Perception is everything.

Perception is everything. Everyone is always told that everything action starts with a reaction. But people do not react to every event in life in the same matter or extremities. Everybody can look at something, be it a pencil or a crime being committed and see it from an entirely different perspective. An example of this would be the monkey see monkey do concept; which in turn is how human evolution started, man makes fire and then more men make fire. Beau Otto uses metaphors such as optical illusions to portray this idea. He manages this by taking two colored dots that are unchanged and both completely the same and puts one on a white sheet as well as one on a black sheet, the end product is one that disfigures the dots and makes them seem as if they are completely different colors then they were previously. Beau Otto also expresses that everyone perspective on things are different. Meaning that someones yellow could be another persons green. Another example in this presentation is when Beau Otto takes a swarm of hone bees and has them collect from different circles shown with different colors. The bees were misplayed by the illusion and the different shades and shadows to get honey from what they did previous to this experience. Media also plays as a big influence in the lives of many people today. In the middle east the "Terrorist insurgents" are being portrayed as bad people for something that they most likely believe in, people see this as wrong; mainly only because the media is projecting terrible graphic images and such from the war. Society today needs to be cautious as how they go about new situations and into different environments because they will never know what influence is had by other people experiencing the same thing.