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It all started when i was in 10th standard in 2015 summer. I was coming back home from the tuition classes late in the evening. I was walking with a dear friend and she was sharing some anecdote from her perfect day (or i like to imagine that). I was listening to her but not hearing what she was saying. i was lost in my thoughts. that is when the cycle began. zooning out of conversation and entering my world. my world which was dark and despair filled with self pity and low esteem, hopelessness and helplessness, scared and whatever adjective you may seem fit to use. the same year in winter i was diagnosed with mental illness. first in my family. the amount of shame it bought for some of my immediate family members that they never liked having me around which became the center of my sufferings. fast forward to the pandemic, many a times, i lay on my bed wondering. entering and exiting the same chain of thoughts that doesn't make sense. i want to break free from it and this feeling of nothingness. the emptiness. Today, after so many years, i have summoned the courage to openly share this. my audience might be small but the strength i am getting is nevertheless same.

Through this assignment i wished to represent if that feeling could be captured. it is not the same as what i feel but it is an attempt that is worth cherishing, at least for me.

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In 1978, an artist, and openly gay man and a drag queen, Gilbert
Baker saw 􀁹ags as a symbol of pride. Urged by Harvey Milk, he
created the 􀁸rst symbol of LGBTQ community. He saw rainbow
as the natural symbol and thus adopted the eight strips, each
depicting a unique meaning. The 􀁸rst 􀁹ag had hot pink for sex,
red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for
nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for
spirit. When they started mass production, they removed hot
pink and turquoise, save changed indigo to basic blue - the 􀁹ag
that we see nowadays. The different colours on the 􀁹ag
symbolise the diversity and the unity of the LGBTQ community.
For me, a cis-het-female, it is a way of showing solidarity and an
end to the inhumane torture that this community members are
victims to. #lovehasnogender

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"I can't breathe". This tagline was flooded on all the social media platforms after the famous case of an African American civilian, George Floyd who was brutally murder by 4 white policemen. The policeman pressed his knee on Floyd's neck while he cried and begged for mercy. He was killed not for his crime but for the colour of his skin. Political, economic, or legal institutions and systems have long discriminated people on the basis of their race. These people have been privy to inequalities in wealth and income, education, health care, civil rights, and other areas. It is time we put an end to this. It is time we treat all as equal.

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there is something about the skies that is so calming

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there is something about the skies that is so calming

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How often do you get to teach your mother a new recipe? in my case, it seems like never. we both are such YouTube buffs that we are constantly looking for exotic content. She primarily looks out for new dishes she can try and i binge on ASMR videos of Korean people eating chunks of food. But in a way it is FOOD that we both binge on. This Sunday, i taught her the recipe for mac & cheese and she finds it distasteful because there are no peppers or onions. She says "it's unhealthy" because you don't put veggies in it. i am disappointed at her disappointment because this is one staple food item at Ashoka when bch decides to disappoint you, yet again (which is everyday every meal).

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Which art is better? the one that takes longest to make or the one that is hardest to make? i think neither. because all art is art when it comes from a place of meaning and desire.

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Which art is better? the one that takes longest to make or the one that is hardest to make? i think neither. because all art is art when it comes from a place of meaning and desire.

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What is more calming, the process or the final art work?

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What is more calming, the process or the final art work?

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I'm in a toxic relationship with the fridge. Every time i walk up to him to talk and ask for help all i get is disappointment. He never responds back when i ask him to give me food, or a glass of wine, or chilled soda, or literally anything. But when my mother goes, he always does. She is happy every time she meets him except for when i forget to offer him full bottle of water. How is this even fair?

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The repetitive strokes of the rolling pin (belan - yeah i di google what it's called in English) on the dough releasing anxiety and yet getting anxious about making the perfect circle. With every stroke there is another thought. Like the strokes on the dough, my mind also makes to and fro from one thought to the other. I didn't used to cook so much before as i have started now and it is so therapeutic. It is the time for me interact with my daadi and mom about their life. It is the time when i really learn some of the "nuskas" ( tips-as my mother calls them) that have been in the family and passed on from my mother to me and her mother to her and so one. It is a way to ensure that the tradition doesn't gets lost in the modern world we are heading into. I can now say that after a lot of practice, i can manage to roll somewhat of a circle and not a distorted "bharat ka naksha" as my grandmother says (and this picture can attest to that, or i HOPE).

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I still know, there is HOPE. There is hope when people will work and create art (in whatever field they invest their passion in and not just creative art). There is hope when we will LIVE our lives (to it's truest essence). There is hope when we will sleep peacefully at night without worries. There will be a time, I HAVE HOPE!

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Raoul Vaneigem says - "Statistics published in 1938 indicated that the use of the most modern technology would reduce necessary working time to three hours a day."

can coronavirus be counted as one? i mean people are at home but do work worth three hours only! Most of the time they are attending multiple meetings and seminars, or classes to learn how to do work. and there is little time spent on actual working in a day. Whatever rest is available is spent on their sanity (if not, i hope they start).

