Option 1:
Either choose a photograph, film, or video from either from chapter on Camera Arts or something you research online. Write a reflection about it and post it here.
Option 2:
Choose a personal or family photograph from your past and write a short autobiographical story about your memory of that moment.
57 comments:
I observed and wrote about Kalup Linzy's video that's wassup(2007). And what I got from it was music combined with drawings of cartoon material which at most times are perfect combinations because both coincide with Art in a major way contributing tremendously. And what grabbed my attention the most was how the art followed the music as though to a scene in a club.
http://www.kaluplinzy.net/
I went to the Tim and Eric: Awesome Show Great Job Tour 2009 in February with my buddy Shaun. We were waiting for them to see if they would come out for 3 hours. After a couple hours I heard the doors opened when suddenly Eric and DJ Doggpound came out. I was so nervous to ask them but I fnally asked them if we could get some pics and they happily obliged! We took some photographs for them and I was the only person who got a picture with Eric! I was so ecstatic of getting a pic with one my my favorite comedians!
http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o160/brotherbraak/?action=view¤t=meanderic.jpg
I chose a picture taken of my boyfriend and I on our trip to New York and Phili over Christmas Break 08'. I had never been to New York before so i though it was sooo cool to see the statue so close!
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=21229163&albumID=204428&imageID=57872068
Photographer, Ryan Gee knows how to tell a story through a picture. Just from browsing through the photos on his portfolio, Gee illustrates the concept of the story he is trying to portray at it’s climax and makes each photo appear as if it is a still from a movie. In the photo of the “Pizza Delivery Order”, a scruffy, grubby male employee is making use of his time multi-tasking, while he is parked on the commode. Disgustingly enough, this hard-working pizza maker doesn’t seem to take a moment out his busy day to take care of his own personal needs. As a result of this particular photo, one may feel a lasting squeamish emotion if contemplating on a real-life delivery order. I know I will think twice now!
http://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pic_id=479abbe45d79d&date=2008-01-25%2023:49:44&id=578766&pid=5406976&the_count=6&group_id=
The piece of photography I chose this week is of the Mathmatical Bridge, in Cambridge. While I have never visited this bridge, it is absolutley beautiful. When looking at this picture, you sense that the photographer was at peace while taking this photo. It just gives you such a peaceful feeling looking at it. Through looking at the picture you actually see the beauty of the water, the curvature of the bridge, and the over hanging tree branch. As the tree branch falls in the front of the picture, it sets the tone of the entire photograph. It gives the picture that such an ease feeling, and then you see the curvature of the bridge that has the reflection in the water is just georgous. I really love this photo, I would love to have a copy of this on my wall.
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sorry website is a tad bit long..
One of my most memorable moments is when i first started doing charters. I'am 18 just got my captains license back in the mail and not even a week later my "employer" (another captain) had to get rid of one his charters because he had family issues. So i gladly take this opportunity to test out my skills on the water. I was taking out three gentlemen from up north that have never fished before and all they wanted was a bend in the rod. I checked the weather and the tides and everyhting was looking good. I load up the boat and headed off down south to the boat ramp when i get there the wind was laid down and was looking like it was going to be a perfect day. I went out, got the bait and was waiting back at the boat ramp for the cleints. Ten minutes later they call me up and said they blew a tire out on the enterstate and were running a little bit late. So when they finally got to the boat ramp and it was an hour later and the wind picked up a little bit. No worries so i decided to stay inshore and pick up some other fish. Five hours later i have only got three fish to the boat and lets just say they were not the biggest fish in the ocean and also the wind picked up and its blowing 30 mph and it was getting a little choppy, i can tell the guys were having some doubts in my fishing abilities. Im starting to get nervous, there is only an hour left in the trip and i have not put the guys on any serious fish. I calm myself down and go to an area i have not fished since i was a little kid wityh my dad. I anchor up on the spot and not even a minute later we were bringing fish to the boat. With hard work and a little bit of luck i was able to put them on some quality fish. Since that day i have grown in my confidence and have been putting people on fish.
