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We asked 70 People, Seven Questions About Race & Ethnicity in American Culture!
This Video is What they Said!
A Final Presentation for Prof. Joyce Maxwell’s Honors Studies HRS103 Course “Race and Ethnicity in American Culture” hrs103.wordpress.com/7Questions
Presented by... Binu JACOB, Jasmine NIEVES, Chris MAURO, & Joseph EULO
The 7 Questions:
1Q-How Do You Define "Race"?
Anonymous Question: I Define Race as a Positive Word
Results:60% Agreed, 28% Disagreed, 12% Had No Opinon
2Q-How Do You Define Ethnicity?
Anonymous Question:I Define Ethnicity as a Positive Word
Results: 60% Agreed, 28% Disagreed, 12% Had No Opinon
3Q-What Is The Difference Between Race and Ethnicity?
Anonymous Question:There is a Difference Between Race and Ethnicity
Results:82% Agreed, 16% Disagreed,2% Had No Opinon
4Q-Why Do You Think The 2009 Presidential Election Was So Important In US History?
Anonymous Question:The Past Election Was Very Important in U.S. History
Results:94% Agreed, 6% Had No Opinon
5Q- How Does The Current President Influence The Way Americans View Each Other?
Anonymous Question: The Current President Positivley Influences the Way Americans View Each Other
Results:88% Agreed, 12% Disagreed
6Q-How Does The Current President Influence The Way America Is Viewed Abroad?
Anonymous Question: The Current President Positively Changes the Way America Is Viewed Abroad
Results: 90% Agreed, 10% Disagreed
7Q- How Has The 2008 Presidential Election Opened up Dialogue On Issues of Race?
Anonymous Question: The 2008 Presidential Election Has Opened Up Dialogue on Issues of Race
Results: 82% Agreed, 4% Disagreed, 14% Had No Opinon
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Dan Maffei of Transcore answers questions about The Toll Roads' new all-electronic toll collection electronic equipment at a press conference held today to mark the launch of The Toll Roads' three new ExpressAccount types.
The Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) today introduced three new ExpressAccount™ payment options, which give customers more choices on how to pay tolls. TCA, which operates The Toll Roads (SRs 73, 133, 241 and 261) will remove all cash toll collection from the 51-mile toll road network in May 2014.
The New ExpressAccounts – New Ways to Pay Tolls Without Stopping
With the new, transponder-free ExpressAccounts, images of a vehicle’s license plate taken on The Toll Roads are linked to an account and the appropriate toll is collected. When customers sign up for an ExpressAccount, they may choose one of three payment options:
•Prepaid – Customers open an account with a prepaid balance and tolls are deducted from the amount whenever they use The Toll Roads.
•Charge – At the end of each day, customers tolls are charged to the credit card on file for each trip on The Toll Roads.
•Invoice – Customers are sent an invoice at the close of the month for tolls incurred that month; no need to use a credit card or link a bank account to your account. This account type includes an invoice fee.
ExpressAccounts can only be used on The Toll Roads (SRs 73, 133, 241 and 261). And the toll is on average 20 percent higher than the toll paid by a FasTrak customer.
FasTrak: Still Lowest Tolls
Customers with FasTrak, which uses transponder technology affixed to a vehicle’s windshield, will continue to pay the lowest tolls and may be used on all toll roads, lanes and bridges throughout California. FasTrak customers won't have to make any changes to their accounts when cash collection ceases on The Toll Roads.
Learn more at TheTollRoads.com.
The enigmatic Japanese photographer, who took some of the 20th century’s most compelling images, is finally getting his first retrospective in the UK - and Switzerland. ‘Yes, it’s a bit late,’ he tells our writer
Charlotte Jansen
It isn’t easy to get to know Daidō Moriyama. The Japanese photographer, 85, answers my questions from his home in Tokyo via an interpreter, and is quick to bat off personal questions. “Photographers can only take pictures,” he shrugs.
But Moriyama has done far more than take pictures. Although best known as a street photographer, he has pushed the form to its limits, interrogating what photographs are, how they are experienced, their ethics and effect. He is also behind some of the most iconic and influential pictures of the last 50 years – from closeups of fishnet stockings to portraits of stray dogs they are regarded as lyrical, symbolic expressions of the postwar era in Japan.
“He is shy, inconspicuous, and concentrated. He is a real brain – very articulated and well-read, who speaks in elegant, metaphoric ways,” says Thyago Nogueira, the curator of a rare retrospective exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery that gives an unprecedented view of Moriyama’s dazzling work.
The show is a riveting, rapturous exploration of the enigmatic and prolific photographer, spanning from his earliest works in the late 1960s to today – he continues to go out with his camera, and a cigarette. “Although I have some constraints, including my health, I want to take as many photos as possible each day.”
Moriyama set about photographing the world not as it was but as he saw it – a confused, chaotic and fragmented reality.
