Upon watching the "Vogue" video in class on Wednesday I really wanted to expound on its meaning. The term itself is a form of expression and stylistic posing. Today's society has equated vogue with style and fashion and it is something that everyone is to aspire. In the above photo J Lo is wearing a gown that she wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards. I think this dress sparked a lot of conversation because it embodied something that every woman wants to look like. As vogue has become style and style has become celebrities, the rest of society tries to transform into what is percieved as vogue.

Well I went to the Robinson last night with some friends and watched the movie "The Kids Are Alright". The movie was not at all what I was expecting, but I thought it was very good. It challenged the idea of what we percieve to be a "traditional" family in society. The parents were a lesbian couple who conceived children by using a sperm donor. The kids were portrayed as normal teenagers with the same issues as those who belong to a heterosexual family. Overall I thought that the movie offered a comedic outlook on the life of a lesbian family.   

So we have been studying various art terms in my class and last week one of our words was bricolage. By definition a bricolage is a piece of artwork that is created by materials that happen to be at hand. As I was browsing through pictures on my camera I came acroos this one and realized that it is an example of a bricolage. I saw this artwork in an art showing in Memphis one weekend and thought it was really cool that the background was made from different product labels. Now thanks to visual culture I know that this type of work actually has a name!

The artist of this painting originally intended for it to be used for aids awareness. However, as a spectator, I initally thought the painting was used to express domestic vioelence. This artwork is a fine example of how the artist's intent and the viewer's interpretation can be signficantly different. I think the concept of this painting is an interesting way to represent  the war on aids and its awareness.