Tuesday, March 31, 2015

"Tuesday with Farley's Kids"


1. This picture is a little bit fast; the wind causes objects to blow farther.  
2. Space is one of the rules of composition in Elements of Art.
3. Element of Art - Taking spaced-up pictures chooses the 3-D pictures of props like a truck accident.
4. Principle of Design - The movement reveals flying winds around the world.

The two kids visit and love each other.
Medium: (320 ×  240 pixels)
Shutter Speed: 1/100

Partner: Junior Wei

Friday, March 27, 2015

Lens Post Variety

#21 Ford T-Model Blues

1. A black man is playing an electric guitar.
2. I love the movement and emphasis.
3. I love the Ford T-Model Blues at home.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Unity


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Variety


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Rhythm


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Monday, March 23, 2015

Half Past Autumn (Pt. 3 and 4)

1. My defenition of successful is accomplishing aims or purposes.
2. I have given up nothing to become successful.
3. Parks gave up a situation like, being turned onto the street to fend for himself to become successful.
4. Genevieve Young's father was a farmer who grew beets, potatoes, corn, beets, and collards.
5. Parks was advanced for three years to write his first book.
6. Elijah Muhammad offered $3 million to do a story on The Nation of Islam.
7.Gordon parks gave Muhammad a chance to go into the world of Islam and do what he had to do. Brother Malcolm would be his guide.
8. The Learning Tree tells the story of a young African American growing up in rural Kansas during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when racial discrimination was a social norm and legally sanctioned in parts of the United States.
9. Shaft tells the story of a private detectiveJohn Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster.
10. Parks first autobiography, A Choice of Weapons tells the story of the obstacles he faced as a young adult and how he resisted taking up knives, guns and other weapons.
11. Young had met Parks in 1962 when she was assigned to be the editor of his book The Learning Tree.
12. Denmark Vesey's Rebellion in 1982 told the same story.
13. Gordon Parks Jr. was an American film director best known for the film Super Fly.
14. My Gordon Parks's photo is African-American nuns.
15. What I will remember Gordon Parks in ten years (2025) is I can give future photographers in publishing myself in Wikipedia.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Proportion


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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Repetition



Black & White

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Movement




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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Friday, March 6, 2015

Texture



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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Color


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Space



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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

3-D

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Half Past Autumn (Pt. 1 & 2)

1. The doctor plunged his bloody remains into a tub of  icy water and miraculously saved his life.
2. Mr. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. Ms. McClintock told Mr. Parks that not many Negros went to college.
4. He was 15 when his mother died.
5. Gordon moved in with his sister in Minnesota after his mother's death.
6. Gordon Parks did not finish high school but he graduated college.
7. He went into the store and the lady in there asked what he wanted, and he said he shot fashion after coming back tomorrow.
8. Double exposure was a correspondence of two images.
9. Joe Louis an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.
10. Gordon played the upright piano, and the viola.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to describe photographs that would work as a time capsule for evidence in the future or a certain method that a person can use for a frame of reference.
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, his first assignment for Gordon Parks in
Washington D.C. was created one of his best-known photographs, American Gothic.
13. Ella Watson was a pioneer of Wyoming who became erroneously known as Cattle Kate, a post-claimed outlaw of the Old West.
14. The inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was the image after encountering racism repeatedly in restaurants and shops in the segregated capital city.
15. Moving to Harlem, Parks became a freelance fashion photographer for Vogue. He later followed Stryker to the Standard Oil Photography Project in New Jersey, which assigned photographers to take pictures of small towns and industrial centers.  
16. The FSA ended in 1946.
17. After Gordon moved to New York, he shot for Life Magazine.
18. Alexander Liberman was the picture editor.
19. Flash Photography (1947) was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine.
20. Malcolm XStokely CarmichaelMuhammad Ali, and Barbra Streisand were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau.
21. Parks photographed fashion for Vogue in the next few years for his compentary lives.
22. Parks' concerto was performed in Hollywood, CA.
23. Park's second wife was Carol Ann Park. Carol Anne Park's father was Sally Alvis. Carol Park went missing on 17 July 1976, and was never seen alive again by her family.
24. Flavio de Silva was 12 years old.
25. Parks met Flavio on Jun. 16, 1961.
26. Flavio lived in Catacumba favela (slum) in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
27. Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress and socialite, noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. Her favorite son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors are  Herbert Shipman, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, and his second wife, Gloria Morgan.
28. Gloria Vanderbilt was confirmed in the Catholic Church, to which her mother belonged. From her father's first marriage to Cathleen Neilson, she had a half-sister, Cathleen Vanderbilt. However, Reginald Vanderbilt died.
29. Gordon parks was a self-taught artist who authored several books of poetry, which he illustrated with his own photographs, and he wrote three volumes of memoirs.
30. Beginning in the 1960s, completed Tree Symphony in 1967. In 1989, he composed and directed Martin, a ballet dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader who had been assassinated.
31. Alexander Liberman was his editor.
32. Parks created The Learning Tree (1963) for Life Magazine on Segregation in the South.