2009年5月12日星期二
H1N1
When associating with the H1N1,we have to take Mexico into discussion,in which the first case was found.The spread of the virus was so fast that made Mexican government to close many stores to cut the way to communication.But we can see this thing in a deeper view,the rank of Mexican index of goverment's efficiency is 85,and the credibility of public service is 116 etc published by The Forum of World Economy.All the data shows us that Mexico is not a country which has enough capacity to protect its citizens from the serious virus(swine flu).So the problems may not only lie on how horrible the H1N1 influenza virus is but also the mal control of the authority.
Now,one doubted case is in ChengDu ,and I am here.But I am not worry about it for I trust our government.
2009年4月20日星期一
计划(09.5-10.5)
2.雅思希望考上6.5
3.SQL,C#,PS希望有进一步的提高&&多接触点社会经济方面的东西(our 114)
4.通信方面的知识要扎实
2009年4月9日星期四
my soul belongs to her
每当我觉得她足够美丽的时候,她总是比我想象得更为美丽
一直不敢在她校内上留言,怕惊扰她,虽然我喜欢她,但不知道她什么态度.也怪我,她连我面都没有见过,哎..,为什么才告诉她我喜欢她,她就出国了呢,连最后一面都没有见上,悲剧.今天,终于看见她的校内更新了,居然是一个哭的头像...一个女孩子在美国,不容易,什么都要靠自己.如果她敢有什么三长两短的话,我这一辈子都会记着美国的.
其实我还是那个态度,不管以后结局是什么,她的幸福是最重要的.
每天为她和我亲爱的妈妈祈祷.
我永远深爱着的女子.
2009年4月2日星期四
2009年3月24日星期二
Robert Frank and his "The Americans"
With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph its society at all strata. He took his family along with him for part of his series of road trips over the next two years, during which time he took 28,000 shots. Only 83 of those were finally selected by him for publication in The Americans. Frank's journey was not without incident. While driving through arkansas, Frank was arbitrarily thrown in jail after being stopped by the police; elsewhere in the South, he was told by a sheriff that he had "an hour to leave town."
This divergence from contemporary photographic standards gave Frank difficulty at first in securing an American publisher. Les Américains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, and finally in 1959 in the United States by Grove Press, where it initially received substantial criticism. Popular Photography, for one, derided his images as "meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness." Though sales were also poor at first, Kerouac's introduction helped it reach a larger audience because of the popularity of the Beat phenomenon. Over time and through its inspiration of later artists, The Americans became a seminal work in American photography and art history, and is considered the work with which Frank is most clearly identified. In 1961, Frank received his first individual show, entitled Robert Frank: Photographer, at the art institute of Chicago. He also showed at MoMA in New York in 1962.
"The Americans" shows the country and its people in a boldly honest way. Robert Frank showed the effects of racism, social inequality and poverty. But he also showed a beautiful side of America's people and places. The book was revolutionary for the inventive style of taking photographs that show immediacy and emotional honesty. "The Americans" was also different from other photography books because Frank organized the images according to similar emotions, forms or subjects.
"Charleston, South Carolina" ,an African-American woman holds a white baby. Frank shows the woman's dark skin next to the baby's light skin. You can see the wisdom and experience in her face, which is very different from the baby's wondering expression. Here Frank plays with contrasts, or opposing elements, as he does in many photographs.
"Trolley-New Orleans" shows a close-up image of people on a public transportation vehicle. Frank frames the photograph so that you mainly see the people looking out the windows of the trolley. There are white people in the front and black people in the back. This is a powerful image about racial separation in society at that time.
"U.S. 285, New Mexico" Frank photographed the dividing mark on a highway. The road seems to go on forever into the far horizon. Jack Kerouac described the image as a "long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities."
"Rodeo -- New York City" Robert Frank pictures a thin cowboy bending his head to light his cigarette. Because of his clothing, you might expect the cowboy to be in a rural environment with a horse nearby. But the image is surprising because he is standing on a crowded street in New York City.
Robert Frank once made this comment about his work: "I am always looking outside, trying to look inside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what is out there. And what's out there is constantly changing."
--the information is coming from voa and Wikipedia
and you can see more photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/dogstar901/RobertFrankTheAmericans