Visual Representations of the Boys and Girls Club

1. For my first manipulation of this image, I chose this effect. As this is a picture of the art supplies in the computer room, I think that this effect brings out the primacy of the subject and the image, and shows how these things can be a very basic need for a program such as those at the Boys and Girl's Club, even if they do not always seem that way.

2. I really like the effect that this filter has on the photo, as it seems that everything in the picture is almost vibrating. This seems very appropriate to me, as I have spent quite a bit of time in this room and I know that it is a room very much full of energy, something you really wouldn't expect a computer lab to be after having been to so many on IU's campus. It seems as though this effect on the photo is showing how changed the room can be when there are kids in it, and that change is something I myself have already witnessed.

3. I chose this effect because it seems to me that it draws a attention to how many individual items comprise what we see in the photo, and that really applies to both this specific club as well as the organization as a whole. From the outside, it is not really apparent how much individual work and time goes in to the club, but there are a very large number of people who have to work hard to make everything at the BGC happen. Similarly, one might not care to notice every single thing in this photograph until they were painstakingly pointed out, as they are in this effect.

4. This filter appears to me to look like an old television screen, or one without a very good signal. To me this works well in this photo and for this room in the club because many of the things in the computer lab are not exactly the newest or nicest pieces of technology that are available, but they are still very much able to be used, and well used, by those who need them.

5. In contrast to #4, I feel like this filter makes the photo look much more futuristic, and seems to suggest even more for the Boys and Girls Club as time goes on. This seems especially referential as the photo is from the computer lab, where technology is the main attraction, and so much of technology is based on the future. I think this suggests that the Boys and Girls Club does have a future of being technologically progressive and continuing to be relevant as technology gets more and more advanced.

A Short Analysis of Body Projects

In Joan Brumberg's "Body Projects", many different techniques as discussed in Fieldworking are discussed, most obviously the range of data supplied is truly revealing. Throughout the article, we are given insight into the journals and writings of several particular girls, as they go through their different "body projects". This article was written about a a time before when we think of women as having had severe body and self image problems, present day or maybe the 80's, and went back to the origin of those very issues in the early 1900's.

Without the careful examination and excellent implementation of the information and data found within those journals, this article simply would not have had nearly the impact or interest that it has now. As an ethnography, data is of course essential, but even more intrinsic to its value is the correct use of that very data. As we see and is discussed in Fieldworking, data is the skeleton and basis for all well conducted research, and a good example of that exact use of data can be found in Body Projects, an excellent article which quite effectively utilizes the data at its disposal.