Not too sure where to put this...

So if I have anyone that actually looks at this thing, I'm using the blog for school. So that includes some writing.

If you want more pictures, it's not happening this time.

In this week's readings I had several to go through. The Visual Story, Chapter 1 & 2 ("The Visual Components" and "Contrast and Affinity"), and "Paul Cezanne, The Process of Sight" from the book Proust was a Neuroscientist.

The articles I would say that I had more of a reaction to would be Chapter 1, and Paul Cezanne.

In Chapter 1, they talked about Visual Progression. It's a concept that I never really thought about before. I never thought about laying down images in a manner to change the... effect. I guess the word would be?

It's probably because of my work as a photographer, that I look what's there and I pull the trigger.

But it's not an alien concept to me however, I do a bit of screenwriting. And I think about the progression of characters and how they would visually change. I suppose why it's so striking is because I never actually heard an actual term for it before.

But I'm mostly ignorant with this stuff, it's not like I took a whole lot of art classes compared to others.

In Paul Cezanne there was this quote from Virgina Woolf, about how human nature changed in late 1910. The article that followed was a rambling affair about Paul Cezanne, and human eyesight.

But it did lead me to a few questions. If Cezanne was a post impressionist, and impressionists rocked the way we see paintings, and they were a response to photography, which rocked how the world sees itself...

Can that ever happen again?

Hear me out, it's safe to say everyone reading this was born after the invention of photography. It's also safe to assume, there was a TV in your household for a very very long time. Radio, computer, and cell phone you also had for a huge chunk of your time on earth. Also I'm pretty sure you are aware of the concept of a video game as well.

That being said, will we be shocked and rocked by the new media in the same way? Even though I am amazed at the capability of an Iphone, I was still prepared for it by the cell phones before.

The xbox, xbox 360, and so on. I was impressed by the graphics but it was still nothing I haven't seen before. I wasn't revolutionized by it and neither was the world. If there is something new, unless it's radically different I don't think we would ever see that major paradigm shift again.