Chap 6 picturing arguments

This article begins with the 1960's and shows how including black fashion models in the fashion shows revolutionized fashion, it continues into another first which is in 1974 when Vogue put a black model on the cover for the first time. After 1975, it begins to branch out to include other ethnicities which would give the reader the impression that including black models for shows and covers of fashion magazines opened the door for models of various skin colors and ethnicities. If the pattern of the article was set up different such as the lighter skinned black models were placed first it could make the article look as if fashion started including models that looked slightly of another race and then became progressively more accepting of models with darker skin. If no dates appeared on the article it would seem more like a tribute to famous models of different races rather than an article about how the fashion world has progressed to include more models of different races. The articles are used to support the argument made by the pictures. For example in the picture of Talisa Soto displays the ridiculous of the predjudice non-white models faced during the 80's, part of the caption says, "rejected by many agents for being "too ethnic," but the model Talisa Soto does not look very ethnic. This makes the point that the fashion world did not want to accept anyone who looked anything other than white.
The pictures that go against the idea that the lighter skinned black models are more popular is the Naomi Campbell one in which the caption says, "she is the first to earn the supermodel moniker." Another picture that may go against the argument is the picture of Beverly Johnson, even though the picture is in black and white in the picture her skin appears dark. In support of the argument is the picture of Iman, even though the picture is in color the shading is much lighter than the shading on Beverly Johnson from the previous picture. Also, part of the caption on Iman's picture says "muse to countless designers, has worked nonstop since." Tyra Banks is another models that supports the argument. She is a lighter skinned model and next to the picture of her part of the caption reads "first black model to appear solo on the cover of S.I.'s swimsuit issue."
The last model pictured on the time line for "The Role of Race in Fashion," was very light skinned and the models from "Spring 2004," were all Caucasian, so after looking at "The Role of Race in Fashion," and then looking at the latter article it appears that in terms of race fashion is digressing backwards.

Chap 5

In "Vogna: A Manifesto" Miles describes a vog by explaining all the aspects that make a vog. He makes sure to specify "a vog is not a reinvention of television." A vog is similar to blog in the vog respects bandwidth. A vog is personal and so is a blog. The difference between a blog and a vog is that a vog experiments with writerly video and audio. A vog lies between writing and the televisual. A vog explores the proximate distance of words and moving media. A vog is dziga vertov with a mac and a modem. A vog is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog.

Miles first vog does live up to his explantation of a vog because it makes a personal message about cage animals and then he shows a picture of a child. I got the feeling he was trying to convey a message about animal cruelty. The vog also respected bandwidth which is important because inorder for a vog to effectivly convey the bandwidth to be fast so the vog is not choppy.

Each vog constructs video that supports Miles main idea. He does this by using a repetiton of similar images.

In Preshil Critters Miles use design elements such as text font, text color and balance. He uses a combination of video and written text to create a message about animal cruelty. He edited out the scenes of people changing out the animals in the cages because that information would be unnecessary and would have made his purpose seem less clear.