Friday May 4

Individual Presentations 5:

Sutter:

• 6 degrees of separation in between each person

1. sparagmos-> Shakespeare (sonnet 18)-> Adonis-> Bob Ross-> Ben Franklin-> bald eagle -> domestic policy
2. Nmonsyne-> Wordsworth-> Ashton Kutcher (The Butterfly Effect)-> psyche (soul)-> Volumptua-> Sir Mixalot (I like Big Butts)
3. Lysistrata (Aristophanes)-> Trace Atkins ( I learned how to love from you)-> Diotema (Plato and angel wings)-> Bob Dillon-> Forest Gump (story about the story)
4. Pomegrant-> Pecotte (triple goddess)-> Kevin Costner (Rumor Has It)-> Dustin Hoffman (Finding Neverland)-> Sybil (eternal youth)-> pickles (age in a jar)

Samantha:

• story of how she was abducted by Sutter to go floating on the river and then got lost
• hitchhiked with Jon (Tiresias) to car
• rewarded with milkshakes
• used Sutter as a scapegoat to get a later presentation date

Steve:

• Rembrandt painted himself 50 times
• not attractive (but his brilliance makes up for it~ that's from me ;)
• all artists are obsessed with themselves
• story of Narcissus and Echo is better than Pygmalion
• cosmic evolution= man is matter- matter thinking about matter
• art: reflects its self in matter, the reflection of humanity
• because Narcissus was obsessed with his reflection, we see that art is a deceptive reflection
• Art lies

Maggie:

• triple goddess in Cupid and Psyche
• WHITE: the maiden
• RED: the mother
• DARK (brown/black): crone
• Psyche transforms from the maiden to the mother in her story
• the crone is telling the story and passing on her wisdom
• tells the story about love: teaches you lessons

Carrie:

• past: 6/7 years ago she went to visit her sister (Stacy) and Grandpa in California
• went to get an In & Out burger in a car that was broken and falling apart
• said it felt like an epic poem like The Odyssey or Gilgamesh
• Wrote and epic poem about it for her paper

Elizabeth:

• 'the Importance of Being Art' ~nice! ;)
• art is the only reality that we have
• How powerful Ovid is in our current society
• Ovid v the things that are influenced by it
• progeny wins because it is so huge
• what came out of Ovid is much bigger than Ovid its self