Sunday, October 18, 2009







cool shot of the camera that took the picture.





Decided to have a photo shoot in the changing room of Bass Pro. We couldn't help it, there were so many different outfits readily available.






St. Louis Cathedral Basilica





On the bus ride home from school.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)


“Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in the morning and I saw a little boy running after him and all the faculty children on the playing field ran after the boy and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture."


“…you can hold a Rolleiflex without raising it to your eye; so they didn't see me taking the pictures I just kept motionless like a statue. They never saw me clicking away. For the kind of photography I do, one has to be very unobtrusive and to blend in with the crowd."

"My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People often don't take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss. When I married in 1949, my wife asked me. 'But where are your real cameras?' I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, 'Keep it simple.'"


Ballerinas




Uniformed Drum Major For the University of Michigan Marching Band Practicing His High Kicking Prance




Wide Range of Facial Expressions on Children at Puppet Show the Moment the Dragon is Slain. Paris.




Clock In Pennsylvania Station



Sunday, March 1, 2009

MLA

Source citations are useless!
As long as you can get back to the source, you should be fine. To what point and purpose do we spend half the paper-writing time piecing together what will invariably be an incorrect source citation? You can never find all the information you're supposed to include and its always out of order, or you can never figure out what type of source to cite it as. In the end, you waist time trying to follow an unclear and overwhelmingly ambiguous format; you still don't get it right and even worse is the fact that you had that much less time to work on the content of your paper.

Your paper is handed back a few weeks later. A web of red exes, circles, and arrows of rearrangement covers the entire bibliography, worth probably up to a fifth of the total grade. You can tell more time was spent revising this single page than all the other pages combined. The content and your analysis of the information, the very piece that most proves to the world that you are NOT a babbling idiot, has become second to how well you are able to figure out an ever changing mess of syntax.