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Fantasia 1940.-
As per Wikepidia
Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the canon of Disney animated features. Fantasia is an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the backdrop of animation and featuring no dialogue, only spoken introductions by Deems Taylor before each animated segment, as well as during the intermission segment, "The Sound Track". The music is recorded under the direction of Leopold Stokowski; seven of the eight pieces were performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Animated artwork of varying degrees of abstraction or literalism is used to illustrate or accompany the concert in various ways. The film also includes live-action segments featuring Stokowski, the orchestra, and American composer and music critic Deems Taylor, who serves as the host for the film. Besides its avant-garde qualities, Fantasia was notable for being the first major film released in stereophonic sound, using a process dubbed "Fantasound".
My view
Fantasia (1940), a Disney animated feature-length "concert" film milestone, is an experimental film integrating eight magnificent classical musical compositions with enchanting, exhilarating, and imaginative, artistically-choreographed animation. The conceptual framework of the individual pieces embraces such areas as prehistoric times, the four seasons, nature, hell/heaven, the themes of light vs. darkness and chaos vs. order, dancing animals, classical mythology, and legend.
This Disney production was an ambitious experiment to try to popularize classical music, especially by accompanying it with animation. The film, with a production cost of more than $2 million (about four times more than an average live-action picture), initially failed at the box-office (partially due to the expensive installation of "Fantasound" sound reproduction equipment in theatres), Since the late 60s, Fantasia has been warmly embraced, and a sequel titled Fantasia 2000 (1999) appeared as a widescreen IMAX attraction. Fantasia 2000 was the first feature-length animated film released in the IMAX format. The film illustrated seven new classic pieces, including:
http://www.bookrags.com/Fantasia_(film)
I did my reflection on Timothy O'Sullivans,Harvest of Death,and this picture looks like it was taken shortly after the battle of gettysburg took place.The picture looks as if the bodies of dead soldiers goes on as far as the eyes can see like a new harvest just after sunrise.The pic looks like the photographer took this picture to show others the aftermath and the devestation first hand.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Harvest_of_death,_USA_1863.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvest_of_death,_USA_1863.jpg&usg=__Fdjl7BdTHnTiFLUf6UWMnNwxHyk=&h=1086&w=1400&sz=427&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=jCa3oYwmP_OJUM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dharvest%2Bof%2Bdeath%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Ansel Adams is very likely the single most recognized photographer by name. A combination of timing and location led to his fame. In the early nineteenth century travel took much longer than today so Adams’ sweeping views of the stunning Western United States landscapes were unprecedented views to the vast majority of Americans.
Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California (Turnage, n.d.). Adams parents, Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray were around forty years old when Adams was born (very old for the times) (Turnage, n.d.). By the time Adams was 12, he obviously did not “fit in” at school and Adams’ father took the bold step of bringing the boy home for homeschooling (Deyo, 2002). Beyond English literature and algebra, Adams also studied the piano and spent a full year exploring the Panama-Pacific International Exposition which was a collection of exhibits based around the opening of the Panama Canal (Deyo, 2002).
In 1916 the Adams family took a trip to Yosemite National Park during which young Ansel was given a Kodak Brownie (Deyo, 2002). A few years later, in 1919, Adams joined the Sierra Club which was later responsible for the his first published works. Like many photographers today, Adams had his first published work in a club newsletter (Turnage, n.d.). It was Sierra Club trips during which Adams began to realize that photography instead of music was a possible career (Turnage, n.d.). In 1932 Adams joined photographers, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Henry Swift, Sonya Noskowiak, and Jon Paul Edwards in starting the photographic group f/64 (Hostetler, 2004). This group was dedicated to photography that looked like photography and showed the world without glossing over bits and pieces of it (Hostetler, 2004). The name f/64 came from the theoretical smallest aperture possible on a camera lens that allowed for the largest depth of field to show as much of an image as possible in sharp focus.
