Museum of the Moving Image

I have visited this museum several times and walked by the exhibits many times without stopping to really understand what each exhibit represents. "Feral Fount" has always been a favorite of mine, it was the one exhibit I would make sure to visit every time and every time I am taken aback by how easily my eyes are fooled into seeing drops of water turn into slime. Prior to this exhibit, we discussed simpler illusions and how our eyes are able to put together a scene from the little breaks our eyes take in between each image, allowing us to combine the images into one. With this in mind, I went in to look at "Feral Fount" with a different perspective and remained just as perplexed as I have always been as to how my eyes were able to see a completely different image than the one that was in front of me with the lights turned on. The tour guide went on to share that Barsamian came up with the idea to create this exhibit in a dream, leaving me in awe of his creativity and ability to create something so wonderfully put together.

Another favorite of mine was looking at television sets throughout history. I loved seeing the decor of each set and it was easy to imagine how one would place the set in their homes to go along with their 1900s furniture. Over the past few semesters, I have watched countless films from the mid 1900s and seeing the cameras used to produce these films really put it all together, I feel like I understand the difficulties of film production then compared to now a whole lot more.