#Occupy

Occupy Wall Street!!

Stick it to the man!

STOP.

Just stop, please.

Occupy is bullshit, straight up bullshit. Fresh out of the asses of lazy, pompous, "children" taking shits in state provided port-a-potties on Wall Street. Now before you freak out and go all "oh well you're a white Republican and blah blah blah" allow me to introduce myself.

Margaret, 22 year old, recent college graduate from Rollins College, Owner of beatricephotography.com, full time nanny, Agnostic, Lil Wayne enthusiast, employee of multiple companies since the age of 16, currently paying off my first car , currently living paycheck to paycheck in my loving parent's house (annoying, but thankful to have them), currently working my ass off to make it to an adult paycheck.

Absorb that, I am the same age as a lot of the young adults at Occupy and a recent college grad. I have a bullshit job, it is "beneath me". But you know whats not beneath me? HARD WORK. All these young adults bitching about, well some of them are conflicted and aren't really sure why they're there, so I decided to help them out and went out and found OccupyWallSt.org and this is what they say:

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.

(various radicals (2011). Retrieved from OccupyWallSt.org)

OK. We get it the recession sucks but you used Egypt and Tunisia as your motivation??? Are you dumb? Must be. I can guarantee that your situations are no where near as intense or severe of those people in Egypt and Tunisia. I see spoiled children who don't want to work. I made my own job and company and I look after a 7 year old girl for most of my income. Clearly not my ideal goal. I have a college degree and I am a nanny and small business owner. I make almost $300 every week, almost. America was based on an idea that you can accomplish and change anything with HARD WORK. Hard work??? Oh my goodness what a novel idea?!?!?!!!

Now I know I'm going to be criticized for going to a college Rollins College because it is a "rich, white, country club" ok well you can take that and shove it. I'm sorry that my parent's work their asses off to have the money to send me to a good school, I'm sorry I worked my ass off in high school to have the grades to get into a good school. But I'm not. Get over it. Never mind that a lot of my friends and I received financial loans and scholarships. Oooh I said the "L" word! Loans, pay that back, just do it. You made an agreement that you would pay back the money you borrowed. What you are saying by protesting these loans is that you are not a respectable, reliable, or honest person.

"But Margaret I don't have a job thats why I'm at Occupy"

WHOA WHOA WHOA. Stop. Breath.

Now "lower" yourself and go get a bullshit job. Make minmum wage and live paycheck to paycheck. I will be the first to tell you that living paycheck to paycheck sucks and its hard but that just brings us back to the fact that nothing in life is fair or easy. If it is fair and easy then drop it, it is fake and will possibly kill you. You might be thinking of the kids with a silver spoon in their mouths from birth, well you know what they traded for all that money?? A real family life and real dreams, and other things that none of us can really speculate on.

Money is earned, just like respect and trust. Please for the love of goodness don't turn my generation into the assholes that no one trusts or respects.

Hard Work is the answer. Now get out there and stop doing drugs in the street, raping women, and shitting in those awful port-a-potties, and making NYC a more disgusting city. I would like to visit NYC again one day (when I have saved enough money) and not have to smell your nasty selves.

Gypsy

Is better than being houseless.....

I feel lost right now and wish I had my own place & job even more so in this moment so that i could actually help. I can't think of anyone who wants to hear that the love of their life has been forced into an unpleasant and overall crap situation.

I am mad, worried, oh and terrified.

I guess the week that my brother enlists in the ARMY wasn't going to get better anyway so this is just a nice swift kick in my gluteus maximus that I wasn't ready for, but probably should have been expecting.

(no picture today, too annoyed.)

Our Own Paths

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say"

- Martin Luther

It is my sincerest hope that everyone would make personal responsibility a habit and stop the nonsense of blaming EVERYTHING on some other person. This extends from young children to our world leaders.

Unfortunately the U.S. has yet another leader that has proved to be no better than the turds that your neighbor's dog is leaving on your lawn. ex-Congressman Wiener is simply annoying and created a situation that was an absolute huge waste of our time and resources.

As someone in a position of power you should know that society is going to stick your life under a microscope and your privacy will be severely limited so you should refrain from sending pictures of your chubby in boxers. I'm hoping that in the future the FBI won't have to waste anymore time on boner pictures and false hacking. Mr. Wiener if you didn't want to own up to the embarrassing size of your bulge then you shouldn't have put it out in the internet.

