Final Excerpt 2

To further the idea of aura, there is a scene from the television show Supernatural where one of the main characters, Sam, is fighting a vampire in a dark room. Sam cannot see the vampire, but the vampire can see in the dark so he has the advantage. Sam must attempt to fight off the vampire without being able to see it so he is not killed. He uses his sixth sense to feel where the vampire is and defend himself. Without being able to sense the vampire’s aura and his presence in the room, Sam would have been killed. Although it is just a television show and fictional, this scene has some truth to it. A person’s aura would allow someone to sense where they are in a room and be able to defend themselves. I do not think anyone will need to be fighting off a vampire anytime soon, but if there was ever a situation where someone was not able to see and needed to defend themselves the aura would help allow them to do that.

            In the video RIP! A Remix Manifesto, it was discussed that changing a song and remaking it can change the song and its meaning. By doing this to a song and remixing multiple songs all together, it changes the aura of the song and makes it have a different feeling. The song that is at the base of the remix is the main aura of the song, but every time that a new song is added and manipulated into the mix the aura changes again. The same thing happens with artwork. The original piece of work created has a certain aura to it that you can sense when standing in front of it. When looking at a copy of some form the aura is different and does not have the same feeling as the original. Every time that a copy is made, a little piece of the aura of the original is lost. Seeing the original piece of artwork is still a unique experience and you can sense the aura, but if you have seen multiple copies of it online or in magazines it is not as special and unique as it could be.