LECTURE
First I would like to say that we only have two more lectures, this quarter is flying by. Today's lecture was about life and art and how important it is to have integrity when creating. We discussed how the Lakers got their name, which I thought was very interesting. The Lakers NBA team was originally from Minnesota, where there are many lakes. So when they transferred to LA they decided to keep their name just like a lot of other sport teams. We also discussed more sequence and narrative, and one artist that impressed me a lot was Duane Michals. Some of his famous works included stills with writing on them, such as This Photograph is My Proof, Death Comes to the Old Lady, Chance Meeting, The Voyeur's Pleasure Becomes Pain, Paradise Regained, The Human Condition, and Take One and See Mt. Fujiyama (which I found very amusing). Michals incorporated narrative while telling a story of a sequence just by stills. At the end of the lecture we watched a short film of mostly stills by Chris Marker called Ls Jettee, which was an older film and all the stills were in black and white and the dialogue in French. I thought it was a little slow, but really interesting how the story came full circle at the end. I love how it was in a dream sequence almost reminded me of Inception a little, and the love story part was really romantic. The film showed narrative so well with only using stills and I found it still interesting.
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