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- THE STUFF BELOW HERE IS FROM A PREVIOUS CLASS. MAYBE I WON’T ADD ANYTHING NEW. MAYBE.
- monkeys, selfies, copyrights, and the complexities of image ownership
- selfies are dangerous!
- companies taking advertising images from instagram — we are all models now…
- on the ethics of sharing photos
- london national gallery surrenders to selfies
- when did we all become curators?
- why does everyone love this wedding photograph?
- why principals matter. (thanks to cordelia)
- we can’t get enough moralizing about selfies, although sometimes it can be turned around…
- for a street photographer, the weirder the better
- top instagrammed locations
- not really directly related, but not unrelated either: new chinese fad (and we can always trust ny times trend pieces…): vegetation worn on the head
- funeral selfies!
- migrant chic in hungarian fashion
- photo booths enhance the shopping experience
- the material culture of friendship: “smart” bracelets that light up when your best friend is near!
- using google streetview to track urban design changes
- teen arrested for having naked pictures (of himself!) on his phone
- pre-wedding checklist: middlebury banner? check! rhinestone-encrusted selfie-stick to carry down the aisle? check!
- visual culture in vermont? this time of year, that can only mean one thing: foliage and leaf peepers! here’s a (somewhat dated) report by the vt tourism board on who comes to vermont to look at the leaves. some tips from the new yorker.
- the larger context for the struggle over meaning and belonging with the johnson bathrooms. (thanks, travis!)
- how emojis get to your phones
- me on belgian tv (don’t blink!)
- from the recent school killings in stockholm, a story of costumes, photography, and incorrect assumptions.
- fbi director blames cellphone videos for rise in violent crime. (although later concedes he really doesn’t have evidence to back up his claims. meanwhile the white house distances itself from him…)
- babies, diapers, photoshop, and the elusive “thigh gap”
- bill clinton’s theory of selfies: “democratized record-keeping of memories“
- reimagining public spaces and iconic buildings on instagram
- instagram celebrity questions the “reality” of instagram, quits. (hipster barbie quits, too!) — all this leaves one writer to ask, “is it possible to be happy on instagram?“
- the importance of walls in instagram (taken from a link at the bottom of the above page)
- black twitter? ummmmm…. (not really “visual” but related to other topics from class)
- bronx is burning halloween party generates concerns….
- halloween continues to prove: we’re all racists!
- things get ugly at yale at halloween (and not because of the “white girls only party”)
- and, speaking of halloween, everyone’s an expert now (even the campus, for god’s sake…)
- sexting scandal aftermath: how a colorado town deals with the media attention
- halloween costumes at middlebury through the years (from the library’s archives)
- speaking of advertising, shared values, anxiety, and fantasy, not to mention the problems with them, here’s the most recent controversial ad, brought to you by concerns about condoning date rape, drugging, alcohol and the issues of consent.
- do war photos have to be ugly to make a difference?
- new exhibit on japanese photography from the late 1960s (and a book of photographs about the US during a similar time period)
- facebook parenthood
- halloween strikes again! “baby daddy” (the abc family sitcom that i only know about b/c my sister works wardrobe for it) star seriously injured when his halloween costume catches on fire. he’ll be out of work for 10 weeks (as will, sadly, my sister…)
- how many photos are there out there of YOU in the world?
- not visual, but related to the changing nature of adulthood: rate of 18-34 living with parents/relatives highest since 1940s
- scandal at towson: swim coach resigns over video camera in the women’s locker room.
- photos of black law professors defaced at harvard law. and a response from one of the professors whose image was defaced (which, whatever one thinks about the argument, is actually an interesting take on how we read and misread visual data)
- trading privacy for facebook likes
- an interesting use of photography and interviews used to explore the experiences of a black student from chicago attending connecticut college
- the risks of using photos with silly cats photoshopped into them when discussing serious topics, like terrorism, paul krugman edition
- thanksgiving decorations get lost between halloween and christmas…
- naming babies after instagram filters
- smithsonian’s best photography books of the year
- gender ads project
- in praise of using camera phones as defensive weapons
