Ectasy of Meaning

For me the reading was hard to read in a couple of spots, but I was really interested in a lot of other areas of the reading. The first part that really caught my attention was the fact that they mentioned how placing an object in a strange place can change the way we see it. It was weird to me because my 2d class was actually just doing a project somewhat related to that. We had a sketchbook project that we had to pick an object and one of the things we had to do with it was take a picture of it in a different place. I had a pointe shoe and I placed it in the refrigerator and it made the pointe shoe so much more interesting.
Also the other thing that really got me was when the article was talking about how reusing an object made it ...not better...but something new. Also it was very interesting to me when they were talking about how Americans like to reuse things. For example a newspaper can be read one day and then the next day it's being used to wrap glass or something fragile.
Overall the reading was a long one, but it was worth getting through it, because of the parts that really had me interested.