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During our last two classes we worked on a collage using magazine clippings and the drawings of the nude model that we did previously. I started by putting down a few of my drawings of the model then noticed the wavy lines of her body and started cutting out objects out of magazines to fill her body in. At this point I realized that I wanted to try to depict the role that technology plays into our everyday life. After all, our lives revolve around technology. I cut out the words "solid steel" and placed them on the body and also the words "pig skin" to show the woman being half mechanized and half biological. To me this is how most Americans are in this decade. I definitely found everyone's collages very interesting. In any future collages I make I plan on using a colored background like a few people did with theirs. I didn't really think to put down a background but I noticed that it added a lot when other people did. I also really liked the way Amy did the landscape in her's with different pieces of magazine clippings. I would also like to stray away from using a standard rectangular piece of paper in the future and do something like Ashok's collage with no white space at all.

I thought the discussion of time in the Scott McCloud reading was very interesting. I had never really thought about how comics can convey the progression of time. I always thought that one frame was just one instant in time but then i realized that usually multiple people are saying things at the same time so there is no way they can be all happening at the same time. I also thought it was amazing how the text is displayed actually affects the way you think about the image. When there is no text the comic looks like just an instant in time. When the text is in present tense it makes you think of it as a moving picture. When it is in past tense it makes it look like one instant again.

Questions:

1. When making your collages in class did you just start cutting and pasting or did you plan out your collage/the meaning of your collage before you started?

2. When you read comics do you read it as if the images are just instantaneous snapshots or do you feel like it is a moving picture?

I really couldn't think of anything at all to research about that had anything to do with our class but I found this interesting picture of a cat.

This relates to the Scott McCloud reading because it is similar to a frame of a comic. When my friend saw this picture he thought that the cat was just dancing but when I look at this picture I see a cat ice skating down the road. He sees it as one instant but I see it as a section of time.

Source:

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