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1. After reading the text, i believe more than ever that when you are forced to work with less than zero will, nothing creative will come out of it. Last minute work and all the deadlines that we work on just push to create has led to the murder of creativity.

2. we are so deep in water to ensure a good future for ourselves and the next generation that we have forgotten to live life. we have become so interested in producing work rather than creating work that nothing good is coming out of it.

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"Everything starts from subjectivity, but nothing stays there. Today less than ever"

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every word we read, every image we see, every sound we hear, just everything leaves an impact on us. we may not realize it in the moment but whenever a memory is invoked it is the combination of various stimulus that determine the quality of the memory.

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We all wear a mask. A protective shield against all the hatred, judgement and constant scrutiny. A mask that we never wish to remove completely in front of others. But now we wear one that everyone can see. People will judge, hate and scrutinize you if you don't. Isn't it ironical?

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We all wear a mask. A protective shield against all the hatred, judgement and constant scrutiny. A mask that we never wish to remove completely in front of others. But now we wear one that everyone can see. People will judge, hate and scrutinize you if you don't. Isn't it ironical?

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A random thought - is there a way to freeze the page? If we are able to does that mean we have changed the state, the background, the color, or what exactly changes after we are able to freeze it?

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a road less travelled (during the pandemic) (4/n)

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a road less travelled (during the pandemic) (4/n)

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Even while making music for this clip i felt inspired to do work. It took me three hours (or more) just to create this piece of music. but throughout the process i didn't encounter doubtfulness or lack of motivation or even out of ideas. This is till date my go to music on days when i am feeling unproductive and low. it fills me up with hope and inspiration.

(its called "final_attempt2-inspiration" on drive)

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when i recorded the video of this clip, it was post-rainy-chilly and windy type of summer evening. The sun was setting behind the clouded sky and i was sipping on my brewed coffee. I was at peace with myself, i had work - no doubt but regardless i felt content. A feeling impossible to represent but happy beyond words to experience (especially when it's once-in-a-blue-moon type of feeling). So when i started to make music for this video, i had the near-same experience and it became imperative to match the mood.

I hope you enjoyed watching it!

(oh btw, it's named as "final_attempt1-peace" on drive under assignment 2 tab)

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Living each day so that i can wake up to another sunset.

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i realized, 4 out of 5 classes do not have cis-gender heterosexual males in them. Just so that it becomes a little more clear, i have 3 visual art courses (mostly hands on work and need creative understanding of the subject), a psychology course (Gender and Mental Health) and a media studies course (Communication theory and Behaviour change). The latter is the only course in which there are cis-het-males but the ratio is quite low. What does can this possible speak about the nature of the courses or the stereotypical gender roles attached by the society?

According to the Social Role Theory, men are the provider for the family and so their gender roles are ascribed to fulfil the said role, and similarly for females - the role of a homemaker. Can this be a possible reason to validy the presence of low males ratio in social sciences and low female ratio in STEM fields?

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How closely can 'association' and 'representation' be associated to represent the invisible in our everyday life?

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How closely can 'association' and 'representation' be associated to represent the invisible in our everyday life?

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every beat is unique in it's own way. and when one instrument's beat resonates with the other and forms inseparable bond, a tune is produced. For my second assignment i tried to put those two and two together. the work i was able to put together isn't too impressive but it is not bad at the same time (believe me, it is very rare i am satisfied with the art that i produce). because i am an amateur in this field i was only able to produce one set of chords so the duration of each piece is quite small. It takes lot of permutations and combinations to produce music that isn't anywhere close to resembling the already existing music (because if it is the application with pop a message saying it is copied and freeze your account for sometime if this happens more than 5 times).

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Never consciously realized that being able to listen to music and sky gaze is also a privilege. some people cannot even afford to do that for leisure. 

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Never consciously realized that being able to listen to music and sky gaze is also a privilege. some people cannot even afford to do that for leisure. 

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MUsic + SKY = MUSKY (also happens to be the name my friends call me with)

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MUsic + SKY = MUSKY (also happens to be the name my friends call me with)

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Is this a way of universe yelling back at me saying "i was born to love these two things".

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Ever since i started to fall in love with music i have always wanted to learn to play an instrument (any). As a teenager i took up tabla classes in school but the teacher focused only on boys and so i dropped out of it. Then i never joined any classes but desired to learn. for my assignment 2, i came across an application (https://www.soundtrap.com/muskan.asp21) which allowed me to create my own music. i was very fascinated by it and learnt the ABCs of music for it (i am still not very clear on the basics). The repetition of 3-4 notes and the magic that gets produced is mesmerizing. 

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my new toy to play around with! (finally looking forward to the winter break)

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my new toy to play around with! (finally looking forward to the winter break)

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I have never known a better way to express myself than through the language of music. The rhythmic notes that are generated when multiple instruments are played in unison or when the finger plucks the string of the guitar in a passionate manner. IT IS MAGIC. no wonder why it was created but it has been a gift to the mankind.

this is one way of how i interpret music. It gives me hope on days when i have none and the only constant company. Music never fails to disappoint me (yes, that cringe Bollywood songs are also not a disappointment - they too are a piece of art but for a very selectively different audience and i am not one of them).

