#6 YouTube Video

I like this style of art and the breakdown of life that it shows, a pretty cool video clip.

#5 MEdia YouTube videos

This is kind of a longer clip, but it is a really interesting technique. The final product is absolutely amazing.

#4 MEdia YouTube Videos I Like

Tall Painting: I thought that this looked really cool, I love how the paint layers...

#3 MEdia Dating Old Stuff....

So today in Media Literacy Class I had mention a method for dating cave paintings, and I thought I would share a couple of the different methods of dating old paintings, such as cave paintings.

To me I really do not understand how people can't understand the concept of cave paintings, or dinosaurs, or evolution. I am all for religion, but the Bible can not be take literally. If it was taken literally because if that was the case I would really like to see the creature depicted in Revelation 17:7-18 (shown above). I don't think that in the Bible there is a sense of time. The time it took for the story of 7 days in Genesis could have taken hundreds of thousands of years in our time. There is proof of bones of animals or creatures from prehistoric times that date way before 6,000 years going based on the "New Earth" theory. Just like we had stated in our presentation today, the earliest form of media is word of mouth, and the bible would have started from word of mouth and story telling, and who would know what happened in those first few days unless they were there. I could just be rambling, but this is what seems right to me.

The pigment that was used to do different cave paintings had a couple different components to it, for example there were a couple different options for holding the pigment together. Which included: water, vegetable juices, urine, animal fat, bone marrow, blood, and albumen.

RADIO CARBON DATING:
"It is possible to directly date these organic carbon black pigments, due to a rather long process that aims to separate a sample’s inorganic carbon coming from the limestone support (calcium carbonate, CaCO3, not useful for dating) from the pigment’s organic carbon component. This method allows dating back to thousands of years with an error of just one century. Compare it with indirect methods, generally used by archaeologists, which give errors in the order of thousands of years!" For More information check out this website at: Pigment Through the Ages.

OTHER METHOD:
" The team from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology travelled to northern Spain to collect samples of paintings from more than 20 caves.
They will use a new method, based on the radioactive decay of uranium, to date the paintings.
Samples have been taken from the cave of Tito Bustillo in Asturias and La Pasiega Cave in Cantabria.
Dr Alistair Pike, the project leader said: "These cave paintings are one of the most intimate windows into the minds of people who lived more than 15,000 years ago, but have proved extremely difficult to date.

It's not unusual for us to spend 10 hours a day underground, but the paintings are so spectacular it's always worth it Dr Alistair Pike

"Traditional methods of dating the pigments, such as radiocarbon, are destructive to the paintings, and the samples are prone to contamination.
"We are using a new method that can date thin calcite layers that have formed over the surface of the paintings." "
BBC


Sources:
http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/early.html

#2 MEdia Photography

Last summer I worked about four different jobs (I loved them all) and a chunk of the money I earned went towards my dream camera (: a Panasonic Lumix. I have always loved taking pictures especially of things going out outside. So here are a couple of my photographs:

#1 MEdia: Dewey Albinson

Dewey Albinson is someone who inspires me, he is my great great unlce, and I love his work. I have spent my entire life surrounded by his work and with a love of painting and art. A lot of Dewey's work is focused around different mining towns, the North Shore, or Michigan. One of the interesting aspects of his work is he always paints from "behind the scenes" he almost always shows the sides of homes and towns from the back side showing how people actually live there lives, which i think is really interesting.

Here is Dewey Albinson's Biography: 

"Dewey Albinson was born in Minneapolis, Minneapolis March 9, 1898. He began painting at the age of 15, and studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Art Students' League of New York to which he had a scholarship, in Paris and Italy. He has received many awards, and has exhibited widely in this country and abroad. Mr. Albinson has executed a mural for the Cloquet Minnesota Post Office under the program of the Section of Fine Arts.

Dewey Albinson brought an expressionist approach of bold brushstrokes and strong colors to upper Midwestern subjects like farmsteads, towns and cities, Native American life, and the North Shore region of Lake Superior. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art (today the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), the Art Students League in New York City, and in France and Italy.

Following several years painting in France and Italy, Albinson directed the St. Paul School of Art back in Minnesota. During the Depression he painted Minneapolis and University of Minnesota scenes for the Public Works of Art Project; painted for, and directed the Education Division of, the WPA Federal Art Project in Minnesota; and painted murals for the post offices of Cloquet, Minnesota and Marquette, Michigan.

Albinson spent his final years in Mexico, where he painted a series of canvases based on Miguel Cervantes’s story of DON QUIXOTE. Albinson’s typescript memoirs are in the Minnesota Historical Society library."
source: http://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/3155/Albinson/Ernest

Class Quotes...... " "

Week THREE of Media Literacy with Rob Larson...

September 19, 2011

"...everything is very sketchy...."

My Response: Out of all the different quotes I wrote down I really liked this one, because I think it sums up our class lectures for this week which focus on the truth and lies in the media. It was  also an interesting perspective to look at the age of the world (new world vs old world) based on media which would place the world at being about 6,000 years old. So based on what information we are given by our media sources is true? or not true? how can we really know.

