Best Photo

MSJMC Week Story

This is a picture of 2 Bhangra Dancers exhausted from a long day and waiting for their turn to perform.

This group of talented group is beat boxing and impressing the audience.

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Bhangra performers are doing their best to impress the audience.

These ballet dancers are showing off their flexibility.

All the performers are outside getting ready before the assembly.

These 2 Bhangra dancers are posing for their picture.

The rock band is starting off the Assembly with their amazing performance.

Shutter Speed and Everything After

1. The shutter speed is very fast. The trucks on the right must be moving quickly as it drives down the highway. However, in the photo, it appears to be still as it was captured at an instant.

2. The rule of composition seen here is perspective. As the photo was taken in the center of the highway, the lines of the side of the highway are drawing your eye into the center. The second rule of composition is the use of diagonals. The lines of the sides of the freeway are diagonal to the rest of the photo and help draw your eyes to the focus. There are many diagonal lines in the photo that stand out against the relative emptiness of the background.
3. An element of art seen here is space. Only a third of the photo has subjects while the rest of the sky and roads provide a simple background. The focus is therefore on the trucks.
4. An element of design seen here is balance. The photo is very balanced with the vast sky and large highway, with almost strategically placed trucks that your eye is drawn to.

Tuesday's with Farley's Kids

Variety of the Fittest

Photo #4

This picture has a mix of different football teams and the three pictures are unrelated to them. There is also a board of Malcom X in the middle of the 2 pictures of the models. Each of the flags represent the interest of civil rights liquor and football teams.

Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful? My definition of successful is achieving what one wants in life.
2. What have you given up to become successful? To be successful I have had to sacrifice many of my hobbies and loved possessions.
3. What did Parks give up to become successful? He gave up his family life
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father? He was a rich businessman
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)? 10,000
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam? 500,000 dollars
7. Why did Parks refuse the money? He thought that Muhammed was going to influence him, but he didn't want to represent something he wasn't fond of.
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree? First major movie by a black person.
9. What was significant about the character Shaft? He was a black superhero in those days.
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons? He chose his 35 millimeter camera
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce? They divorced due to the turmoil Gordon was in in that time.
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story? Twelve Years as a slave
13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr? Gordon Parks's son
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo? American Gothic
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years? I will remember that he was a great photographer and worked hard in life. 

Elements of Art- Repitition

Element of Art- Color