Broadway

Scrolling through the Stage Door broadway blog, it was interesting to see how much has changed over the years on broadway. broadway musicals and performances have came a long way since it originally began. My favorite performance on the Stage Door blog was Emily Blunts performance of "The Place Where Lost Things Go" in the Disney performance of Mary Poppins Returns. Growing up as a young girl i loved watching the original Mary poppins with my friends.  Often times, we would  have sleepovers and watch and sing along, so seeing this on the blog brought back old memories. Emily Blunts rendition of the song was done very well, she has a soft and pleasing voice. I have enjoyed Emily Blunt as an actress in many other fils but this one solidified her as one of my all time favorites. I myself have seen many broadway performances such as Annie, and The lion King. Each Performance that I saw was unique and done with great detail and precision that left me in aw when it was finished. I hope i can continue to see performances in the future such as Wicked.

Skittles Grid

For my skittles grid, I attempted to recreate the heart eyes emoji. I found this assignment a little tedious but it was fun because I love Skittles. 

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Last class on February 12th, we watched a documentary on an Americana music group called The Carolina Chocolate Drops. A documentary put together by director, John Whitehead took us on a journey with the music group. I was able to see the obstacles that the group encountered- problems as a group, personal conflicts, life getting in the way of the groups career, as well as how they all handled these situations together and individually. Although the genre of music is not what I normally listen to, I was intrigued by the culture behind the music, the type of instruments they all played, and their life on the road. Personally, I think that Whitehead could have shortened the film as little because towards the end it became repetitive and seemed like he added extra footage in to make it longer in time. Watching this documentary exposed me to a new genre of music and made me realize that other music groups like The Carolina Chocolate Drops are eligible to win big awards like a Grammy. I think it is important to give recognition to different artist even if their work is not exactly "popular."

CNN: The most creative Youtube videos ever

I was very impressed after I finished watching, "CNN: The most creative Youtube videos ever." All the clips shown are great examples of what happens when art and technology cross paths. Youtube was searching for the most creative and innovative clips out there and received thousands of submissions from all over the world. One of the videos played was food being tossed up in the air in slow motion. When I saw that I thought about how people used to paint portraits of fruit and that would be the full project. Now, they took something old and combined the use of technology to create something that is still art, but the use of video cameras and computers is what makes it a masterpiece. Another video thats brings old art to the new modern art of technology is the video of John Lennon's voice. A teenager snuck into his hotel room and was able to get an interview with him. This interview of Lennon was transformed into an animated video of his voice almost four decades later. The news reporter even said the interview itself tells us a lot about the time the interview took place (1969). Nowadays, no one would be able to sneak into a celebrity's hotel room. The teenager used the digital world to create a modern and tech savvy clip of a recorded interview that was recorded decades prior. I think this whole video shows us how art will never disappear, it just changes and adapts to the time period we are in.

Madama Butterfly

The first thing I noticed while watching, "Madama Butterfly" was the claymation. I find claymation videos to be very amusing and I give a lot of credit to the producers. To make a claymation video takes hours since you have to move the characters one by one and take one shot after another. Almost like making one of the flip books but much harder and more tedious.
The way the whole oprea was portrayed in this short video was beautiful, graceful, but most of all tragic. I enjoyed how there was little to no words so I was forced to put the pieces together and make sense of it on my own- especially since I have not seen the original oprea or had an background information prior to taking this class. You're able to see the bond between a mother and child in the video. The way the umbilical cord is almost like a string to a kite, keeping each other grounded is something I picked up from watching the video and created a deeper meaning for it myself. Overall, the whole video was very impressive because the producers were able to summarize an opera and create a claymation video out of it.