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Call me by my correct pronouns and i'll call you by yours

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Call me by my correct pronouns and i'll call you by yours

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Amazing it is how internet has a meme for your every mood! Can i call it a representation of my emotion?

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Amazing it is how internet has a meme for your every mood! Can i call it a representation of my emotion?

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an yearly visit to the mandir at home has been made (a mandatory Diwali tradition). 

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an yearly visit to the mandir at home has been made (a mandatory Diwali tradition). 

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What is a museum when devoid of its sculptors, paintings and art work?

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What is a museum when devoid of its sculptors, paintings and art work?

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Empty corridors? attractive building? What will it represent if the art work gets removed from them?

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there are some journals that prod you to think in a particular manner and yet they bring in the creative and most vulnerable side. But we all like this because being vulnerable (at least to someone) is supposed to heal us.

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there are some journals that prod you to think in a particular manner and yet they bring in the creative and most vulnerable side. But we all like this because being vulnerable (at least to someone) is supposed to heal us.

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"People want to believe what they want to believe and what they want to believe is whatever allows them to justify what they want to do." - this is a quote I found on the internet and don't know the source but it struck a chord.

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The best part about Diwali is diyas. They provide hope. the warmth from them provides familial feeling and collective belongingness. and, FINALLY, it's starting to feel like Diwali, a lot (hater's gonna say i copied the christmas song) because the celebrations have begun.

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Udd gaye is a song that i have associated with Ashoka. whenever the song comes up the building pops up in my head and not the singer or anything. Because Ashoka to me is not the brick walls, classrooms, the lawns and many other things. IT'S A FEELING. A deep sense of SATISFACTION, maybe a ROLLER COASTER ride. 

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Udd gaye is a song that i have associated with Ashoka. whenever the song comes up the building pops up in my head and not the singer or anything. Because Ashoka to me is not the brick walls, classrooms, the lawns and many other things. IT'S A FEELING. A deep sense of SATISFACTION, maybe a ROLLER COASTER ride. 

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Journaling is the process through which we know what we know about the past and the history. It is the presentation of memories in one form or the other that makes our understanding of what had happened clear. It is only through good journaling (not just media journaling) that we can attach emotions to the facts and figures thrown at us every second.

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PHOTOGRAPHY'S potential to assist science was trumpeted from the moment the medium was introduced to the world. Small wonder: Francois Dominique Arago, the persuasive force behind the French Government's sponsorship of the daguerreotype, was a distinguished physicist and astronomer excited by photography's possible contributions to science. Daguerre himself reportedly took the first photographs of the moon, probably at Arago's suggestion.

Daguerre was an artist, not a scientist, but he had to perform chemical experiments to produce photographs. Fox Talbot, the Englishman who had already invented a photographic process but did not make it public until Daguerre's discovery was announced, was himself a scientist. His first public demonstration of his process included images made with a solar microscope.

Thus from its birth the art of photography was intimately bound to science. And the medium that had such an astonishing capacity to make images of everything in the visible world allied itself instantly to the telescope and microscope, two instruments that could put what was invisible before our eyes.

Science and art meet on many levels today. Sometimes they meet cute and sometimes they are awkward with each other; galleries seldom know exactly what to make of their interplay. Through June 7 the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is showing ''Out of Sight: Imaging/Imagining Science,'' some 40 works by artists with science on their minds, scientists with esthetics on theirs, and artists and scientists in collaboration.

The museum says the exhibition's focus is the Human Genome Project, an attempt to map all our genes, but that focus is a tad unsteady. A purposeful mix of approaches, the show also mixes fascinating science, images of microscopic forms and processes that do not in every case make good art (but would doubtless be riveting if the science were more fully explained), special effects that occasionally tend to outshine esthetics, and art that is simply perplexing.

A couple of especially good combinations of art and science include ''Mother and Child,'' a photograph by the English artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, made in collaboration with scientists who developed a green gene seed for grass that stayed green after it died. The artists exposed a negative onto the growing seeds. As in photography's earliest days, the sun developed the picture, here by switching on the light-sensitive chlorophyll. Dark areas emerged as green grass; light areas, which had not had a dose of sun, remained straw colored, and the image grew into a soft-focus tapestry.

Gary Schneider's ''Genetic Self-Portrait'' is a roomful of 54 slightly spooky, strangely disembodied, provocative black-and-white photographs of his hands, ears, irises, teeth, highly magnified specimens of blood, hair, sperm and a number of genes, chromosomes, even DNA. Penetrating this far into cellular structure requires scientific collaboration; many specimens were prepared by M.D.'s and Ph.D.'s. The mere fact that something so minuscule and intrinsic to life as DNA can be photographed is still astonishing.

Mr. Schneider is quoted as saying, ''I now look in awe at who I really am.'' Is this who he really is? A forensic scientist would say yes, but even in a time when identity is remarkably polymorphous and slippery and many facets of personality are credited to genetics, the rest of us might hope that DNA be considered a name tag rather than the self.

