The way the article started out was interesting with the comparison of dimensions between the frog and the frogs skin. "Even our language, like our paper, often lacks immediate capacity to communicate a sense of dimensional complexity." This sentence was very thought provoking to me. It made me think about how when we know a language fluently it is just what it is. After awhile there seems to be nothing special about it and it is more simple than complex. When trying to learn a new language, the complexity comes out a bit more. The image of the stereo illustrations was intriguing to me. It is cool to see how the side by side images fuse together. In addition, I found that my eyes jumped rapidly back and forth between the images instead of just focusing on one or the other. Once the article began talking about Galileo and sunspots I honestly lost interest and found myself not paying as close attention as before. I decided to watch the video clip.
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This project was done by first photoshopping images to represent the quote " The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it." Then, the next form of medium used was paint. This provides a visual texture, due to the obvious brush strokes. The composition is a swirl and the eye follows the brains around the page in a circle as well as around the swirling clouds. The piece is very dark with some aspects of lighter values from the white. The color scheme is a triad with red, yellow, and blue, in addition to the contrast of shades of black and white. The one side of this piece makes me feel chaos and confusion. There is a lot going on with all the swirls and hands coming from every direction. This is compared with a more calm and simple piece right next to it. This side makes me feel more relaxed and think more simplistically. The contrast of these two opposite ideas makes a sort of