Forest's Funky Film Blog 6x1

After watching the Ted Talk's on Daniel Tammet, I had to applaud him for the fact that even though he is a savant and autistic, he didn't seem like it. Most media portray autism stereotypical and it was refreshing to see someone like Tammet, go above that and even made a joke about how savants are thought as. Going into the Ted Talk, I really enjoyed watching and seeing how his synesthesia makes perceive things differently. When he was talking about how he sees numbers as colors and shapes, I found that very interesting. I see numbers as just numbers, not as a spectrum of colors and shapes. I also liked that he can see the numbers as art, like when he made a painting out of the number pi. Art can be found in almost anything that we can think and Tammet strives to find it in anywhere he can. I also liked his idea of what a word can mean by how it sounds. It is a concept I can get behind and that is how I usually think of words when I try to figure out what they mean. Finally, th

When watching the Len Lye film in class, my immediate reaction to the film was that it reminded me of pizza. In the beginning of the film, we see shapes coming across the screen that showed some triangles with circles on them giving me the impression of a pepperoni pizza. Maybe I was a bit hungry. As the film went on, I noticed that the music and the shapes and lines coming on the screen moved in rhythm to the music. It was like the music was taking physical shape, creating patterns upon patterns. The amount of work that went into the film was impressive and I'm excited to see what else we watch in class.