Photographs are presented in myriad ways: at times completely overwhelming the viewer. There are slideshows on projectors (some more than an hour long), installations of images covering entire walls, magazine and book spreads, and sequences of glorious prints, mostly in black and white, changing in scale. In their various incarnations, with repeated images amounting to a kind of neuroticism, the photographs have a relentless pace. “They are a punch in the stomach,” as Nogueira puts it.
Moving back and forth between decades, the black and white film imbuing the images with a kind of timelessness, Moriyama contests photography as a form rooted in a moment or place. His photographs articulate something else, they palpitate with mystery – the great inexplicable essence of life. Perhaps this is why he is reluctant to speak for the images.
Moriyama was born in Osaka (then Ikeda), Japan, in 1938. “I was raised in a very ordinary way. My father was an office worker, and my mother was a housewife,” he says. His childhood wasn’t easy. Against the backdrop of US occupation and the second world war, home life was punctuated by loss. A twin brother died when Moriyama was two. The family moved often for his father’s work, before his early death. “I did not fit in at school. I lost my father when I was young. But I have always loved to draw so I became a designer through an acquaintance.” He apprenticed at a graphic design studio. His first photographs, he recalls, were of the family dog. In a later series “Memories of a Dog”, Moriyama returned to places of his childhood, to photograph his memories.
In 1961 he moved to Tokyo to pursue a dream of becoming a photojournalist, like his sensei, Shōmei Tōmatsu – Japan’s pre-eminent postwar photographer. “I became a photographer because I found the photographers I worked with very sporty and cool – and I guess I was never cut out for desk work,” Moriyama says wryly.
From early staid, documentary, journalistic-style images, mostly shot at the American base at Yokosuka (some of which are presented at the Photographers’ Gallery’s show) Moriyama’s approach quickly evolved into an expressive, subjective style that evoked his own experience of the world. He was invited to join Provoke – a collective of young photographers determined to revolutionise photography – by Takuma Nakahira, a photographer and critic, who died in 2015. “Takuma Nakahira was then, and still is, my only friend and my only rival.”
Provoke published just three issues of a visual manifesto between 1968 and 1969, but they had a profound effect. Japanese critics ridiculed the group’s lack of technical skills as “are, bure, boke” (“grainy, blurry, out-of-focus”). These terms were later reclaimed to describe the style pioneered by Moriyama. But, he says, “I never consciously shot that way, nor did I care.”
Moriyama set about photographing the world not as it was but as he saw it – a confused, chaotic and fragmented reality. There is a furious urgency to the pictures he took between 1968 and 1972: black and white photographs of everything and nothing, of underground kabuki actors and other avant garde artists and performers, erotic scenes, portraits of animals and street life, photographs of photographs, and of TV screens and newspaper headlines – precursors to screenshots and reels. “I was strongly inspired by William Klein’s books of New York, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, published when he was still young. It was something in particular that I saw in his photographs that seemed to connect me to my own photography.”
Questioning the purpose of photography so deeply led Moriyama down a dark road.
Moriyama’s photographs have become a testament of a tumultuous time in Japan, conveying a sense of the grim and gritty reality of the underbelly of the city in grainy images. “I understood the social atmosphere at that time, but personally I had no interest in politics,” Moriyama reflects. Many of these images were originally shot as photo essays for magazines – it was the golden age of the Tokyo publishing industry, and magazines were museums for photography as it became a new artistic form. The pictures were later printed again, sometimes at different scales, reshuffled and reordered, and compiled into the photobooks Moriyama is famous for – such as his acclaimed work, A Hunter, shot from the window of a car as Moriyama hitchhiked around Japan. “When I am going along the road, snapping the shutter as I read each moment, I become at times a poet, a scientist, a critic, a philosopher, a labourer, or a politician,” he said.
A less familiar, groundbreaking series of work on show at the Photographers’ Gallery is a monthly column Accidents produced throughout 1969 for a mass media publication. Each series took on a different aspect of photography and its exploitation by the mass media – a poster of a car crash designed to shock and scare; photographs of TV screens and newspapers in Japan in the week after JFK’s assassination. It shows Moriyama’s concern with the ethics of photography and its exploitative nature.
But questioning the purpose of photography so deeply led him down a dark road. In 1972 Moriyama published “Farewell Photography”, a swan song to his chosen medium, a mashup of old negatives, scraps and prints gathered from his archives and thrown together. Photography, Moriyama realised, wasn’t going to change the world as he had once believed.
He suffered depression and became addicted to sleeping pills. It was almost a decade before he picked up the camera again, when he was commissioned by two editor friends concerned for his well being. Just as the camera had plunged him into an existential void, it pulled him back from the brink of self-obliteration.
“Moriyama spent his life asking a basic, fundamental question: What is photography?” Nogueira says. “He never answered that question, but his life’s work is a constant and honest response to that.”
