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Challenger
Posted On Tuesday April 17, 2007 By Baker
Since as far back as I can remember I’ve always been a big follower of NASA and space exploration in general. I remember this moment like it was yesterday. The elementary school I went to at the time brought all the students into the library to see the Challenger launch on TV. It was a big deal and everyone was excited because it was a rare chance to watch TV at school. Then everything went wrong. All of us were held silent by the explosion. After, the teachers struggled to find the words to explain what had just happened. When Columbia broke apart during re-entry in 2003 it took me right back to that moment at school where everyone was in a state of shock and disbelief.
Tags: challenger, explosion, flight, school, space, tv
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hello. World
Posted On Friday April 6, 2007 By FatBits
Of all the events of my early childhood few have shaped who I am today as much as this one, the day the Macintosh said “hello”. I was only 8 when my dad brought home our first 128k Mac. I can’t tell you how much time I spent at that computer making stuff, learning, and playing games. Always swapping disks in and out as it asked for them. I still have that original Mac. My dad recently gave it to me. It’s yellowed with age and I can’t find the mouse but it still fires up. It really has been like a friend to me all these years.
Tags: 1984, apple, dad, friend, hello, mac, macintosh, mouse
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Trust Jesus
Posted On Thursday April 5, 2007 By The Wonder Bread Man
I made the photo above on this day. The shot was actually taken a few days earlier but my timing was off. I was getting used to a new camera and it was one of my first attempts at street photography. I was learning about Robert Frank and Gary Winogrand at the time in my photo class. These guys were like my gods.
I don’t know much about the couple in this shot but they were a fascinating to me. They didn’t pay me any attention at all and seemed lost in their own thoughts. I ended up taking three or four shots of them as they crossed the street in front of the Wonder Bread factory. I just couldn’t get the shot I saw in my mind. So I cheated it a bit (please don’t tell Cartier-Bresson), and I brought my negatives into Photoshop to re-create the scene as I saw it, as I wanted it. I’ve never told anyone until now that this photo was Photoshopped, as they say. The thing is, it did happen, I just wasn’t fast enough to capture it.
At the time I really began to question the whole idea of the decisive moment. What is a moment anyway if it can be completely made up? Maybe I’m writing this because I have a need to confess this sin to the street photography gods. I hope they can forgive me. It seems to me that today there are very few pure images. Practically everything we see is manipulated, edited, or down right fabricated. Personally, I don’t trust anyone anymore.
Tags: decisive, jesus, moment, photography, photoshop, reality, religion, trust
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