Last thing for tonight, don't take everything I say here to be the "gospel truth". Research, challenge, and form your own thoughts. You should never take someone's ideas as the absolute truth, if their ideas work for you then find more stuff to back it up don't just roll over and take it. I love how easily the internet lets us share ideas but please for the love of what ever being is out there watching over us, never stop educating yourself.

Another Day - Assignment 4

I wanted my video to be about the mundane travels of everyday life and how we just go through life without really stopping very long to pay attention to anything. I filmed my drive down I-4 at rush hour with a friend and genuinely enjoyed our surroundings and each other’s company. There are also a lot of social comments, mainly that we're so desensitized to things like ambulance sirens and gun shots. We seem to go about our days in these little bubbles, hence the "Willy Wonka" like music at the end. I used multiple different filming techniques to get the desired effects while filming and other effects during the editing process. I used multiple fade-outs to transition to different scenes. I also used the soft focus and an aged films, as well as black and white look to create the ambiance of time and a softer, almost dream like feel to the surroundings. During filming I used a lot of panning, zooming, both with the zoom tool on the camera and physically moving the camera closer to objects. I also got a constant, unstable, motion throughout the video because of it being handheld. The sounds added to the film are sometimes meant to be contradictory of what the viewer is really seeing, i.e. Heavy rain sounds while there is no rain, and sometimes they are meant to add humor or questions. Anyway I hope you all enjoy my journey with video and life.

Nancy Burson

Nancy Burson works within photography, drawing and computer imaging. Burson has used a wide variety of mediums to get exactly what she wants from her work. Some of those include billboards, photolithographs on silk, daguerreotypes, large format Polaroids, computer generated work, as well as interactive works and other more “classic” types of mediums, such as charcoal and oil paints. She finds all of these mediums necessary so that she can portray her work in the best way possible. Her earlier work on the computer came before her work with “straight” photography.

During the years of 1979 and 1991 Burson worked on creating computer generated images as what she called “fantastical faces”. She made a mix of aged portraits and digitally manipulated facial features. She was part of a team that created the software to help find missing children by aging their photographs. She then went on, during 1991 – 1995, to create photographic portraits of “special faces”. She deemed them special because they were photographs of children and adults that have altered facial structures, some of them were natural and some of them were due to circumstances. During 1996 up to the present day Burson has been working on projects that connect her fascination of the fantastical to her seemingly contradictory relationship she had with science. Burson also has an awareness of the spiritual connections that all living things seem to have with each other.

Burson’s work shows us the ugly, the beautiful, the sick, and the diseased and challenges our traditional views of what all of those things might look like. She wants the viewer to become part of that experience that she captured and to become aware of how we judge each other based on purely appearances. Her work can be hard to look at and even haunting. The first images I saw were the facial composites which I thought were really cool and the more you look at them the more they change and can become ugly or beautiful depending on what features start to stand out. The work that had to deal with the facial disfiguration was really hard for me to look at and I think it may have been because of my own perception of what beautiful and sickness and all those other categories should look like and it definitely challenges my views on those things. So I completely believe that her work is successful not only is her work conveying exactly what she wants to convey, there is also balance and contrast and all these other formal elements that make the pictures so successful.

Assignment 3 - Fantastic/Reality

This is my "fantastic" image. I blew out the colors by changing the exposure and in some parts the hue and saturation. I put things in the environment that don't necessarily look like they go in the abandoned building, such as the roses and the clusters of lollipops. I really played with color in this one to make it seem more fantastic but maybe still believe able, to kind of blur the lines and our reality and fantastic. I also blurred the lines within my cat image below.

This is my "reality" picture. The space is a recognizable one and pretty generic, especially at Rollins College and the subject matter is not shocking at the first look and then the viewer starts to understand that the image contains giant cats as well as regular cats and there are only really two different cats.


Take care!
Maggie B

Assignment 2 - Photoshop Collage

For this project I wanted my theme to be fun and playful. My theme connects the past with the future, there are three girls who are from a different time period. The purpose of this was to show that even though styles have changed we're still doing the same activities at the beach.