The cliché that I want to write about is plastic surgery. Everyone has come to adopt this medical procedure as some kind of problem solver. It makes them think that they will come out of it beautiful and perfect but in reality they don't. Some people even get addicted to it.  Lately television has supported it with shows like Dr. 90210, The Swan, ( Read more... )

For next week's weblog topic, I would recommend the following:

1) Work with the print ad distributed in class or another image of your choosing to describe how it attempts to persuade audiences. Base your discussion on the terms above (ethos, logos, pathos), drawing on your reading of What We See or class discussion as needed.

2) What audience is ( Read more... )

As a topic for next week's post, I would suggest the following: write about the visual aspects of something which is entirely ordinary. We have all experienced the visual sublime, e.g., our first view of the Grand Canyon, the Eiffel Tower in the Paris landscape, or film representations of the visual sublime (Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman ( Read more... )