Paris 2

Paris

These are a couple of the images that I took while i was in Paris last Thursday.

Damn article #2

This isnt really breaking news just another article as the release date for a new game Resident evil 5 comes out. that games setting is in rural Africa taking place mostly in villages that are destitute and run down. not only this but the main enemy of the game are African American effected with some sort of sickness. No doubt ou have already picked out the problem with this.

http://www.crispygamer.com/interviews/2009-03-02/uncomfortable-echoes-a-conversation-with-resident-evil-5-director-jun-takeuchi.aspx

The game and director have undergone all sorts of heat for making this particular choice about the game. It also brings into question of what video games actually are? are they art? and we should view them as such? or are they a form of entertainment only meant to stimulate? seeing the naked figure of a model on a gallery wall we do not think that is is pron. we start to talk about the line or the light in the picture. Should a video game not be viewed the same way? Naturally there will be nah sayers who tell us the violent video games are responsible for all our our worlds problems *cough*bullshit*cough*. but it's just something to think about.

Damn article #1

Im not Catholic but the article was floating around on the headlines section so i decided to check it out.



It's just about the Pope going to Africa and such, and about how the Catholics want to do something about it but there is this controversy with using condoms so what are they to do. lol i thought is was pretty ironic.

4 photographers

Sally Mann self-portrait



Chuck Close self-portrait-I think that both this ans the Mann portrait's are focusing on how it was made not specifically that it is a self portrait. the process fascinates me.



The Photojournalist", by Andreas Feininger



Alma Lavenson, "Self Portrait, 1932"

Officials: Most troops out of Iraq in 18 months

I was talking with a friend the other day about the war in Iraq, and i was shocked to find at how little he understood of war and the political process involved. i guess having the amazing history teachers i had growing up i was fortunate enough to comprehend the bulk of what i have been hearing. Obama plans to start removing troops as early as this week in order to enact his new exit strategy. the exit strategy calls for leaving a large contingent of troops behind, between 30,000 and 50,000 troops, to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to protect U.S. interests.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_go_pr_wh/iraq_withdrawal

the thing that makes me slightly angry about this is that Obama won enormous amounts of support by pledging to have troops out 16 months after elected but this new plan of his would put that schedule 3 months behind. so unless he can do some serious catching up i still feel cheated. but i guess that is the nature of politics.

Shooting on Mardi Gras

An infant and at least five other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with Mardi Gras revelers.



Now what kind of person...unfortunately the article does not attribute the shooting to gang violence or if the intended targets were the people, but the two men who fired into the crowd are in custody. it's just kinda crazy that this sorta stuff happens and parades and such. and it's no wonder that the troops don't feel supported by Americans when stuff like this is happening in our own streets. It's also terrible that this is headline news for today, like i cant find something positive about some kid winning a trophy. It;s gottabe that a baby was shot?

US recession lasting into 2010?

US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke has warned Congress that without the right policies from the government, the US recession could last into 2010.

but! if the Obama administration can put forth policies to give us economic balance 2010 could be a year of recovery. all of this hanging of the threads of the central banking system and getting credit and financial markets to operate more normally again. if these things happen will 2009 be the end of the recession and 2010 be one of recovery. Mr Bernanke is doing everything he can to make sure that legislator and other key individuals know what must be done if this recession is ever to end. you can read more about it here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7908403.stm

gossage

so i totally forget what we were talking about in class when Gossage came up. but he is very famous for taking pictures of things and places that make us remember. to engage us in the piece and force i to wonder or remember what happened her. the pieces abotu the Berlin wall are said to be his most important and has unquestionable influence on all of his subsequent work.

DINOSAURS???

When i first stumbled up[on this i didn't really know what to make of it at first. is it a joke? did some fancy photographer photoshop these images? Incidentally there is a temple in Cambodia. the Ta Prohm Temple. with the very clear depiction of a stegosaurus. this is further proof that dinosaurs were not totally extinct thousands of years ago, that maybe it has only been hundreds, or that maybe in some far off isolated forest some dinosaurs still exist.



http://www.allnewsweb.com/page4994992.php

hmm

what attracts me to wedding photos in an attempt to find contemporary artists? maybe I'm being cynical but i respect the lie she is trying to tell us, in a nation where more than half of our marriages end in divorce we need people who can at least give a window to that word we call love.

http://www.jenniferdavisphotography.com

Adams

Call me a lemming i dont care these are frickin amazing.

http://www.anseladams.com

Cole P. Thompson

While based mostly in black and white Thompson seems to be able to capture an honesty that i can't help but think about. also ive always found to have an interest in long exposure pieces.

http://www.colethompsonphotography.com/Portfolios.htm

a fasination?

While not totally sure why i chose this photographer i did none the less. Not even having a particular interest with fashion i found something while looking at Mitchell's pieces, perhaps a boy's fascination with the female figure...

http://www.graememitchell.com/

He's a bit dead.

I don't really know what fascinated me about this man other then i find some odd sense of romanticism and heroism of being a war photographer. I guess if i had to put it into words not everyone could deal with being this sort of photographer.

http://www.mathewbrady.com/

once more with vigor

due to a completly scatter brtained d ay and the lose of the harddrive for my computer i have decided to start a new blog, please disregard the last one as a trial by error and subscribe to this one. as it will be the one i am using from now on.