Thurs 1/14 "Representing Reality"

I found the fourteenth chapter on “Representing Reality” rather interesting. I find it just as interesting that I am blogging about blogging and video blogging. I agree with the way the chapter describes pictures that actually represent reality; all pictures in some way show the reality of a certain situation. Also, many bloggers show their truest reality through blogs and videos. I read many blogs and am intrigued by their honesty in their words. Reality can be represented by just one snap of a camera. And it is never just one reality: there are millions of different realities, millions of stories that can all be represented by a picture.






This picture is an advertisement for a yoga center. At first glance, the picture reflects that the yoga center will help teach to be flexible. The first way it does this was by having the girl in the picture do a backbend in the shape of the flexy-straw. Of course a person interested in yoga would be intrigued by a backbend. The person viewing the advertisement, though, is supposed to gain from the picture that, not only will you learn a backbend at yoga center, but also you will learn other ways to stretch. The viewer would get this from the representation of the flexy-straw. The straw can bend any way imaginable, so the viewer would infer that the girl in the backbend would also be able to bend those directions. What the article is not directly selling, is the cleansing that comes with practicing yoga. The straw represents the flowing, or cleansing, of substance, meaning: one who practices yoga will feel cleansed.




This is the un-edited version of the picture I have chosen for the visual rhetoric assignment.