Bitchin

I know I haven’t posted in a while, there won’t be much of an apology or a large amount of news in this post to make up for it.

Instead this will really be like a bitch post. So feel free to click the “x” at the top of the screen and go on with your internet surfing.

Thanks for staying though, you know those days when you sit through your classes listening nodding to show the professor that you are some what paying attention to what they are saying, then you eat, and continue on with class. Not really feeling too motivated and just want to get on with the day. Well today was a day, not sure why, no problems in the love life, not a bad night sleep, not even like someone did something to piss me off. Just a day that was some what plain. To add onto that it was time for a new class for my mandatory art foundations course. Figure drawing, the human figure… nude. Now, as a photographer I have a great appreciation for the human body and I have no problem viewing it in a non sexual way, but for the first day of a class with a new professor to simply be to jump in full force on a new thing and more or less 2 hours of a nude woman laying down in a skewed position with skeleton bones around her – and placed in\around areas that are exposed – is sort of like the topping on the cake.. but not a good tasting cake but instead a cake that no one wants to eat, like a fruit cake.

So I think the real reason for this bitchin is for the pure fact that this class made me think “how is this going to help me reach my goal of becoming a better photographer”, I get being able to do basic drawing, understanding color, be able to do 2d work and even 3d work to understand the way humans can interact with artwork. But this? To subject students to something so technical as the human body to me just seems obscene. I would rather be able to focus on photographer, or be able to complete a required course but instead the next 8 weeks (2 weeks a class, 2 hours a class so a total of 32 hours) will be spent drawing the human body?

My final paragraph will be short and simple. I want you, the readers opinion. If this was a photographer class in which the objective was to photograph the human body in this form would it be considered pornography? And if so what to you is the defining line of art vs pornography.

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