Ecological Realism

This article describes ecological realism as the belief that our resources on earth are scarce and if we continue the way we are now we will not last another 10 or 20 years. Gorz talks about the crisis of growth in the economy not being the solution to our problem. One economist even says that if we stopped growing, the rate of our consumption of resources will still end in exhausting them completely. The idea ecological realism is seeing the facts for what they are and not ignoring that our resources are finite.

As sad and kind of scary as this article may be, I am glad I read it. It just reinforces the idea that our generation needs to make changes and now. The resources of our world are not infinite and we cannot just do what is easier to survive. What is easier for us now is not creating a better world for us tomorrow. I think that a lot of people are just hoping that we will discover new ways to live and adapt without the resources we use today. I believe that we will always have a problem of our resources running out. We can't just continue to take and not give back anything to the planet. Even trees are becoming scarce. I believe that more people need to be concerned about ecological realism and to stop pretending like it's not happening.

Kuleshov Effect

  The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing technique that Lev Kuleshov used in the 1900s. He created the montage effect. He discovered that pairing an image with another image causes different reactions within the viewers. An example was in the youtube video L'EFFET KULESHOV. This video showed an image of a man with no facial expression. When viewed by itself there was no significant reaction from the viewer. When paired with an image of food, viewers thought he was hungry, with a dead woman, viewers thought he was grieving, and so on. Kuleshov basically discovered that mashing images together can create all sorts of contrast and different reactions.


The youtube video was the most interesting to me. I enjoyed the creativity of the makers of the video by reenacting the Kuleshov effect. I think that reading and watching these videos is a cool way to get us ready for our montage project. It really helped me get ideas of what feelings I want to provoke in my audience. The idea of this montage type of film editing really opened up the film industry to a whole different type of film. I think that learning about where it came from was important to understand this assignment.