Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Michelle Robb Tanner


I’m thinking about interviewing Michelle Robb Tanner A known photographer in Minnesota because she is not only a very talented photographer but also a very prolific one which I am sure gives her insight into the most important uses of technology in her field, I am interested in what technology is actually applicable in the field , because although a lot of technology is taught while studying photography I know that it not all of It is applied, so I will try in my interview to contrast between what is taught and what is used.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Technology in my field

Technology in my field
Although I know I want to major in art, I am not sure what exact field of art I want to study , but I am very interested in photography so in my interview I would like to find out how impotent programs like Photoshop are to a photographer. I also would like to learn more about the relationship between a photographer and his/her camera, and how much does the quality of the camera effect the overall photograph.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Complicating Access...

I felt the overall balance of the paper helped greatly in making the points it to make and that really got me thinking about the impotence of a well planned out essay, one that is thought out ahead of time (especially in the case of an interview) the way he countered information between the two case studies showed that he had a clear point in mind before he conducted the interview. And that did a lot to help the cohesiveness of the paper.
I also found that way he quoted the indiviuals he was studying to be extremely interesting, it had a familiarizing effect as though you knew these individuals on a first name bases, and although we are not supposed to use that type of quoting in our essay i still thought it important to come in contact with different styles of relating information.

Monday, September 19, 2011

interview essay


















the articles i read gave me interesting insight to the different ways an essay can be written based on interviews, and the different ways the interview material can be used to state facts or statistics or just the general thoughts and opinions of the individual...and gave me a clear insight into the difference between our first essay and the interview essay and how the process of thought should be established.
what i found most useful was the importance of having a clear idea established of what the main ideas you want to have in your essay and the importance of having questions that support those ideas. also from something the professor said i made note of how important it is to clearly state your resources.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

some more questions ..

What in your life (if anything) would change if you suddenly were no longer able to communicate with others in digital ways?
I would no longer be able to talk to my fathers side of the family including my aunts and cousins and grandparents, I would lose contact with basically all of my friends.
Describe a time when you communicated through the web, email, texting, chat, or Facebook when things went better than they might have if the communication had been face to face? What happened, and why do you think this communication worked better than it would have had you been talking face to face?
For some reason communicating through msn and similar programs is easier for me if it’s with someone I feel a little shy around, because I don’t have to worry about my voice going squeaky or having a dumb answer , I f I can’t think of something to say I just take a little time to think about it and pretend like it’s the internet connection that’s slow, so all successful chat communication’s for me have been with either an authority figure or just someone who I find intimidating, and most unsuccessful chat communications have been with close friends, because it never feels right because of how well we communicate face to face.
If you've used IM (Instant Messaging), texting, Twitter, or Facebook, when and how do you use it, and what sorts of effects has it had on personal relationships? If you've used chat rooms, think about your first experiences with them. What happened, and how did you feel about it?
Right now I use facebook mainly to keep updated on the news back home, believe it or not the news I get from facebook from my friends who usually were a witness or heard it from someone is more accurate then any news channel plus its faster then any breaking news banner.
I also us it to stay updated on my friends general lives, and through comments and similar function I feel involved to some degree in their lives.
Try to remember a specific computer technology that excited or angered you. Why did this technology have this specific impact on you?
I remember webcams changing the way I communicated with my overseas family, and they truly excited me now I could see my newly born cousin waving at me, and he can become familiarized with my face, before webcams whenever I visited the U.S the littlest members of the family would not even know who I was .
Another computer technology that changed things for me, was the adobe programs like Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign these programs changed my field of study and digitalized it giving artists exciting new opportunities and horizons.