Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Optional Assignment
http://www.jpgmag.com/stories/3883
"My camera has taken me crazy places, and introduced me to fantastic subjects. In the summer of 2006, the "Hyphy" movement exploded on the bay area, my camera was fixated, focused on the individuals under the flashing lights of the national spotlight. Since Run DMC and Adidas shell-toes, hip-hop and fashion have gone hand in hand. A distant history from black and white striped sneakers, street fashion was no less pivotal to the hyphy movement's culture of stunner shades and dread locks. I instantly became interested in portraying the complex stories of my subjects: their individuality, and creativity, their struggles and successes. My fist obstacle became abundantly clear. While the rapper as performer can be overwhelming audible, as an image, they are inherently received visualy. The photographic subject is in fact silent."
This photo essay was featured in a photography magazine. The essay tells a story and it all coincides with the photography and brings it all together to make a wonderful masterpiece. He found the perfect subject to take pictures of and that became music. The intro paragraph is very relatable in starting every bodies day and describes in full detail of all the places his camera takes him.
Elements that I can take from this is the story telling aspect and I can describe how all these pictures impact me and the future generations. He was very descriptive in his writing and the photos came in part with the writing.
"In the end, I found myself in my portraits, photography is my music"
"My camera has taken me crazy places, and introduced me to fantastic subjects. In the summer of 2006, the "Hyphy" movement exploded on the bay area, my camera was fixated, focused on the individuals under the flashing lights of the national spotlight. Since Run DMC and Adidas shell-toes, hip-hop and fashion have gone hand in hand. A distant history from black and white striped sneakers, street fashion was no less pivotal to the hyphy movement's culture of stunner shades and dread locks. I instantly became interested in portraying the complex stories of my subjects: their individuality, and creativity, their struggles and successes. My fist obstacle became abundantly clear. While the rapper as performer can be overwhelming audible, as an image, they are inherently received visualy. The photographic subject is in fact silent."
This photo essay was featured in a photography magazine. The essay tells a story and it all coincides with the photography and brings it all together to make a wonderful masterpiece. He found the perfect subject to take pictures of and that became music. The intro paragraph is very relatable in starting every bodies day and describes in full detail of all the places his camera takes him.
Elements that I can take from this is the story telling aspect and I can describe how all these pictures impact me and the future generations. He was very descriptive in his writing and the photos came in part with the writing.
"In the end, I found myself in my portraits, photography is my music"
Friday, November 13, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Blog # 20
1. Who is the narrator? Describe his perspective, biases, character traits, etc.
Nick Carroway
2. What do you think F. Scott Fiitzgerald accomplishes by chooses this specific narrator versus another choice, such as a different character or 3rd person?
Nick Carroway
2. What do you think F. Scott Fiitzgerald accomplishes by chooses this specific narrator versus another choice, such as a different character or 3rd person?
Monday, November 2, 2009
Blog # 19- Professional Example
1. The photo looks really clean and it looked like it took a lot of takes to get the right one.
2. The message could be that Sea Turtle is a beautiful animal and the colors and lighting brings out the beauty of the turtle.
3. The intended audience is people who go sea diving
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Blog # 19- Honors Writing
Choose a classic novel from American history that relates to any time period prior to World War One. Read the novel and answer the following prompt:
(Hint: you are responding to the 1998 AP Literature Question)
In his essay "Walking," Henry David Thoreau offers the following assessment of literature:
"In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and The Iliad, in all scriptures and mythologies, not learned in schools, that delights us."
Choose a novel that you may initially have thought was conventional and tame but that you value for its "uncivilized free and wild thinking." Write an essay in which you explain what constitutes its "uncivilized free and wild, thinking" and how that thinking is central to the value of the work as a whole. Support your ideas with specific references to the work you choose.
(Hint: you are responding to the 1998 AP Literature Question)
In his essay "Walking," Henry David Thoreau offers the following assessment of literature:
"In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and The Iliad, in all scriptures and mythologies, not learned in schools, that delights us."
Choose a novel that you may initially have thought was conventional and tame but that you value for its "uncivilized free and wild thinking." Write an essay in which you explain what constitutes its "uncivilized free and wild, thinking" and how that thinking is central to the value of the work as a whole. Support your ideas with specific references to the work you choose.
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