The Surreal Theatrical - 120/365
Today is the last day of Professor David Blumenkrantz’s MFA art gallery called The Surreal Theatrical, so I went to check it out. (I also get extra credit for my Photojournalism class if I write a paper about it, too.) It is basically street photography on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, and the photos are awesome. It kind of reminded me of my documentary project because it is about a certain location. You can find more information about it here, and he also made a book through Blurb. You can find that here. It also has a preview!
J455 - More Historic Filipinotown
10 photos total. (more)
You are probably bored of me saying that I went down to Historic Filipinotown with Jonathan over and over, but that’s what we did again last Saturday afternoon. However, we went around its neighborhood to see what was going on this time. Unfortunately, there weren’t many things going on, or we’re just being totally oblivious! We did go to Lake Street Park where it has a Filipino World War II memorial and a skate park where lots of children were skating, etc. We talked to this man who was selling snacks and drinks, and we found out that he comes to the park everyday to sell them. In the end, we got a number of ideas of how we’re going to approach our documentary, like we would focus on the children one day and the religion on another. Hopefully it all works out…
J455 - “Gintong Kasaysayan” Mural - 57/365
13 photos total. (more)
After talking to Professor Blumenkrantz this afternoon, Jonathan and I got a new insight to our documentary project (more info about that on the next journal entry), so we went down to Historic Filipinotown again but to look at the mural. The mural is called “Gintong Kasaysayan, Gintong Pamana,” and it was created by Eilseo Art Silva. It represents history and culture of Filipinos and Filipino Americans. There are definitely so many elements on the mural that it was just amazing. I don’t really know much (or at all) about the history and culture of Filipinos and Filipino Americans, but looking at it visually as an art was very wonderful and powerful. I was also surprised that no one really did any (or any visible) graffiti on it, and I’m glad that there weren’t.