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This picture specifically stuck out to me due to its almost lack of being a unique or posed event. What I first noticed when looking at the picture was the boy in front punching the ball. It stuck me because of the weird situation to photograph someone in such a peculiar position. After looking at it more though I started to notice more about the photo and appraised the depiction of motion more. With the subtle motion less background the motion of the boy makes him pop out onto the page. It was interesting to continue to look at the image as it developed more and more layers. I began to appraise the changes in color and depth that existed in the image.

I chose to sketch a picture that was titled “Xanthe smoking with her cow Wally”. I liked this picture because it seems very simple, but it also sets up an image that is at once child-like and adult. The image of a teenager smoking a cigarette while playing dress up looks so perfectly caught in the head space between childhood and adulthood. It’s sort of the perfect image of adolescence, caught between wanting to be an adult and wanting to be a child and being self aware enough to want to document it.

After analyzing the images in the site, I realized what makes them art is the fact that they capture casual moments in intimate friendships, and a glimpse of the crazy juvenile life I think it is a fun approach to the topic. However, in my honest and probably controversial opinion, I think that calling it art could be overrating its value; the fact the images are taken in very poor equipment on purpose somehow appears to give it some artistic value, but objectively analyzing this, I have come to perceive it is art just because it is the lens we are analyzing it through. In the bottom line, I really enjoyed the images, they remind me of great moments of my high school life!

It was an interesting exercise writing a story like this. the way I picked my story was just thinking about everything the happened over break and deciding on a story that stuck out to me. For some reason this story did. It was hard though to create the comics in a way that would get the story across. I tried to use words and pictures together in a equal manor to do this. I think my story is closer to Spiegalmans approach to telling true stories as I relied on pictures mainly to convey whats going on.