Hearing is Believing/Photographic Icons (Blog Week 6)

When I listened to "Hearing is Believing" I really agreed with Phil's explanation of our culture today. Songs today aren't really about the sound but the words. Some people don't notice the background music today because songs are meant for words, where as back then they were played for the beauty of sound, so people see the true beauty of music. Today people do listen to songs for their own personal reasons, but mainly I think people listen to music to hear the words someone is singing. My personal experience is that I do like the words in songs, but almost every song starts with a certain sound which can trigger someone to keep listening to it. So if the sound wasn't appealing to someone they might not listen to that song. Some people won't give certain genres of music a chance just because of their sound. So music is somewhat still about sound. The radio part of this was appealing also, anything can happen when you can't see it so a commercial is way more appealing on the radio.

After reading "Photographic Icons" by Philip Gefter I kind of understood where he was coming from with the truth's behind photographs. Just because you have an image that presents a reality doesn't really mean you know what went down before the picture and I agree with Gefter. Yes you have the truth's of that photograph at that moment but what went down right before that or right after that? You may never know unless you completely remember or if a picture was taken every second. But, that's not very likely. This weeks blog wasn't to bad. I liked last week's better. Looking forward to next weeks blogging topics.