Sunday, February 26, 2012

America 24/7


We were assigned to read an article entitled America 24/7 and we were supposed to guess what the images would be. So when I think of the real face of America, I think of the average, lower middle class person of small town middle America, I think suburbia, and I think of apartment buildings packed to the brim in cities. Maybe a bald eagle, all of our corporations, and other iconic American cultural images. I looked at the images and I'm not really shocked to see images of day to day, blue collar people, weird cultural images, and skanky girls. I'd say he definitely did a good job at capturing our country, he managed to do exactly what I envisioned.

As for an image that represents America to me. I can only think of one image, but it's comical and I'm not entirely too serious when I post it

It's comedic and incredibly biased, and a bit offensive, but I really can't think of any other image so I have no choice but to post it and still keep the integrity of the project. Now, with this being said, I recognize that my urban, northern, perspective is completely different from the perspective of the vast majority of the country, but there's always going to be differences of opinion, so I might as well keep the tradition going.

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