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In social journalism class last week, we looked at an assortment of photos and debated whether the manipulation in certain photos was ethical/right. The main example was a flower which had a blemish removed.
I believe that when removing a spot or blemish from a photo you must first look at it carefully and see if it will affect the symbolism and significance of the photo. What I am saying is that sometimes a photo may need a little adjusting to look respectable. If the move you make does not affect the uniqueness of the photo, I don’t see why there would be a problem with editing it.
On the other hand, if there is a picture of a famous athlete, actor, actress, or other celebrity you should not edit the way the photo looks because you may offend the person in many different ways. For example: many magazines such as time have had to hange there cover after editing it because they change the color of someones skin, add in people who were not there, or multiply an audience in the picture. This is far more serious then the manipulation of a single flower in my opinion. But, that’s all it is, an opinion. Everyone has them.
At the end of the day I realize that manipulation of photos can become a very serious issue. Therefore, I believe that prior to manipulating a photo, get permission from your sources. I still think if it is a simple photo like a flower, a lawn, or a bird you should be able to edit it if neccessary.
In conclusion I believe that each journalist, and photographer has there own view on manipulation of photos, but I think it makes sense to seek and gather the permission before doing so if you are going to at all
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Recently I was introduced to the musical stylings of the band ” The Blood Brothers”. I never heard of them until a week ago. It ends up that they were a band for 10 years and 3 months a go they went there seperate ways. I really enjoy there music because they combine techno beats, with distorted guitars, bumpin’ bass lines and a fat drum sound.
They are much like “Horse the Band” as they both combine techno with hardcore melodies. I am really dissapointed to find out they are no longer together as there music is so unique. I can only imagine how awesome there concerts would be. On the upside you can still find there songs and videos on there Myspace
They have many different and unique songs including “Set fire to the face on fire”, “We ride Skeletal lightning” and my favourite ” Cecilia and the sillhouette saloon”. The reason that song is so good is simple, they take a rock beat which sounds much like the Chorous from the Tool hit “Lateralus” and digitalize it and keep the beat through the whole song while the singer screams. Ironically enough the song does not get boring because they manipulate the speed of the beat, and change key at times but the beat always reamains the same. As simple as it seems it is innovative in a way.
A lot of there songs strongly show the elements used by such bands as: Black Sabbath, Metallica, 3 iches of blood, Maximum the Hormone and even the great Led Zeppelin.
In the end I can not really say what kind of music they are, whether it’s thrash metal, melodic metal, hardcore, screamo, experimental, in the end they’re simply great.
If anybody wants to learn more you can find videos, and concerts on youtube.
