Here live \u201cTHE FEDS.\u201d Tens of fatherly fathers and their daughterly daughters. And you, \u201cAS SEEN ON TV\u201d, are the ground from which the pillars rise. The pillars of the house. The pillars of \u201cTHE NATION\u201d And yet everything seems so big, except you. Big white cream house. One big dad. One small wife. One small child. Three robberies. Three moves. But the best things always seem to come in twos. Two-pronged tongue in the Mississippi sun. Two friendly strangers in Montana winter. Two friends at first. <\/em>Moving away from the small friendly town, to the big new one. You are not there anymore, but are not where you are either. In a valley away from the new valley. \u201c2 much 2 handle.\u201d <\/em> This is the image I used to represent my lyrical essay.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I chose this photo, because the man on the paddle boat is clearly not an aquatic creature, but still finds a way to exist in the water. This is meant to represent my interviewee feeling like she is in a culture she is not adapted to, and having to find her own way. In my silhouette, I put the quote \u201cYou\u2019re from one small town, where everything is slower, and the tops are cropped lower.\u201d because it expresses the clashing cultures between my interviewee\u2019s hometown, and where she lives now. It also shows how overwhelming the sheer amount of people in Silicon Valley can be, which I represented with the vast expanse of water beneath the paddleboat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n When editing the photo, I boosted the contrast in the background, and also edited the light levels with a curves layer. I did this to enhance the details, and also create more darkness and shadows. I also enhanced the brightness and saturation on the man, to make him stand out, and make him less shadowy and more clear. I chose to turn the shirt of the man in the photo green, so that he would stand out on the black and white background, and also because green a the color commonly associated with the military. I used the font Copperplate, because it has an old fashioned official look to it, which seemed appropriate for someone who was stationed in a small town. In the silhouette, I placed the word \u201ccropped\u201d at the hem of the shorts, since the word cropped was meant to refer to where clothing ends. I also put the word \u201clower\u201d at the lowest point in the silhouette, to emphasize it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In this project, we used Reason and Pro Tools to create an original song. I decided to write an ode to my friend group, who I call “The Dream Team.” Pro Tools and Reason are both extremely useful audio programs, so getting some practice with them was an important experience<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Everything here is so big, so monumentally mammoth, that when it sank into the harbor, the tsunami knocked the manners out of people. They climbed to the top of the internet towers, to howl their garbled nonsense into the watery aether. \u201c2 M 2 H.\u201d You, your valley in between one life and the other, flooded. <\/em>
The kids here are different.<\/em>
\u201cTHE FEDS\u201d bring the \u201cTHE HEAT\u201d but the California kids bring the \u201cY E E T.\u201d whatever that means. You\u2019re from one small town, where everything is slower, and the tops are cropped lower.<\/em>
The style lapped over from the great big West, and while the beach babes were beached somewhere on the great big coast, the trends keep trickling by, into the little sanctuary town.<\/em>
\u201cAS SEEN ON TV\u201d The man of the house. He\u2019s America\u2019s daddy. The American ideal, like the beach babes who buy the sea\u2019s breeze from their nearest bath and body works. \u201cA E S T H E T I C.\u201d It’s all just too big. The man of the country. The man on base who has had more homes than you. He is your father, America’s daddy, but acts like your drill sergeant.<\/em>
Here lie \u201cTHE FEDS\u201d it was never like as seen as TV. You were not a prop, and we were all people, just like them. Are you pushing, or being pushed, army brat? Nice little prop. Do something about it. Obedient little prop. Wow, that\u2019s so cool. Lovely little prop. Three moves. Invisible little prop. They won\u2019t even look at you. Fake little prop. Odd little prop. Bad little prop. No little prop. American Sniper baby. \u201c2 Much 2 Handle.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCitizen Image<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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