Make the Rink Pink

120mm and 35mm Scans

RIT Catering

Haiti-NPR photographers David Gilkey and John Poole

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/the_latest_from_npr_photograph.html

The first 3 photographs were taken by John Poole who is "embedded with the Massachusetts 1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, and has photos from their medical base." These collections of photographs are very touching and hard to look at. The light is very strong in this images. Some are brightly colored while others are dingy which adds to the emotional feeling.

The second 2 photographs are by David Gilkey. They show the battle for the goods that were left undamaged and the new goods that were being brought in. The last image really grabs my attention because of the body language and facial expression. The caption at the bottom says "One Haitian man attacks another, in a dispute over goods...". It is hard to image fighting over something like goods that we take for granted everyday.

These photographs have nothing to do with the current project I am working on. But they are a big part of the news and what's going on around us. I feel that attention should be paid to these photographs and that we should realize that there are other people besides ourselves that are going through rough times. If I was not currently enrolled in college I would have traveled over there to document this tragedy.

John Mann

I started researching John Mann for the upcoming Manmade Landscape project. The two images posted above are from his "The Cut Path" and "Folded in Place" series. Both of which are guiding me in my view of the Manmade Landscape. I am not as interested in his photographs as I am his artist statements.

Folded in place

The photographs in this series are informed by the varied ways that photography, mapping, drawing and sculpture have each tried to describe the landscape. By incorporating each of these methods, Folded in Place highlights the abstraction of the landscape traditionally offered by these means, while creating a tangible photographic “place” in each image that is occupied by a mapped construction. The images therefore provide precise photographic and mapped information while at the same time offering an abstraction of the landscape itself. The viewer is shown a landscape that is simultaneously understood and unknown, a landscape in which the map obtains a new geography of its own.

The cut path

By choosing to use remote abandoned telephone lines as a means of moving into the landscape, a path was set. Yet the path marked by telephone poles is not a mapped one, and the traveler therefore continues without the larger picture of the journey. The resulting photographs are themselves markers of these unmapped journeys. In essence, these are images derived from the process of getting lost.

-I want to combine these two statements and series for my project. I want to incorporate the maps into the outside landscape. I am really interested in how maps are supposed to guide us, yet often get us lost.

-link to website: http://www.rockpapercloud.com/

i don't belong in the north

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/disneyland-ad-1.jpg

I came across this ad surfing the web. I enjoy looking at all the different types of advertisements on adsoftheworld.com. It's a very user friendly website that compiles different types of ads. It's a way for me to research topics and come up with ideas. The advertisements are photographs and video's.

The thing I like most about the above advertisement is the color. I have always been a huge fan of how Disney markets themselves. With the use of color and lighting they always make a magical and surreal scene. I find it interesting that this advertisement was made for DisneyLand Resort in Paris, yet it is still something that looks like the advertisements for DisneyLand in America.