Hello! I'm back after a long vacation from blogging. While I've been away, I have been doing my assigned reading from "Practices of Looking", I just haven't be blogging about it. I have a hard time doing that, so I've been trying to figure out why, and also, how to get started again. I thought maybe I had "blogaphobia" and maybe I do. Maybe its easier once you get to know your audience a little better. But I think I've figured out the real reason that I've had such a hard time and what I can do to get going again.

First of all, I really don't care for the writing style of at least one of the authors...I don't feel interpellated by much of what they say, and I think the reason is that (in my opinion) they often take a relatively simple concept and use sentences that are much too long to explain it. I know that I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and that my mind can easily wander sometimes when I'm reading, but this book just doesn't help that. So, after doing the Wikipedia assignment, I came up with an idea....When I come across the sentences that I think make a concept confusing, I'll just post it here and maybe we can break it down into something a littler simpler. Of course, when I went back to the beginning of Chapter 2...Viewers Make Meaning...I couldn't find a good example. This concept in this section is pretty clear I think. "Some images strongly interpellate viewers, some do not." 50

Whenever I've gone to an art gallery or museum with someone else, I notice that I'll get stuck gazing at a work of art that really speaks to me...draws me in. The person with me may go quickly by it, and maybe even quickly past everything, and then hang around waiting for me to finish. I feel rushed and don't enjoy my time there as much. So, I've decided that I should go by myself, that way, when I feel interpellated by something, I can stay at look as long as I want to.