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On blog.arcademi.com there is a post about BRICS. It is a fashion line mixed with photography to create images of simplistic minimalist articles of clothing utilized in photographs to create images. I like the images however I feel as though they are very trendy at the moment. I enjoy the images but I do not respect them much as original art at the moment because I think there are not very many risks. But they are definitely aesthetically pleasing and appeal to the "instagram" trend that is occurring right now.

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I found a blog called "Pro Photo Life" which had a really cool article about a photo shoot involving taking photos of facebook friends. The photographer contacted old facebook friends and took photos of them. In part one he talks about how it made him understand more clearly whether or not facebook was slowly devaluing the meaning of the word friend. He found that in actuality it was making the value higher and that more than anything facebook was bringing people together. I really liked the fact that through a photography project the photographer was learning about his life and things in it. I feel that I really am learning a lot from my project as well and I love that aspect of photos. Through documenting the life around you, you are actually learning and seeing things you never would have otherwise.

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I read a article in art21 called "Notes on Silence: A collage" about homosexuality in art. It was a very interesting article. It discusses how aspects of homosexuality such as coming out and staying silent affect art. The art discussed in the article is interesting and brings up the idea of "ekphrasis" which is a Greek word meaning literally "out speech". All of the art in the article exemplifies this idea of out speech or publicly speaking out and coming out. Homosexuality holds such a broad spectrum of things to make art about. I think it's a very politically and emotionally charged subject and I really enjoyed reading this article because the work discussed was extremely powerful and content-based. One of the pieces was featured in time square on one of the electric billboards which give the art this extra purpose of which was very cool. I really liked the article.