Lisalyn Dresser

  Click here if it does not play For our final project, I decided to use clips I took from my improvisation class. I manipulated some of the clips so that some parts are slowed down and some parts faster. I chose to do it this way because I felt it suited the idea of a “global village” (McLuhan, p.63). As I said, this class is  improvisation dance . Improvisation dance is not as simple as people think. In this class, the moves we do are inspired by what we see in the media such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. For this project, I asked my classmates if I could take a video while we improvised as a group for the whole group. Watching all the videos, made me realize that this group is a good example of allatonceness. How? By being able to use moves we learned from different types of media, we were able to connect as a group. Because of that connection, the group looked choreographed when in fact all of us improvised. Furthermore, it also supports the idea of “We now live in...

                                                                               The process to see the final product was not easy. Personally, the inkjet part was the most difficult thing about it. It’s amazing how printing used to be such a big thing back then but now people barely know what to do with it. The fact that a lot of struggle to use the inkjet machine shows how we easily adjust our minds to new technologies around us and possibly forget and not even learn about the old ones. Nowadays, we don’t have to print anything since everything can be shown and saved through any type of media such as Facebook, iCloud storage, and so on. So, though it was the most difficult part of the process it was worth it. Through this process, I had the opportunity to ...

  Credit: Library.artstor.org In this project, I learned about someone who managed to give me a hard time even though he is dead. Michel De Montaigne, who out of nowhere decided to invent an essay. I would say f*** you to him as essays are my least favorite thing in the world but he amazed me. Based on my research, people say that they admire his essays as when they read them, they feel like an old friend is writing to them. His philosophical ideas could be relatable to anyone’s life. His work influenced a lot of artists such as William Shakespeare and his face is still being used for many advertisements. McLuhan used Montaigne’s quote “the thing of it is, we must live the living” to support his idea that “the attempt to do a job demanded by the new environment with the tools of the old” is a huge problem. However, after further  research  on Montaigne, I do not think that’s what he meant. Montaigne’s essays are focused on what already happened and the things he observed....