Blogger #6

Professor Reyes 

Brittany Garcia 

The title of my exhibition is 

What's the truth .

I wanted my exhibition to be different , I wanted to get my message out their for everyone to know this issues is a serious matter and should not be ignored or left behind other known issues . Images on the media affect people faster then bacteria. 

My first piece I want to make stamps/stickers , spray paint , markers to demonstrate my issues in popular places among people . On my stickers I want to use a chameleon , because they always tend to blend in whenever they are . With the spray paint I want to get my message across by writing messages about the issue , and use markers to write also messages on thing you would take a second look at .

My second piece is to use a scale , write comments like your too skinny , your too fat , etc with markers , stickers , paint , and smash the scale with a hammer and place the scale in a local gym , and write down people's reactions .

My third piece is to blow out a picture of a shadow and black and white image of a person who has lost their identity , and use three different mirrors , three different sizes , and show how no matter how you look at yourself or see yourself you'll never be happy until you look like someone else .

My last piece is to blow out a picture I seen on the Internet of a little girl looking a magazine cover of a model holding sissors to her stomach and post it on a busy street . 

I want to create this exhibition in the form of a video to show the public .

Blogger #4

Blogger #4 Proposal

My Proposal

“There are first times for everything. The first time I drove a car, first time I broke my leg, first time I ate sushi, first time I went to work, first time I was fired -- and I'll never forget my first kiss. 'Firsts' are memorable parts of life and growing up. Well, the same goes for that first night spent on the streets or in a homeless shelter. The first time you're homeless, the intense feelings of fear and uncertainty are impossible to forget. If you've never been homeless, it's tough to describe that first night sleeping on the street. The fear and disillusionment are almost paralyzing. You just go through the motions, but at the same time you're beating yourself up for being in this situation. It is very surreal because no one ever thinks they will become homeless. No one.

I'll never forget my first night. I was sober, but I had no money, no place to go and no one I could call for help. I was officially homeless. Just six months earlier I had a well-paying job in the television industry, overseeing syndicated programs like Wheel of Fortune. But now, I was the one who had suddenly landed on bankrupt. The irony was painful. I decided to walk from Koreatown to North Hollywood, mainly because I knew the neighborhood and was comfortable with the area. I walked 11 or so miles to the valley. By the time I arrived, it was beginning to get dark, so I started to think about where I was going to sleep. I decided to try a park nearby, but when I arrived, I noticed gang members hanging around in the dark, so I moved on to another location.

My feet were becoming swollen; I was emotionally and physically exhausted. I knew that the worst crimes in the city -- muggings, beatings, shootings -- happened at night to people living outdoors. I knew that when you sleep outside, you are vulnerable to just about everything. I was scared. Probably more scared then I have been or ever will be. I think it was around 3 a.m. when I finally found a park near a small shopping mall in North Hollywood. It was empty, and the first place where I felt safe enough to lay down. Exhaustion quickly set in and I closed my eyes. I don't remember how much time had passed -- maybe 20 minutes -- when, suddenly, all the water sprinklers went off. I just laid there in disbelief, soaking. It's impossible to describe the mixture of fear, anger, vulnerability and, well, homelessness I felt as I lay there”- Mark Horvath  

Hi, my name is Alexis Rodriguez. I am in the progress of creating an organization to help the homeless in Los Angeles. Not only do I want to help them find a place to sleep, but I also want to help them for the better. First, I want to build a shelter for them to sleep. Secondly, I want to hire local barbers so they can give the homeless decent haircuts. Third, I want to help them apply for a job somewhere and get them nice dressing clothes for their interviews. If they do land a job, I will let them stay in the shelter until they get a place of their own.

We are the 2^nd city with the highest population of homeless people. In 2013, there was approximately 2.5 million homeless children all around the world. That’s just children. In Los Angeles, there was 53,798 homeless people in 2013. I’m quite confident that population has increased in these past 2 years. Now, with your donation you can help me lower that population.