For more than a century, people have commented on the esthetic value of photomicroscopic images, and indeed, scientific images have the power to deliver a double dose of excitement, to the eyes and to the mind. Still, pictures by scientists and artists hoping to be both esthetic and informative often walk a tenuous line in the layman's territory.

At first glance, these pictures probably seem more familiar than they are because of our acquaintance with abstract art. But if the art of scientific imagery is not often as esthetically satisfying as good modern art, then the viewer needs enough information to understand why the subject should set the mind tingling, and titles that merely name minerals do not always help the uninitiated.

One way or another, artists and scientists have been elucidating each other's mysteries for a long time. The advent of reproducible graphics and the printing press in the 15th century made illustration essential to many sciences and made it possible for scientists to share information as never before.

Titian is thought to have illustrated one edition of Vesalius's treatise on anatomy in the 16th century. The major 18th-century works on the moths and butterflies of England were written by miniature painters. Conservators today analyze pigments to determine forgeries. Physicians have suggested that van Gogh cut off his ear because he had Meuniere's disease and could not bear the ringing on that side of his head.

Photography brought to the mix a new precision, new access to detail and a supposed objectivity. The first photographically illustrated book ever published was a scientific book, Anna Atkins's ''British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions,'' issued serially beginning in 1843. (A surprising number of 19th-century scientist-photographers were women.)

The story of photography's relation to science is told in a group of essays in ''Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science'' (Yale University Press), which was published in connection with an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa last winter. This book is a thorough and thoroughly scholarly undertaking that remains quite readable while piling up what ought to be an overwhelming collection of facts.

In her essay Marta Braun proposes that in this century, once scientific photography began concentrating on the invisible motion of particles and forces, making images that essentially illustrated theories and equations without much visual appeal, science itself became more rarefied and its photographic imagery more recondite.

Beginning in the 1930's, Harold Edgerton's stroboscopic photographs of milk splashes and bullets slicing through apples made scientific imagery attractive and comprehensible once more. Widely published strobe pictures by Edgerton and the Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili helped popularize certain scientific concepts.

They made visible motions the eye was not fast enough to distinguish, something the camera first did for the public in 1878, when Eadweard Muybridge photographed a running horse in positions the unaided eye had never seen. In fact, making the invisible visible has been one of photography's major enterprises from its birth to the present day.

In 1883, a half-hour exposure of a nebula was praised for revealing details the naked eye could not make out through a telescope. Today David Malin, whose photographs of the distant sky are on view at the Howard Schickler Gallery in SoHo through June 20, makes brilliant, high-color images of stars and nebulae that look more like gray blurs when he looks through a high-powered telescope. A nonscientist, he has even discovered a galaxy via photography.

Photography, which works by light, has made a lot of scientific discoveries in invisible areas, from images of shock-wave patterns made by a bullet traveling at supersonic speed in 1886 to particles discovered in cloud chambers and accelerators, known from the traces they leave on photographic plates or photographic renderings of digitized data. It was a photograph that confirmed James Watson and Francis Crick's theory that DNA was a double helix.

And photography, which literally means ''light writing,'' has played an enormous role in opening up what was effectively in the dark. We now regularly see not just what our eyes are not fast enough or farsighted enough to discover, not just what they cannot magnify sufficiently, but even objects and events that exist beyond the visible spectrum of light, and it is photography that shows us this realm. Photographs can be made by sound, heat, infrared radiation, electron beams, X-rays. They can be produced from sets of digital data. This kind of nonoptical image is increasingly common: CAT scans, M.R.I.'s, PET scans.

HUMANKIND has always thought the invisible world vastly important but for centuries assigned most of it to spirits or gods. That part of the world is still inaccessible, but we now see, in pictures, huge areas of the universe that no human eye will ever confront directly. Sometimes the pictures seem dull to the eye but electric to the mind. Sometimes they are instruments of discovery, even, with X-rays and CAT scans of our own bodies, of a sentence of death. And sometimes images of the invisible give the limited human eye enormous esthetic pleasure, even though an indifferent nature had neither museums nor our pleasure in mind when constructing the world.

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The Fine Art of Making the Invisible Visible (Published 1998)

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PHOTOGRAPHY'S potential to assist science was trumpeted from the moment the medium was introduced to the world. Small wonder: Francois Dominique Arago, the persuasive force behind the French Government's sponsorship of the daguerreotype, was a distinguished physicist and astronomer excited by photography's possible contributions to science.

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The discussion that started of in class about whether air can be represented has finally led me to believe that it can be. Here is one such example - the smoke from the dhoopbatti (incense stick) is in some ways representative of air. 

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The discussion that started of in class about whether air can be represented has finally led me to believe that it can be. Here is one such example - the smoke from the dhoopbatti (incense stick) is in some ways representative of air. 

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Is there a way to represent the last second that I lost in typing or thinking about what to type?

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Consciously making a decision to not study for my exam but think of ways in which i can represent procrastination. Would you call this procrastination? I mean i still have to study for my exam and this was me taking a break. BUT the underlying question is how should i represent it? Should I explain what i am doing? because it's not an act but a state of mind. 

