BOLERO

Bolero is a orchestral piece composed by Maurice Ravel, and is one of Ravel’s most famous musical compositions. Bolero premiered in 1928 and represents Ravel’s passion of restyling, and  reinventing dance movements. The Bolero is a Spanish dance, that involves rhythmical music. Maurice Ravel took it, and turned it into something that has meaning, and can be expressed in another form of dance called ballet. The piece was actually written for one of Ravels female friends. Her name was Ida Rubinstein, and she was a Russian ballerina. This composition, in a way sounds like a love song.  It makes you wonder if Ravel and Rubinstein have some type of love connection? The world will never know!

Video Games & Art.

Video games should not currently be considered art, but that does not mean that they are not a valid source of entertainment. Kellee Santiago insist that video games are more then entertainment, and that there is more that meets the eye. Ms. Santiago is a student studying in the interactive media program, her research is mainly focused on game design, so it is clearly obvious as to why Ms. Santiago  feels this way about video games. I do not agree with Ms. Santigo. Video and are not art, they are a source of entertainment. Most of the things we enjoy in life are entertainment. I don’t consider a lot of things to be art.  For example, books, magazines, television serious, food. None of  theses things are bad, but rather really enjoyable.

I believe that the things we consider art should, allow most people to ask there self  about how we live, and the state of the world round us. I do not think that video games get to that place. When you think about it, do games rise to the level of art the way that some painting or drawings do? Can they cause an emotional experience, in such ways as paintings and drawings do?  They may to some, but to me, this is not possible.

Sure,maybe someday I will consider video games to be labeled as art, but as of now  that’s not what they represent to me. I see them as a just s source of entertainment, something to keep you busy when you’re bored. And for now there is a perfectly fine category for them: games.