Sunday, November 22, 2009

3 Dimensional Designs


Designs are everywhere in the world. One of the most intriguing designs I like are three dimensional arts. They bring depth into a picture. For example, today’s video games are mostly three dimensional like the newer Final Fantasy a role playing game. The designs are just remarkable through the stunning artwork of the three dimensional environment. It makes you feel like you were in the game itself. The true beauty in the design of Final Fantasy is the art is used to illustrate a story from encountering new areas as you progress in the game. The colors are very bright which makes it lively and fresh in the designs. We tend to make sense of the three dimensional designs in games like final fantasy as we make relationship with the real world. One of the functionally of three dimensional games like final fantasy is it leads us to different world. The designs of the creatures in final fantasy were done amazingly through computer generated graphics. These creatures were created from objects that we associated with. Something as simple as a cactus could be represented as something else. Kids are living in a fantasy world when it comes to final fantasy as we see interactivity in the game. We are draw through the designs of a three dimensional environment where we can interact with it. The used of a simple game controller helps us interact with the designs. Overall, the whole designs of 3 dimensional graphics bring us to another world that is fictional.


Friday, November 13, 2009

Homosexuality

The documentary film “OUT AT WORK” displays what it is like to live under homosexuality under the rules of a heterosexual society. It was shocking to know that if someone was not a heterosexual in marriage they would not receive health benefits. Homosexual men and women face challenges, such as the risk of being fired from work, health benefits, violent and so forth. I feel that it is wrong for a company to fired someone because on their sexual orientation. “Crackelbarrel” is one of those companies that terminate their employees if they were found out to be homosexual. I find it shocking that there were no laws to protect these homosexual men and women from laws that allow these types of things. The interview with the homosexual electric repair man about his life portrays a great example of this. His coworkers harass him because of his sexual orientation. People were socialized into thinking that homosexuality is wrong and they question their own sexuality. Their insecurities are juxtaposed to their sexuality. It is based on what is the norm of sexuality for the majority of Americans that think that homosexuality is wrong. Often this is reflected through the struggles of many homosexual men and women that fight for their rights. What scene impacted my mind the most was that it was legal to fire someone because of their sexual orientation in the United States. These people often face struggles through job securities and benefits because they are homosexual. The film promotes awareness of these struggles that homosexual men and women are facing in this contemporary society of a heterosexual norm.

The viewpoint

The documentary film “OUT AT WORK” displays what it is like to live under homosexuality under the rules of a heterosexual society. It was shocking to know that if someone was not a heterosexual in marriage they would not receive health benefits. Homosexual men and women face challenges, such as the risk of being fired from work, health benefits, violent and so forth. I feel that it is wrong for a company to fired someone because on their sexual orientation. “Crackelbarrel” is one of those companies that terminate their employees if they were found out to be homosexual. I find it shocking that there were no laws to protect these homosexual men and women from laws that allow these types of things. The interview with the homosexual electric repair man about his life portrays a great example of this. His coworkers harass him because of his sexual orientation. People were socialized into thinking that homosexuality is wrong and they question their own sexuality. Their insecurities are juxtaposed to their sexuality. It is based on what is the norm of sexuality for the majority of Americans that think that homosexuality is wrong. Often this is reflected through the struggles of many homosexual men and women that fight for their rights. What scene impacted my mind the most was that it was legal to fire someone because of their sexual orientation in the United States. These people often face struggles through job securities and benefits because they are homosexual. The film promotes awareness of these struggles that homosexual men and women are facing in this contemporary society of a heterosexual norm. Oren Peli is the cinematopher for such a bone chilling movie. Using the taboo of the bedroom to set us in fear.