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Consciously making a decision to not study for my exam but think of ways in which i can represent procrastination. Would you call this procrastination? I mean i still have to study for my exam and this was me taking a break. BUT the underlying question is how should i represent it? Should I explain what i am doing? because it's not an act but a state of mind. 

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when we consider the cultural influence of media, we are usually misled by the illusion of content.
We focus on the content and overlook the medium—even though content doesn’t exist outside of the way it’s mediated. And we often isolate the medium we use to gain information, like the Instagram, YouTube, chrome, etc., and focus on the content.

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In 1978, an artist, and openly gay man and a drag queen, Gilbert Baker saw flags as a symbol of pride.  Urged by Harvey Milk, he created the first symbol of LGBTQ community. He saw rainbow as the natural symbol and thus adopted the eight strips, each depicting a unique meaning. The first flag had hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.  When they started mass production, they removed hot pink and turquoise, save changed indigo to basic blue - the flag that we see nowadays. The different colours on the flag symbolise the diversity and the unity of the LGBTQ community. For me, a cis-het-female, it is a way of showing solidarity and an end to the inhumane torture that this community members are victims to. #lovehasnogender

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It is inevitable to start my day without the secondly dose of socials. The one constant that never changes. However mundane or exciting my day is, social media and the escape it provides me from the nerve wrecking thoughts remains the same. Here is my attempt to put together a regular day.

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When did it become sun appreciating weather already? (Low-key ready for it)

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When did it become sun appreciating weather already? (Low-key ready for it)

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my present idea is under construction and this is something i have learnt over the time of the break and i want to be able to come up with something that i can present in class. I am super excited and nervous about it.

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i am a people pleaser, unknowingly. I like when people appreciate me and my work and get extremely disappointed when i put in hard work and am still not able to do things in a way that is required of me. This course has made me realize that. I have been putting in lot of efforts into the course but something or the other is not working out. It might be the way i am approaching it. so i decided run my ideas by my friend during the break and old her the fixated space i was in. She asked me "one thing about my day i love the most and wouldn't miss for anything?". without any thought my answer was looking at sunsets. "They tell me a new story everyday" i replied. and that's how i found my new idea.

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After dropping idea one because of my inability to channelize it in a way i imagined, i decided to record a day in my life. A day where i do mundane things but in a beautified manner to record it. I am a huge YouTube buff and like to watch everything it offers me. that's how i got inspired by this idea. after discussion with professor i realized that it doesn't show any kind of repetition and so i thought of doing it for a week. When i began the process it became really difficult to decide what to include and exclude (after all, we do things in our day we tell no one just ourselves). I tried to shoot something or the other everyday and there was some aspect of it that i didn't want everyone to know yet. this gave growth to the idea 3.

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one day i was going through my old stuff and cleaning and came across this dance ribbons. These were given to me by a friend from Germany. I have very fond memories with this and i thought of using it for my second assignment. It turned out that i had forgotten most of the things and dance sequences i knew. i tried to take a clip doing some random things with it and the image that i had in my mind was not replicated on the camera and it seemed quite absurd so i decided to drop the idea.

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I learnt to play chess from my father who was an expert in his college. it took me the entire pandemic to learn it and i still haven't been able to beat him. He is always one step ahead of me. I am a very sore loser. If this would have been any other person i was playing against I may have ended up playing but because he narrates a different story every time we play that i just never want to stop. had this been usual day or usual time, we wouldn't have gotten this much time.

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over the past few months i have felt so privileged and thankful to my parents. I may not have been expressing this out loud to them. This realization has been more vivid after i got tested negative for covid. When i was being taken to the center to get tested i was stressing out so much. It was my first time getting tested. I dreading to insert that long and thin stick several centimeters up my nose. Even more than that i was dreading being tested positive (thankfully i was not). It(the testing) isn't painful but the process of waiting(to get tested and for the result) is.

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the mid semester week has always been the time when I always took a trip to the mountains with my friends to destress and make new memories. I would always take this diary with me to write or doodle my experience. This break when i could not go, i decided to flip these pages. It has experiences and people with whom i am not in touch with. It has memories with my friends who have been there with me through thick and thin.
I was not able to travel anywhere but reading this felt like a roller coaster ride. a ride which i would be willing to take a thousand times more. every time i read it again, it floods back a new memory, a new laugh, a new song, a new bond, a new disappointment, a new feeling of contempt.

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It's difficult to find a garment as widely embraced, worn and loved the world over as jeans. The classic symbol of the American West is now a staple in wardrobes around the world. But why?

Cowboys may wear them but so do supermodels, farmers, presidents and housewives.

Ask any group of people why they wear jeans and you will get a range of answers. For some they're comfortable, durable and easy - for others they're sexy and cool. Jeans mean different things to different people. Does this explain their wide appeal?

It is a subject that is relatively unstudied, says anthropologist Danny Miller, whose book Blue Jeans will be published next month.