While Adams is probably best known for his images of the Sierra Nevadas and Yosemite he had a much wider body of work. Working with Dorothea Lange, Adams created various image sets for Time Magazine and others (Deyo, 2002). The subjects of these images were diverse as water rights struggles to the Mormons of Utah (Deyo, 2002). Adams also recorded the Japanese American interment camps from World War II (zpub, n.d.).
In addition to the photographs themselves, Adams contributed to the growing field of photography in his development of the “zone system” relating to exposure and development (Turnage, n.d.) before computerized light meters and developing techniques. Adams was also a consultant for companies such as Polaroid and Hasselblad (Turnage, n.d.).
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=h0&oq=an&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS306US306&q=ansel+adams
I was looking at the photo albums I made for the kids and they got a kick out of seeing a photo of me on the delivery table with a nice big round belly looking quite uncomfortable. Although it has been 10 years since that picture was snapped, it seems like only yesterday and that "pain" they say you forget? THEY LIE!!! If I could have jumped off that table when he(their dad) pulled out the camera, I would have kicked the ever lovin crap out of him BUT that wasn't going to happen. That delivery couldn't happen fast enough for me. There I was in agony desperately wanting some pain meds, any meds at that point, but it would not come to fruition...It was December 27th and that entire last week of December is always referred to as Induction Week because everybody tries to have their babies by midnight no later than December 31st for the tax credit. Can you believe that? The 27th was actually my daughters true due date and she was coming no matter how I felt and because of this Induction Week thing, they were unable to give me an epidural to ease the pain(extremely short staffed)...Let me just say that "Natural Childbirth" is not what it's cracked up to be...If they offer you drugs for pain, TAKE EM....If you look at the picture, the expression on my face says it all.
The photo I chose was “Migrant Mother” by Margaret Bourke-White because like all of her photographs this one seems to pull you in. I’ve only heard stories of the Great Depression from my Grandmother and from history classes but of course having not lived through it, I don’t fully understand the hardships people faced during that time. Margaret’s pictures illustrates many of the things I’ve learned about the Great Depression. By studying this picture and others she took, you can start to imagine what it might’ve been like during that time and see the worries of the people who lived through the Depression. For instance the lady in the photo “Migrant Mother”, the look of worry on her face is captured in this photo so well, it’s almost like you can feel her pain. She looks like she is worrying about numerous things such as where the next meal for her family will come from; what is to become of her children; will her husband or she find work.
http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/thumb/e/e3/461px-Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg/250px-461px-Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg
I chose to reflect on Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, an extremely famous photograph by Diane Arbus. The photo was taken in New York City in 1962. She captured the photograph by having the boy stand still and moving around him, shooting the end result when the boy became impatient and told her to "take the picture already!" I feel the end result to be sort of eerie and solumn. The picture makes you think of the violence that children have become acustomed to seeing in our world today.
http://desertosubterraneo.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/diane_arbus_child_toy_hand.jpg
http://gallery.me.com/bradmiller8#100008/Grandma-20--20Grandpa-205801&bgcolor=black
This is a picture of my grandfather from 1958. He was visiting the Battleship Texas in Houston with my grandmother. I don't have a personal memory to relate about this photo, but it is one of my favorites of him. I saw this picture for the first time a few years ago, but this is how I've always remembered him even before seeing it. He was a real cool guy who loved his Old Milwaukee, Hank Williams, and Chuck Berry. It was a rare day that you caught him wearing anything other than his white t-shirt and jeans.
The picture I choose to write about is of my great grandfather and my great, great grandfather. The picture was taken in 1928 at their farm in Prince Edward Island, Canada. My great, great grandfather Samuel Allen Nelson was a potatoe farmer and stone mason that immigrated From Ireland in 1868 at the age of 18 years old. Three years later his first born son, George Samuel was born, who also took the family tradition of potatoe farming, masonry, and logging. Samuel passed away just a few years after this picture was taken, we think at the age of 84 years old.
