I love you Philip Morris

The other day I watched the movie “I love you Phillip Morris” starring Jim Carrey. The film stars Carrey as a newly expressed gay man who is trying to live his life to the fullest. However, throughout coming out and embracing the gay lifestyle he quickly finds out how expensive keeping up with that extravagant lifestyle truly is. Due to this he starts stealing from companies and becomes a major criminal of investment fraud and embezzlement. This lands him in jail with Philip Morris another inmate in which he falls in love with and continuously attempts to break both him and Philip out of prison. This movie shows a different side of the gay culture in which is not often portrayed in films and shows a comical twist to the criminal fraud type scenarios in most films.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9- 

Working Space

I would love to one day have my own studio. I have no idea where I would like to move to later in life, but according to the book this is an important factor when deciding to have your own studio. This chapter gives you tips and warnings when it comes to building your own studio. It even gives you ideas to how to build your own studio when you finally have enough money to of course. Right now since I do not have a studio i do most of my work in my apartment but I shoot outdoors. Thank goodness I live in Texas, where it is mostly sunny and hot enough to have shoots outside.

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Chapter 8

Chapter 8- 

Jobs for Young Artists

The main reason I chose not to make Photography my Major was because most photographers don't make a whole lot of money, or not as much as they wish they could be making. I chose to stick to a Business Major so I had that degree to fall on if I wasn't that successful in Photography. Sure I could start my own photography business and take portrait photography and still make a decent amount of money. But I would still like to have another, more stable job, as well. Another thing I would really be interested in, and makes a little more money, is fashion photography. I would get to work with so many famous and high status people that I could potentially make a lot of money by doing this.

Rize Movie Questions

Movie by David Lachapelle about inner city LA crump dancing and the way people use it to express them selfs when the only other option is often violence.

How do you define language- language is the way you describe things, it is how you explain and express a culture so the viewer can further understand the emotion and struggle tied along with that world.

How do you define art- I would define art as visually expressing yourself whether to draw an emotion or feeling from the viewer or to better explain your situation. art can be displayed in several different forms such as classical paintings or even the crump style dancing of the Rize film.

How does this movie relate to you- these people are in dangerous surroundings with few positive choices to express them selfs. While i grew up in a decent neighborhood there were still many opportunities to go down a dangerous path. The people in this film used dance as a form of expression and release from the struggles around them and this is what made this form of art so strong and rich around their communities. Like these crump dancers i used art to express myself and keep goals which kept me out of dangerous and troublesome situations.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7- Galleries, Portfolios, and Webpages

This chapter discusses how an artist will never be recognized if they don't have the right kind and amount of advertisement. People need to be able to see their work and know it's there if he wants to make money from it. People want the easiest way possible to find it so that it why the internet is a good place to go. Rarely will people find a new artists and then buy their work. They must first be recognized to the world along with their work and get their name out, then people will start to find them and want to buy their art work. They then talk about the importance of entering art shows and list the types of art shows that offer the least prestige and the most prestige and will help the artist.

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