In every country he has visited - from the Philippines to Turkey, India and Brazil - Miller has stopped and counted the first 100 people to walk by, and in each he found that almost half the population wore jeans on any given day.

Jeans are everywhere, he says, with the exception of rural tracts of China and South Asia.

The secratt of them Pents is the Rivits that I put in those Pockots
Jacob Davis, tailor

The reason for their success has as much to do with their cultural meaning as their physical construction.

They were first designed as workwear for labourers on the farms and mines of America's Western states in the late 19th Century.

When a Nevada tailor called Jacob Davis was asked to make a pair of sturdy trousers for a local woodcutter, he struck upon the idea of reinforcing them with rivets. They proved extremely durable and were soon in high demand.

Davis realised the potential of his product but couldn't afford to patent it. He wrote to his fabric supplier, the San Francisco merchant, Levi Strauss, for help.

"The secratt of them Pents is the Rivits that I put in those Pockots," he said. "I cannot make them up fast enough...My nabors are getting yealouse of these success."

Levi's, as the patented trousers became known, were made in two fabrics, cotton duck (similar to canvas) and denim.

"They found really early on that it was the denim version that would sell," says Paul Trynka, author of Denim: From Cowboys to Catwalks. Denim was more comfortable, softening with age, and its indigo dye gave it a unique character.

Indigo doesn't penetrate the cotton yarn like other dyes but sits on the outside of each thread. These molecules chip off over time, causing the fabric to fade and wear in a unique way.

"Why did it sell?" asks Trynka. "Because the denim changed as it aged and the way it wore reflected people's lives."

Because of its fading quality, denim was sold raw - unwashed and untreated - and by the beginning of the 20th Century workers began to realise they could shrink the trousers to a more comfortable fit.

Not only were they more durable but each pair of jeans began to tell the story of the worker and his work.

Fell apart - after three years of hard wear

A 1920 letter in the Levi's archive from miner Homer Campbell of Constellation, Arizona, describes how he wore his jeans every day for three years:

"Please find enclosed one pair of your overalls which I am sending you that the head of your fabric department may determine what is wrong. I purchased these from the Brayton Commercial Co of Wickenburg, Arizona, in the early part of 1917 and I have worn them every day except Sunday since that time and for some reason which I wish you would explain they have gone to pieces. I have worn nothing but Levi Strauss overalls for the past 30 years and this pair has not given me the service that I have got from some of your overalls in the past. I know that it is your aim to present a superior article on the market and consider it my duty to help you in any way I can. Please consider this and let me know if the fault is mine."

Down with denim

The Guardian's Hadley Freeman predicted - or perhaps hoped - denim would meet its end five years ago in a piece for the BBC's Magazine . An unofficial poll of our readers disagreed.

Actress Joan Collins admits wearing jeans but tells the Daily Mail she finds them wildly unflattering : "I haven't liked jeans for years - probably because their ubiquity has become terribly boring. Do people really want to conform to looking just like everyone else?"

Daniel Akst, of the Wall Street Journal, suggests a denim tax to raise much-needed funds during the financial crisis : "Denim is the SUV of fabrics, the wardrobe equivalent of driving a hulking Land Rover to the Whole Foods Market. Our fussily tailored blue jeans, prewashed and acid-treated to look not just old but even dirty, are really a sad disguise. They're like Mao jackets, an unusually dreary form of sartorial conformity by means of which we reassure one another of our purity and good intentions."

"Jeans are the most personal thing you can wear," says Miller. "They wear to the body."

But the initial explosion of denim into the world of casualwear had more to do with what jeans had come to symbolise.

Before World War II jeans were only worn in America's Western states. In the east they were synonymous with romantic notions of the cowboy - rugged, independent and American, but at the same time rural and working class.

Affluent easterners would escape humdrum suburban life to holiday on "dude ranches" - working farms where they could play at being cowboys - and wearing jeans was part of the experience.

"It was the kind of clothing that represented the American West and it was this cachet and this sort of magical thing," says Lynn Downey, archivist and historian at Levi Strauss & Co. But back in Connecticut or New York, the jeans stayed in the closet.

When they did start to be worn as casual wear, it was a startling symbol of rebellion - the spirit captured by Marlon Brando in his 1953 film The Wild One and by James Dean two years later in Rebel Without a Cause.

"If you were a 15-year-old boy in 1953 you wanted to be Marlon Brando," says Downey.

"Hollywood costume designers put all the bad boys in denim."

Dean and Brando wore denim off-screen too. Both represented a subversive counter-culture - a group of young GIs just returned from war, who rode around the US on motorcycles instead of moving to the suburbs and having children.

"They freaked out the establishment in the United States because they were not conforming and they were wearing jeans," says Downey.

They were soon banned in schools from coast to coast which only added to the fervour with which teenagers embraced them.

Outside America the trend was beginning to catch on too. Many of the GIs stationed in Europe and Japan during the war were working-class boys from the Western states. While off duty they wore their jeans proudly as a symbol of home.