George lived into his late eighties also. He had a son named LeBaron Samuel Nelson who eventually moved to Maine and was employed as mason and a logger, or a "lumberjack" as most people call it. He built his first home from the wood he harvested, and that home was also the birth place of my father. Seventeen years later Lebaron passed away from a heart attack on the way home from the doctors office, ten years later I was born.
It fascinates me to look at some of the old family photos from the early 1900's. It's hard to even begin to imagine what it was like in those days. You don't see too many potatoe farmers that wears a neck tie to work everday.
http://s625.photobucket.com/albums/tt332/ahnelson67/
The photo that I have chosen to write about is one of my grandpa and me. This is the very last time that I got to see him alive and I can remember just about everything that I did with him while I was home for the visit. I found out my gradpa had cancer just a few months before this photo was taken and so I went home to see him and try to help take care of him as much as I could. My family lives in Ohio and the family had pulled together tightly taking turns helping with him. When I went home I knew that the only thing I wanted to do was see my Grandpa and help take care of him. That is just what I did. I stayed at my Grandparents house, went to chemo with him and got envolved with his doctors. I did not have much time there because I had to get back home to take care of my buisness, but I know that I did all I could to be there for my family and my Grandpa in his final days. He passed a month or two after this photo and I miss him terribly. I can still hear him saying stop taking all these damn pictures. He hated them! All in all I had great times with him and I have memories to last a lifetime. I have many pictures of my Gradpa, but this one I hold dearest because it reminds me that I never let him down. I made sure I went home to help him and I did all I could with the time I had with him in the end....Grandpa I love you and miss you!!!!
For my topic this week, I chose to do Andy Warhol – Not Rolling a Joint.
Now this may just seem like four minutes of a guy eating a hamburger, and guess what, you’re right, it is. But the intent is rather limitless, at least to anyone with a brain capable of running on its own, not powered by the weak soap-opera plots of petty day-to-day life.
This could be social commentary that our company while eating is as bland and flavorless as the food we eat. It could be calling attention to the waste the packaging makes, the nasty crinkles of the wrapper mimicking shrieks of a demon, nonbiodegradable. Perhaps it is calling attention to the food its self, how low in mineral and vitamin content, but high in garbage and fat. Fodder for the mouth, fodder for the mind, fodder for the soul. Maybe, just maybe, Andy Warhol is calling us all out, saying, “Hey! Look at how retarded you are! Look at all the modern convenience and what it amounts to. Look how pointless I’m making myself, and acting like a mirror, showing you how damned pointless YOU are.” Just as possible would be that he meant none of these things, and just wanted to eat a hamburger, video tape it, show it, then see what happened. Look at how much I got out of it without even trying. Maybe it’s there to stimulate you and let you develop and run free.
One thing’s for sure, he’s not rolling a joint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdn6wrM1Hqw&feature=PlayList&p=F95C88D792684EB5&index=0&playnext=1
My favorite picture from my past is from my 4th birthday. It is a photo taken by my dad and I was sitting at a little table with a dress on and a birthday hat on my head. I was smiling at the camera ready to blow out my 4 pink candles, but instead of a cake it was a pile of eclair's with chocolate frosting. It is so funny that a every time I look at it I start laughing. My parents told me that me dad went to pick up the cake and when he was carrying it into the house he tripped and the cake hit the floor so the only thing they had was some eclair's.
I love this picture so much and I am so happy that I can have a photograph to remember it. if a photo was not taken at that moment, the memory would probably be lost.
