Caitlin Pupich: ART 350S

Growing up in the United States, I have constantly been saturated by consumerism and creation of demand that defines the lifestyle of many societies in the modern world. Considering this, I became curious as to what exactly has the most demand in our culture. An article on TIME  presented the following list of the the "10 Best-Selling Products of All Time": 1. PlayStation--Sony 2. Lipitor--Pfizer 3. Corolla--Toyota 4. Star Wars--20th Century Fox 5. iPad--Apple 6. Mario Bros. Franchise--Nintendo 7. Michael Jackson's Thriller--Epic Records 8. Harry Potter (Book) --Scholastic  9. iPhone--Apple 10. Rubik's Cube--Seven Towns Ltd. As a product of this list, I decided to place each item on the last product on the list: the Rubik's Cube. Without each product placed on the cube, it is blank and bland. The real color and meaning is added with each of the products listed above.This is very similar to how we view consumerist lifestyles today. Furthe...

1. How would governments or people learn to change the unhealthy consumer habits and production processes of wealthy nations. 2. Because created demand is such a large part of the issue, are advertisements ethical? If not, should they be regulated or banned in any way?

Human emotion and thought are the roots that allow the human experience to grow into something powerful and unique. I am interested in this interaction of human thought and the physical world; in other words, I examine how our philosophy can create direct changes in the world that powers our senses. A great deal of this is rooted in science; we explain the unexplained with unique concepts such as time and space that may never exist in any other expanse of the universe.  In fact, most concepts taught in school are metaphysical ways in which we understand and manipulate the physical. As time passes, more and more thoughts are constructed into physical reality, creating a power but also a dissonance. I examine the awe, wonder and beauty of this power of thought as well as the flaws in creating reality from brain waves.