WK 5 Blog Exercise: Visual vs Symbolic Language

sughResponses:
dirty, sad, hungry, homeless, helpless, economy, struggle, starving, poor, family, urban, soup line, hope, old, young, poverty, travelers, sicknes, bad health, crying, American dream.

underlying compositional structure:
black, white, gray, balance, leading lines, noise , patterns, randomness, squares, blocks.

symbols:
  sign in window, a line to wait in

Description: There is a dirty street and side walks, people from all over come to wait in line all day for a bowl of soup because they are homeless or so poverty stricken that they cant even feed themselves or there family. the line of the poor stretches around the corner of an old bulding and far into the distance that the people waiting begin to become so small they look like ants. Thats how many people are waiting. Its cold outside, everyone has a dark coat, dark heavy pants and a hat, no bare limbs show on anyone. The shoes on there feet are old and beat up, there feet are soar and there handd cold. The picture is in bacl and white, it looks like it was in the late 1800's, the years of our countries great deppression.  

Top-Down Visual Processing

This is a good example of high attention top down processing and lower the lower level of top-down processing. First our attention is driven to take notice of the puzzle shapes to map out where they fit. There is movement in this because we can plainly see where the pieces go and we are ready to place them there if given the opportunity. We link and connect with the pieces out of place and the ones already in place which makes it every active. As for the lower level of of the processing we note that the puzzle pieces we are trying to connect are a lighter color. Hence, they are on the darker contrasting background. Then you of course take notice of the silhouette of the man on the right but we know he really provides no clue to helping us put together the puzzle other than that fact that he might be trying to do the same thing. If we were to use a rapid eye movement tracker on the photo, I predict that the most time spent would be on the outlines of the puzzle shapes.

This photo was retrieved from an image search of "Puzzle" on the google search engine. The sight name is http://www.texastowerpr.org/