Every time I see a homeless person I feel sympathy for them. Why? Because it reminds me of my cousin who was once homeless. He had just gotten out of jail and he was going home with a big smile on his face, expecting his family to be happy to see him because he hadn’t seen them in 5 years. As soon he got there they said hi and fed him, but as soon as that was over his parents talked to him and told him that they had no room for him and he had to find a place to stay. So he contacted us and we let him stay. He eventually got a job and saved up for a car and started sleeping in his. So please, help me prevent a future family from losing a member do to homelessness. Like MLK once said, “Life’s most urgent questions is: What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Blogger #4

Professor Reyes 

Brittany Garcia 

What I would like to do with this money is to make my social issue on body image more known among others . To build more organizations here in the us . Researching this issue I noticed their was not a lot of organizations to help cope with this problem. Their are about 70% of people that don't receive help with this problem , this problem is more then body image and how you look , but it leads to more , anorexia, bulimia, anxiety, sometimes people who don't get help can go into depression , drug abuse . Etc . Because they have no resources to go to , no help , no one to talk to . With this money we can build more organizations , help lines , Centers to help people and let them know their not alone and they shouldn't be ashamed. With half the money we can have fundraisers and help many more people and make more money to let the issue not get the best of us. 

Blogger #6

Piece: Two Triangles

Hello Everyone, My name is Alexis Rodriguez. I’m here to gather all of you around to present to you my very own art exhibition. In this art exhibition I will be showing you different types of photographs of homeless people. How one person’s decision to help can make a difference in their lives. I don’t really have a name for each piece because I decided to make my whole exhibition a one giant piece. So, the name of this art exhibition is called “Two Triangles.” I decided to call it two triangles because one triangle can spilt in half, making two triangles. Making those two triangles 2 different pathways. One pathway will show what can possibly happen if you decide to help the homeless person and what can happen to the homeless person. The other pathway shows what could happen to the homeless person if you decide to not help. For each picture I wrote a summary and an analysis. Each describing everything you can see in the picture. From the color of the people, background, shapes, the movement and the objects around them. Also, the stories behind every picture. By the time you’re done viewing this exhibition, I hope that you will decide which pathway you will decide to choose. Will you want to be triangle A or Triangle B?

Blogger Entry #6

This piece is called "Abortion without consequences"

Summary:

             This is another stencil in an unknown location by another unknown artist I pulled from a street art website that contributes to the idea that we must be allowed a choice. A choice without consequences. This piece of art is also a simple stencil in the resemblance of Banksy and is in a different language. It is in a bold font and on a plain white wall to capture the eye without being to over the top. It was placed somewhere in Spain to my knowledge, explaining the Spanish. It is tilted and has a direct opinion on the topic of abortion. The wall has little, to no, texture about it which makes the stencil stand out more. The artist probably put it there in a public area, such as this, to make sure everyone passing could see it. They also chose the stencil form because it gets straight to the point without distracting the audience from the real meaning of the piece. With a lot of these pieces being abortion related, this piece is pretty simple, but it gets the bigger meaning across then the other pieces I feel. With just this small handful of words, it has such a greater effect than what it just translates to. I also feel that this stencil, being in Spanish, can reach an even bigger audience than just the Hispanics. Many tourists passing by might be curious, and can obviously Google the meaning behind these 3 words. The artist probably put that into mind when coming up with this stencil as well. Spain is one of many tourist’s dream destinations. What better way to capture the curiosity of a tourist than to put something in words they might not understand.

 

Analysis:

            Women are prone to taking the consequences of every action we undergo. With the idea of “abortion”, everyone who is close-minded will say we will go to hell, or even we have no right to decide a decision when it comes to our body. Abortion should not be something we have to face backlash over and with this stencil, it brings to mind that we, as women, are no longer able to have a decision when it comes to our bodies and what we may, or may not, do with it. It seems in this decade we are no longer our own person, but the government’s or the churches. Yes, with abortion there are obviously consequences, but none that you may assume. Not the whole damning to hell, or bloody murderer case. But instead, the consequences we receive are far worse. We are automatically seen by a community of close-minded peers as awful and hatred-filled people. We are called names, and we are automatically looked at in disgust with no pardon from some. These consequences we pin alongside the idea of abortion make it harder on the woman who may already feel confused with her state of being. It should not be this way for anyone who is considering, or whom may have even had an abortion in the past. Every woman has a choice and there should not be an angry mob waiting for their heads on a stick for a decision one has made about her own body. The simplicity of this stencil also gives off the vibe of how simple it is to mind your own business when it comes to this topic. We should be able to have our rights, without consequences.

 

Blogger Entry #5

Cole tackles the topic of abortion on this song "Lost Ones", which he wrote several years before the release of Cole World: The Sideline Story. He explained that this was "a song with dealing with young pregnancy, when you're around that age of either late teens or early 20s or whatever age you are, it explores all of that from both sides". He held out on releasing the song until his new album released recently. The song shows both lights of abortion and how people might handle it.




