I have lived in Reno for a while and one of the only things i have found interesting about this town, is the many different tattoos that people seem to have. I myself have 7 tattoos, i started getting them when i turned 18 in my senior year of high school. Through out the years, its seems like to a certain extent, tattoos are a trend amounst some groups of people. Here at UNR many athletes have tattoos, and many of them have more then one, I being one of them.

Perosnal: I love tattoos, its a way of expressing yourself through a form of art. this particular picture is of my friend, his tattto is very detailed, and i notice for many guys have tattoos in this same area. Also I found that many guys have tattoos that have a religious meaning to it, I see this a lot with black males. I like the fact that this tattoo is as big as it is, which is very sexy in my opinion.

Historical: The guy in this photo got this tattoo a month ago at Stain Tattoo, owned my Ness, the same artist who did all of my tattoos. I feel that a tattoo like this shows how religious he is, it also shows his respect and commitment to God and the respect he has for what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross.

Technical:I’m not too sure so much about the lighting of this picture, in the tattoo its self, the artist made the shading so that the fished work look as if there is a beam of light coming from Jesus’s crown of thorns, he also made it so it made the face of Jesus look lighter, making the head of Him stand out even more.

Ethical: when choosing a tattoo, it is important that it is tasteful. Other people are going to possibly end up seeing the art on your body so its good to know your not going to offend anyone. You have to be responsible in what you decide to get, this is a premenet decision. But i notice that very few people go wrong when it comes to religious tattoos.

Cultural:I dont know if i would say that this is a specific trend with in a culture, Among many athletes on campus you will find that almost all of them have a number of tattoos. I would have to say culturally i find a lot of African Americans, male and female who have tattoos, especially among balck men. Many men do it to express and show how they feel about life, or the things that they have gone through in the past.

In this chapter as well as in our assignment, the part where we had to critically analyze the photo we had chosen, I couldnt quite understand why there had to be issues that transcended in the image. In photos, is there always an issue that can be found? Does it always shape someone personal reaction?D all photo’s need to be anaylized the way in wich the steps in this chapter showed? In part i feel like if a photo is so deeply anaylized it takes away from the personal feeling after while, istead of going with your original feeling about the picture.

Personal: I love the fcat that this picture is in black and white, at first sight it makes me remember my high school track days. our shed at the back of the field, the long one hundred let in our “latter” workouts, the lane you will be in for the 200m dash. This photo brings back intense memories.

Historical:I ran track all throughout high school, it was not my intention to run it in college, but as “luck” would have it i have now been running track here at UNR for two and half years, almost three. This photo i feel have strong relevants to my life, I am on the track everyday and its somthing i will be doing for another year and a half.

Technical: In this photo there is a good use of natural light toward the back of the photo. from what I can tell I can’t tell whether or not there are any key lights  becuase there is a shadow on the track; it makes it look as if all they did was use natural light. The medium in this photo I think is the angle in which the photo was taken, the slight slant and downward angle; looks like the person was sitting at a distance and zoomed in maybe. I think i portrays the dramaticism of track its self, looking at this picture makes me nervous as if i were about to run a race.

Ethical: The producer has the resposibility of taking the picture as is, not to change or alter anything on the track or the field in the background, and as a viewer I think I have the resposiblity of view the photo for what it is, to try and see it through the photographers eye’s in most ways. 

Cultural: The numbers On the track, I know that everyone worries about what lane they are going to be in, also the long straight of the hundered in the photo, depending on where the finish line is, that strech is the hardest and the most dramatic part of the race.

VH1 wrote a reviwe on the album cover and the songs on Jill Scotts new album, they said that the cover and the tone of some of the songs did not match the meaning behind the album its self. I wonder, is an album cover suppose to speak for how the entire album is suppose to sound? they asked does she look like she has to hail down a cab? What does that type of woman look like in the first place? Is it only women who who dont look like platinum recording artist, are the ones who hail down cabs? they asked does the cover show that Jill Scott really wakes up in the middle of the night by the need to write songs with an anguished look on her face? how do they know if she does that or not? She could in fact do that quite offten, and the song that she does end up writing at that time could be Andy Kellmen’ favorite song, (author of the VH1 review). Is it the way in which Jill Scott looks in the cover, which is the problem, for example her clothes, or her make up, or maybe even the way in which she is holding her hand bag? Is it the way the lighting is in the cover? How it lights up the cover, causing it to appear as if it is a happy album instead of an album refecting the struggles in her own marriage.