Erik Williams

March 1, 2014

Image Project

Image Title: Power- Evil Bibliographic Citation:https://sites.psu.edu/arifikhwan/graphicresume/ Arif IkhwanTopic: Power of wordsImage Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Graphic Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): ExpressiveFound Where: https://sites.psu.edu/arifikhwan/graphicresume/Found How: Google search of powerWhy Select This Image? Can show the power of different expressions and how they affect our look onto images. What Does This Image State About Power? Power of changing font/expression and the changing wa a person views them.

Image Title: Our StrengthBibliographic Citation: http://idt.ac.in/Our_Strength_Idt.aspx Topic: Strength as power of body Image Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Cartoon/Graphic Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): Expressive/entertaining Found Where: Institute of Design & TechnologyFound How: Google search of strengthWhy Select This Image? Strength as power of body and metaphor of strength of mindWhat Does This Image State About Power? The strength of the student body of the institute.Why Do You State So? The strength of a person’s bod/mind equals power.

Image Title: MoneyBibliographic Citation: Tracy Olson/Flickr Topic: Money as power Image Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Photograph Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): ExpressiveFound Where: Wired.com Found How: Google search of money Why Select This Image? Money is a large sign of power on today’s world What Does This Image State About Power? Money has become a symbol of power in today’s world.  Why Do You State So? Same as what the image states.

Money

Image Title: BankBibliographic Citation: Bob Palmer Smarter Digital Banking: Leveraging Information and Mobile May 15, 2013http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/smarter-digital-banking-leveraging-information-and-mobileTopic: Banks and Money Image Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Photograph Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): Expressive Found Where: IBM Blog About rising digital banking Found How: Google search about banks Why Select This Image? Banks are in charge of money flow and money equals power What Does This Image State About Power? Shows bank in a classic architecture that makes it stand out and look more regal compared to other buildings. Why Do You State So? Banks control money and money is a form of power in today’s world

Banks

Image Title: Mars RoverBibliographic Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover Topic: Mars Rover on Mars Image Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Photograph Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): Informative Found Where: Mars Rover Wikipedia page Found How: Google search on mars rover Why Select This Image? To show the power of people being able to send a vehicle to mars. What Does This Image State About Power? The power of NASA sending a rover to mars. Why Do You State So? The ingenuity of people in science to build, send and control a rover on mars. How Does This Image Fit With The Others In Your Collection (if at all)? Deals with Space

Mars Rover

Image Title: Supernova  Bibliographic Citation: shona/racing my life January 23, 2014 http://techyracy.com/supernova-explode-close-galaxy/Topic: Supernova: Power of space Image Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Photograph Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): Informative Found Where: http://techyracy.com/supernova-explode-close-galaxy/ Found How: Google search of supernova Why Select This Image? Supernovas contain immense power it is one of the most powerful things to occur in the universe. What Does This Image State About Power? It contains a star exploding so it shows a great deal. Why Do You State So? Supernovas are stars exploding at the end of their life cycle. How Does This Image Fit With The Others In Your Collection (if at all)? Space and objects within

Supernova

Image Title: Splitting an atomBibliographic Citation: How to split an atom Robert Jones 30 may 2012http://www.howitworksdaily.com/science/how-to-split-an-atom/Topic: How to split an atom Image Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): Diagram Mode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): Informative Found Where: How it works daily Found How: Google search splitting an atom Why Select This Image? Power that is created by splitting an atom is immense What Does This Image State About Power? Being a diagram it doesn’t really show power but how to create it. Why Do You State So? Splitting an atom creates immense power and helps with continuing discoveries.

Splitting Atom

Image Title: MeteoriteBibliographic Citation: http://www.rosssea.info/meteorites.html Photo by C.B. Gunn Topic: Antarctic’s MeteoritesImage Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): PhotographMode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): InformativeFound Where: Website logging the meteorites hitting AntarcticaFound How: Google search of MeteoritesWhy Select This Image? Power that meteorites contain in their energy then hitting earth with that power.What Does This Image State About Power? Shows the power and size of the meteorite as it didn’t burn up in the atmosphereWhy Do You State So? Meteorites contain enormous kinetic power and transfer that to earth when they hit.

