Escaping Flatland by Tufte

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.
The visuals that went along with this video helped to captivate my interest more than the article. It was different seeing all of the subways and maps with various lines and colors all over them to distinguish various things/patterns. I really enjoyed looking at the map of all of the McDonalds around the US. It was funny because when I first saw the map I thought about how intriguing it was and then I saw the caption that is was illustrating all of the McDonalds and I just laughed. It is fascinating how any piece of data can be made into an art. The visual below also stuck out to me because I want to be an elementary school teacher, and a lot of the time people do not realize how much is going on in the brain so early on in life. This visual really gets the point across.

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Meraki Senior Exhibit

The title of this show, Meraki, means soul, love, and creativity, and I think it encompassed the works in the show very well. I enjoyed looking and hearing about all of the pieces in the show. They all had a special meaning behind them, which made them even more intriguing. They all had stories to go along with the work and some that stuck with me the most included Essence by Rachel Kingsley, Lula by Katelyn Hegarty, The Turning Point by Brenna Ferrentino, and Visions: Far & Near by Saadiq Coakley. These artists represented their works in various ways which included interactive headphones, smaller circular photos, canvas work mixed with images, and large scale photographs. My favorite piece that stuck out to me the most was Essence by Rachel Kingsley. I thought it was very cool how the different colored powders represented various things. The way the idea for the piece came to her was when she was thinking about if her best friend was a colo

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The beginning of this chapter, Visibility , deals with the topic of Dante, and the way that he describes the cycles of Purgatory. It also talks about the aspects of imagination and high fantasy. I read Dante's Inferno back in high school for extra credit and from reading that I can say that book included various aspects of symbolism, metaphors, and eloquent language. Imagination and deep thought were necessary to be able to understand more than just the gist of the story, especially due to the complex ideas and descriptive thoughts. On page 83 of Visibility , Calvino describes that the poet has to "imagine visual content of metaphors he uses to facilitate this process of visual evocation." I believe this is necessary not only for poets, but also other writers, readers, artists and others when trying to depict something visually. He then goes on to describe the two types of imaginative processes. One that has to do with words and imagining an image an

Ways of Seeing

In Ways of Seeing by John Berger, the aspect that struck me the most had to be the first sentence. It has a captivating nature about how it was worded. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak" (7). This is a very simple concept, that I had never considered before. Once a child enters the world, they take everything in through their senses. Sight, even though very blurry and near-sighted at the beginning of life, is a child's way of exploring and trying to make sense of the world. I believe that this sentence sets the tone for the rest of the article as intriguing, powerful, and thought-provoking. Another aspect that stuck out to me was the fact that seeing is different for everyone. All individuals can look at something and connect it to something else. "The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe" (8). I agree with this statement, because it emphasizes the fact that individua

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