January 2010
23 posts
“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to...”
– Pablo Picasso (via sabino)
Progress this week? Not even. No independent study due to midterms. No meeting with Dr. Bloom tomorrow ‘cause she won’t be here. I can’t do surveys yet ‘cause I need help from Mr. Foxman to transfer my spectrum to my mac. I guess I could continue to read Berger. Let’s see if I feel like it.
“Hi,
Did I make it clear that my end goal is definitely a scale of analysis...”
– My email to Mr. Foxman
Transferring my spectrum onto my computer is more difficult than I thought it’d be. I’m going to get some help from Mr. Foxman in the next few days.
My assignment for this week is to in a sense give four surveys. I will take four students, two that were present during my presentation, and two that were not and have them use my scale (that I will have transferred on to my laptop with my two epitomizing photos defining raw and clean) and have them discuss, analyze, and place the three works of art that I have posted here on my journal. I will...
I just finished developing my sub-scales and I feel like: will this thing ever go anywhere? I’m not even going to try to apply my epitomizing photos to them because I feel that the sub-scales aren’t ready for that. I’d like to first have Dr. Bloom go over them with me and we can brainstorm some more and see if I missed anything. This is giving me a headache. It’s so hard to...
I love my assignment for this week; in fact, I chose it, but I’m a lazy daisy right now. I’m pullin’ a Bartleby and “I’d prefer not to” do it until tomorrow on the bus. However, I respect my project and Dr. Bloom way too much to allow myself to give in to my indolence.
I need to get better at emailing my mentors.
So I failed to tell Mr.Foxman the number of pages to read of Ways of Seeing. I feel kind of stupid and annoyed that I stopped my own progress for the week.
I can’t wait for Ways of Seeing to affect the way I see things. Maybe it’s happening already.
My meeting with Dr. Bloom went very well today. We went over my draft for an overall raw/clean spectrum and went through the photos that I labeled as the epitome of raw and clean. So far, I’m finding that we work very well together; I always enjoy my time with her. It feels more like play then work. It’s not that we don’t take it serious, because we do, but it’s enjoyable....
This tumblr will be for my journal entries for WISE and this will be for my visual culture case studies.
Because my project is now Visual Culture, I’d like to make this tumblr theme less boring and more visually stimulating. I’ll change that and maybe I’ll post pictures at least once a week that I like.
Change of Plans
My WISE project is no longer the self-identification of toddlers. It is now Visual Culture. I will mostly be doing my work in independent study for now. I am also meeting with Dr. Bloom once a week; every friday first period, to be exact. I’m excited.