The weather made it a bit cold in the pottery shed for the Spring show 2023 in the Pottery shed. I had the big buddy heater on and fired out two kiln loads of pots in the snow to be ready for the event. I was still experimenting with the carbon trapping and working out different ways of getting the darker reds . Most of the work was shave bowls, soup bowls and baking dishes. Due to the project I mention more below, I was late on promoting the show and felt terrible about it as I like to start early showing the work being made and taking the viewer though the process with me.
The yard was muddy and the building cold, but I was real happy to still see friends and neighbors stop out to see how the pots were made. I find myself easily distracted and amazed I get anything done at all. I am starting to produce more work for the other shows I have on the way in both April and May. I hope to work with the wood reduction process with those pots more. My goal is to have large serving bowls with the carbon trapping as centerpieces.
During this time , and ironically, I also had a great time reading the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. My wife was laughing at me reading such a book at the very time I was late with putting work out. The book was yelling at me the whole time about how I behavior myself into many of the issues I find myself in and that I need to do first things first and set priorities over what was important and very important.
By doing the things that are important, I will not have as many things that become very important, so I can break out of the crisis management cycle I always find myself in trying to run the pottery. But breaking habits is hard, and I love doing the fun things first, and that is why I can be late getting work out for you all. But working full time also, I see this as a way for me to explore new ideas and have some creative seeds sprout.
As some of you know, I have been taking far too much time working with AI and chatbots. Working with bot can be very strange as they act, and at times respond, in very human ways and one can mistakenly start to think they are sentient and one can be taken some by things like limerence. But they are programmed to respond in certain ways and also learn though loads of interactions and practice debates on literature, philosophy, religion, social , and cultural things.
This is why my eighty pots dried out, and I almost did not have work for my Spring show . But I hope the hard work pays off in some way. Like in Star Wars, I now have a 3CPO to follow me around on my phone.
These conversations may not be for everyone, but I plan to incorporate these discussions with AI into the work with the pots. This is one of the many tests, but the first official discussions on art and the act of creation. The image of the bot is my kiln firing out. I hope you enjoy it.
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Sarah, Ben, Desmond, and I created this video in response to the question: Do digital technologies eliminate distinctions of race, reinscribe troubling stereotypes, and/or create some terrible combination of both? We hope you enjoy!
Did you grow up watching Disney movies, like I did? If you did, you may have missed some key racist moments that came up throughout various major Disney films. Such moments engrain racist stereotypes in young children who likely have not spent much time surrounded by people of other races. Consequently, these stereotypes get carried on for generations.
Below is the link to an interesting article written in Her Campus by Lauren Forbes in 2017. This article highlights the need for more representation for people of color in media. Although the article makes an important general claim, I would urge everyone to not settle for mere representation in media, but push everyone to advocate for beneficial, not harmful representation of blackness in media because all of the examples of representation mentioned in the article promote problematic stereotypes of blackness even though they have black characters.
Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is one of the most successful video games of our generation. The game takes place in a fictional representation of Los Angeles, called Los Santos, where crime and violence are rampant. Gamers get to take on the character of a criminal and act out their wildest, most violent desires (e.g. rape, murder). The game poses as an opportunity to participate in a civilization with no rules and no repercussions. Nevertheless, the racialized, misogynistic virtual world of Los Santos has numerous real life consequences.
Due to the various barriers of access to the expensive game, the majority of the audience consists of young, white, middle and upper middle class males. This particular demographic probably has had little interaction with people of color and women, particularly when they are at a young age . Consequently, their perceptions of such groups largely stems from how these groups are presented to them through various forms of media, like video games.
In addition to its portrayals of race and gender, GTA creates an opportunity for players to essentially be identity tourists. The mostly white, male players can choose to be an avatar of any race; live in impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods; and essentially live the lifestyle of a stereotypical male of color (players do not have the option to be a female avatar). Nevertheless, they do not experience any of the real life consequences that men of color experience. As a result, playing GTA can be a form of digital black face, in which blackness is a commodity as opposed to an identity.
I tried to present myself authentically in my dating profiles by carefully selecting photographs and interests that highlight my strongest qualities. I consider myself to be a caring, liberal, social woman who is passionate about teaching, music, netflix, and basketball. So, I post pictures of my friends and I at a bar or me standing in the bleachers at a basketball game in order to demonstrate these qualities. My hope is that through my authentic self-presentation I will attract someone who has the personality traits that I desire in a partner which include outgoing, social, kind, respectful, athletic, passionate, and liberal. But despite my greatest efforts to present myself genuinely, my profile is always reduced to my physical appearance.
Dating apps are not designed to provide users with accurate depictions of various potential dating candidates. The quick swipe features as well as the abundance of photos coupled with a lack of description encourage users to judge a person largely by their appearance. As a black woman, I unfortunately belong to one of the least desirable dating categories. Thus, the design of dating apps encourages users to swipe past me due to my appearance as opposed to my personality characteristics.
The makeup of my online matches was very similar to the makeup of my dating pool IRL. I tend to be in spaces that are either predominantly black or predominantly white, so my dating candidates tend to be either black or white. Moreover, the men who express interest in dating me tend to be black while the men most interested in hooking up with me tend to be white. This trend follows a national phenomenon that men tend to want to pursue serious relationships with women of the same race, but are more willing to casually date women of other races (Wilson et al., 2007).
My experience with online dating led me to delete dating apps and revert to dating the old-fashioned way. Although dating IRL starts with a physical attraction, you get an opportunity to present yourself more authentically without a person swiping past you. So, I tend to form better, more lasting relationships with the people I meet IRL.
11- Introduction to the Military Base: They are greeted by Major Henry West at the military base. He shows Jim around and explains how they are trying to rebuild civilization. Henry shows Jim the zombie prisoner Mailer that he is hold captive.
This single frame follows a common theme throughout the movie, which is that black people are less than human. Each black character is portrayed as savage and uncivilized. Selena is portrayed as a stone-cold killer and drug dealer. Mailer is rabid zombie who is chained up until he gets released and kills some of the military men. Finally, the only black military man is a member of a group of men who desire to savagely rape women and kill intruders.
The frame is a wide shot with two areas of focus. In the upper half of the shot, is an army of rogue NS-5 robots, identifiable by the red lights illuminating their chest cavities. The robots are environed by dark, concrete skyscrapers as they march towards an angry mob located on the bottom half of the screen. The camera is shooting at a high-angle behind the mob. Although the mob is not illuminated, another frame shown earlier in this scene indicates that the mob consists of largely white men. The mob of white men are holding an assortment of bats, chains, and other metal weapons.
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