Meteorite

Image Title: Handle on the Sun Bibliographic Citation: Credit: NASA/European Space Agency Date: 14 Sep 1999 Topic: The SunImage Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): PhotographMode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): Informative and entertainingFound Where: NASA.govFound How: Google search of the sunWhy Select This Image? The sun has power that makes human made items pale in comparisonWhat Does This Image State About Power? The picture of the sun shows the solar handle and power that it contains.Why Do You State So? The sun has nuclear fissions happening all the time which causes it to have power that humans can do onl a fraction as much.

The Sun

Image Title: Black HoleBibliographic Citation: Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center June 14, 2013Topic: Black Hole AnnotationsImage Sub-Genre (chart, graphic, diagram, cartoon, photograph, etc.): DiagramMode (informative, persuasive, argumentative, expressive/entertaining): InformativeFound Where: http://scitechdaily.com/nasa-study-bridges-the-gap-between-theory-and-black-hole-observations/Found How: Google search Black HoleWhy Select This Image? Black Holes are the opposite of supernovas as the star collapses in on itself instead of explodingWhat Does This Image State About Power? Creates an area that light cannot escapeWhy Do You State So? Light is the fastest object in the universe but not even that can escape a black hole showing the power it has.How Does This Image Fit With The Others In Your Collection (if at all)? SPACE

Black Hole

Piece- It is a picture a bank that was original published in a web blog on how to make smarter banks with the information they have. The blog was made in May of 2013 I can’t find a date for the picture. The point of the picture is to help the reader start a visualization of what the article is going to be discussing.Agent- Bob Palmer wrote the blog the image is on and is a Global banking industry marketer with big data.Receiver- The audience would be marketing people along with bankers as it tries to show what banks can do to change their ways on making money to change their negative perception. I am not in the audience and my beliefs hold me in the middle as I have no strong feeling either way.Agenda- That all banks have access to huge stores of information that could translate to extra money and doesn’t acknowledge the small banks in the world.Demands- He wants the banks to use their information to make money like mobile companies do. Palmer believes that in this way perception of banks making money in bad was would go down instead of being on everyone’s mind if they continue on like the do presently.Inquiries- I would like to know why he believes that this would change perceptions of the banks in a good way when most phone companies are looked at in a bad light. I felt no manipulation towards his point just him going through saying why it’ll change everything for the better.Gains- I learned that banks carry customer information that could allow banks to create new products that would be successful right out of the gate since the could already know what most of their customers would like in a product.Motivators- Palmer is a global banking marketer so it would be his job to figure out ways to improve the marketing of banks. I found it by doing a google search on banks for images.

Paradigms

Piece- This was made in May of 2013 to go with an article about high profile money-laundering charges. The point of the picture is to drive home the message of money-laundering with the showing of money like it’s been tossed on the floor.Agent- The picture is by Tracy Olson on her Flickr, used for this article as it’s a good image to start the imaging process for the reader while reading this article. Receiver- The audience of this would be people in the know about high value money laundering and others who see it on the news and want to learn more in depth about it. It doesn’t have me as an audience but I bring some notion that usually when money is shown thrown around then its legitimacy is questionable.Agenda- The agenda would be to spread the word of the actions of the accused so that more people would hear about it. It gives off reports and findings in order to show why this person was indicted and what it could mean for other people.Demands- No real demands it’s just there to spread the news about a high profile indicting on a person that could affect how things are run within the Liberty Reserve.Inquiries- What are the regulations for becoming a reserve or being able to transmit money? It is telling me facts as given to them from the federal government so the article itself is not trying to manipulate but as to whether the government is or not is up to the belief of the person who reads the article.Gains- It showed me that the federal government is trying to keep money transfers up to code so that the all work within the regulations set down by them. The website itself seems to be reputable as the person who wrote the article is a senior reporter on cybercrime and has put her name on the article, claiming the responsibility if the article is wrong.Motivators- The action of the government to bring the charges on the owner of the liberty reserve and to shut the liberty reserve down. She heads the reporters of cyber-crimes so this would fall under her expertise as that and would provide a good amount of viewers to her website and article.