Today, Moriyama is humble about his achievements. “I am happy to know that many people around the world have been exposed to my photographs and photo books,” he says. Photographing daily for so many decades, “there is nothing that has not already been taken – each photograph becomes a great cycle. It is connected to the past and to the future – and that is why there is the most reality in the current photograph that captures it.
“Beyond the photographer, the work returns to society – and that is the most powerful force of photography.”
Question: How do you find a photo on those days you can't break from your daily routine?
Today was one of those days. I took a picture of my water streaked windshield and slapped a few lightroom filters on it, made a few adjustments, and hope no one notices.
New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!
Ask me any questions! :)
Nikon D800E Fine Art! A Study of the Sunset at the San Clemente Pier! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography! Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR!
I think my hallmark/trademark might be that I see more beauty in things than others, and I can never pick my favorite shot! For instance, as the sun set over the San Clemente Pier, I loved all the light!
New Instagram!
Celebrating Dr. E's LAw of Moving Dimensions ^& Dynamic Dimensions Theory dx4/dt=ic which derives from Homer's Odyssey! "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them." --Homer's Odyssey! herosodysseyphysics.wordpress.com
Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
New Instagram!
Videos!
I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Odyssey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes Shot with Nikon D800E: Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Enjoy the Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's odyssey of your own making!
All the best on your epic hero's odyssey!
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Questions on any subject the government is responsible for are put to the government in the chamber. A government minister or spokesperson answers and members follow up with supplementary questions.
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The National Palace of Mafra, the Franciscan convent and its church is a truly magnificent monument to visit. Being one of the most important Baroque buildings in Portugal it was financed with the gold from Brazil (a Portuguese colony at the time) and it’s a symbol of the absolutist reign of D. João V. Its construction started 1711 and ended up with a palace with over 1200 rooms, from which the library is the most magnificent example. Housing about 40.000 books from the 18th century is the biggest and richest in the world from its age. Since law to science books many relics can be seen there.
Still, due to the Napoleon invasions this library was not finished as it has no paintings to decorate it. The monks had to run away from the invaders and never completed the work. This Napoleonic invasion also made the Portuguese Royal Family seek refuge in Brazil taking with them the best and most important pieces from the palace. These can only be seen in Brazil nowadays, as the family in its return left them there. But there are still many, many great historical pieces to be seen.
The church included in the building is completely stunning, and it houses the largest and finest collection of Italian statues from the 18th century existing in Portugal. It also has a group of six organs, with themes specifically made to be played on them and thus is impossible to be reproduced anywhere else in the world, and the famous 96 bells which play musical themes once a week. These last two features are unique in the world by their dimension, complexity and richness.
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Question is, why? What can that guy possibly be doing that he needs water so bad, he needs to get it from the sea? Did he have that filter with him? Why is he wearing a Darth Vader costume? What is going on here?
1. Put your mp3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Have Fun!
IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY? Grenade
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSEf? Yellow
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? Hallelujah
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? Set fire to the rain
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? Young Forever
WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO? Rock that boat
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? I'm yours
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? domino
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? little bad girl
WHAT IS 2 + 2? without love
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? Somebody i used to know (not really, the complete opposite)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? We Are golden
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? Turning tables
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Every terdrop is a waterfall ( yup :'( it's true! Not really)
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? Americano/dance again MASH-UP
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? Never Say Never
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? starships
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Where is the love?(hopeless romantic ;)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Smile
WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW? Happy Ending (couldn't have picked a better song myself)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? I Will always love you ( i love you guys )
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA CALL THIS GAME? save the world
Well it turned out pretty good! :D
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Questions on any subject the government is responsible for are put to the government in the chamber. A government minister or spokesperson answers and members follow up with supplementary questions.
Learn more about how the Lords checks and challenges government decision and actions.
Copyright House of Lords 2019 / Photography by Roger Harris
Addison, A. (editor). "The Children's Book of Questions & Answers". London: Berkeley Publishers Limited, 1974.
Photograph by Barnaby's Picture Library.
Walter L. Haith, field office director with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Seoul answers questions about citizenship and immigration for a group of Soldiers, spouses and civilian employees at Army Community Services on Camp Casey April 8. USCIS counselors are available for walk-in service every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the legal office on U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan.
Radio 4's Any Questions programme comes to Leeds Grand Theatre. Managing Director, Opera North, Richard Mantle and Jonathan Dimbleby. Picture: Daniel Oxtoby
The first question I ever asked my recruiter is, "When do I get my dress blues." He said, "When you earn them."
I only wore them 4 times in 5 years of active duty. The last time was in 2002 just before I was promoted to Corporal as well. This coat was never updated after that and still has minimal decoration and Lance Corporal rank on it.
Couldn't fit in it since 2003 but I always thought I would get a new one if I needed, but never did. Maybe I should at least update my medals and ribbons.