Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Short list


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1. Neighborhood Watch. In the many acts of this American Life, Neighborhood Watch, the protective sanctity of a neighborhood is a special net of what seems to be distant family members to an outsider but in fact are regular people all looking out for each other. These people live in a microcosm of a neighborhood and feel the need to protect and secure not only their own safety but the safety of others. In this podcast neighbors can rely on other neighbors with incredible requests, like caring for their children after they have died. Even a simple neighborhood watch has saved lives, like when a post man noticed a near deadly assault. Things aren't so serious, however,  once the neighbors start to crack down on the science of a forever neighborhood plague, dog poo.

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http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/will-adler

2. In this collection of photos, Will Adler, creates a connection to the most unconnected objects. You wouldn't think anything could be similar between a donkey and a child but in the photographs presented in his collection, even the most unruly eye can see it. The way he makes the connection is not through color or what is in the picture but instead its presence and shape. Will Adler uses 11 photos and two by two the last one seems to connect to the first one is some sort of way and with their being an odd number of photos it seems to be a never ending circle of pictures, the most recent being related to the last some how. The pictures are simple yet so much is shown with in them.

Helloworld

http://www.itsnicethat.com/whats-on/christopher-baker-hello-world

3. YouTube is a website full of talent, flops, and feelings. Billions of people have posted videos to YouTube and in Christopher Baker's, Hello World, he shares all the YouTube videos where people share their feelings, most have a lot to say. He combines all the small videos onto one picture and as they play all at once a blur of voices enters the ear. You can't tell who is saying what and by listening to the diction little by little the fact of judging doesn't once come to mind. By not being able to see the person, most can't judge on their appearance and connect it to what they are saying so by mixing it all up in a concoction of video, all you can do is listen. A goal most posters are just trying to achieve.

2 comments:

  1. I love how you describeed the third option, it sounds amazing.

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  2. Option two is described with such acute admiration that it makes me want to further explore the work of WIll Adler. To be able to connect two completely different things is an interesting skill.

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