Rhetorical Cosas

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Painting With Sound

As I was scouring the internet for ideas for our digital visual rhetoric interwebz project, I came across this interesting series of photos by artist Martin Klimas. He tries to answer the question, "What does music look like?" by splattering paint on a drum and then playing some tunes. When we usual think of photos we think of what appeals to our eyes, or vision, hence, visual rhetoric. Klimas pushes the boundaries of which senses images can appeal to. What does sound look like? How can we visualize other senses?

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honing in on the simulacrum

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You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement aspiring to create moments of positive self realization. The intention behind the message is to be received as a simple act of kindness, an innovative approach to a fundamental concept.

Nice movement. Still feeding into the grand narrative that accepting oneself as beautiful is the foundation for women to understand themselves in any positive light.

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Women too! In our society, the most common means of nurturing their self esteem is through seeking approval of their appearance, establishing they are "beautiful"

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Aphorism #___

Complexity is the mother of both hope and fear.

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What is Ugly?

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, ugly must be there too. The design world is obsessed with celebrating beauty and expunging ugly, but these standards are fluid. This is why design critic Stephen Bayley, creator of the London’s Design Museum and former creative director for Terence Conran, curated a 1991 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition and book titled Taste, which took on the tough task of figuring out why people like what they like. His most recent book, Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything picks up where Taste left off.

In a recent email, he described Ugly as an answer to “design bores telling me such-and-such is ‘good design’ when what they really meant was ‘this is my taste.’” Since Bayley believes much of the design world’s rhetoric is based on “unstable and untested arguments about beauty,” he decided to “rehabilitate neglected, but useful notions” of taste and ugliness and develop his own pronouncements.

Read more. [Image: The Overlook Press]

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hooray positive things

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An example of an intervention somewhat similar to the one I'll be making. Here's Positive Exposure's Mission (Rick Guidotti's movement from the video below):

Positive Exposure utilizes photography and video to transform public perceptions of people living with genetic, physical and behavioral differences – from albinism to autism.  Our educational and advocacy programs reach around the globe to promote a more inclusive, compassionate world where differences are celebrated.

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This all started when former fashion photographer Rick Guidotti met a woman with a genetic condition that took away the color in her hair and eyes. Upset that this woman would never be considered beautiful in the fashion world, Rick picked up his camera and set out to change that.  

-Ray Flores

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Rhetoric is a mode of altering reality.

Lloyd Btzer

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Indeed, though audiences may be temporarily mute and standing still, they will not be for long. They too will act and speak.

Charles Bazerman

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Kairos is not merely the function of shaping a single verbal performance for a single verbal audience, but is a function of how multiple compositions produced through the labor of multiple actors can be coordinated across time and space to address a set of related rhetorical exigencies.

Sheridan, Ridolfo, and Michel

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This is unnerving. Changing her appearance to conform to the societal standards of beauty opened up doors that were closed to her before. That Chen's beauty is such an influence in how she was treated says a lot of our societal values. Is this really what we want to value and let determine our capacity, validity, value, worth? 

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She Turned Up At Her Job, And Someone Had The Nerve To Say These 12 Words To Her

This is awful. Crazy that our idea of what a model should look like is so limiting and exclusive that someone wold be spoken to like this. 

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A Catalog That Believes Reality Can Sell Clothes Better Than Photoshop

Real people wearing real clothes! This is great; things like this move towards creating a new way of portraying, perceiving, and really thinking about women. Appearances are not entirely cast aside, but definitely are given less presence. Hooray!

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Meet the Woman Behind NYC's 'I'm a Girl' Project - Lean In