I chose to write about personal photographs. The photos are of two different throw ups i did when i first started doing grafitti. It's not the greatest work but it was a fun time in my life. I enjoyed the adrenaline rush of running the streets at night and climbing onto rooftops to paint a name for everyone to see as they're driving by. I dont do this kind of thing anymore because of the consequences, which I have already experienced, and because I've grown up and realized what's important. It was definately a time in my life that I won't soon forget.
http://s650.photobucket.com/albums/uu225/kaserone/?action=view¤t=asssssssss.jpg
http://s650.photobucket.com/albums/uu225/kaserone/?action=view¤t=asssssss.jpg
I wanted to talk a litte bit about a picture that I took while I was in Enoshima, Japan. Enoshima is one of my most favourite places to visit in Japan because of the calm atmosphere that the city gives. I took this picture in a temple I found in Enoshima, and the neat thing about this temple is that as you climb the steps you can get a very good view of the entire city. You can see everything when you're finished climbing up the steps of course. The temple at the top of Enoshima has a circle-rope gateway that couples walk through to wish themselves a happy marriage. Here are a few more pictures that I'd like to show you.
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02523.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02522.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02519.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02515.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02525.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02526.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02534.jpg
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt35/redstanggt01/DSC02537.jpg
I chose a photograph/video from my past. The picture is of me, my little brother and little sister all together in a playground when we all were in pre-school. The picture is in black and white and I remember my mom telling us to get dressed up and stay clean for the picture, but as you can see in the picture that didnt happen. I ended up having a big baseball cap on, my brothers cheeks covered in dirt and my little sisters curly hair was now a fro. At first my mom was furious with us but now that picture is blown up and hanging proud in her room because it is her favorite photograph. The photo shows each of our personalities in the rawest form and it makes me smile everytime i gaze upon it.
I chose a photograph by Matthew Brady. The picture I decided to use is of the dead at Gettysburg during the civil war. Mr. Brady is the most famous of civil war photographers. Prior to researching this photo I did not know that Mr. Brady actually had a band of photographers working for him and he demanded all pictures taken even by those who worked for him were to be copywrited his own. So it is not clear if Matthew Brady himself took the picture. Regardless, his photographs and the ones taken by his staff literally brought the Civil War home to American's doorsteps. This photo accurately depicts the horrors of war and especially the bloodest war the United States has ever seen.
http://www.vision.net.au/%7Epwood/Volume595.jpg
Jason Simpson: I chose Nam June Paik, TV Buddha. This piece speaks to me about the envolvement of meditation.I also find it interesting to make the connection that people are reciving some of the benifits of meditation from watching TV.Myself I am a strong suporter of educational TV.
http://tinyurl.com/cvxjr8
This was taken on 35mm Black and White Kodak film from a SLR camera. No flash.
Ah, this photo. I took this during my attempt at Photo I. I'm still rather proud of it. The story behind this is that I enjoy night photography, the casting of shadows, the sparse and distinct sources of light, and how the darkness wreaths and changes the world we live in. Happening upon this church was just chance - I was driving around one night looking for an appropriate church to photograph, but this was just perfect. Not only does it have that classic look with the symmetrical construction and the pointed steeple, but the single light in the area was a large floodlight hidden by the tree, so the illumination upon the building seems to come from upon on high. The angle of the light causes interesting shadows to form, half of the church is illuminated while half is cast in shadow. The contrast of light and dark, shadow and illumination struck me, and I still consider myself lucky to have caught this image. Though this isn't my finished product, this print is something I'm still happy to have.
The Portrait of Thomas Carlyle was taken by Julia Margaret Cameron who is considered one of the greatest photographers of the 19th century. There is an intensity about the picture, which is mostly credited to the lighting. He also had a very serious and hard face. I like the blurred, silver print of the photograph and the classic, calm look on his face.
Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. He was born in 1902 and died in 1984. He is famous for his black and white photographs of the American west, mostly in the Yosemite National Park. He helped create the Museum of Modern Arts photography department. Adams' timeless and visually stunning photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely recognizable.
http://www.anseladams.com/index.html
http://strongphotography.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/dn7888-1_700.jpg
I decided to view Kalup Linzy's video, A Hot Mess 2008. It was a little naughty but I think this artist is very talented. I've never observed video art before and this was definitely different. It's amazing to me that he is so versatile in playing different characters. I love his voices. He's a very interesting individual. I would of never saw this as art. I'm glad I viewed his videos.
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/tan205/subculture/2009/03/what_you_see_iswhat_a_hot_mess_1.html
The video that i chose to observe is Yoko Ono's Cut Piece at Carnegie Hall in NYC 1965.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQ36yHGfzE
I think that this video is a very interesting way of portraying her art form. The way that she so casually allows the people to approach her and snip away piece by piece of her clothing is full of meaning. I think it symbolizes the cutting of creativity and personality by others. The lack of emotion on her face is embodied and replaced through the background music which is also a song by Yoko Ono called "Darkness".
I like fascinating picture I took while I was with my family (during the holidays) at Universal Studios Halloween Horror nights. The picture is not of highest quality, since I took it with my cell-phone.
(this is a description for I only have it available on my cell-phone for now, but I will have it uploaded soon)
It basically is a picture of bright light with its rays showering over the people entering and exiting the entrance to the Fractured Tales haunted house with two monster-like statues on both sides of the entrance in positions as if they are trying to make a grab for the light source, or are getting hurt by it(the light is shining on the entrance so people coming out can see it). That night was the also the best Halloween experience I have ever had!
* I hope to get it uploaded soon so I can insert a link to it.
I observed Gary Hill's "Crux", located in the textbook on page 296 (fig. 396). At first sight, I'm not sure what he's going for but apparently its him in some sort of posture remsembling a contemporary crucifixion. Perhaps its an expression of the potential burdens of technology. In the photo, he's wearing five color monitors, a five- channel synchronizer, five laser disk players, five speakers, five laser disks, and three amplifiers. While a "crux" is a cross, it is also a decisive point, or something that torments by its puzzling nature. After watching the picture for some time, I still find myself puzzled...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRlzM4a1ll0
I chose a music video by k-os and Drew Lightfoot. The visuals have little to do with the music for the most part, as is the case with most music videos, but I still find it interesting. A joke amongst my friends is that all of k-os' videos tend to be be just him walking around. It's almost more of the same with this video, but there's an interesting technique used in this one where they've edited the video in such a way that it looks as if parts of it are stop motion animation. I think they might have recorded normal video and dropped frames to give it that jerky stop motion feel. Whatever it is, the technique certainly spices up what might normally be a boring video.
- Roberto Cases
Three and a half years go, I visited my distant family in Long Island, New York over the christmas holidays. Upon entering my great aunts house, I spotted a photograph on the wall of Babe Ruth called "Babe Bows Out" by Nat Fein. Turns out, Nat Fein is some Great Uncle of mine that was given a Pulitzer Prize for this photograph. He was a news photographer that had an eye for the offbeat, the odd and the insightful. His pictures offer a remarkable and telling glimpse of the time and place.
Along with Babe Ruth, He has also photgraphed Albert Einstein, Queen Elizabeth, John F. Kennedy and Harry S. Truman. His work has been describe as some of the greatest Journalistic photgraphy of the 20th century.
My dads' cousins' husband, David Nieves, has been in charge of Nat Feins interests since his death in 2000. During my visit to New York, David sparked my unterest in photography and encouraged me to run with it. And I have.
http://www.vintagephotos.com/
I choose to write about a photograph that I bought at a small antique store while on vacation. When I bought the photo my sister was pregnant with my niece, and I couldn't pass it up. I saw a picture of a baby and instantly fell in love with it. Because it was printed on the a postcard I assumed that it was produced around the 1900s. I think that this picture should be cherished, even if I don't know the child in question. Someone loved them enough to take their picture, and I would hate to think of any pictures of my family sitting in an antique shop. After that, every time I see old photos I buy them. I have photos that are printed on tin, to photos on postcards, and finally black and white photos that color has been added to. It has become a truly rewarding hobby that I hope others can fall in love with as well.
