Not everyone can relate to what you and I appreciate... we can all relate to somthing.

Different ways to produce images

Scanners
Putting a piece of paper over an object and shading it
Imagination (not sure how to get them back)
Security Cameras
Cell phone cameras
Animating Pictures

The camera obscura (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura) was once used by painters to trace images of reality. It may have been valuable in humanities understanding it the fundamentals of perspective.

The thing I like about the idea of a 48 hour film race is the opportunity and necessity of improvisation. Being able to quickly improv is a valuable skill that can be used for evil, but also can get one out of sticky situations. Film is not a medium known for its improvisation, mainly due to what makes a film a film. Jazz is about being in the moment- you have a chord progression, we feel a melody, but still anything can happen. Its like a random conversation, it could be about anything, but the rhythm is born from listening and responding. While painting strives for the same ideals of music, improvisation seems to play less of a role in painting as it does in music. Perhaps this is because paintings are normally painted by a single artist, where music is a conversation among the many. Regardless, I feel like film is normally stuck to the constructs of the painting, where its permentability (?) tends to outweigh the emphasis on improvisation. Theater can be all about improvisation, which reminds me of the rough theater article we read earlier this year. I think the best ideas magically arrive in the minds of the moment, and i think that this 48 hour film race might just conjure up the inspiration to improvise brilliance towards the end of the year. I like the idea of film as an event. It bothers me how much it seems like the media, which filmmaking in all it's genres seems to frame, plays such a monumental role in the way we communicate and understand our reality. I think kids today have a perception of history and future shaped strongly by the images in the media that they have discovered and less by the knowledge they were A. Told or B. Read about. We go to movies in theaters, watch them in silence with strangers, then leave most of the time without mentioning a single word to the community we had just shared emotional experiences with. The fact that our civilization can produce art on the screen that is so seemingly real or produces messages we understand as important enough to believe in, get angry about, or even shed a tear over seems to only emphasize the importance of understanding those images to the point that we understand why they make us feel the way that they do. While this is possible to do alone, the probability of a group that shares emotions and knowledge with each other seem to open up an infinitely larger amount of possibilities than the single mind. I have enjoyed studying film in college for this reason and am excited that the 48 film seems to so strongly emphasize the idea of experiencing film as an event in a type of communal experience. I feel it’s analogous to when our ancestors would sit around a campfire and tell stories to each other (the midnight society).I suppose there’s good practice to the games we play. I like how this class has had limitations on the films we make. Normally that sort of thing annoys me but over the semester I think I’m beginning to see the benefits of it. Well yeah, it should be fun.

I leave you with this.