In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol rattled the art world with silk screens of Hollywood beauties and the now legendary, Campbell's Soup Cans. Up to that point, society had never seen anything so literal be called art. In fact, the Campbell Soup Company forced Warhol to defend the paintings as legitimate works of art after they sued him for copyright infringement. They later dropped the lawsuit after deciding it was good advertising (Pohland 157). The Soup Cans sparked something inside Warhol and he began to use everyday objects as his inspirations: Brillo soap-pad boxes, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Heinz 57, and Kellogg's, to name a few.
Lars also says the can divers he's seen have the audacity to go through individual containers in front of peoples homes, something a true diver would never think of. I read a bit deeper into the essay and see that he finds out about people as a whole by what they throw away and he talks of how as a society, our garbage says a lot about us. He finds prescriptions and diaries and things we throw out that if we were to let any other person see, we'd be embarrassed. He says there "..is no value in the abstract.." when one is homeless so he only keeps items that are reusable. I think one of the reasons that he has an issue with the can divers is by their going through individual cans of garbage, the process becomes much more personal and that may be why he shuns that method of acquisition.
He was mistaken for a burglar when rushing into the office of a magazine where he was writing for. When he entered a jewelry store, the proprietor brought out a enormous attack dog. In Howard Zinn's essay "Stories Hollywood Never Tells", Zinn says that history won't be told by Hollywood. He begins with the Revolutionary War not from the standpoint of the schoolbooks, but from the standpoint of war. We must acknowledge not just that Americans were oppressed by the English, but that some Americans were oppressed by other Americans.
Hollywood director Gondry doesn’t use any CGI but instead uses homemade looking props and sets to achieve the effects of today’s camera effects. Gondry did not put any originality to his story since main character Jack Black thinks his mind is being controlled by a power plant, attempts to take it down but becomes magnetized and inevitably erases all the stores tapes on a visit. With the boss out of town and the need to remake the erased copy of Ghostbusters, the two main actors set out to remake the film. For an emotional twist, the director throws in the fact that the store also needs $60,000 to avoid demolition and wonders off the movies actual plotline. Homer Yens review is pretty close to what the movie
Terry delivers a poorly edited ninety minute documentary with the title of ‘Life Remote Control’ to Banksy who advises the Frenchman to quit film and try something new. He takes the cue and becomes street artist ‘Mr. Brainwash’ who becomes a huge commercial success in the Los Angeles and abroad. The film shows the commercialization of ‘street art’. The film was made by Paranoid Pictures, with ‘Banksy’ as the ‘director’ with Holly Cushing and James Gay-Rees as the executive producers, Jaimie D'Cruz as the producer, with actor Rhys Ifans as the narrator.
That’s how it’s done,” they are also encouraged to wear unflattering clothes and no makeup on the day of the photo shoot (Big Fat Lie). The “after” photos are also false, the paid models hired by the diet pill companies “are often secretly offered diet coaches and personal trainers to guarantee weight loss,” according to FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras (Big Fat Lie). These photos are sending the message to consumers that you can’t really be happy till you’ve taken their product and become thin. The diet pill companies use paid models and fake testimonials to sell their products by using them to
The Cold War in Berlin An Ideological battle for Khrushchev and propaganda win for Kennedy The Berlin Wall, which stood between 1961-1989, is an illustrative case study to investigate how the Cold War was fought between two ideological superpowers and their leaders. It will allow for a full investigation into the extent to which an individual can shape the course of history. The Berlin Wall was primarily a way for Khrushchev to impose his communist ideology on East Germany; however, there was a personal dimension of one-upmanship between U.S President Kennedy, and Khrushchev that pushed Khrushchev into building the wall out of sheer spite for Kennedy. This will be proven by using a variety of primary and secondary evidence. Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War.
The ministry took matters further into their own hands and manufactured a cheap radiogram that all Germans could afford and own in order to hear Nazi propaganda. The production of motion picture films bought entertainment to the citizens of Germany and at the same time informed the public about Nazi values. Library books which were seen as anti-Nazi were destroyed as they were deemed unacceptable, this caused a
Xu Bing’s work allows the audience to catch a glimpse of the power of words, by entering that space between surface and depth, covering and exposure. Xu Bing, A Book from the Sky is a work started by destroying carved woodblock characters and reforming them into new volumes. The text is meaningless, frustrating for a reader and continues a tradition of the absurd that has its roots in Western literature.
Critique of “Imagining the Immigrant” In John Savant’s article “Imagining the Immigrant,” he implies that to fully understand the situation of immigration, we must imagine ourselves in the immigrant’s situation. The purpose of Savant’s article is to make his reader think and try to imagine what an immigrant goes through. Savant wants his readers to understand that immigration is something people do when they are seeking a better life here in America and when they have run out of options. He goes on to say that “Law and morality are not always commensurate”(1), meaning just because the law says immigration should be a certain way does not mean that that is the correct way morally to handle the situation. And although Savant makes a persuasive argument, he fails to tell both sides of illegal immigration.