Kai Baynes 
Reading Response 1
        After reading the article “Modernizing Vision”  I have a deeper understanding or should I say another level of visual culture and how it's literally everywhere. He begins with the idea of vision and it's techniques and disclosures surrounding it. Then expressing how he feels about the renaissance perspective and photography are on the same quest to achieve the same “Natural vision” that camera obscura (Pinhole Image)and engraving deptions obtains. Further stating “...engraving depictions and camera obscura as a kind of inaugural and incipient form a long evolutionary ladder.” verses what he described as a “...long unfolding of technology”. He then went on to articulate the camera obscura model of vision in terms of its history and then explains how the camera obscura had collapsed due to the emergence of photography and specifically how it failed as a model for an observer and functionality for the human eye.


This reading had my interest because I simply when I pieced together what he was explaining when he mentioned why the camera obscura had collapsed he mentioned how philosophers were testing it and how they dying from looking into the sun to create an inner image for the inner eye. If think about it that's the exact way the camera obscura functioned. I also, really enjoyed the philosophers ideology. My favorite was Richard Rorty when he states that the human mind is a inner space where clear and distinct ideas pass review before an inner eye.  
Questions: I didn't quite understand the entire reading so I want to know what he meant when he stated that the observer plays a passive role and polices the correspondence between exterior and interior representation?


Reading Response 6
While Reading this passage I was really intrigued by how rooted I was in visual culture. I remember that once last semester I was working on this assignment for my Drawing & Imaging Class and i couldn't get out anything, I wasn't feeling it but I had to work on it, So i took a photo of it and using this method, I figured out how to transfer the image onto the paper but of course some things were off and because of that points were deducted, but still fairly got a good grade. 


I was also fascinated when the narrator mentions the idea of “seeing better” just because that's really interesting to try to dychering that. I wanted to question why was it dangerous to try to see things in real life?  Also, as I was reading I couldn't help but to notice the writing style. 
When they mention theory 


“(de)constructed as it (de)construes its object of study”
                       I liked how those things coexisted not throwing off the reader, but supporting.
When she talks about it not being a such thing as documentary. I love documentaries or what I      
thought was a documentary, but it made think back to when we talk about the idea of discovery...It likes no gurl….and it does have an effect on the viewer because it makes-----I lost my thoughts but I do agree with 
“Truth is produced, induced and extended, when it caught in time in a moment it isn't named. Outside of film culture that's abusive. 


Reading Response:


From my understanding, this reading was focusing on the overall idea of discovery, rediscovery and invention and “recycling” the author's diction and dry humor is what threw me off. When they mention that “art is theft” and “good poets borrow, great poets steal” throughout the reading it goes from framing the culture to then in a way appreciating it and acknowledge its impact and what has came out of it development. 


  Something that sparked Interest 
This reading interest me because it was something i actually cared about. I'm into music as well. I Dj and hen I read the little excerpt on DJing and some history it felt good. I started DJing out of nowhere and it's cool to know something behind what i'm doing and not just doing it. Another thing that sparked my interest was the reference to the black culture creating new things to a stop animation.