A Netflix queue for Fleance. May Banquo RIP.

For starters, I don't have a Netflix account so I'll be choosing shows from all over. I doubt this matters for the blog post but its just a forewarning. 

Now since I'm catering this list to Fleance and my assumptions of his personality I need to make some probably inaccurate guesses. So Merry Christmas Fleance! Lets look at some media that should take your mind off your dead father and impending pressure of ruling Scotland! 

"Murderer 3, I will find you."


 Taken (1,2, and 3 =D)  Behold Fleance! This first trilogy of movies should help you get over your definite fear of both criminals and killers! In taken, a father played by Liam Neeson saves his kidnapped daughter from the murderers sent by Macbeth to prevent you from taking the throne. But, in this movie, Banquo will save his son and kill all of the opposing murderers and kidnappers sent by the movies Macbeth equivalent. No doubt you'll enjoy the sequels as well as you watch Liam Neeson and director jump the shark as his character hunts down murderers not twice, but THREE times! Fleance will love this film as a means to keep his mind off the impending pressure of taking the throne under the witches prophecy, as well as, a means to take his mind of his dead father Banquo!

 Seriously shout out to the EE. 
The Lord of the Rings trilogy! 
A better movie to summarize Fleance's life has never been made! (except maybe the Macbeth movies). Watch Fleance, as the young Frodo Baggins goes on a long journey across lands much like your own, and, all without a father no less! If Frodo and Sam could do it, then surely Fleance too can resist the temptation of power's corruption and rise above Macbeths example as leader of Scotland. Take the teaching of Frodo fleance and learn that perhaps only with help from a friend will you fully survive the corruption of absolute power. Heres hoping Fleance, that you find your own precious, resist the temptations of Sauron (with witches) and rule Scotland fair and just. Atleast until a sequel comes out.

Star Wars (The Original Trilogy, dont worry i wouldn't do that to you Fleance)
Assuming you haven't yet got over your father troubles, maybe this will help! Watch as Luke faces off against the absolute power of the Imperials and the Dark Side (Witchcraft lets be real) only to find out that their biggest baddy is his very own daddy! At least yours died to save you, Luke's was a witch all along! Hopefully Fleance will find some peace in knowing his Dad died a hero. Perhaps the similarities between Banquo and Darth Vader will help Fleance find peace in his rule over Scotland (hopefully). In fact, I'd say Emperor Palpatine and Vader are a lot like a alternate reality where Macbeth convinces Banquo to fully embrace the prophecy and subjugates him under his leadership. Well i hope that helps Fleance rest easy knowing that his father at least died resisting the temptations of evil prophecy.

Home Alone
Merry Christmas Fleance! You'll definitely love this one. In Home Alone a young boy evades two criminals (whatever right? you avoided three) and manages torture them the whole time as this child home alone on Christmas Eve sets traps aplenty up for his foes to enjoy. Maybe you'll even be reminded of the run from the murderers you yourself did without parents, until of course the creepy serial killer drive-way shovel-er comes to save you from the murderers. (Take any form but this i beg of thee).  In watching this Fleance, you'll probably find yourself rooting for the young boy till the end.

Craigslist Joe 
Depending on how you look at Fleance's life, you'll see the similarities here. After Banquo is killed, Fleance has to flee his home and essentially everything hes ever known. Well so did this guy whom gave up his whole life, worldly possessions and contacts to begin life from scratch with nothing but the essentials. Like Fleance, this guy has to face the world empty handed and build from the bottom up (until the witches prophecy makes him king of course). As a final film in Fleance's queue, i hope this will raise his faith in humanity as he witnesses some rather flaterring acts of kindness by complete strangers who just want to help a guy without anything to his name.

Fleance, I hope you're not emotional. These all may hit close to home.

Exeunt.

MacBeth's fall from Grace, Witch slapped!

1. Why do people who are not "evil" take the first step into evil? What, for instance, is involved in taking that first step "down the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire" (Macbeth, 2.3)? What are the consequences of the individual choosing evil (particularly the internal consequences)? Use examples from the text to support your opinion.

