Jodi Mack was an awesome presenter; she is young and
extraordinarily creative! I admire her ability and patient to create animation
in the way that she does. I do not see animation like hers often, but I think
that is why I was so fascinated. Jodi incorporated love, desire, and
environmental sustainability into her work.
My favorite part of her presentation was the enthusiasm she
shared about environmental sustainability and recycling. She used junk mail,
magazines, and other pictures to create her videos. I think it’s great for her
to share her passion with her viewers about making a healthier environment. I
believe that is something she desires. She dreams of a cleaner and less
wasteful world and is able to express that through her work.
Jodi has an unbelievable talent. She said, like our class
has often discussed, that media forms our expectations of love. Whether we read,
watch or listen, our society forms our expectations and desires for the perfect
love and the perfect relationship. As children, we read what love is meant to
be like in story books with fairytales. As we grow older, we start watching TV
and movies while listening to an array of music that talks or displays imagery
of love. Yes, all of these methods show the happiness and sadness to love—but more
heavily focus on this perfectly ideal life of love and happiness which just is
not accurate. I think this course is making me bitter towards love, because I
seem to think about things more negatively and with less care when it comes to
the subject. I don’t think my opinion on desiring will ever change because I feel
that I always want, want, want! Realistically, I think it’s easier to desire
than it is to love and the film “Yard Work is Hard Work” exemplifies this. If
they have this house and make it their own, and show that these desires
sometimes overpowered their love. Their love struggled when all their assets
were in a slump. I think her film showed that it is easier to desire then to
love.