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I am lazy. Sorry, Mama G

September 29, 2019

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Let me preface this blog by plainly saying that this is really hard. Whatever you are about to read has been written and rewritten probably upwards of a dozen times. With that, happy reading. I was young. I was naive. I was hopeful. I was misguided. I was expecting one high school, and got another one entirely. I was ... I don't really know. People always say that hindsight is 20/20, but, quite frankly, it is pretty freaking blurry to me. While those above statements are pretty much indisputable, they do very little to capture who I truly was . When I try to look back on who I was at the start of high school, I don't have much I can say. But, then, does it really even matter who I was. That time is behind me, behind you, and behind anything that is truly relevant. I am who I am right now. This current version of my self matters as much as anything ever will, yet it is also just as irrelevant as my self from four years ago. We, as people, are constantly changi...

AirPods = Sinful?

"AirPods - Bounce - Apple." YouTube , Apple, 2019, https://youtu.be/yyNtm0LZiKc. When looking at this Apple advertisement, a few key components jump out at the viewer. For one, the entire video is in black and white, even at the end when the product is titled, none of the text deviates from this B&W tone. Secondly, the man wearing AirPods in this video is able to interact with his environment in a way that all the other people - non AirPod wearers - cannot. Once the viewer has established these two persisting realities for the video, other peculiarities begin to pop out as well. When the camera cuts to a shot of a large group of people waiting at a bus stop, we then quickly see the man jump over this group of people, dancing absent-mindedly on the stop's roof. In another shot we see people walking across a cross-walk, but then our AirPod endowed man gallops across, displaying gross ignorance of those around him. Another part of the video that Apple includes i...

Wing Young Huie Photograph Response

link This photo was taken by Wing Young Huie in 2012-13. It is part of one of his collections, and is entitled, "We are the Other." It is not disclosed what city or even what state this photo was captured in. When looking at this photo there are many different things that pop out right away. There is an elderly asian man sitting down in what appears to be a barber shop. This man is holding a bright red guitar and seems to be playing some sort of tune; although, his face seems to express feelings of violation and almost confusion.The guitar's olden, oversized, and decorative style almost makes it seem like it is some sort of antique - possibly with sentimental value. When the background is looked at closely, one can tell that this barber shop is likely tailored for caucasian people: every single model haircut that is on the mirror behind the man is of a white person. One of the other peculiar aspects of the above picture is the man's attire. In what appears to b...

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