User:MichealBailey

Bio
Micheal Bailey was born in Denver, CO and moved to Seattle Washington in June of 2000. He was married in Oct 2004 and has one boy (born 2004) and one girl (born 2007.) Recently he has made the move to get his Bachelors degree in Photography and move away from his career in information technology. Micheal has been an avid photographer since he first picked a camera at 20 years of age. His areas of photographic interest range from outdoor nature photography, urban industrial, abstract, journalistic, event, all the way to studio fashion photography. Passionate about knowledge he reads and studies any thing that sparks his interest. This is reflected in his personal library collection of over 200 books which is over ninety percent reference material. Beyond studies of the photographic nature he also is interested in astronomy, geology, physics, computer sciences, mathematics, ceramics, music theory and practice, kayaking, hiking camping, archery, and the martial arts.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic Photographing the Big Four Ice Caves


 * Research Component

•	History of Big Four Ice Caves •	Local forestry contact information to find out what they need from me before shoot •	Photographic gear needed •	Wet weather gear, for self and camera gear •	August weather at location •	Safety concerns and gear •	Focus on nature and translucent subject photography


 * Week 1

Photographing the Big Four Ice Caves near Granite Falls, WA. I have always wanted to photograph under and near surface cave formations. This includes lava tubes, limestone, and ice caves.


 * Week 2

Completed research needs under Research Component field above.


 * Week 3

Build out project deliverables and timelines. Detail safety and environmental concerns. Build out gear list. •	camera and lighting •	personal cloths •	safety gear •	Food •	shoot day schedule Find forestry contact information and review intentions with them.


 * Week 4

Write out purpose and what I hope to show with these shots. What ultimately do I want to come away with?


 * Week 5

Establish firm shoot day and confirm that I have all required resources. I will also plan out alternate date in case initial shoot day falls through.


 * Week 6

Week of Shoot Review shoot


 * Week 7

Review images - select key images Begin rough draft for presentation


 * Week 8

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
While viewing the sculptures at the Olympic Sculpture Park located in Seattle, WA one piece in particular stood out to me as particularly unimpressive. Typewriter Eraser, Scale X is a large scale representation of a typewriter eraser used on manual typewriters; erasing typed print from the page. The piece was done by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen and was completed in 1999 (1). The intent of the piece as I understood it from viewing it was to give the observer a new perspective on the everyday object which may normally be seen as mundane. This is something that I personally can identify with since a large portion of my own photography focuses on the beauty of the everyday objects that are often overlooked by shifting perspective and sometimes scale. This sculpture did not do that for me as it appeared more a feat of engineering the structure of on object on a large scale. In addition the scaled up object was devoid of the character that would come from the everyday use of its real world counterpart such as wear on the eraser or wear on the metal plating from normal abuse. I then took it upon my self to try to understand this artistic duo’s purpose and other works.

Within minutes of viewing just the images of their other works and reading the history of the artists I realized not only respect for their art, but a large amount of admiration. Many of their works are a visual interplay not only within the sculpture, but also with the landscape in which they reside. This team of artist has completed more that 40 large scale sculptures to date (2). A few of the pieces which for me stand out as exemplary are Stake Hitch (1984), Knife Slicing Through Wall (1989), and Soft Shuttlecock (1995). Many of the pieces show a playful and entertaining forced perspective as if shrunk down to the size of a fly. Pausing the moment of a simple action and reflecting on the simplicity and elegance of any everyday event from the new vantage. Their work takes on a visual ownership and plays off of the environment in which it is placed. It now seems to me looking back to my original viewing that the disappointment from the Typewriter Eraser sculpture is not with the piece itself. The disappointment is with the placement of the sculpture on a landscape that does not allow it to play out its purpose.

1. "Typewriter Eraser." Seattle Art Museum. 2009. 28 Aug 2009 .

2. "Biography." oldenburgvanbruggen.com. 2004. 28 Aug 2009 .

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
The product Extenze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZxdDG1Gs6I&feature=related

Dubious Authority - show is presented as a show "Sex Talk" that discusses sexual topics for their audiance in an objective manner.

Logical Fallacies Allness 01:41 "Some studies show"

Proof by example (anecdotal evidence) - 02:00 "more of an issue than most guys know"

Bandwagon Wagon (peer pressure) - 02:22

Misuse of Language Weasel Words "Can increase that certain part of a male body" - 00:24

Self-Assessment
Ah, the self assesment for my freshman seminar. I performed adequately in this class, nothing above and beyond; nothing special. I refreshed concepts that I was already familiar with regarding logical falicies of thought, worked on a project, and showed up to class. It would have been nice to see more in class assignments based on group activities to emphesize using our peers as resources. All in all nothing exceptional was brought away from this class other than just polishing up skills that I already possessed.