SOURCES: People and Books on the MEdia

People:





#1 Bill Gates: Founder of Microsoft




#2 Rob Janoff: Best known for creating the original Apple Icon

#3 Rupert Murdoch: He is the founder and Chairman and CEO or News Corporation, the world's second-largest Media Conglomerate



#4 Allen Truing - computer science and technology. Artificial intelligence

#5 Philip K. Dick - American Novelist

#6 Watson Helped discover DNA

#7 Crick Helped discover DNA

#8 Alex Jones- radio host and film maker









#9

#10

Books:

These were all books that had been mentioned throughout the course of Media Literacy, a lot of them sounded really interesting and I may read them in the future. Of these books I have personally read one- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which is all about the HeLa cells, I was given the opportunity to read this amazing novel and write an essay as part of the intro to my dignitas class. I loved it! The lesson where most of these book were introduced was really interesting as the books just seemed to keep pouring of of the box that was brought in. It reminds me of my sister, she is an author, an amazing writer and currently has a job at the Hermantown Star, in her room she has her walls lined with books shelves, and hundreds of book. All of these hundreds of books are in perfect order in alphabetical order by the author A's and the bottom working the way up and around her room. She loves to read, and it is an amazing collection.

 

#1 Kurzweil, Ray. The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology. New York: Viking, 2005. Print.

#2 Mitcham, Carl. Thinking through technology: the path between engineering and philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Print.

#3 Most, Glenn W.. Hesiod. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Print.

#4 Skloot, Rebecca. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishers, 2010. Print.

#5 Teller, Astro. Exegesis. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1997. Print.

#6 Thoreau, Henry David. Civil disobediance. Los Angeles: Green Integer 41, 2002. Print.

#7 Wenham, Gordon J.. Story as Torah: reading the Old Testament ethically. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000. Print.

#8 White, J. Benton. From Adam to Armageddon: a survey of the Bible. 3rd ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Pub., 1994. Print.

#9 ZÌŒizÌŒek, Slavoj. Living in the end times. London: Verso, 2010. Print.

#10 The Bible

On going Quotes..... " "

This will be an on going post of different quotes made by Rob Larson during Media Literacy.
I had originally already done this post... but for some reason it is gone, so I am going to use a quote from class today :

September 16, 2011

"Camera Magic" -Rob Larson

My response: Even though this is a very short quote, I thought that it really said a lot about this class, the media, and our lesson today. The class of 2015 -which would be me- is the first generation starting college, that is younger then the Internet.. HOW WEIRD IS THAT?! We have always grown up with technology, and advances we didn't even know was possible, and it is amazing. I thought the TED video clip we watched on "The Magic of Truth and Lies" by marco temptest was totally awesome, and really says a lot about our generation...

OLDEST FORMS OF MEDIA

Oldest Forms of Media

Media: Communication by publication or broadcast

Noun

Announcement…communications…correspondence…expression…news…

List of TEN Older forms of Media that I found interesting: 

1)      Cave Drawings – circa 3300 BC –mainly Europe

2)      Sumerian/Cuneiform – circa 2000 BC - Modern Iraq

3)      Hieroglyphics -circa 2900 BC – Egypt

4)      Chinese characters/Hanzi – circa 1400 BC - China

5)      Aramaic – circa 800 BC – Central/East Asia

6)      Greek alphabet –circa  800  BC – Greece

7)      Homing Pigeons – circa 776 BC – Egypt

8)      Mayan Script – circa 300 BC – Guatemala

9)       Smoke Signals –circa 200 BC - China

10)   Gutenberg Press – circa 1450 AD – Europe

Now I will go more in depth on 3 of these different forms of Media…

Cave Drawings:

There have been about 350 cave that have been discovered in France and Spain, which have prehistoric art called Cave Drawings/Paintings. These painting have been dated by methods of sampling the pigments and torch marks on the cave walls. The different styles of painting help indicate the time period also, for example, in the Spanish cave of Cueva da las Monedas, there are paintings of reindeer which reference from during the last Ice Age. The oldest known cave are is in Chauvet, which is in France. These cave paintings date back to about 33,00 BC.

Mayan Script:

Mayan Script is personally one of my favorite ancient forms of media, I remember learning about this writing when I was in 5^th grade at Hermantown upper Elementary School- BEST CLASS EVER! The earliest forms of Mayan Script dates back to 300 BC, and lasted until about 300 AD. Most of their script, or hyierogliphics were created on stone or ceramic. The intricate symbols and script are designed in perfect squares, and took centuries for scientist to decode. In the 1950s the code was cracked and we are now able to better understand the 1,000s of different signs. The Mayans were very observant and intelligent, their writing told of future and historical events in astronomy, calendars, and prophecies.

Gutenberg Press:

The Gutenberg Press was a printing press the revolutionized the way media was expressed and copied. The Printing Press was a device that had inked stamps that could be transferred on to some form of paper, this process made it possible to print precisely and rapidly.

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           Hi, so my name is Victoria Johnson, I am from Hermantown Minnesota. I am going to the College of St. Scholastica to major in Art and Advertising, with a minor in Political Science. As a career I would like to work on political campaigns and eventually run for elected offices. Five Random Facts about me... 1. My favorite colors are Purple, Pink, Black, & Grey 2. I have a boarder collie named Sparky 3. I love Michael Jackson and his music 4. I have a brother and a sister & 5. I love art (: