fascinating times in Canadian politics – oh my goodness:

Funny.

I haven’t really been following what’s going on with the MPs and this business of the Liberals and the NDP forming a coalition government (with the support of the Bloc for a year), but then I found this video, which explains a lot:

I actually feel happy about this opportunity for the Canadian government, but it still seems too good to be true… HMMMMMMMMM

Now that I have categorized all the images the next step is to present the images in some kind of form or with some kind of method. I’ve already mentioned some ideas about presenting this project. There were two main ideas: 1) to piece together the images through creating a narrative and 2) to ask participants to find patterns or categories for the images and document their responses. I thought at first that I would go with the second idea; however, after consideration of the burden I would be placing on the participants and my lack of confidence to ask people for their time, I decided to use my own imagination and put together the images in a linear video stream. I suppose the video I am working on (I’m almost done) could be read as a narrative, but it’s more narration really. Or commentary for the images and the commonalities or issues I see as I analyze them.

I hope it’s not too boring. I’m going to try to jazz it up a bit more this evening.

Here is a mapping out of the categories and their connections:

Makes sense, right?!

The in-between tie-ins and stretches to make connections are what I am really interested in. I have another more elaborate version of this map of categories that I will photocopy and bring in for the presentation. I think it’s important, plus it’s an odd sort of printed matter piece. FUN.

There definitely were types and kinds and a sense of critical thinking of museums and galleries and archives that became very apparent as I reviewed the images over and over. There are no simple collections it seems. How do you classify piles of wood? Would you label them as ‘wood’ – or do you consider the photograph as art? Or is it supposed to fit with other types of piles? Or farm images or rural landscapes?

Because I enjoy (and can’t help) over analyzing things, I had no problem getting into the themes and issues within this disparate group of 100 images. Yet, when it comes to presenting a clear and objective archive of these images I would rather play around with the ambiguity of the collection. There is so much crossover and room for different interpertation. I look forward to seeing what other people in the course have come up with.

Silly:

The man barbecuing stands out from the rest, but he is having some leisure time I’m sure. The other images are of people definitely having a fun party time.

There are some funny poses similar to the figure skaters and posing photographers as the dancers are caught in the frame.

This is the trick category. There is only one image. I thought I would leave the category open and broad so that other images could possibly fit in, but then none really did. I guess the Niagara Falls image that is in the Nostalgia category could fit in this grouping. It just seems to go with the other Nostalgia images… so the image of apartments with a lovely colour palate stands alone…

Maybe I could have called this category “architecture” – or maybe this image should go in the “art” grouping… it is a very nice photo.

Oh well..

These  images have that retro/vintage feel.

Back in the day…

Retail spaces – 2 window storefronts and 1 interior

commercial art

Beautiful waterfall…

This category accidently was left out of the video I made for this project on the 100 images provided by Vid. I can’t believe I forgot it, it’s kinda my favorite. I really like that the process of installing work in galleries/museums is included, along with an image of someone who probably works for an archive or museum making a copy of a document. It’s this work that makes these institutions function and exist. The one image that might not actually be of work or process is of the woman with the sheep in the woods – she might just be hanging out with the sheep and not hearding them, who knows… I thought it looked like work, her expression seems to say “this is exhausting work”

So, I put the images of Pompeii in this category. However, maybe they belong in the Historical category? When you look at the images the first thing you probably think is – “oh, these are old ruins…” not “this is definitely an image of a disaster”.

You have to read the text to really know that what is represented is Pompeii and therefore documentation of a disaster.

HMMMM….. desicions, desicions…

9/11 – definitely a disaster.

Yes, these are collections of wood. Piles of wood.