The pictures I took for the photo story could have included more photos from the outside of the tram and machine room. Some of my exposures were off as I was dealing with fluorescent lighting. I could have tried to take some other photos from the tram car, but there was a lot of fog. I was also talking to people while they were working which meant that I had a limited time to get information from them. To use the camera in manual was a little bit time consuming. I felt like I should have been recording audio at the same time. The outdoor photos were hard to adjust for the exposure as there was a lot of gray and white in the background. Many of the photos I took were stills that captured motion. I was trying to correct my ISO for it.
Serious attention should be paid to daily newspapers going online only. The fundamental interdependence upon technology and economics of other news sources are part of what makes them less reliable. Many examples exist in recent history that prove that a newspaper’s ethical credibility relies on a direct and unhindered relationship between the reporter and the audience. If daily newspapers realign themselves to exclusively digital, as the Seattle PI did, there would be many avenues for the relationship between the audience and the reporter to be obstructed. For example, if there were a large scale crisis, a situation where news would be almost imperative, all of the news outlets could be dismantled from an otherwise protracted event. Having news sources that are not as centralized and as dependent upon economic, governmental and industrial infrastructures is one way to ensure that people can still get the news, and that people can get it in a more accountable way where their news source is an accessible entity within the community. To downsize the Seattle PI staff, for example, may reduce the accountability of the paper due to the lack of journalists, hence the lack of whistle-blowing about ethical concerns such as corporate or political coercion. The New York Times reports that a former mayor, and former police chief are now on the staff. The Seattle Times reports that Hearst’s president, Steven Swartz, said the Seattle PI will be, “a new type of digital business with a robust community news and information Web site at its core.” But how does he propose the organization will be a part of the community when the majority of the staff do not work there? Community involvement can not be done with such a ratio of journalists to people.
The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008871618_seattlepi17.html
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/media/17paper.html
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ~Wendell Phillips
The Associated Press is alleging that a street artist named Shepard Fairey, who became well known for his “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign, has infringed upon copyright laws that are used to protect photojournalists from copyright infringement. The U.S. Copyright Office’s website says the nature of the copyrighted work can be used to determine wether or not an infringement has occurred. The image in question has been drastically altered and used in a different field for a different purpose.
That purpose calls in to question the nature of the work because Fairey is not a journalist, he is an artist who benignly yet impulsively used a random photograph of a public official; he could have easily taken the photo from a photographer that would not have complained about infringement. The Copyright Office website says that courts have determined that incidental and fortuitous reproduction can be considered fair use.
The Huffington Post reports that Fairey said, “I’ve always decided not to go through the bureaucracy. My philosophy is usually if I want to make things happen I’ll just act first and apologize later.” The article goes on to say that he created that design in one day.
The U.S. Copyright Office says that the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work can be used to determine fairness. It would make more sense to claim infringement upon someone who is a competitor in the field that attempts to report factual information instead of an artist who is obviously not attempting to compete on the same market.
The Huffington Post also reported that Fairey eventually got an endorsement from the Obama Campaign for the posters, and that Fairey said that he corresponded with campaign officials about what the posters would portray. This should point out how his work does not relate to the work of a photojournalist because Fairey is not portraying fact and is not remaining objective and unbiased. Therefore he is not operating on the same market and there was no financial interference.
The photographer working for the AP is quoted on the TechCrunch website as not having signed a contract with the AP because he was a temporary staffer who was filling in for someone else. It is arguable that the AP does not even have the copyright to the image that they are claiming Fairy infringed upon.
Fair use is not easily defined by the law according to the Copyright Office. It may be a advisable to the AP to protect their ‘image’ by staying out of arbitrary legal disputes that reinforce the notion that legality should be used when and wherever possible. Fairy ultimately caused no harm to the organization. The AP is possibly jeprodizing their image of objectivity by pursuing this issue legally.
U.S. Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-arnon/how-the-obama-hope-poster_b_133874.html
TechCrunch website
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/05/once-again-the-ap-tries-to-redefine-fair-use-goes-after-shepard-fairey-for-obama-poster/
The Alyeska Resort tram was built in 1989 at a cost of 1.6 million dollars. It transports skiers, sightseers, and patrons of the Seven Glaciers and Glacier Express restaurant to an elevation of 2,300 feet on Mount Alyeska. The tram spans 3,869 feet and its vertical rise is 2,025 feet. The tram has a capacity of 60 people but the resort’s regulations only allow for 40 passengers, and it operates year round except for late April, early May, and the entire month of November.
A tramcar arrives at the mountainside tram dock while another tram car is arriving at the base tram dock. This counterbalances the weight on the cables.
Guide wheels guide tram cables above the machine room there the electric engines power the tram.
One tram car arrives at the mountain terminal while another arrives at the base terminal in order to counter-balance their weight.
Guide wheels on the floor of the tram terminal, operating as part of a pulley, brace the tension of the cables that power the tram.
Sean Ramierez, and Alyeska Resort tram operator, points to the emergency brake handle in the tram car. The emergency brake is mechanical while the service brake is hydraulic.
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A guide wheel braces the drive cable, routed from the wheels on the ceiling, to the electric engines that power the tram.A 16,000 watt electric engine powers the tram cars' ascent and descent.
A diesel engine is used as a backup for the electrical engine in case of a power failure.
Hydraulic lines lead to the outside of the base tram terminal. They allow for the tram's drive terminal to be connected to a snowcat's engine incase of a backup engine failure.
On the Tuesday of next week free swing dancing lessons will be given by the Student Union at 7:00 pm. through 8:30 p.m.. The class is an annual event and it will take place downstairs in the Student Union. A person to contact about this event is Heather James and her email is: ashej4@uaa.alaska.edu, and a contact phone number is 786-1204.
The photo story will consist of the instructor and students in action, but there will be photos of more passive shots of students observing the instructor. I plan on getting some shots of an audience reaction to the lesson as well. This event will be an opportunity to work on photos that include action and emotion, and it will be my objective to concentrate on the timing of the photos in order to get those types of shots.
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/studentlifeandleadership/studentunion/
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/eventmaster.cfm
Patterns in Nature: Lava
Lava bubbles and oozes inside a lava lake in Ethiopia’s Ertale volcano. Molten surface temperatures range from 550 degrees Fahrenheit (288 degrees Celsius) to nearly 1000 degrees Fahrenheit (540 degrees Celsius) at the center of the pit.
Above is part of a photostory from National Geographic about lava. The captions in the story do most of the description of the context the visual aspects of the story contain. The story does not have human characters or any chronological plot. But the story telling value in this photo story is in where and when the lava flow activity occurs, and the different characteristics of what kind of lava flows happen. The interesting and captivating part of the story is the geological information about each lava flow or volcano that accompanies the visual content.
By Lucas Wright
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-lava/ertale-lava-peter.html
