All these recent events are just emphasizing on how hypocrite Americans are in general. I feel like right now the entire world is pointing fingers and laughing at us for trying to promote “world peace” in other countries and continents while we are the ones that need help the most. I feel like communism in the USA worst that  communism in North Korea even though we don’t say it. We are the first ones to talk about our rights and whatnot, but as we can see in Olson’s pictures, the moment people try to protest, tear gases were thrown at them. Looking at these pictures and comparing them to happened in Kent State, I think that the United States still has along way to go before talking about peace.

I think that both these pictures and FSA pictures are similar because they were taken in similar situations. Watching the video made me realized that we are abusing and damaging our soils. We can’t just expect things to grow abundantly just by adding water and fertilizing the soils, we need to let it rest. I feel like it is similar to the human body, you can’t eat the same things everyday and  expect your body to be healthy. You’ll definitively have some kind of deficiency. Same thing with sleep and rest. I feel like at this rate we are heading the 1930’s dustbowl again. Americans aren’t really aware of this because of fast food chains like McDonald, Wendy’s and so on.. We all know that eating is right expensive, but don’t really know why, so some of us rely on junk food as they are less expensive and fill you faster, and don’t really care about the rest.

I remember how chaotic the class was when we first talked about Robert Capa’s  ” Death in Spain” .  I always ask myself the same question after viewing war photographs : ” is it that easy to watch someone die in front of you?” . Although I personally do not approve of some of the pictures, I think that they are the only way we can remember the soldiers that lost their lives in wars. I think that his pictures are authentic because I think that after the death of his girlfriend, Capa didn’t really see the importance of living anymore, so he put himself in all kind of dangerous situations. Even if some of his pictures were staged, he died while actually taking new pictures of the war.

For some reasons I couldn’t control my facial expression while reading this article. Do not get me wrong because I think that the pictures are great, but they felt a little bit exaggerated to me. It’s just things we see in our daily lives, but because of how they were plated was a little bit weird to me because I think that he was trying to say something along the line “hey let me show you how crazy musicians actually are”. Although I have to say that some of the requests like “cornstarch and a cup of butter”, are totally absurd I can not really judge them because we all have our own fetishes and whatnot. I think that the three most disturbing pictures from the list are: Nine Inch Nails( depends on how you view it), Busta Rhymes’ , and Billy Idol. I think the artist did a great job with the lightening and pros to show a side of musicians that we don’t really know, and maybe it is he way of saying that no one is perfect.

You can not judge a book by its cover. The first thing that came to my mind when I read the title “Le Voyage Dans La Lune”, was “oh really?? this is so not going to be fun”, but I found myself while watching the video. The video, was very detail because he used a lot of animated pictures, and combined them with videos (not really sure how he did that). I was especially impressed by the moon. Basically in the movie the moon is kind of like person, and from afar you can not really distinguished its facial features, but once you get close you can really see them. I love how He changed the image of the moon to someone that actually got hurt in the face when they finally arrived there. Overall, i think that the movie was really fun to watch compared to all the movies we’ve actually watched in class ( there was a lot of creepy ones).

Scott Olson’s took a risk to captured these memorable photographs of Ferguson protest. He thought the consequences that the protestors received for not complying with the authorities were harsh. Protestors were attacked by tear gas, rubber bullets and even arrested like the photographer Scott Olson. The photographs from Ferguson and from the Kent State captures the power of the authority against the crowd. It captures the scenario of the protest that became controversial that it raised numerous questions regarding of what happen when this picture was captured.

The photographs from the drought and the Dust Bowl is similar to the FSA photography because it is taken during the same era. These photographs capture the gloomy scene of the tragedy during the 1930′ during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. I think few Americans are unaware of the drought conditions in California because  Central Valley was a place where farmers grow their produce to feed the mass population. The drought unfortunately was not expected to turned the conditions around.