Verse 1:
Baby girl, I can’t imagine what it’s like for you
I got you pregnant now inside there is a life in you
I know you wonderin’ if this gon' make me think bout wifing you
Like if you had my first child would I spend my whole life with you
Now I ain't tryna pick a fight with you, I’m tryna talk
Now I ain't tryna spend the night with you
I’m kinda lost see
I’ve been giving it some thought lately and frankly
I’m feelin’ like we ain't ready and it’s hold up now
Let me finish
Think about it baby me and you we still kids ourself
How we gon' raise a kid by ourself?
Handle biz by ourself
A nigga barely over twenty, where the hell we gon' live?
Where am I gon get that money
I refuse to bring my boy or my girl in this world
When I ain't got shit to give ‘em
And I’m not with them niggas who be knocking girls up and skate out
Girl, you gotta think bout how the options weigh out
Whats the way out?


 J. Cole brings up how he impregnated his girlfriend and how he feels confused. He tells his girlfriend that they need to think about the outcomes of this. They need to realize that they are only kids themselves barely coming into the world and they have nothing to offer the child. They don't have a place to stay or the money for baby necessities. He also says he won't be the guy to up and leave a woman if she gets pregnant.



[Chorus: x2]
And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimes
I cry sometimes about it
And girl I know it hurt but if this world was perfect
Then we could make it work but I doubt it



  J. Cole is saying that he gets upset sometimes and cries. He states if this world was perfect, raising the baby would be easier and they could probably make it work but the world isn't perfect.


Verse 2:
She said nigga you got nerve
To come up to me talkin’ bout abortion
This my body nigga so don’t think you finna force shit
See I knew that this is how you act, so typical
Said you love me, oh, but now you flipping like reciprocals
It figures though, I should’ve known that you was just another nigga
No different from them other niggas
Who be claiming that they love you just to get up in them draws
Knowing all the right things to say
I let you hit it raw motherfucker
Now I’m pregnant you don’t wanna get involved motherfucker
Tryna take away a life, is you God motherfucker?
I don’t think so
This a new life up in my stomach
Regardless if I’m your wife
This new life here I’mma love it
I ain't budging, I’ll do this by my muthafucking self
See my momma raised me without no muthafucking help from a man
But I still don’t understand how you could say that
Did you forget all those conversations that we had way back
Bout your father and you told me that you hate that nigga
Talkin’ bout he a coward and you so glad that you ain't that nigga
'Cause he left your mamma when she had you and he ain't shit
Here you go doin’ the same shit
You ain't shit nigga!

  The girlfriend starts telling J. Cole that she doesn't want to think about abortion and that she will not go through with it. She accuses J. Cole of playing God by saying to have an abortion and end a new life. She reminds him of their conversations about J. Cole's father and how J. Cole said he didn't want to end up like him. But with his arguing over reasoning whether to keep the baby, he's starting to sound like his father.


Verse 3:

They say everything happens for a reason
And people change like the seasons
They grow apart she wanted him to show his heart and say he loved her
He spoke the magic words and on the same day he fucked her
Now she wide open
She put a ring up on his finger if she could
But he loved her cause the pussy good
But she ain't no wife though
Uh oh, she tellin’ him she missed her period like typo’s
He panicking, froze up like a mannequin
A life grows inside her now he asking “is it even mine”
What if this bitch ain't even pregnant dawg
Could she be lying?
She be crying crying cause he acting distant
Like ever since I told you this nigga you acting different
And all his niggas saying man these hoes be trapping niggas
Playing with niggas emotions like they some action figures
Swear they get pregnant for collateral
It’s like extortion, man if that bitch really pregnant
Tell her get an abortion
Uh, but what about your seed nigga?
What about your seed nigga?

And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimes
I cry sometimes about it
And I ain't too proud to tell ya that I cry sometimes
I cry sometimes about it
  J. Cole is stating that he isn't in love with the girl and she isn't wife-material. When she told him she missed her period, he became panicked. He says she was complaining about him being distant. J. Cole also says some girls get pregnant just to use it against the man and use it as collateral.

BLOGGER ENTRY # 3


1.Topic Body image
2.Source https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tlc+unpretty
3.I chose Body image because I think a lot of people deal with it. Body image is a big social issue. In the video Unpretty it shows how some woman can be insecure because they don't look a certain way. ''My outsides look cool My insides are blue''.It also gives an example on how the media portrays beauty. In the video there is a girl who is overweight and she see the girls in the magazine and she wants to look that way.