blog # 2

McCloud states " when we abstract an image through cartooning we're not so much elminating details as we are focusing on specific details."(200) What McCloud means by this quote is when we look at an image we dont delete the details we dont care for but we pay more attention to the important things. Like the photo above shows and states, "By stripping down an image to it's essential meaning an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't." (200) What this quote means is that when the artist takes the painting or picture and traces it down to when only the thought of the image was put on paper, he can give a bigger meaning or explanation of the painting or picture than the original. How is that? you might ask. Well when you start with an image in your head you put it down on paper and when you start drawing you think it might come out the way you planned in your head, sometimes it does come out that way but others it doesn't. Also when you start off with the original picture you can make a bunch of diffrent pictures. And when you talk about them you can trace it back to that one image you had drawn on paper and then you have more to talk about than your original paintings or picutres.

An example of logical fallacy is "My friend Jen said her philosophy class is hard, my philosophy class is hard to, so it must be that all philosophy classes are hard." This quote is logical fallacy because it is based on a poor peice of reasoning.

If ever there was an idea custom-made for a Jay Leno monologue, this was it: audio books. Isn't that like watching a radio? Whatever happened to reading the actual book? I happen to sympathize with illeterate people though perhaps because if you have the time to listen to war and Peace then you have the time to learn how to read.