Communications Assignment

Before I started using email, I collected mail. I still collect mail. Now I also collect messages online. I have several email addresses and websites. I stop using some email addresses when I change jobs. I lost thousands of saved email addresses when my email server changed a few years ago. Some of my email addresses just fade away.

Online communication was marketed as a tool to make our lives easier. Perhaps that has happened. Online communication has also made it easier for our lives to be more clutter. 

Today we will clean up some of the clutter. Each person will fix their email signature. The signature should include the student name, grade, school and blog link.

Each student adds a link list with the blog links of the current group members. Each group members verifies all of the links on the link list. By verify, I mean that you click on the link. If it does not work, fix it.

As we say in 3rd Period, "Remember, that computer is more expensive than your shoes."

Top 5 Photos Ranking by Group

Each group will rank the top five photos from the Lens Blog Empowering the Poor and post the group's choices in order.

Include the links to each photo, not simply the gallery.

Post today! Each group leader verifies that the assignment is complete before we rank the posters.

Photos for Compositing

Use these photos when practicing Photo Composites, as shown in Julieanne Kost's tutorial. Composites can be digital or analog. They can be realistic or surreal. Photoshop started before digital cameras. Jerry Uelsmann used film (analog) to create surrealist images. Other photographers, such as Ralph Clevenger creates composites with composites that appear more realistic. (Note: not all of Ralph's images are composites.)

This picture was taken this morning with my cell phone. All the other images were taken with my 5dMarkII

New Students - Favorites

Today you will select a "Favorite Photo" from the Lens blog post called "From Smartphones to Museum Walls." Please read the Lens article too. (It mentions the Photo League.) Choose one photo and write your own blog post with a title. Include a link to the photo and provide three (3) reasons that this photo is your favorite.

In the Comment Section below, write the photo number that you chose as your favorite.


You may read more about the traveling (or is it mobile?) exhibit that is currently at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Movie Monday - The Photo League

Ordinary Miracles - The Photo League

1. What was The Photo League's credo?
2. What organization did The Photo League separate from?
3. What was the workshop?
4. Who taught "the workshop?"
5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy?
6. What was The Harlem Document?
7. Who started The Harlem Document?
8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a __________ painting. Who was the painter? 
9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? 
10. Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions)
11. Who was Weegee?
12. How did The League change when The Nazis took power?
13. How did The League change during WWII?
14. How did Siskind change after WWII?
15. What was the Saturday Evening post?
16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph?
17. What eventually undermined the Photo League?
18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film?
19. Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation?
20. What happened to the league?

Notice these things too

1. The picture of Chicks Candy Store and the Charlotte Russe
2. Henry James
3. Frank Capra
4. Glenn Miller and The Andrews Sisters
5. The Photo Hunt
6. The Munich Agreement
7. Alfred Stiegligtz
8. Daguerre

Multimedia Festival Poster

For your last project, you created a poster. The event might have been real, but your involvement was irrelevant. Some of you created a concert poster for an an event in the past or for an album that only exists in an alternate reality. 

Your next project exists in Fremont. 

In June... in 2015.

In your groups, create a poster with the following information.

Event title: Multimedia Fest 2015

include the date and time of the festival. It's June 3rd.

include website (for now): www.mvrop.org/festival

include Logan address:
Big Theatre (double check the name and spelling)
Logan High School
1800 H Street
Union City, CA 94587 (verify address)

include: Sponsored by Mission Valley ROP

include:
Video Production
Animation
Graphic Design
Music Production
Photography

Tickets $3 in advance, $5 at the door

include (tiny in one corner): Designed by... YOU

The poster should be 11x17" portrait, 300ppi. Layered psd if using Photoshop.

You only need to submit one poster per group, although you may submit up to three. 

Added February 10th: Each group must select a "Project Manager." Do this before you continue working. You may want to select someone an alternate.
After you select your project manager, create a "new link list" that shows your current group. If you wish to keep your old link list, you may. 

For New Students 2nd Semester

For students who have started Digital Photography at the semester, here is a list of projects to begin that might help you catch up. I will add to the list during the week. I will probably edit the blog as well.

If you are a new student this semester, please send me an email after you have read this post. The subject should read, "Period __ - New Student"

1. Create a photo blog on Blogger (it is a Google product)
2. Use a gmail address that is for school and work. Keep your personal email address private/personal.
3. Select your three rules of photo composition
4. Watch the Dorothea Lange video. 
5. Study the International Hall of Fame Inductees