Homework April 12 Comic response

Ted Pioli

Writing and photography

 april 12^th

Write a short, 1-2 paragraph response in which you consider how this essay relates to the discussion we started in class regarding "the language of photography" -- i.e. how photos and writing intersect.

            This was an interesting essay; it called into question the balance between photographs and writing. Based on the essay it talks about how writing is more literal and pictures are more vague. For example when the character said this is a pipe, do it’s a drawing of a pipe, and so on…” what the narrator is trying to say is that we should be more skeptical of images, or at least not take them so seriously the first time we see them. We are a visual species and society, most people believe what they see over what they hear or read, which is interesting seeing how images are more easily tarnished and deceiving than anything else.

            I doubt the author had the Photoshop version that are out today, but what he/she is saying is relevant today, images are probably the farthest from reality, even when visually they are attempting to depict it. It is also important to recognize that writing and pictures go hand in hand. Writing goes with pictures better than it does sound or other writing it can enhance an image or completely change it’s meaning, writing  alters images and vice versa. 

These are some photos I thought go well with Rebekah Nathan's essay "Life in the Dorms".

Male's Door

Female RA door

My dorm room

Common Room

Concord MA Center

Hardware Store

Concord Library

Main street 

Colonial INN

Helen's Cafe

Concord Shops

Cafes

1.      This is Concord Center MA, in my hometown. It is filled with cafes and shops that line the whole center; including a hardware store, toy shop, and Several clothing stores, a few restaurants, a library, and a very old beer and wine shop. After watching the TED video I looked to Concord center and thought it was designed really well. Just like in the lecture, there are building with "restaurants and shops on the ground floor, and offices and apartments on the upper levels". There are a lot of benches and stone walls to sit on as well as a big green area behind all the shops in the center. However there are a few antique stores that are up really high stares that nobody ever goes into. It seems the mane attraction to the center is all the local restaurants and cafes, I also have come to the conclusion that all the shops are geared towards women, I never see any men shopping in the handbag store, or the designer clothing store "BLEU". In concord most of the houses are trying to be "country like" more because they are much older. The newer developments in concord are looking more like "TV's", bigger more "NORMAL" looking. we recently moved into a new house last year, our old house was an older style colonial house, now I guess i could describe my house as a TV, one side of the entire house only has one window, really weird. A lot more newer developments are being seen more and more in concord, some think it is taking away from the historical value of the town, Im not sure what it means, but it is definitely starting to go in the direction of everyone having DVD and TV houses.