Deconstructed denim

Denim twill is made with two yarns - one dyed indigo, the other undyed. Indigo yarn is most visible on the outside, undyed yarn on the inside

Rivets reinforce the stitching

Jeans are made from dark "raw" denim, but most are washed or treated before sale

Over time, indigo dye rubs off

The trousers represented an easier, happier American way of life, which Europeans wanted to buy into.

During the 1960s jeans had also spread to the American middle class. Protesting college students began wearing them as a token of solidarity with the working class - those most affected by racial discrimination and the war draft.

But jeans weren't only a symbol of democratisation, they put different classes on a level playing field. They were affordable and hard-wearing, looked good worn as well as new, and didn't have to be washed often or ironed at all. They conformed to the body in a way that matched even the most finely tailored clothes. This became especially important for women because then, as now, they paid more attention to fit.

This versatility, the ability to become all things to all people, is the secret to jeans' survival as a clothing staple.

In the decades after World War II, every youth subculture - from rockabillies with their wide turn-ups, hippies with bell-bottoms and punks with orchestrated rips and tears - have put their stamp on jeans.

What's in a name?

Word denim comes from "de Nimes", French town where the fabric was said to be first made - but American jeans were made with US denim

Jean is said to reference sailors from Genoa, Italy, who wore indigo-dyed clothes

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented their riveted design on 20 May 1873 - said to be the birth of jeans

But why 501? No-one knows - the answer may have been lost in a 1906 fire at Levi Strauss

"It was an individualist uniform - which is an oxymoron - but that still does function today," says Paul Trynka. "Jeans still have a badge of individuality even if you buy them off the rack."

Today, jeans are mostly sold pre-shrunk and pre-worn. In his book, Miller argues they have become so mainstream that they are now a symbol of the ordinary, a garment people put on to feel comfortable and fit in.

"Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans," says Miller.

But Trynka believes there is still something in their symbol of youth, their ease and casualness, that puts jeans beyond the reach of certain people.

"Famously, George W Bush and Tony Blair went out on the street in denim during their first summit meeting. The statement was, 'We are regular guys,' but of course they both looked like dorks," he says.

Jeans purists were offended by their pristine appearance. Many of them avoid washing their jeans for as long as possible - and it seems that the fabric may have some as yet unexplained capacity to stay clean.
Danny Miller spoke to The Forum from the BBC World Service. Listen to the programme here.
Last year a microbiology student at the University of Alberta, Josh Le, wore the same pair of raw denim jeans for 15 months without washing them and then tested their bacterial content.

He tested them again two weeks after washing them and found the bacterial content to be much the same .

"This shows that, in this case at least, the bacteria growth is no higher if the jeans aren't washed regularly," said Rachel McQueen, a professor of textile science, who worked with Le on the informal scientific experiment.

But while different people wear jeans in different ways, the most traditional styles remain among the most popular.

"They're simple, they're not complicated," says Downey of the original Levi's 501 jean. "It's just denim, thread and rivets."

But unadorned denim is still special, says Trynka.

"It's not just a three-dimensional material, it's four-dimensional because it changes with time as well. The eternal appeal of jeans is just that they reflect us and they reflect the lives that we've had in them."

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Gary Chambers Jr. didn't expect the Instagram post of his confrontation with a white school board member to go viral.

Chambers, a racial justice activist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, excoriated the board member for online shopping during a recent debate over the name of Lee Magnet High School, which is named for the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. But Chambers didn't share the video on his Twitter account. Instead, he posted it to Instagram, where he had 26,000 followers at the time.

The video has topped 1.8 million views since he posted it on Juneteenth, and his Instagram videos now regularly get tens of thousands of views.

"What it speaks to is that this video is hitting people in their core, that they are feeling something when they see this," he said. "That speaks to where I think we are as a country."

Chambers now has nearly 200,000 followers on the platform, an increase that he said points to the demand for visual messages on social justice issues after the death of George Floyd.

"The revolution may not be televised," Chambers said. "But they ain't said nothing about social media."

Chambers is one of many activists who have found sudden success on Instagram, a social media platform more often associated with lifestyle influencers than social justice organizers. Over the past month, however, Instagram has become a crucial tool to organize and educate people around police reform and anti-racism, all while Facebook, its parent company, faces a loss of advertisers and mounting criticism for hosting hate speech.

Activists who spoke with NBC News said Instagram provides an important dynamic: a young audience that is receptive to social justice issues on a flexible medium for sharing content. Some use it to educate viewers on policy and candidates, while others broadcast protesting experiences and strategize about where the movement goes next - sometimes literally, as they provide live updates on protests and marches.

"People talk about Malcolm X and Dr. King all the time - they would use the hell out of these platforms if they had them," Chambers said. "They would maximize them to the fullest, because a big part of their work was to expose the world to what was happening."

The shift highlights the importance of visuals in recent social movements, said Paolo Gerbaudo, author of "Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism." Visualizing information is crucial to creating a clear and authentic narrative for people to emotionally invest in, he said. It's something Instagram was made for.

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"That's precisely the step that is facilitated by things such as memes, jargon, slogans, pictures," said Gerbaudo, director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College, London. "It's a war of symbols that is, by all means, as important as the war on the ground."

