So, the personal concerns I'm dealing with in this picture are time, literature, and consumerism. The book, skeleton, and door all represent each of these concerns in their own way. I'll leave it at that. I consider my thesis in this argument to be: "This time of semester kind of makes me want to die."
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That, my friend, is a damn good thesis.
To continue my argument from my post...
Even in your visual argument here, you use words to clarify the 'meaning'. And even if you didn't use words, the book has words on the cover. There are still different ways to read your argument, but the language limits the possibilities.
Leta,
I really only put the words there because I felt guilty about blogging just an image without justifying it. But...why, if I'm so keen on images, would I not let it speak for itself? Heh...visual media-ists need words, too!
Seriously, I take your point. If I didn't totally buy into the validity (and less-flexibility) of written argument, I would be in "real" (reel?) film school at NYU or something, learning how to make movies instead of just talk about them. But, surprisingly (or not), I think I will be making more money as an underpaid grad student than an underpaid filmmaker. And I wouldn't want to make movies anyway. Too many actors.
Is the skeleton climbing into the book or out of the book?
See, I thought the skeleton was *doing* something *to* the book...
No, I think the book is *doing* something *to* the skeleton . . .
I think the skeleton is being crushed by the book. The skeleton is struggling to get out from under the book.
The skeleton's being crushed by the book? But that's not dirty... unless it's an S and M kind of thing... but Barthes didn't write "S/M", he wrote S/Z. Get it together, Bri!
It's uncanny.
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