         The transition of good to evil is not so transparent in the real world as it is in stories. Macbeth for example, takes the plunge in hoping to attain higher power by fulfilling the witches prophecy: "I am his Kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself" (Shakespeare Scene IV Act 1). Even in Macbeth's contemplation he realizes that his actions to aspire to power would be wrong. However, Lady Macbeth's convincing words and Macbeth's own lust for power would soon drive him to do the deed against Duncan and soon Banquo too. This moment is fairly clearly the beginning of Macbeth's descent into evil as he realizes what he could gain by simply committing a single crime. The situation is surely similar to many real life examples of evil transition. Many leaders in the real world who are known for being evil were likely good before a taste or thirst for power drove them to begin committing evil deeds which would ultimately damn them.
      The factors involved with taking the first step, for Macbeth at least, are very plainly displayed. In Macbeth's evil transition it is apparent: "Is this a dagger which i see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee" (Shakespeare Scene 1 Act 2). For Macbeth, his first step was taking up this either material or ethereal knife as he settled his mind on killing Duncan to become Cawdors king. For other instances of evil transition. It is likely a similar event which leads to an individual becoming malicious in intent. For a robber, it may be the final decision and purchase of a gun that final deems him as "evil" as he has decided to commit a crime in hopes of gaining something.
       Finally, the consequences of choosing evil. Macbeths consequences become apparent directly after his decision to murder Banquo and Fleance: "Which of you have done this? What, my good lord? Thou canst not say I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me" (Shakespeare Scene IV Act III). Not only is Macbeth immediately haunted by the ghosts of his deeds but his brush with Banquo's ghost serves to make him look the part of a fool in front of all the nobleman he worked to impress. In exchange for his evil gains he was faced with directly countered consequences which lead to his social and mental demise. For Macbeth, the internal consequences become apparent in the ensuing madness that grips him during this scene. For other individuals, the consequence is likely the same. Like Macbeth many people would begin to lose their mind in recognition of their own evil deeds. That is the greatest consequence that can befall someone who perpetrates evil; the destruction of their own mind when they realize what they have done for power.

BTW: happy birthday Mrs. Genesky!

Analyzing Art through Modern Art Eyes!

1)Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1520
  Attributed to Master of James IV of Scotland
    Ink and tempera on vellum; 6 5/8 x 4 4/5 in. (16.9 x 12.4 cm)
    Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935 (48.149.15)



(Below)
"Adoration of the Magi" By Hunter Jamison
A modern recreation of the older piece. Attempting to portray a more modern day message through impressionistic approach to form and interposition within the symbolic placement of the individual figures in the space.

2) The piece was created in the year 1520 likely by "Master of James IV of Scotland". The piece matches many conventions seen in otherwise confirmed arts by the artist and appears to have been created in a time period where the artist was otherwise known to be creating works. Though, the creator of the piece is now a certainty.
"Identified by some with the Netherlandish painter and illuminator Gerard Horenbout, this artist was especially adept at manipulating and expanding the illusionistic effects of manuscript illumination". 

3) The piece depicts the magi and their journey to see the Herod. The final bowing and meeting is superimposed over the representative journey portrayed behind the central scene. Emphasis is put onto the Magi's journey through the top left and clockwise to the bottom left through vivid colors not present in the center. This method had been utilized in the past by the artist but never used to superimpose an otherwise hidden theme through color.

4) The artist uses emphasis, contrast, size, color, brightness, position, space, and form all in tandem to convey a singular message of importance that is placed upon the central super-imposed image of a child in the woman's lap. The placement of the magi around and below the child serves to emphasize both the journeys length and the figures importance. Colors are used to emphasize specific individuals around the painting and size is reflective of the individual scene's importance to the artist. Where hazy texture are used to represent farther, more long-ago times in the magi's travels; clear colors and bold lines show the more recent and current stages of the magi's journey. All of this is used by the artist to place an emphasis both and the magi's journey and their final arrival at the paintings central destination.

