Media Autobiography

First off my name is Nghia Tran and I am a Fine Art Major. All my life  the world of entertainment has fascinated me whether it be something as far reaching as the television to something as personal as a book it blows me away that someone created those thing literally out of nothing. We have 8 areas of study so I will try to break it down in a way that will show you my relationship with each media.

Too say that television and popular media affected my youth is an understatement. From the comics that I read to the songs that I listened too I am subconsciously being reprogrammed. And yet sometimes I feel that I am the one molding these choices made for me by the norm. My art reflects the dark and seedy underbelly of these supposed norms. For me to fully be dedicated to my work I must be able to comprehend the inner machinations of the world.

We hear things that sometimes we wish we can unheard and likewise to things that we only catch a passing glance at. Music to me has the grayest areas of interpretation and can also the most heavily divided area of media. People love and hate with much more fervor when it comes to their favorite bands or artist. When I raise the subject of popular music I always get camps of extremist. For me anything that can inspire that much devotion can be a double-edged sword. I see garbage being played on the airwaves and then I go see a local band sweat and bled for a half packed bar brimming with smoke and broken dreams, plainly spoken I find this fact disgusting.

I want to rebel against the popular masses but I realize in my failed attempt that I am so far deeply entrenched that it is like fighting against something as natural as the ocean tides or an Amazonian quick sand trap. Every day we wake up and plug into the main frame. It is so insidious and unassuming that we pass it off as commonplace practices. Now we are at a crossroads of communication where we either as a society use this wealth of knowledge to ask those questions that might seem too out of reach before. Either that or enter an information deprived society that some parts of America and the world are in right now.