PJ Class

“Trying to convey beauty in war was a technique to try to prevent the reader from looking away or turning the page in response to something horrible. I wanted them to linger, to ask questions.” - Lynsey Addario (It's What I Do)      This quote would have to be one of my favorites because the quote in itself makes you want to ask more questions. I found myself in awe when I first saw her pictures because at the time I had been listening to the audiobook and haven't seen any. However, as soon as I saw the pictures I simply couldn't look away and felt like I had to re-read the section the photo referenced so that I could understand all that was being said in both the book and the photo. The techniques she uses to capture photos like the one I'm including aren't exactly done with the camera itself, she has a way of integrating herself into the culture she's capturing. Weather it's the military, Taliban or just someone's home like in Afghanistan she utilizes ...

       This week was up to me as a photographer and my favorite assignment from this year was the environmental and mug shot assignment. So this is Elisa Maddison and she is a student at OSU studying HDFS (Human Development and Family Sciences) to pursue a career in helping adults with disabilities.  When she isn't working on homework her hobby is art. She has been drawing for the past 10 years and has found her favorite medium includes recycling old records. To do this she will sand the record to be able to paint on it or if she is working on a collage then tape and glue suffices. Utilizing her drawing skills she also draws on her tablet to sketch out designs for tattoos, stickers and future record projects.  Though she hasn't been able to currently she hopes to be able to sell her designs and stickers soon. Her main inspiration comes from her parents who are also very versed in the arts and crafts department.    

 As part of my Journalism class we are required to create a report on a photographer of our choice. For this project I chose Walker Evans, a semi-abstract photographer turned historical storyteller. Starting off in the early 30s as a solo artist, he lived in New York and had a knack for capturing the everyday life within the city. The idea that he should be asked to make a photograph conceived by someone else was offensive to his ego; in addition, there were many sorts of photographs that he had never learned to make.  From mid-1935 to early 1937 Evans worked for a regular salary as a member of the so-called “historical unit” of the Farm Security Administration (FSA; earlier, the Resettlement Administration), an agency of the Department of Agriculture, ran by Roy E. Striker. In any case it afforded Evans the means of traveling, generally alone and without immediate financial concerns, in search of the material for his art. During the late summer of 1936 Evans was on leave...

  The light-up football outside Reser stadium is a true landmark that anyone from around Corvallis or Linn county area would recognize. While the noon light gives a good impression nothing beats the football lighting up in the evening with a massive amount of people walking in during football season. A gathering of students outside of the MU courtyard counter protest a man demanding, to those who will listen, to repent their ways so they may be spared from going to hell. While he generally isn't given much attention the students gather to watch students counter his arguments and show off their signs to contrast all of the types of people he says will go to hell. Finally we have two brothers preforming football drills on the Intramural Fields. Luke Janssen (left) brought his brother, Titus, out on this beautiful day to help him get ready to play football once the season starts. Since Luke is normally studying at George Fox he got an opportunity to work near OSU for the Spring and Su...

May 9th was the perfect day to walk or bike ride around Oregon State University with everyone else enjoying the sun. On SW Campus Way students traverse to their next class or lunch around 2:55pm.  Also enjoying the sun are (from left to right) Ryan Shultz, Lauren Ehlers and Logan Ramsey. All of whom are finishing up their third year of civil engineering with a teaching minor for Logan. As I'm taking pictures they discuss where they'll go for memorial day weekend, our three day weekend away from school. Finally, a big smile from Benny Beaver of whom resides just inside Memorial Union. This Redwood sculpture was presented to the MU and the students of OSU by the class of 1966, the sculpture was done by Floyd and Davis.

  Jeremy Randolph-Flagg is a geology teacher here at Linn Benton Community College whose been working here for the past 4 years. Normally he is the instructor for the Oceanography and Physical Science : Principals of Earth Science classes. This year it is his first time teaching my Historical Geology class. One of his favorite parts of teaching trying out different puzzles and activities to engrave the coursework into them in a fun and entertaining way.