The photo I selected was "At the time of the Louisville Flood" by Margaret Bourke-White. This picture captures great detail and has many ironic undertones. This is a group of people waiting in line for rations after the flood has occurred. In the background there's a poster of a white family smiling saying, "There's no way like the American way". this is ironic because the poster is suppose to resemble freedom and happiness where as the people in line are in the great depression with limited freedom of having a job or home and they are waiting in line to get food for their family. I very much like graphic pictures with subliminal messages. This photo really said alot to me.
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Gordon Parks
Born, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks on November 30, 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was the youngest of 15 children. He had a few different jobs in his younger days and recieved 13 degrees from different institutions, but in the end he became a photographer, film maker and writer. He died in 2006.
The picture I have chosen, is of Muhammad Ali in training, in Miami 1966. It shows Ali sitting down. You don't know if he's think about the next fight to come, resting or pumping himself up. It's black and white with a kind of glow in the lighting.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/parks/parks_ali.jpg
I wanted to choose a personal family photo simply because they are literally hundreds of pictures to choose from... this turned out to be harder than i expected. Each photo brought about a different memory from a different time. My family lovessssss to take pictures and we have a pretty big family so the amount of photos that we have collectively are just to many to count.
The picture that I eventually choose is one of my father with his brother, some of his sisters and their mother. What I found to be so interesting in this picture is that behind my grandmother is a church and the cross from the church is directly above her head. My Grandmother died in 2000 so it is almost like a little sign that she is in heaven.
One thing I found funny about this picture was the fashion styles of their day, big hair, glasses and clothes.
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"The Wizard of Oz" film not only included color as shown in the text with it's beautiful film still, but combined black and white film in the beginning of the movie to capture the signifcant impact color has on audiences. In many older movies black and white films were common; people remained indifferent to color. It wasn't until the release of "The Wizard of Oz", till people truly cared. It's amazing to be able to look at this picture today, and still be fascinated by the different shades of green on emerald city, and the miniscule details on the clothing of the characters. One of my favorite movies as a kid! Who would have thought of flying monkeys?!
i chose to comment on the photograph of the monk setting himself on fire taken by malcolm browne in saigon in 1963. the monk was protesting the discriminatory treatment of buddhists during the authoritarian rule in south vietnam. this is a particularly interesting act of protest since violence against onces self is prohibited in most buddhist dotrine. it just seems like a very raw and painful way to protest. this photo was used as the cover of Rage Against the Machine's 1992 self titled debut album, which happens to be one of my favorite bands and a seriously epic album.
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I have chosen to do option 2, and the photo I am pulling out of the old family album was takin about three our four years ago. I was still in high school but I was on my summer vacation. Every summer my family rents a house in Anna Maria Island. I sure have had a lot of really fun times out there. I have been going since I was a freshmen in high school. In the picture I am on a kayak. It is a really cool picture the way the sun reflects off the ocean. And its even a little funny to see my side of the boat a lot lower then my sisters side, she only weighs about one hundred and ten punds compared to my 260 at the time. But the picture means more to me that it does to the average person. The story is that so how me and my sister got caught in a tide and it took us half way around the island, and the way the current was going it was just about impossiable to paddle back the other way. We had to land on the beach on the other side of the island and ask someone to borrow a cell phone so my dad could come pick us up in the car.
I posted a picture on my blog so that everyone can see the picture I am talking about. In this picture is my boyfriend and I, it's one of the few pictures that we have with each other since he lives in New York for school and baseball.
This picture was taken a month ago when he was on spring break here in Tampa to play baseball with his school. This was taken at his house down his drive way. It means a lot to me, and I love the colors that are in the picture.
