Week 4: Daily Blog Day 4 – Thursday, February 17, 2011

Daily Blog Day 4 – Thursday, February 17, 2011

Question: Why do people write a record of their past? How does what happened yesterday in your life affect what you choose to do today?...or does it? Do we all see yesterday the same way. Choose a material object--get your digital camera... take at least 25 photos of it all from different angles or vantage points. Team up with a class member and have them photograph the same object -- compare and contrast your photos on a blog post. How do different human beings view the same object? - from Norman Constantine

            People are an interesting topic to talk about. I mean who knows what we do better than we do, but at the same time I think we barely know anything.  To answer the question above, I feel that we record our past so that we can look back on it and remember it in the future. We do this through things like photographs or diaries in hopes that when we are older we can look back and feel the happiness we did in that moment or maybe sometimes even the sadness and heartbreak. Also, I feel we record our past so that other people can see it and feel our happiness. Sometimes I even believe that we do it to make others jealous, but we can do it to reminisce with a friend too.  The truth is what happens every day affects you in so many ways. These can be big or small and most of the time we do not recognize them. The way we look at something affects us too, because we all see everything differently. What you see when you look at a picture can be completely different for the person sitting next to you. I did the project indicated above and learned a lot about people. We chose to do a friend of mine for three reasons. One, we could see how many emotions we go through in a span of a few minutes. Also, we could see based on Megan and my pictures. What we, as humans, tend to do similar and different in a task as simple of snapping a few photos of a friend. Finally, we did it because we wanted to see how we saw this person different and how we saw them the same. Although, the material object we took a picture of is her body, we learned a ton about ourselves and her. One thing we found was we took pictures commonly of the same parts of her, but we differed in the angles, vantage point, and distance when we were taking the pictures. It was a great learning experience. Look below at a few of the pictures we selected form the total fifty we took.