Found a pretty interesting map breakdown that explained present day economic inequality in the United States.  I thought it really pertained to what we learned in lecture earlier this week.

Professor Blum showed us this picture in class this week and taught us that durring the 20’s this was a negative view of how women should dress durring this time because they were showing “too much skin”. This was women rebelling against the societal norms durring the 1920″s.

Over this week, my friend and i were watching movies created by studio ghibli. This particular movie named The Wind Rises struck my fancy for more than one reason, for one it was unlike anything they’ve done before, and the second reason is because it told the story of Jiro Horikoshi in a fictitious biographical way. Before watching this movie i didnt know who he was, but after watching it and looking up information about him. I learned that he was a japanese aircraft engineer during World War II, most known for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. While the movie wasnt 100% biographical, it did have enough biographical information to show some insight as to the person, the time, and the place.

-Nick Thips-

We were talking about the economy and also a little bit about the inequality. I like this picture because it contains important information about a wide spread issue in our society. Furthermore, there should be more focus on this topic, as it influenced a lot of people and their standard of living,  and thats why the kitten is there to catch your attention.

The wage gap is sadly something that has put women in a career long dis-advantage. It is incredible to see that we are able to make such drastic changed in our society but yet something so crucial has not changed in over 50 years!

Last night I was watching the 1997 film “Titanic” and thought about how accurate this film may/may not be in the depiction of the actual sinking of this ship. Of course, some scenes were for the dramatic affect, however this movie gives the newer generations some insight to the emotions and history of this tragic event that happened over 100 years ago. This scene in particular struck me because this is where the crew were loading the rich women and children into the life boats, not even filling them up all the way, nor are they including the poor women and children. I was watching and questioning this crew’s tactics and noticed that it was these actions that led to more lives being lost that could’ve been saved. I realized that if it weren’t for these actions, the end results could’ve been completely different than the history that we know it today.

-JW

If you look closely enough, you can spot the picture of Abe Lincoln sneaking in among the bulletin posts and calendar events around campus. I thought this would be a relevant hack since Blum really focused in on Lincoln in some aspects within his lecture, (i.e. Showing the different depictions of his assassination), so I printed out a picture of Lincoln and posted it on my dorm floor’s Bulletin Board so everyone could see it as they walk by.

When I was sitting in the history lectures this week a few cartoons were playing because they were being related to why the light bulb was used in cartoons to portray someone getting an “idea.”  However, indirectly related, some of the cartoons were being used as subtle advertisements to target kids and their parents. (ie. the cat in the video was buying headlights and contributing to the economy)

Seeing that example in class made me immediately think of an example in the movie “A Christmas Story.”  The company Ovaltine uses a secret code and game/ prize system for little kids to sell their product.  Once Ralphie realizes that he has been tricked to see that the “secret code” is just the company advertising, he’s a little angry.

-Katie Byrd

In our lecture on Wednesday, I participated in Professor Blum’s twitter challenge by tweeting this photo of Patricia Arquette at the Oscars. In her speech, Arquette called to action to create equal wage pay for men AND women. Women still make about 75 cents to every dollar a man makes today. Although I fully respect Arquette for using her Oscar acceptance speech to shed light on an important economic inequality, she is a highly paid, A-list actress and has no idea what it is like to be a woman working 3 jobs just to provide for her family and still making less than her male coworkers.

Also shoutout to Professor Blum for picking me as the winner of his twitter challenge and for Titanic on VHS

I’m a film major and my main focus is on camera and lighting. Lighting is essential to films on giving it a themed look. You can arrange the lighting on how you portray your story. Here, we’re using an HMI light diffused by a 6×6 to light an actor walking from the house to the shed. We also used LEDs as fill in lights to the actor’s face.