Bauhaus

Bauhaus is "House of Building" or "Building School" in German. 

Bauhaus was an architecture and design school in Germany from 1919 - 1933. Walter Gropius founded the school based on all the arts working together. In the beginning of Bauhaus, an architecture department did not exist. 

Bauhaus was actually a merge of two schools, Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art. 

Un Chien Andalou

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This is the second time I've seen this movie. My first time watching, I was so confused by what was happening in the film. I don't think the film is really about anything. It's surrealism, so it doesn't have to make sense. Surrealism is all about abstraction of reality. Surrealism art can make sense, but at the same time not make sense. Make sense? 

This film reminds me of dreams. In dreams, nothing makes sense. You jump from one thing to another in dreams, that is how this film rolls. Something would happen and the next thing you know, you're on a beach, but you were just in an apartment. It makes sense, but it doesn't. Love it. 

The interpretation is up to you

Grid Art

 This has to be one of my favorite projects. I never expected to work with an air filter and tissue paper! It took hours upon hours, but the end result looks fantastic. This was really something... 

Dada

Dada is crazy.I don't even know what to say about the Dada collages. They are amazing, interesting, and crazy all at the same time. 

I feel like everything in the collage describes the artist... it is a part of him. It could be a dream, something that happened to him, or an event that occurred. 

Video Games

Why are studios creating/releasing video games alongside a movie?


Well I think that's an obvious answer. Money! Money is the root of all evil... I mean answer. When a movie is released, it will probably make millions or even billions in profit. Why not double that profit with a video game? Video games are very popular. With a game attached to a movie, the movie will increase its popularity.


Movie watchers will be enthralled by the movie and would want more... Video game is the answer. It is perfecto. These people want to a part of the story line and now they can do that with a movie. An example is AVATAR. How many people were fascinated by this movie? Um everyone! How much did the movie make? More than $2 billion! The video game grossed almost $1 billion! Wow. That's a lot of money.


When studios produce their own games, they don't have to share the profit or pay a fee to the other company. Cha-ching.. more mula for the studios!


If you want to gross a big profit, produce a movie and release a video game alongside it. You will be set.

Tetris

I never thought about where Tetris came from or who the genius that created this awesome game. The name of this genius is Alexey Pajitnov. He designed Tetris, programmed it, and release it June 6, 1984. Wow. Tetris has only been around for 26 years. The term Tetris actually came from tetra and tennis. Tetris was released on home computers, game consoles, cell phones, calculators, etc. This game was everywhere! Later, different versions of Tetris was released like Tetris DX, the New Tetris.


When was the first time you played Tetris? I think I was about ten years old. I remember the game was on my family's PC. I used to challenge my sister at it and we'd go at it for hours. I was the winner of course.

MZTV

Wow.


So much information on this site! I would like to visit this museum for sure. So interesting to be able to learn everything about television. That's a lot of history.


I used to watch Felix the Cat all the time, but I did not know that Felix the Cat was television's first star, a cartoon cat! That's just interesting that W2XBS made a cartoon and not an actual person TV's first star.


As years pass, the hours of television watched have increased. This is mostly true for children


For some reason, I did not know that Marilyn Monroe tried acting first! I sure feel uneducated =) but thanks to MZTV, I now know. Television really helped Marilyn Monroe become the famous icon that she is now.


This museum has so much information to share!




http://www.felixthecat.com/history.htm

Wired!

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/cinema-breakthroughs-busts/?pid=1205&viewall=true

This article was very interesting. There were a few movies listed that I haven't heard of, but the majority of them we actually talked about in class.

One movie that really jumped out at me was Jayne's Mansfield The Girl Can't Help It. The movie switching from black and white to color when the actor snapped his finger and the picture turning to widescreen with the help of the actor pushing the picture. That's really amazing especially during the 1950's. What creativity and unique techniques to make the film really stick with the audiences.

Flip Book

This was fun! The coloring took me FOREVER to do. My markers started dying so I had to run around asking people to borrow their markers! I wish I had gotten a bigger book so my tree could be bigger!

Quiet Please

It's very different not watching anything. I feel like I have to listen more closely to the program. I can't go to the bathroom or do anything else or I'd miss something really important! It is much better to close my eyes and listen to such a program because it lets my imagination runs. I'm able to interpret this program in my own way because there is no picture to go along with the story being told. This is very different...

http://www.otr.com/ra/Quiet%20Please%2047-06-08%20(001)%20Nothing%20Behind%20the%20Door.mp3

I'm singin' in the rain...

The musical film, Singin' in the Rain, came out in 1952. The most prominent song of this musical was "Singin' in the Rain" by Don (Gene Kelly).  The song was sang because Don was in love with Kathy. He was bursting with happiness and love that he was singing and dancing in the rain!


Clockwork Orange was a film produced from a novel in 1971. In this film, Alex was singing "Singin in the Rain" while beating up a man and ripping off the clothes off the woman he was about to rape. In this situation, Alex was singing this specific song due to him taking pleasure in violence.


There was such a big difference in just 19 years. Where did all this violence come from?


In the 1950's, Rosa Parks and the Civil Right's Movement were occurring.


The 1960's was probably when violence escalated. Change was starting to happen. John F. Kennedy was president, Martin Luther King's protest, opposition against the Vietnam war, Apollo 8, the man on the moon, and the death of JFK and MLK. There was so much violence in this decade and racism was so prominent in society. Everything was changing because people wanted America to be a better place, but instead America turned out to be just a dream.