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I really liked watching the clips from "The Color Purple".  They did a really good job with costumes when they made certain characters stand out with flashier clothes and others with neutral plain colors. I think this was done to emphasis a character more in a scene than others while performing a musical number. The music was very soulful and had a specific message.  I really wanted to listen to what they were saying and not just listen to music itself.  Then there was watching Liza Minelli at the Tony Awards in 1978.  She wore a really flashy outfit along with her backup dancers.  She threw in some tap dancing and was very charismatic.  She really had fun with the performance and looked like she was having a lot of fun.  The dance was very well synchronized, everyone moved really well together. The scene from Grease was fun to watch.  They did a really good job with costume design.  All the guys were wearing leather jackets and had slick...

I didn't really know what to think of this when i first watched it in class. It is an interesting way to take a full length opera and condense it down into a short film with no dialogue and still relay the message the story is trying to tell.  You can still watch this 10 minute short film and understand what is happening to the characters without the characters having to say anything at all.  They use puppets/dolls as the characters as well as what looks like clay.  I think they did a good job at showing all of the different emotions of the characters through gestures since there wasn't any real emotion on there faces.  The part at the end where she literally tears off her own skin out of grief definitely shows her overwhelming sadness over her child being torn away from her.  She only sees total destruction of herself as the only option.  Short film is just one way of many you can take another form of art or story and create it in a different way. 

"Incognito" The Human Brain is a very mysterious piece of a puzzle that forms the human body and psyche.  It controls and senses things that we are not yet aware of how and why it can do the things it does.  I thought it was interesting that they did a study on men looking at photographs of women with some of them having there eyes dilated.  Gaging there response as far as who they were attracted to most was interesting because a majority of the men chose the women with dilated eyes and had no idea why.  The theory being the brain was able to detect the excitement of the women based on eye dilation.  You have to wonder, how does the human brain see what we don't, its apart of us right?  If it can sense excitement through the eyes shouldn't we be able to answer verbally why we were attracted to a certain feature in a photograph?  There is so much that is not understood about the human brain. I have to agree with how we run on autopilot a majority of th...