I chose the picture taken by Timothy O'Sullivan of Green River Canyon,in 1868. Timothy O'sullivan is known as as the first great photojournalists, also is said that he was able to photograph images calmly during the most horrendous bombardments and having his camera almost distoryed by shell fragments. I find that this image that he was able to capture is a true beauty, in this photograph your able to see the fine and magnificant lines and textures of the canyon; that would be impossible to draw and capture every small and specified detail that can be captured in one shot and perfect lighting of a camera.
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I decided to choose a perosnal photograph of mine. This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago after i finshed installing my suspension lift on my jeep wrangler and wanted to test it out. Some friends and I took my jeep out to a local offroad site and found a perfect spot to test the flex of the new system. I like the picture because of the location and surroundings of the jeep. It seems as if its in the middle of nowhere but can still find fun things to accomplish. The picture reminds me of a fun day and makes me feel proud of my work.
I chose to a picture that was taken while I was in Amsterdam. Its a picture of me and 6 other people I had met at my hostel. It was taken on my last night there when we were all in the kitchen cooking dinner and hanging out. I like this picture because it pretty much sums up my time there. I had only known these people for a couple of days, but its amazing that all it takes is to have a location in common and you can make friends with someone even though your from two different parts of the world. Ill probably never forget these people and whenever I look at the picture it brings me back to one of the highlights of my life. Unfortunantly I am not able to post a link for this picture because I don't have it up on a website.
Sorry, I didnt exactly know how to do upload my picture.
But my grandpa has a sail boat and this one night they were have a graug pary.. a.k.a. a pirate party, hints all the pirate costumes. It was so much fun talking and acting like a pirate! I can't wait fot this years party! I am going to go all out!
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The peorson I choose, is 1LastHope. He is a visual artist who has been making signature, using Photoshop for many people, as gifts, and for personal use. He is amazing at what he does. I met him on the Graphics forum, (hidden-designers.com), I'm an active member there as well. I have kept up with all his work, constantly going to his online blog. There he has many different types of signatures, and tags, made not only by him, but other aspireing graphic artists.
1lasthope's blog:
http://1lasthope.wordpress.com/
I've been taking pictures like a maniac since my son was born so I have plenty of pictures to choose from.Above all my other pictures I chose to write about a picture I took of me and my son on vacation this past spring break.It was a hot and sunny day in Pensacola,Fl. we were just about to go hit the beach but my son was super enegetic so we started playing on the floor. he looked so cute and he was smiling non stop so I grabbed my digital camera and took a snap shot of us on the floor.
I decided to observe and write about a camera art that i saw on actally a friends computer it was an art overly exposed for i belive more than a minute but the after effect was quite illsutrative of poetry and beauty in motion. The way the light was in motion grabbed my attention and i had to share it .this to me was the true form of art:unrestrained and unhinged
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I chose the Grand Canyon because I believe this God made phenomenon is breathtaking. I have pesonally seen the Grand Canyon and found it to look like a painting. The colors that shine as the sun hits certain areas of the canyon make your draw drop. I think this magnificent piece of Earth has such wonder and peace, one does not want to leave. I love the silence of the canyon as you take it all in. I think any picture taken of this magical wonder can render one speechless. I want to take a boat that floats on the river at the bottom of the canyon.
i went to Lake Tahoe for chrismas and had the best time ever! we went down to the actual lake and played on the beach. there was snow everywhere but that didnt stop me from getting some rays.
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The picture that I am posting is of me and the best fishing experience that I have ever had. I was fishing in my hometown of Crystal River, FL. It was about 2:30p.m. and I was back in a mangrove trail just looking around when I saw a decent size redfish off the bow of the boat. I decided to cast toward him to see if he would eat. Much to my suprise he did and he fought an intense fight for close to 15 minutes. It ended up being my biggest redfish to date at 32.5".
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