AD BUSTER

Ad Buster project statement:

For this project I chose to subvert the meaning of the just do it logo made famous by the Nike shoe corporation. The intended audience is everyone. The message that I am putting forth is not that greed is good but that we should, all occupy resistance against greed. I Chose to do this image because I am both very aware of and involved in the Occupy movement. As a senior that is graduating in May, I am very concerned that I have accumulated all of this debt AND there are no jobs. This is a harsh reality for students all over this country. They, like me, are faced with a difficult decision of either returning to graduate school and acquiring more debt (while waiting to see if the economy stabilizes and jobs are created) or they can take the jobs that are available. Most of which are jobs they do not need their degree for. This problem must be addressed before it spreads like cancer among the middleclass. Banks must start lending to small businesses; big business must start paying their taxes and creating jobs; our government must be held accountable for going to bed with big business; consumers must be aware of what they are buying & where it comes from. Change begins at home. We the people need to stand up for ourselves to protect our democratic rights.

Body's of Resistance

           

 Bodies of Resistance – A body’s project By – Michael Crandall

For this project, I was most inspired by the work done by Carrie Mae Weems. Up until that point, I was trying to figure out where I would get a willing naked body to allow me to take pictures. After viewing, her spread in class and watching her speak on her work. I realized that the body could be used to make a political or humanitarian statement. This realization in conjunction with my concern for the future made this the perfect project for me. I chose to match each of the images with an article from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights because they apply very directly to the matter at hand.

Master / Slave – 

Article 4.No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

The first picture is master/slave it can be argued that huge corporations participate in several forms of servitude. I feel that it is also, important to note that all of the ‘slaves’ regardless of color, gender, or age are all in the same uniform. There is no sense of individuality. They are the same seven faceless workers in every fast food joint in America.

Right / Wrong

Article 9.No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

The second image right/wrong is an image I feel very strongly about. On both sides of the image u have people of all races, sexes, and religious belief all united or divided by class struggle. I chose the image on the left in part because of the quote, but more because she is the embodiment of a generation lost in space. She is the 99% she is young, beautiful, educated, American, and afraid of what a future with no change holds.  On the right is what she fears being brought to bear.

Us / Them

Article 20. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Again, I chose the image on the left because it showed the diversity of the bodies involved in this movement. People from all walks of life united under the tyranny of corporate greed. They are not armed nor do they seek violence as a solution. The image on the right is eerie, violent, and faceless. The only appropriate corporately funded response to peaceful assembly.

Hope / Fear

Article 23.

·         (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

·         (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

·         (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

·         (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

This image speaks for itself in my opinion.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Life on the U

Exploration of textures

In this image I was attempting to capture the implied texture of the beads of water  in contrast to the ribs of the flower.

I felt that this image was really interesting because the implied textures seem to me to both be in and out of focus at the same time. 

This image was an attempt to contrast the implied "puffy" texture of the clouds with the  waxy stalks of the flower.

Rule of 3rds

I thought that this image was interesting because it creates almost a layered effect  along the vertical  lines of the  quadrant system.

For this picture I was trying to align the top branch of the tree and the center of the flower. I felt like this was a good representation of the way light moves through a photograph according to the rule.  With the image being darkest in the lower left hand quadrant of the image and progressing diagonally through the quadrants. 

In this image I was attempting to starkly contrast the light using the quadrant system. Making the focal point of the  image  be more about the sky and less about the flower that dominates the other quadrants.

Photographic Perspectives Project