Etienne Maurice, a filmmaker in Los Angeles, wants to make sure people can "hear and see" how Black people feel.

Maurice uses Instagram to post videos and host town halls. Viewed by thousands, his posts are driven by his belief that people must protest both in the streets and on social media so those in positions of power are forced to contend with Black experiences and trauma.

"Some people may not understand where we come from," he said. "And the only way that people will understand is if we're able to articulate these feelings and be able to get someone to empathize with those feelings."

That's not easy, particularly on social media platforms that are often crowded with all manner of content. While Facebook remains a major platform for organizing events and Twitter drives news cycles, Instagram offers a more personal, culture-focused sensibility. Already during the coronavirus pandemic, the platform has become a popular destination for celebrities to connect with fans and others to lend a helping hand.

Instagram's most visible use in the recent protests came in the form of a single-day blackout that was widely embraced but also panned as slacktivism, the support of a cause on social media without the intention of additional effort. But even as protests have begun to dwindle, organizers have found ways to maintain momentum on the platform.

Livia Rose Johnson - a college student who is a member of Warriors in the Garden, which has led thousands of people in marches across New York City - said that as protests diminish, the group is beginning to lean on digital organizing, with an emphasis on educating viewers on public policy, politics, colorism, race and allyism.

They've been successful, Johnson said, because they've had a major presence in the streets and on Instagram, where they've found that Generation Z kids are suddenly hungry to learn about social inequities.

"This is the best way to educate people," Johnson said of Instagram. "We need to educate people in media, so that the content they see is fun, it's relatable, but it's also educational and teaches people about their rights and teaches Black people about how to prosper."
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Older organizers are also pivoting to Instagram to explain the movement to young audiences. Marcus Coleman is one of them: He said that when he began his activism in Atlanta nearly 15 years ago, it was relatively difficult to pull a group together. But today, he's adapting his methods for a new generation.

Now he's reveling in the ease of social media, using it to spread his message and event information online. He's also navigating which topics work for each platform, noting that Facebook engagement is higher on subjects like Black fatherhood, while on Instagram there's a younger audience that shows more interest in broader facts about racial injustice.

"Honestly, I know my place at this point in time, and I consider myself and others like me a 'bridge,' those who have the stamp of the living legends, especially here in Atlanta," he said. "It's just being that bridge between the youth and the elders and really trying to strengthen this intergenerational movement that we see now."

Instagram and other social media platforms aren't just being used to spread a message. They're also often platforms for strategy, logistics and fundraising.

Organizers in cities like New York and Los Angeles use centralized Instagram accounts - @justiceforgeorgenyc and @inthistogether_la - to track marches and vigils in real time. Both have garnered hundreds of thousands of followers in mere weeks.

Groups like Warriors in the Garden, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York and Freedom March NYC send plans and updates to volunteers who run the main New York City account, which boasts 221,000 followers since it was started about a month ago. The manager of @justiceforgeorgenyc declined to comment, saying in an email that the group was focused on "the needs and goals of the organizers we're talking to and the movement as a whole."

While digital activism gains national momentum, experts and activists warn against slacktivist measures of joining the cause, like the viral #BlackoutTuesday movement this month, which can mute conversations about strategy and logistics. But even viral trends have proven to lead to upticks in online fundraising efforts.

Instagram has been a boon for fundraising across the board, as activists use it to announce and share campaigns to raise money via services like Venmo and Cash App. Movers and Shakers NYC raised $10,000 to buy 12,000 KN95 masks for Black Lives Matter protesters this month, while Freedom March NYC raised over $55,000 to buy supplies and train organizers and to further establish itself as a social justice organization.

New groups and individual organizers regularly promote their own mobile payment accounts in their Instagram bios, posts and stories.

It appears to be paying off. One group that began its attempt to occupy City Hall in New York City on Tuesday, the same day it started its Instagram account, raised more than $15,000 via small donations within 24 hours almost solely through Instagram promotion and the help of @justiceforgeorgenyc.

"I feel like [@justiceforgeorgenyc] and Warriors in the Garden are trying to do a similar thing, where it's developing the Black community," said Johnson, who has been among the occupiers. "Our goal is to create a digital community that can help create a prosperous physical one."

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Gary Chambers Jr. didn't expect the Instagram post of his confrontation with a white school board member to go viral. Chambers, a racial justice activist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, excoriated the board member for online shopping during a recent debate over the name of Lee Magnet High School, which is named for the Confederate general Robert E.

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When i look at other people, on instagram or pinterest, post some amazing still life potraits and the first thought i have is - "I too wanna  TAKE pictures like this". The thought is never "I wanna be SHOT like this". It stems from the ingrained insecurities i have about my body. Those insecurities have been stuck in mind because of the body shaming i faced ever since i remember. This has led to me not show my video in the online classes. There are days when i feel confident to open my camera and show my face then my internet wouldn't support. this i assume has led my classmates to not have a face to the name they know. This is why it is imperative that my classmates know how i look so they know my work and me for who i am.