Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1 and 2

Movie Monday - Half Past Autumn

Post the answers in a blog post after the segment. You can continue adding responses to the same post after future segments. 

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)
3. What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?
4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?
5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?
6. Did Gordon graduate from college?
7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
8. What is a "double exposure?"
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?
10. What instrument did Gordon play?
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?
13. Who was Ella Watson?
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?

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16. When did the FSA shut down?
17. After Gordon moved to New York, what magazine did he shoot for?
18. Who was the picture editor of Life Magazine when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office?
19. What was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine?
20. Who were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau?
21. How did Parks shoot fashion when he lived in France?
22.Where was Parks' concerto performed?
23. Who was Parks' second wife? (Who was her father? What did she do?)
24. How old was Flavio de Silva when Parks met him?
25. When did Parks meet Flavio?
26. Where did Flavio live when Parks first met Flavio and his family?
27. How is Gloria Vanderbilt? Who is her famous son? Who are her ancestors?
28. How did Vanderbilt describe their relationship?

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Part 3

What is your definition of successful?
What have you given up to become successful?
What did Parks give up to become successful?
How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?
How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?
Why did Parks refuse the money?

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.