Madama Butterfly Post #2

I've never got to see the opera Madama Butterfly, but from the clip we saw in class I can tell why professor always cries! It's so sad and as a woman I think we can all relate to our first love, or being dissapointed by love. It's so sad how she actually gave him all of her heart and he had no intention of actually loving her back the way that she loved him. I love the video linked in the syllabus where they are animated as plastic Barbie dolls; even through plastic you can still feel how much pain she is going through.  After their steamy outdoor sex scene, he says fairwell to her and even gives her his Navy had to keep so she will always think of him.  It's so sad because you see him walk away and then day turns into night and she is still waiting - longing for him to come back to her. I personally like that the animation is through plastic dolls because I feel even more sad for some reason. He finally comes back for her only for her to find him with another woman 'a perfect Barbie like blonde' completely opposite of what she is.  He proceeds to take her child away from her and leave her forever. I think it was extremely creative how the creator of the video let her walk off the cliff right into the studio that created the video. She rips her face off, skin, and begins to unscew all her gears with a screwdriver (a nicer way to portray suicide).

Bach's music used in breakdancing: amazing!

http://youtu.be/QgCnKd1p5OU

Cuarto Norte: Post #1

Alright well here we go... i've never used a blog before in my entire life! Here goes nothing!

I believe that we were supposed to post our first blog on Cuarto Norte "the sculpture that was not supposed to evolve." From class notes I believe that this sculpture was placed in the Ice Hotel and began forming frost on the sculpture, depending on the lighting and time day some parts of the sculpture would be denser with frost than others, creating a abnormal looking face.  This would most definitely be a great example of synery, which is two (or more) tools working together.  This piece of art was originally not supposed to evolve but the circumstances it was persented with made a serious of time controlling tools that worked together to form synergy. For example the movie by Artificial Intelligence when David finds the sculpture of the angel, they were under he water for 500+ years and the once featured statue in NYC was now covered thick with ice.  I used this example because I believe that this sculpture was not meant to evolve, but did, therefore is a perfect example of multi media.