Week2

Assignment: Collect 25 photos from the Lincoln Era. Collect 25 comtemporary photos.

Craft: To find the 25 photos from the Lincoln Era, I seached the internet and saved the specific photos to my flash drive. To find the 25 contemporary photos, I went out around my neighborhood and took pictures of ordinary, random things like signs, flags, buildings, etc. When I returned home, I put the contemporary photos onto my flash drive and printed all the photos in the classroom.

Composition: The contemporary photo that I took that I like the most would have to be the picture of the American flag. I took the photo outside of some random house. However, I think the lighting was just right and it came out looking very professional. I also like how the wind was blowing at the time to give the flag some life. My favorite Lincoln Era photo would have to be the photo I found of Uysses Grant standing against the pole. It was one of the only photos I could find of someone standing. I perosnally just think he has a cool look on his face. Grant looks worried, tired, and depressed. He looks like he has seen some bad things go down.

Concept: The pictures I would like to mix would have to be the one of my two friends dressed as the blues brothers and the standing picture of Ulysses Grant. The reason I wanted to mix those two pictures was to show that my friends look like they are having a good time in this picture. However, Ulysses Grant looks like he needs a drink and to lighten up a little bit. Grant looks tired, depressed, and worried. Therefore, the idea is that my friends know that Grant is having a bad day, so they want to cheer him up by taking him out, loosening up, and having a few beers. This will hopefully get Grant's mind off the war.

Week 1

Assignment: Set up Blog

Craft: Picture, G-Mail

Composition: I chose this photo to post on my blog because I do not have many photos of myself online. Usually there are other people in the photos with me. This is the only photo that was already cropped. I chose this template as my background because I wanted a dark background. Most of the other templates had white backgrounds.

Concept: If I had a soap box, I would yell about reality TV shows on MTV and VH1. The people who sign up for these shows are crazy. Once these maniacs get on TV, they act like complete idiots! I mean I don't know how some of those people ever show their faces in public again. I'm pretty curious as to why these people keeping signing up for these reality TV Shows and how do these lame, burned out celebrities get their own shows? I'm not gonna lie, it is pretty funny though.