Night Photography by Orange Rose hopes of peace, Insomniac Walking, Sarah
December 4th, 2007 10:49 AMWhat reason can anyone give me that I need to bring an Aesthematician with me to explore and photograph my own neighborhood? Photography itself is not an art of creation, but of strategic observation. That is one of the main reasons I chose BART PA: strategic observation of people, their movements, and the methods they use to move.
Enough talk, time for the task!
I decided that my wandering should stick to the "safe lighting" pathways in my immediate neighborhood (campus), simply in the interest of safety. This also means I should find some interesting lighting situations.
Update:
As I left for my task, at about midnight, I ran into several friends who expressed an interest in accompanying me on my journey. The more, the merrier, I say! So, Sam, Darylene, Sara, Josh, and I set out.
We began our wanderings from the hall at about 12:15, because it takes that long for everyone to get warm clothes on and get ready. We ambled our way in a lopsided loop through the Peace Garden, to the Free Speech Area, and to the fountain. I saw some great sights, Darylene climbed a pole, Sam sulked on a bench for a photo op, and we wrote words in the foam in the fountain.
Observations:
People get silly past midnight
There are a lot of people still awake in my building past midnight
The Peace Garden looks really cool in the dark
Long-Time exposure is really fun to play with
It's really cold outside at 12:30 at night
Fountain water is even colder at 12:30 at night
People dig through trash at all hours, even midnight
There are always people out and about
People don't always take the "safe lighting pathways" at midnight, even though they probably should
The USU gets cleaned at midnight
Those are the main ones. I'm sure I could come up with more, and possibly more philosophical ones, but I have class in the morning.
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I'm surprised it even lets you click submit without one of each, actually.
My reasoning is that I don't need an Aesthematician to photograph my own neighborhood. Wouldn't a far more Aesthematic thing to do be, for example, paint your impression of your neighborhood. Or perhaps, convert something in your neighborhood to a work of art.
My point is, observation is something I feel lies outside the realm of the Aesthematic umbrella.
This task has successfully been commandeered by the Revolution. Excellent work, Officer DeLucci.
Warning: flagging of this task may result in a flagging war. This is not the goal of the Revolution.
oh you know me from waayy back, it's the only gesture of this kind I'm going to make. I agree, flagging is bad form. avert avert. So when the shoe is on my feet, as if it ever will be, please do remind in as harsh a term as you like. and true to my word, went the same way with allllllll the soloists.
no more flags from me, promise! everyone else listening? best be.
forgive and forfend?
Now, if a task egregiously egregiously sucks, I expect you to be the first to pull the trigger, Rev. war's no excuse.
oh, hey, just noticed, i didn't do on this one yet. observe buttons still intact:
wouldn't see the pink box if I'd lit it up!
When we say on "this one" are we meaning me? because I have been flagged at least once so far for this.
I have never flagged this proof. According to the presence of buttons as indicated above. If the button. wasn't. there. it would mean I had. Try it. For a graphic demonstration of this feature for yourself, go flag a couple of my tasks. I recommendsomething from Impossible Exchange (full list here). Like with the vote button, after you click the flag button, it goes away. Its presence is the surest indicator that a player has not flagged. I can keep time stamping this if I have to
Thanks, Burn, for reminding me that I'd forgotten to vote for this task already.
Excellent work, Soldiers.
I'd almost prefer the flagging (and potential flag war) to the constant "FAIL" Macros. I used to really like Lolcats....
I had this long detailed thing all worked out about how passive aggression is practically Minnesota's state pastime so you'd have to do better than that plus pointing out that the serious discourse usually results in hundreds of words, not a single intarweb meme image so likely that means the images, even if occasionally only mildly funny, certainly aren't to be taken seriously and that perhaps because you haven't received the red x yet JT you don't realize how much less preferable that is to any of this discourse no matter how debased and if they started to fall with any kind of regularity and vindictiveness behind them the living would envy the lol, in a manner of speaking, as such a thing would not be preferable but then I thought better o—
...oh I guess I wound up writing that detailed thing after all. Well. There you go.
Nice.
You sold me on the LOLMacro over here but this is a good reminder for brevity.
Oh, and. I. recommend. liberal. use. of. these. (have some on me):
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The AND promotes collaboration. Perhaps the question is just as accurately "how could an aesthematician complete this without a psychogeographer?"
In fact, in honor of this realization, I'm flagging all solo completions of this task, including ones I voted for.