5) The piece carries a rather apparent meaning. The child in the center, the meeting between him and magi kneeling before him, is super-imposed upon the magi's long journey to meet this holy child and his mother. The length and distance of the magis journey, conveyed using color emphasis, clarity, and relative size to communicate distance and importance, is used as a symbolic representation of the great importance placed in the pieces depicted journey. Like most holy art works created at this time, the piece is painted in tempera paint and uses very familiar styles to convey holy authority and figure. The holy orb and glow which bring emphasis to the child's importance,but, also to this holiness are key to the images final message. The magi, disciples of this holy child, have come from far to see this young icon and his mother. The painting most likely depicts the virgin mother and a baby Jesus, or a scene much like it, bringing special emphasis to the importance of a child which is depicted on a level equal with that of the son of god himself. 

The secret 9th deadly sin is blogging. Freebie Post for 1st Quarter.

Freebie Blog Post. Please Ignore.

The meaning of my name? Well it would be nice if it was Beowulf.

My Last Name

            I have always liked my last name. Even when  I was young i thought it sounded nice and professional, allowing me to fit into any scene i wanted to. My first reason for loving it came when I realized Spiderman (Toby Maguire)'s boss was named Jameson (yes with an e but close enough). I loved spiderman and so I felt that through my last name I had gained a sort of connection with the character. Its part of why I have always admired my own last name.
             Another meaning I hold in my own last name is its origin from Ireland. My family is very Irish and embraces that culture thoroughly. When I was young I learned that the name Jamison means Supplanter, which, is often use to refer to governments or rulers of countries. Having already considered my last name to be "fancy" sounding since I was young, knowing this only reinforced that perception.

The Two Me's

              I agree with Anna Quindlen, there are two me's. Or at the very least, there is definitely more than one. I dont believe its inherently negative but people seem to learn through association. So, people don't just know me as "Hunter", to some I may be "Hunter, friend of X" or "Hunter, with his two brothers". Im sure to my siblings friends I'm seen as "X's big brother". It definitely interesting to consider how I may be seen, not as an individual, but as a member of my Father or Mother's family. While I strive to prove myself as an individual im almost automatically considered to be part of whole depending on what someones perspective in knowing me is. Someone from another group may only see me as "one of X's friends" so rather than knowing me for my own name, I am known as someone's friend. 

I wonder if this is how Beowulf's friends feel. It can't be easy living in the shadow of Beowulf.

First Blog! Wing Young Huie

My first blog post!

For this post, I'll be looking at this picture from Wing Young Huies Lake Street USA album.
The picture was taken at the corner of Chicago and Lake in Minneapolis, MN.

On First Glance

        Objectively looking at the photography first thing I notice is the sidewalk and the wall meeting at a corner. On the right side I see a black man in a jacket and three others huddled further down the sidewalk. On the corner's right side I see three old white people, one man and two women. The picture seems rather neutral at first glance, and perhaps only aims to convey an image displaying daily life in the city.

On further Inspection

      Analyzing it further, Huie's message with this photography becomes obviously very quickly. The corner is both physically and metaphorically representing a divide in the citizens. While the white people are on one side, a few black men and others are isolated, out of sight, by the sidewalk's corner. Interestingly enough, also depicted in the photography is the phrase "The Society" on the left wall. Huie, most likely intentionally, cut off the rest of the phrase leaving only "The Society" within the photograph. The phrase is likely meant to communicate to the reader that the image is representative of society and its isolation between the races. The corner creates a sense of "othering" in regards to the black man, that perpetuates this notion. Also noteworthy is that the phrase is depicted on the side of the corner with the white people. Though a stretch, I suspect that even that may have been intentional in Huie's attempt to align the white people with society and the black with that of outsiders, merely tolerated so long as they are out of sight.

A quick connection to The Handmaid's Tale
      Personally, this photography is reminiscent of the Handmaid's isolation within Gilead. Though not racial in its reasoning, the Handmaids are similarly ignored even in close proximity to other people. The scene with Offred and Guardians comes to mind, as they are physically separated by a barrier and the Guardians present only to admit them, avoid eye contact.