First Blog Reflection

Curtis Greenwood

Blog Reflection

ENGL 3060

August 29, 2012

    Can a viewpoint be argued through other means than text? This is the viewpoint argued in the initial blog entry, “Wes Anderson’s Color Palette1.” While most rhetoric is typified through oral means and text, it can be safe to say that images have just as powerful assertions as any other modes. Case in point, Beth Matthew’s image describing Wes Anderson films has no text other than film names under several stripes of color which typify each film. No express argument is made (textually), yet the point is apparent. So does visual rhetoric (which we will call this type of argument) effectively communicate and persuade? I most certainly agree.

    As for the second blog entry, “on the blueness of the sky…2,” there are two images presented, one being a scientific graph depicting an exponential curve coupled with a vivid photo of a blue sky. It seems fairly apparent without any deep digging that these two images have a correlation with each other in that the graph is a theorized explanation of what causes different shades of blue in the sky we see. Very little needs to be explained, and yet the images have instantly communicated across an idea which was received much quicker than the hearing or reading of text could ever do. Perhaps, it as the common saying: “a picture says a thousand words.”
1 Kyburz, . "Wes Anderson Color Palette." this is water. Blogspot, 20 Aug 2012. Web. Web. 29 Aug. 2012.

2 Kyburz, . "on the blueness of the sky…." this is water. Blogspot, 14 Aug 2012. Web. Web. 29 Aug. 2012.