Week 2

Assignment
My assignment was to find 50 photos; 25 from the Lincoln Era and 25 from the contemporary era.

Craft
To find the Lincoln era photos, I simply went to numerous online photo search engines (i.e. google, photobucket, flickr, etc) and typed in "Abraham Lincoln" in the search bar. Tada! An array of Lincoln Memorial, Abraham Lincoln, and some irrelevant photos popped on screen. I selected the ones that appealed to me the most (especially the ones where his hair was fUnKy).

As far as the 25 contemporary photos, I had to invest in a disposable Kodak camera (I would've used my digital camera but somehow, the screen on it cracked. Yea... I almost cried...). I started snapping away at random things; a telephone display in Office Depot, some liquor bottles in CVS, a couple Lincoln Towncars. After taking 15 "new" pictures, I found 10 more on my computer that I had already taken. Most of those were fun memories of dates, trips out of town with my nephews, and museum trips with my sister.

Composition
The contemporary photo that I chose as my favorite is a picture of my little sister. No, she's not my real little sister, but... Well that's another story. Anyway, this is one of my favorite pictures because it was taken in mid-action, kind of a spontaneous picture. We were walking briskly to the parking garage outside of the Field Museum. It was FREEZING that day, but she still managed to give a really cute and cheesy smile, despite the -47 degree weather (no, not really but it sure did feel that way). My favorite Lincoln Era photo was a photo of his lovely profile. The background is darkened, which causes his head to pop out more. It's a very dramatic photograph, in my opinion.

I plan on meshing a picture of Abraham Lincoln standing up with a picture that I took at my nephew's kindergarten graduation. Why? Well, I just think it would be pretty funny; a president who's been dead for over 200 years at a 2008 kindergarten graduation. Good times...

Concept

Basically, the concept of my project as a whole is to give viewers the impression that Lincoln is a fun-loving guy who likes to party and live life on the edge (AFTER he graduates from kindergarten of course). He's so serious in almost all of the pictures that I seen of him. He needs to break out of his shell.

Week 1

Assignment

-Set up blog

Craft

-How you did it/Process

I was prompted to create a gmail account. Creating that account would have started off my blogging birth, but being rejected for making it pushed back the labor time. After numerous "try again" clicks and trial and error processes with different usernames and passwords of mine that were already in existence with different email accounts, I quit trying; it was becoming pointless, and not to mention, very annoying. I decided to attempt to start my blog with a different email address that I already had. Lo and behold, it worked! I filled out a few "display name" and "password" boxes, clicked a few "accept terms of agreement" circles and thus, "Visual Communication" was born.

Composition

-Why this photo? Why this template?

I took this photo of myself while I was sitting in my dorm room during my freshman year. I guess I was just kind of bored one day. Ever since then, I fell in love with it. It's one of my favorite photos. I've never taken any other photo of myself like it. My eyes big, warm and brown, my smile wide and bright, long eyelashes and soft, silky hair... It's a beautiful interpretation of myself; soft and sweet, with a warm stare that can be easily embraced. If you're lucky, maybe they'll even embrace you back.

Being the "girly-girl" that I am, this template immediately caught my eye when I saw it. I loved the colorful polka dots, the different hues of blues, oranges, and greens, and the cartoon-like and cute little icons. It fit my girlish personality.

Concept

-If you had a soap box, what would you yell to the world?

I'm a quiet and shy person, sort of introverted, if you will. Since I'm not accustomed to being very loud but I like trying new things, I would probably just yell through my soap box. No sentence forms, no words. Nothing but yelling. Maybe a nice "YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" or maybe even a "WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" would definitely satisfy me. Yeah... That'll work.