Asians in the Library: UCLA Rant

This girl comes off as being completely ignorant from the very beginning when says that she may not be the most politically correct person and not to take it offensively. Then she goes on the state that she is a political science major, she better figure out how to be politically correct if she ever wants a job and especially after this video. She thinks that she’s just being honest and open about the situation and Asians in the library, when in truth she makes herself sound stupid because she’s completely stereotyping them. Her rant is completely negative; instead of making the difference she thought this video might have made, it just completely back fired. She was the one who received the negative feedback. Asians are not the only people who talk on their phone in the library either; just because she hasn’t seen other people do it does not make it okay for her to attack only them. In the video she makes it seem as if Asians are completely absorbed in their own world and don’t care about anyone around them. Instead, because she’s made this such a negative video she did the exact same thing. When she says things like “the nice, polite, American girl that my mamma raised me to be,” it is obvious that she is actually the one who is absorbed in her own world and no one should be disturbing it. She is trying to give a bad reputation to the Asians at UCLA from the video and get people to stand behind her in what she believes. All she did was give herself a bad name and stereotype the “dumb blondes” even more at her school. This rant did not help any situation or person, it was completely negative.

Paragraph Exercise

In Exit Through the Gift Shop, reclusive street artist Banksy tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a videographer who sets out to capture the world of street art. Banksy does not give interviews, so producer Jaimie D'Cruz joins NPR's Lynn Neary on his behalf. "Thierry," explains D'Cruz, "was obsessed by filming everything in his path." Guetta was related to a street artist, and through that connection he became embedded in the graffiti world. It's "a world populated almost exclusively by furtive men, working illegally and at night." Guetta became a well-known personality in the underground scene, "a world without any personalities," and served as a diarist for the movement. He parlayed his access, built on his reputation for trustworthiness, into meeting "the prize, which was the street artist Banksy — the uber-anonymous person in a world full of anonymous people." The subjects Guetta cast his camera on believed he was using the footage for a documentary, but that may never have been the case. Rather, Guetta seemed to use the story as a cover to further access to a world he found exhilarating. Guetta began creating his own street art, under the pseudonym Mr. Brainwash. Through a series of unlikely events, Guetta becomes the subject — and a street artist, himself.
Banksy found Guetta's story more intriguing than his own, so he took over the documentary and switched its focus — or so the story goes. Some believe Banksy invented Guetta's story, and that it's more of a creative movie than a documentary. The film, nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary category, has confused reviewers and moviegoers alike, who doubt its authenticity. D'Cruz dismisses the suspicion. "The truth is, the film is really a true story of something extraordinary that happened," he says. "We wouldn't be able to create something as extraordinary as the rise of Thierry Guetta ... We didn't have the intent, we didn't have the inclination to do that, to kind of stage a prank on the world.”

Dove Commercial

The first stage of the evolution is the girl without any make-up on or her hair done. Then they start the process of doing her make-up and hair. The next stage after that they take pictures and pick out the perfect one. The next stage is to photoshop the picture and change her neck, eyes, lips, and coloring. When all of that is finished and they decide they have created the perfect woman, they put it on a billboard.
The different scenes in the commercial relate to the different stages. The first scene is the backdrop for the picture where they first do her hair and make-up, the next scene is of photoshop and the corrections they make. The third scene is the picture on the billboard. The final scenes are talking about self-esteem and the world's view of beauty.
The beginning setting of the commercial is in a workshop where they take pictures of something normal and turn it into something they think is beautiful. In the last scene they are taking something they think defines beauty and putting it into a normal world with people who, by their definition and their acts, can never look beautiful.
In the beginning when the model comes in, her facial expression is morose and dull. She looks unhappy to be there and with life. As the commercial goes on she perks up a little and becomes more self-confident and happier.
This message is coming from a company who's job it is to make people feel beautiful. They use real women in their commercials and ads. From what I have gathered from the commercials they don't use photoshop on them or try to change them. But that is also how all companies want their ads to be portrayed as.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

I think street art is illegal. If the artist is putting his or her art on something to them, which is how most of them do it, then it's illegal. If whatever they are putting their art on belongs to them, then obviously it is legal. To me the difference between art and graffiti is art is legal and graffiti is not.
I don't think that Mr. Brainwash is a real street artist. He only got into it because he was around it and filming it. He's not a real artist either because all he did was take other people's art and change one or two things on it and called it his own. He didn't have any original work.
Banksy did take over the film, but he didn't take over it because of selfish reasons. Guetta had no idea what he was doing and that was evident in the film that he made on his own. So, yes, I think Banksy had a right to take control of the film. I think the "real" reason he takes over the film is because he's a real artist. Maybe he wanted to expand from street art and start directing. A new form of art and expression for him.
I think Banksy tried to be a good friend to Guetta, but Guetta used him and ruined the friendship himself. They started off being friends and Banksy offered to help him start his own career. In return though Guetta used him to become popular and get his name out there. Banksy could have made Guetta look a lot worse that what he did in the film, but he didn't.
I think the Disneyland stunt was to get people thinking and so he could see the people's reactions. This probably wasn't the best way to go about it though.
Guetta is successful in his art show because he makes a lot of money. A lot of people come to see his show and a lot of people buy his art. He fails because in order to get this "success" he uses his friends and family and thinks only of himself. He fails because he burns bridges and loses friends.
I think his fans at the show have no idea who Mr. Brainwash really is and the only reason they are there is because it was so well advertised. If they saw this documentary their opinions on him would probably change. They don't know the background of the art they saw and bought. Guetta himself put little thought into his art. It was the people he hired who did the work.
This film started off as Guetta's, but as it goes on, it is clearly Banksy's. The reason it is called "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is because Guetta's art show was all just a ploy to get money. His art didn't have any meaning to him, he just wanted to be able to sell it for as much as he could.
I don't think this film is a hoax. I think it is a real story on how Mr. Brainwash came to be and it was basically over night. He didn't have any history, all he did was decide he wanted to be an artist and the next day he was naming himself Mr. Brainwash.
The statement this makes about the art world is they either don't care about real art anymore, or people who know nothing about art are taking over. The media attracts to anything that causes a scene. But the real street artists know what real street art is and have no respect for Mr. Brainwash with reason.