Paradigm #2

The examination of images allows the reader to continue an analysis of whatever article that they are reading. It can show whether the picture has anything to contribute towards the article and rather or not it helped bring the point across that the author is trying to make. Knowing what a picture can do to enhance an article will allow some authors to continue points outside of sections that the picture belongs to, such as, putting a picture in another section that can show the connection easier. It can also help those readers who like to visualize things and can start the visualization process helping to comprehend the words. The examination of power allows people to explain what it means to them and realize how the word means to them and to other people. It will allow people to learn how other people define the word and how the society values some items over others and easier to identify those items and change those ideals if it comes to be some that can bring a negative on society. When society as a whole can identify what power means to them then they can change it into something that they view that can influence society in a positive nature.

Reflection

The topic of money was chosen as it is what controls the world. The golden rule is very much true in the world today and with the way money controls most things I found that power and money can very easily be considered synonymous with each other. The other category that I chose was space and objects within it. Space shows many different types of power, in speed, size, destructive forces and just plain brute force power with the sun. The black holes have such speed that not even light can escape the event horizon. Its creation is linked towards dying stars collapsing in on itself and growing so dense that gravity allows nothing to escape. Another version would be the Supernova which is a ding star expanding till it eventually explodes causing one of the more destructive forces to occur within nature. The meteorites are the combination of speed and destructive forces as they move through the atmosphere and then hit the Earth with amazing speeds causing explosions equal to several hundred megatons of TNT. Then we have the Sun which is itself just a large nuclear reactor working continually for billions of years. The Sun releases energy every second that humans can only imagine being created here on Earth. I would like the audience to see how society focuses on money and ask themselves if they like the fact that money can control so much. I would also like people to ask themselves if a change in society can occur with the power of institutions that control money. Should those institutions be able to project themselves with such authority just because of the money control or should power be changed towards other factors to help spread powerful ideals that may come from those without the money to put them into mainstream society. Then with the space sections I just want people to see the raw destruction and energy that can be created by objects in space. The smallest space object that I have pictured, the meteorites, can be more destructive than anything created by man, along with Black holes being able to suck in planets and even stars without much of a problem at all.

Reflection Cont’d

Those pictures of the Sun, Supernova and Supermassive Black Hole help to explain the life cycle of a normal star. Our Sun is a typical star in the universe and it can either turn into a black hole or go Supernova when its life cycle ends. These pictures show what that end result could be in both situations and how that resulted force will look and affect everything within this solar system. A person can learn a good deal about this object from studying their pictures and seeing how energy dissipates from them or gets sucked into them. Except for meteorites and the splitting of atoms humans only have pictures to learn from and teach others. Nobody has personally witnessed a Supernova or Black Hole or walked on the Sun so to know everything we do about these objects is just from what we have viewed through pictures taken from them as they happen.The processes of finding these pictures then going through and analyzing them in accordance with the articles that they are used with can help a person better understand points the author is trying to make within it. It can also help me start to connect between points in the articles with the placement of pictures making a person draw upon points made earlier in articles with corresponding pictures put later on. This also helps if I were to ever write as now I know the importance of pictures and how they can keep a reader on the same page as the writer and can help to affirm points that I am making within an article. The genre-morphing can also help in this understanding of pictures as it can also help to bring about the true meaning of the inclusion of the pictures and what that meaning means to the reader and if that differs from the intent of its meaning as it is being used by the author.

Reflection Cont’d

Meteorite Wordle

Black Hole Tagxedo

Supernova Tagxedo

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Bibliography

Gunn, C.B.. Meteorite. Photograph. Rosssea.info/meteorites. Web. 26 February 2014.NASA/European Space Agency. Handle on the Sun. Photograph. Solarsystem.NASA.gov, 19 December 2013. Web. 26 February 2014. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Black Hole Diagram. Diagram. Scitechdaily, 14 June 2013. Web. 26 February 2014.

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