Reponse to Edward Burtynsky Film

In class, we are now starting on our photography unit and the first thing we had to do was watch a movie on Edward Burtynsky. The reason for this is because the theme of this unit is to go out and take photos in industrial setting and put together a presentation of some sort around it. Edward Burtynsky's photography is about how industrial landscapes can effect surrounding areas. We watched a documentary on his work which included the places he went to shoot his pictures.

Personally, I thought the movie was boring as a whole. I thought it was boring because there didn't seem like there was much going on. Most of the movie was just the context of some of his photography shoots and then the finished products themselves. Because this was all the movie was to me, it made it very hard to pay attention. Imagine, sitting through an hour and a half of the same boring thing. The movie was 90 minutes long so we had break it up between two periods. I will admit however, that two things in that movie did capture my interest for a bit and that was when I was watching how fast the assembly line workers assembled small machinery and when there was a picture that he shot of many many cars that look almost identical lined up in rows. I can explain why that interested me but it did. Maybe it was the weird repetition of grey that sort of captivated me.

Anyway now for the part that all of my regular readers likely enjoy the most. I was watching Sxephil yesterday and as part of a new show that he and other ppl(if I'm not mistaken) do on youtube called Sourcefed, he did a segment on Mike Relm who created audio/video remixes of videos like the Old Spice commercial for example. I looked him up on Youtube soon after and found a Scott Pilgrim vs The World remixed with How Low Can You Go by Ludacris. I thought it was cool so I am now directing it to my reader :). Side note: For those of you who don't know who sxephil is. He has a channel where he just talks about stuff that matter to him like pop culture, current events etc etc. He funny, check him out. Also check out Mike Relm and his other remixes. Enjoy the last of your long weekend and see you next week.