because it was a great way to bond with other classmates besides Bronte (I still LOVE you!!!!). I did find it a bit challenging because I did not want to take the cliche  photos that I knew a lot of people were going to take like tags or bus ADs. I really looked at my surroundings and found it difficult to come across original ideas of VR. I also enjoyed walking around the loop because sitting in class is not the greatest thing in the world. 

Anonymous Sex

Jennifer Ray created a five photo piece of work in a park were men go to have anonymous sex. The photos are shoot in real locations and they intrigue you from a far and when you get close to them. You see fake teeth, Viagra, and even a condom wrapper in these photos. Jennifer gets the viewer thinking why would people do this and what kind of people do this. As i kept looking at these five photos I started to ask myself were these items really here or did she place them there to make her point clearer? I think she did. The background of nature and how the grass fell  the leafs, or the entangled trees is real and natural, but the Viagra, dentures, and condom wrapper I feel were intentionally placed in these locations for these photos.
When I viewed all the photos in the MoCP I looked at the photos first completely open minded, then I look at the description given. I think I do that so I don't have a preconceived notion of what the photographer wants me to think or feel while looking at their work.

I think Jennifer was trying to say with these photos that even something so beautiful as nature as a sexual side. We as humans do have sexual pleasures in the open air and people see that as wrong. While viewing these photos if you look closely you see how nature in its self represents the body or sexual images. The two trees with the carving of initials on them are split in two and bent in a way to signify a vagina but are also entwined with each other representing homosexuality. Also the photo with the berries hanging down representing how beautiful and delicate a women’s body is. I think Jennifer did a beautiful and unique way of taking and presenting this photos, but I’m not sure if I like that she faked portions of her photos.

Bronte

IS THE BEST PERSON IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Change

Visual Rhetoric

 This picture I came across while looking up random photos on google and it started to make me think why are chains over this women's eyes? The context of this photo is placed in the viewers thoughts. It is how he or she interprets the photo. The photographer didn't present a definite context to the photo or gave a clue of what he meant. I should my roommate Mike this photo and he automatically said "What we see is easily manipulated and changed, Our eyes are always deceiving us, and thus we are bound by them." I think this is a form of pathos as the photographer wants empathy for the women's eyes bleeding. Also its a way to show empathy for society and the human race. We are so worried about how people view us and that everything should be black and white, or cookie cutter form. This women would rather lose her sight first. The photographer is sending this message to the world, not just the viewer of this piece. Also this piece could raise argument of seeing the world through another persons eyes. Give up your eyesight for someone else, or lose yours to view the world with new eyes. 


Here is the Artist website  

Who am I?

Who am I? Where do I come from? Well I am me nothing greater or less than that. I am an artist, a dancer, a performer, a student, a son, a brother, an uncle, a cousin, an icon, a legend. I am Keeton Alan Phillips. I am me!

I grew up in Evansville, Indiana, which is the 3rd largest city in Indiana. I have 3 older brothers, in descending order, Lee, Steven, and Jeff. My family lost Lee when I was in 1st grade from a gun shot. I didn't know him that well, but I feel his spirit protecting me. My mom and dad are divorced and I live with my mom, well did. Now I am living in the Dwight floor 901.

When I applied to Columbia I declared my major as Musical theatre. Then I decided to double major with Dance, but the dance center told me to be a BFA in dancemaking and Musical theatre it would be challenging so I had to decided what I wanted to do. I ultimately decided to go ahead with dancemaking because I want to choreograph show choirs and musical theatre.

I was in theatre since I was 8 years old and then when I got into junior high and high school I was really into show choir. I auditioned for my show choir every year except Junior year, which i found out I would have made it, but I joined for my senior year. We are the Castle Knight Sensations and we competed all over Indiana. This year they are coming to Chicago and I can't wait to see them again. Dance is something I am so passionate about that I can't wait to get my hands on it.

I don't necessarily love writing, but through the Bridge it's something I can tolerate. I enjoy writing more when it is a topic I am passionate about and not a topic I am forced to write about. With this class I am hoping to explore ideas that I have in a deeper context not just by writing, but through discussion and and visuals. I am also really excited for our photo project because I am now a Photography Minor.

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