B&W ABC's

Black & White Alphabet

These images are of my fiance signing letters. A couple of them are the normal sign language that you would find if you looked it up on the internet, but most of them are a group of signed letters that were made up by the group he used to hang out with.

Square Alphabet

These images were all taken in my apartment. This was a very difficult project and took a long time but I enjoyed trying to think outside the box and once I started to really look at things letters just seemed to come out of no where.

Must-Know Figures - Current Event 5

This article is concerning the re-writing of the history books in grade school. The debate is over whether Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall should be held in the same "model American citizen" as figures such as Benjamin Franklin.

Chavez was a civil rights activist who fought for the union labor rights and Marshall was the first black man appointed to the Supreme Court and was also one of the attorneys fighting for the desegregation in public-schools.

Some people think that they are not worthy of being held to the standard as Benjamin Franklin. However, these 2 men are a very large part of U.S. history. I believe that they should be given more space in our history text books.

I especially agree with this quote from the article, "Chavez and Thurgood Marshall 'played a real crucial part in our nation's fighting for liberty, which is really what America's been founded on,' Agosto said."

To be honest, I think that the people making a huge fuss over this issue are simple minded and not open to change. They are sticklers and want things to just stay how they are, but I believe that our grade school kids need to be informed about men like these so that issues like these are never forgotten and these men should be appreciated for the work they did for our country.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/16/us/AP-US-Texas-Schools-Social-Studies.html?_r=1&scp=25&sq=texas&st=cse

Self Portraits

THIS IS ME IN A NUTSHELL.


I did not really enjoy this project. I tend to enjoy being behind the camera more than I do as the subject. My dog is my kid. I love her like she is my baby and I wouldn't take back getting her for anything.





Pancakes, eggs, and milk is my perfect breakfast. Especially the one in the image because those are chocolate chip pancakes and my fiance is completely amazing when it comes to making my favorite breakfast.







I really enjoy the nights when my fiance and I get to go out with our friends to concerts and festivals and things like that, so I am always straightening my hair and putting on my make-up before we walk out the door....and it takes like 25 minutes so it's a big part of our night out.

I am also an English major and I really, really enjoy reading. When I have downtime I am almost always sitting on my couch with a book in my lap ignoring the rest of the world around me. :D




The last image is of my fiance's and my hand intertwined. We are recently engaged and he is my world. The sweetest man I could have ever asked for and he is my rock when it comes to school, always telling me that I can do it, and letting me get my homework done on my own time without being pushy. I love him.

John

I had a fun time working with John after he opened up to us. He is an Art Education major and in our class is known as "The Lip Ring Guy." He likes to draw and he has a relaxed look about him in the way he dresses and carries himself, which I appreciate because I never felt intimidated or uncomfortable.

Jamie

JAMIE S.

Jamie is a quirky kind of girl with a great sense of humor. She is very photogenic and makes for an easy subject.
You can see her riding her bike around campus but she said that her bike wasn't something that defined her. Photography is a hobby for her, she loves her dogs, and she cooks, too.


I really enjoyed getting to know her and John. She made me feel comfortable around her and I had fun with this project.

BILL EVANS VIDEO

Universal musical mind in all people.

Various styles of music spoken. Some effort needs to be exposed because of different cultures. Rely on lament rather than a professional. Professional focuses on mechanical, lament more so goes with what he/she already possesses.

"Serious influence."

Freeing the conscious to establish the spontaneous creative element.

"improvisation became lost..."

"Jazz is a PROCESS of making music."

"able to make music in the moment"

Is photography more like classical or jazz????

Classical is said to be more composed and set whereas jazz is more easily improvised as long as it's in the same key.

I think that photography can be much like both. If classical is composed and set, well photography can be too. One can be in a room with the perfect lighting, the right helper, the perfect studio, and the best camera and compose an image. At the same time, an image can be improvised like jazz music. One can go out on a random day, extremely bright light (sun) OR not much light at all (cloudy), have a random subject and it be spontaneous but still be just as beautiful as an image that was composed to look beautiful. Professional photographers are not in one category. We have those who are in their studio day after day shooting still-lives or taking pictures for an advertising company while others are out in the world every day taking pictures of "life," what is in front of them at that moment, a moment that might otherwise be lost forever.

There’s Code to Crack - Current Event 4

This article is about "The Lost Symbol" which is the extension of "The Davinci Code." And as the article says this series of books has caused some controversy because of the symbolism used. I have to say that I have read "The Davinci Code" and watched the film, and I was, at some points, confused...maybe a little offended, but I had to come to realize that this is a fictional tale. Though, books like these make me wonder, if so many people tend to get offended and find the theories to be outlandish, why is it that those same people tend to be the first to the bookstore for the new releases? I think even though the people know its untrue, it makes them think about reality and wonder if something like these stories could have some truth hidden underneath. I know that after watching "The Davinci Code" it made me really sit and wonder about if there really is a decendent of Jesus Christ, did Mary Magdalen really have a child by him, is the symbol of woman an upside-down triangle? The thing is we won't ever really know will we? And it's because these stories use "discoveries" of things that would take many many years to prove that it makes it fiction with a possibility of truth.