Grey Gardens

Since their conception, documentaries have strived to broadcast intriguing and captivating stories, pushing the boundaries of cultural norms and comfort zones. In 1972, Albert and David Maysles stumbled upon a fascinating tale of a mother and daughter inhabiting a dilapidated Long Island mansion, Grey Gardens, which later became the title of the film. Lee Radziwill, the sister of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, approached the filmmakers in hopes of capturing the haunts of her childhood (Sutton, 2014), but the lens quickly shifted from Radziwill to her aunt, Edith “Big Edie” Beale, and cousin, “Little Edie.” The film falls within the participatory mode of documentary, which focuses on, “the interaction between the filmmaker and subject” (Nichols 2010, pg. 31). Dialogue between the filmmakers and the women classifies as diegetic sound, as it, “has a source in the story world” (Bordwell, Smith, Thompson 2016, pg. 285). The film relies mostly on this type of sound, other than sporadic non-diegetic background music. As a participatory film, the directors control elements of the mise-en-scene, such as the setting, costumes, and figure behavior, to their advantage. In the Maysles…

the year. Around the time, Chekov wrote The Lady with the Dog, which included two characters, Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, whose lives were very similar to both Chekov and Olga. Despite the hardships that their long distance relationship brought the couple, they remained married until Chekov’s death in 1904. In The Lady with the Dog, Chekov uses the symbolism of the fence, the color grey and The Geisha performance to develop the theme of dissatisfaction.…

In the study, college students in the southern part of the United States were shown a color on a computer screen and asked to give their emotional response to each color. The results found that principal hues (e.g., red, blue, green, etc.) were rated 80% positively. The results also showed that achromatic colors (e.g., white, black, and grey) were rated positively only 29.2% of the time. Green was the most positively rated color and participants associated green with nature and soothing…

Dance is an art form consisting of individuals or groups moving in patterns, either practiced or impromptu, to the rhythm of music. Dance and music go hand in hand, allowing the music to set a tone for the dance, creating different styles of dance. Dance is likely to have begun as a ritual to appeal to a culture’s worshipped being or included in ones “rite of passage” (Histoy of Dance, n.d.). Evidence has been found in India showing the existence of dance in the form of paintings made in caves…

control. Gun control has always been a big deal. There are people who believe very strongly about keeping guns, and there are people who believe very strongly about banning them. Everyone has different views, but they are so important because it is such a serious topic.The picture is saying that it is not what the object is doing to cause what it is happening. The people are the reason why things happens. This picture would be for people who want to ban guns because they think guns kill people…

gradation from lightest to darkest, which in most case, is white to black. In such scale, the shades white and black represent two contrasting extremes as they parallel the idea of morality, where white is right and black is wrong. However, the complication arises at the area between the white and black: the grey. The grey area possesses no absolute verdict, for one can be both morally right and wrong. Russian realist Anton Chekhov implements such perception as he colours the story with white,…

The water is transparent, and its colors are not painted by the sky above, but rather the pebbles underneath. Mostly grey, but I have found the rare creamy orange, or even stony green. There is a fallen tree that had crossed the river, the now exposed roots have become home to a family of squirrels. They often brawl by the riverside, but since I cannot tell any of them apart, I cannot often make bets on the outcome. The one time I tried I may have lost, but I am unsure. Perhaps all the woodland…

left corner to the blank lower right. It proportionately balances this piece through the use of the arches to help guide your eye to focus ono the blank space. Julie Mehretu. Immanence. 2003. Painting. Ink and synthetic polymer on canvas. 70 7/8” x 94 ½ Exhibited at The Project, spring 2005. ArtStor. http://library.artstor.org.ezproxy.uwc.edu/library/iv2.html?parent=true The third piece of Mehretu’s I chose was Immanence. In this piece you can see some chaos, it looks architecturally…

Abducted By:Asia Padua Have you ever felt like you’re being watched over or something is just willing to take over your life?Well i’m quinn, I was 13 years old and this is what happened. Waking up to the sound of my little brother running down the hallway roaring like a dinosaur, as I get off my bed I get ready for school. I walked downstairs to go eat breakfast, as I am making myself breakfast my brother decides to make his own…

gradation from lightest to darkest, which in most case, is white to black. In such scale, the shades white and black represent two contrasting extremes as they parallel the idea of morality, where white is right and black is wrong. However, the complication arises at the area between the white and black: the grey. The grey area possesses no absolute verdict, for one can be both morally right and wrong. Russian realist Anton Chekhov implements such perception as he colours the story with white,…