Some Strange Love

The 4½ Tatami Ideologue and What I Managed To Do When I Step Foot Outside My House (1)

I had the amazing opportunity to take a year long Web Design class my senior year of high school. Not only did we learn about various ways of using HTML and other coding, but we learned the basics of Photoshop and how we could use it to create various images for different things. I had the most fun making CD covers for various albums and bands I liked. As the picture says, this is for the Arctic Monkeys’ album “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”. The real cover for the album features a young “tea boy” (hooligan, rapscallion) smoking a cigarette after spending a long night out on the town. The picture plus the title of the album was meant to represent just how much is truly behind the people we may see everyday, and write off as a troublemaker or a nobody. So I decided to take a random picture I found online, which shows an even younger boy being bullied by two others. I thought about what people might say about the boy being bullied, and I also thought about what people might say about the bullies. It really made me think about the fact that people were saying things about me, negative and positive, and no matter what they were, I wasn’t them. It made me both happy and lonely to think that the only person who truly knows me is.. me.

I took this picture a few days after I got a small point-and-shoot camera from my dad for Christmas last year. I was in DC for a few hours (I live about a mile from the border over in Maryland), waiting to pick my sister up from the bus station. I was taking pictures of whatever interested me and I could reach from the passenger’s window. I believe the picture above is of a school or office near the station. When I took the picture, I enjoyed the light bouncing off the barbed wire fence and how the building in the background wasn’t quite in focus. Looking back on it later, it looks like I took a picture of a prison (even though barbed wire isn’t uncommon even in residential and shopping areas in the city). I mainly enjoy this picture because I was able to make something I was proud of even with my limited knowledge of my camera at the time.

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