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Daily Shoot #2 “Black and White”
Make a photo that looks better in black and white than it did in color.ball so hard -
Daily Shoot #1 “Pattern”
"Create A Photograph That Features A Repeating Pattern"Bathroom Tile -
Daily shoot- Repeating Pattern
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daily s h o o t : a photo that looks better in b&w
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Black and White: Park Ave
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The Final Keystone/Capstone/Ask-a-mason-what-it-is Project
Only five classes left!!!! As we approach the end of our class, it’s time to think about a capstone project, something that students can point to afterwards, something that will … Continue reading →
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“Jon” Response
CC John PictonGeorge Saunders' short story Jon was very unique and I am still wondering why it was assigned. The story took place is some type of alternate universe, maybe the future? It was an intriguing story because it managed to confuse m... -
What Did I Just Read?
I’m not sure how I feel about this story. It’s hard to follow, but that’s intentional as far as I can gather given the theme of distraction from genuine human communication. The theme of genuine human interaction makes it read like Vonnegut updating A Brave New World for modern times. It also managed to turn ...
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Reading Response: Jon
I’m not good at analyzing literature, and I’m going to be honest: it’s hard for me to understand how this reading applies to what we’ve been doing. I’m more interested in seeing how we’re going to approach this in class and in what context we’ll be looking at it.
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Jon short story
The reading of Jon was very strange. When I first started reading the story I found it very strange and kept wondering what is going on. Did I miss something. The story was interesting thought and reminded me a bit of surrealism. Overall what I liked most was the voice in the story. Several times the writer was amusing with how he described things. It made me laugh a bit at the beginning when he started talking about the MTV show where people were trying to create different poses.
I did have to look up the story to understand the story better as when I read through it on my own it seemed a bit like nonsens. As I looked up the story I did start to notice the critique of commercialism and medication.
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Response To “Jon”
Response To “Jon” I know this is a lame response, but I really couldn’t think of anything but this song when I began this reading so I decided that I should just express my thoughts through the song!
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Response to “Jon”
So after reading this story I’m on the edge of my seat, interested in how this will be tied into what we’re doing in class. Are we going to make a photo essay that tells this story or a similar … Continue reading →
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Animated Gif
To make this gif I used a website that generates gifs from photos or videos you upload. I uploaded this video of my friend and I dancing and then cut it where I felt appropriate. -
Response- Jon
Reading Jon felt as though I was reading something Kurt Vonnegut, who is one of my most favorite authors. I really enjoyed reading this story and its criticism on commercialism. The story makes celebrities out of young people who choose what … Continue reading →
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Response to "Jon"
What a crazy story. The most compelling and memorable thing about "Jon" is the way it is written. It sounds like it's written by a child, or someone who is uneducated, because there is a certain disregard for conventional sentence structure, the word ... -
Gif-Making in Progress…
Here’s my gif! This was the only video I have saved on my computer other than Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” so I decided to gif it. It’s a scene wherein Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) is telling Spike (that guy up there) to tell him what he was doing standing outside of her house in five words or less. His reponse: “Out - for - a - walk… bitch.”
The quality on this is terrible, but I couldn’t figure out how to improve it without making the file size insane. Tumblr won’t let me post it right now for some reason - it keeps saying “error uploading image” so I’m just linking to it right now from a site I put it on. Once I have faster internet I’ll try to fix this.
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“jon” response
flickr user riekhavocSo this story was pretty interesting to read. Interesting meaning...I didn't really know what was going on, but I'll give you my take on the story:So there's all these kids/young adults (the age was never really specified) in this sort of camp where they are told to masturbate, test products, and fill out assessments for them – the products, not the masturbation. Apparently they test a whole range of products from medicine (Aurabon?) to children's toys when they were younger – it seems like they have been here their whole lives. So anyways they go through all these trials like having kids and getting married other shenanigans, and once a day they need to be "plugged in". Into what, we don't really know. In the end the main character eventually makes it out of the camp (I think) and faxes his "wife", who I believe is still in the camp, and they talk about their future lives together, and then it's over.What struck me about this story wasn't necessarily the plot line, but more so the writing style. While it was a little confusing at times, I thought it had a strong voice and was full of character. I hesitated when discussing the age of the characters because the way the story was written, one would think (or at least I did) that the voice was from a younger person, probably a child. The simple, plain speech with inconsistencies in verb tense and confusing descriptions made me think of a toddler trying to tell a story. Since the characters were probably older than a toddler (they were having kids), this maybe means that they were all suffering some sort of mental disorder? I couldn't really tell. Either way, this story was pretty unusual and interesting, however hard to keep up with and fully understand.
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"Zou Bisou Bisou" GIF
To do this gif, I followed this tutorial. It took me a really long time to do, and I'm still not too happy with it (I think most of it has to do with the file size of the original video.) I skipped over the sharpening section, which maybe is why there is less color and more grain in the gif than in the original. But I chose to do this because I love 30 Rock and I love Mad Men, and I remember -
Response to “Jon” by George Saunders
I was taken by surprise by this short story. I found it pretty interesting and original, except that it was a bit hard for me to understand what is going on in the beginning. I read through an article on the internet about it before I started reading to be able to grasp it, because ...
