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Society has developed an obsession with wanting to see things before they believe them. So much of new technology is designed to help expand people’s ways of seeing things. I figured the most interesting device to talk about would be the radar. The radar is neat because it tells a person about things that they cannot see. Submarines use radar because under water it’s much harder to see things. With radar everything within the ocean is now known. The radar allows people to see in places that would otherwise be impossible to see. This is not only fascinating but also quite useful places like an ocean or cave are now able to explore, allowing people to discover things that were never before possible to explore. The military uses radar especially because of its discreteness and its usefulness, knowing where the enemy is, is crucial for an army. Imagining how the military has benefitted from the radar is astonishing.

This is a picture of a rain puddle, showing the change in weather patterns.






This other picture is of a sign in the shower telling kids to take shorter showers, thus using less water.

The picture in the bottom right is of my thermostat which has the AC running since it is so hot, due to global warming.

Joel Sternfeld

Joel Sternfeld’s manages to take a very powerful photo keying on few themes. Everything in this photo was meant to be in the shot. One of the most notable elements of the photo is the symmetry. The fact that there is about half an inch from the edge of the building to the margin means that the photographer was obviously trying to capture the complete destruction of the building. Also on the left side the Sternfeld manage to capture the beginnings of a guilty plaque. Almost as if he was attempting to create some sort of background story to tie into the quote on the front of the building. The flowers and crosses do a good job at provoking the idea of a background story. The photographer’s point of view is apparent, by managing to get every run down aspect of the building the reader instantly jumps to a number of conclusions creating this emotional back story. Another neat thing about this picture is the guilty plaque is almost hidden and it’s not until some fairly intense review that the viewer sees it. Once seeing this plaque the entire back story formulated by the reader is almost confirmed. All in all it is a pretty neat picture that is quite moving.

Understanding Comics pg. 695-718

commercialism- advertisement, but its important in this context as it has tainted the idea of pictures and words working together to create meaning.

Representation - for the most part this is what the average person considers a picture's main function,  the example used in the book is the cave drawings.   

Resemblance vs. Meaning - for the longest time pictures took on the role of representation, as discussed above, and the written took on meaning.  However as times change role of the written and drawn change as well.

Impressionism - not necessarily important for its meaning, but more for what it created.  With the advent of impressionism came modern art as we know it, and a return to pictures having meaning.

Interdependent - "where words and pictures go hand in hand" (pg 712) this is a pretty excellent definition.  however i think its actual effect is important.  The reader has the written and the drawn working simultaneously to create some sort of meaning.  this is neat as a reader can on some level respect comics as a conduit of meaning.

Words and pictures - The subject of the comic and an interesting concept as well.  MIxing the two together correctly does in a sense amplify the meaning, or act as a way to better display it.  So I think the authors main goal in writing this, besides bringing some legitimacy to comics, is to raise the idea that when used correctly the two are an effective medium.