tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post112136766051164646..comments2024-03-18T20:56:05.132-04:00Comments on The Panopticon: Tarred with a Different BrushFranklinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03670441931649806878noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-31920343938183798222014-04-08T01:38:45.873-04:002014-04-08T01:38:45.873-04:00Its a great pleasure reading your post.Its full of...Its a great pleasure reading your post.Its full of information I am looking for and I love to post a comment that "The content of your post is awesome" Great work <a href="http://ligasbobet.com/338a-casino" rel="nofollow">338A Casino</a>Sbobethttp://ligasbobet.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121547641509767922005-07-16T16:00:00.000-05:002005-07-16T16:00:00.000-05:00I live on the edge of a mostly-white tiny little t...I live on the edge of a mostly-white tiny little town (pop. around 1500). I don't know a lot of people, so I can't get more specific with the following, but there are definitely a lot of darker-complected families here, also at least two same-sex couples, and everyone's pretty mellow about it as far as I can tell.<BR/><BR/>You can't make people mix, but I also think people actually mix pretty naturally if there's nothing stopping them. <BR/><BR/>So when they're not mixing, it might make sense to ask, what's stopping them? <BR/><BR/>There was a huge scandal at UW-Madison when the student prospectus cover showed a football game crowd shot and a Black student had been Photoshopped in. (They made the mistake of using an actual UW student, so he saw himself on the cover and knew damn well he had never been to a football game).<BR/><BR/>At the time there was an attempt (not sure how successful) to point out that the problem wasn't the photoshopping, the problem was that there are so extraordinarily few students of any color at UW-Madison that there are (as Franklin points out, quite naturally) very few pictures of said students. <BR/><BR/>You could come up with all kinds of reasons for the lack of diversity. Here's one story: last year a Navajo Indian student from New Mexico left in the middle of the year. This was after he was beaten on the street, for the second time, by people yelling racial slurs (he wore his hair long in a braid, which helped people jump to conclusions about his ethnicity). Also after months of his attempts to get his RA or anyone at all to deal with the fact that a few people in his dorm were making his life hell. <BR/><BR/>This all had something to do with a contentious local election about a casino treaty, but as the young man was from New Mexico, that had nothing to do with him. <BR/><BR/>Any surprise that other Indian/Native American students left at the end of the year? <BR/><BR/>Point being, we (people of pallor, I mean) might assume there are no barriers to "diversity," but we might not always know what kind of barriers actually do exist.... <BR/><BR/>Just some food for thought.birdfarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08375896388806726010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121474291537822042005-07-15T19:38:00.000-05:002005-07-15T19:38:00.000-05:00I go to a University in England, a secondary campu...I go to a University in England, a secondary campus with a student population of about 1500, including about 30 international students (most of whom, like myself, are graduate students). When the time came to take the photographs for next year's undergraduate prospectus for that campus, scheduled it conveniently during spring break, and only inited the international students to the shoot. So we show up for the supposed 4-hour shoot, and they take several African and Chinese students down to shoot on the beach and ask the rest of us to come back in three hours to shoot the cover. At that time they set us up in a classroom and spaced us out so that we looked like a semi-plausible group of students, then took shots for an hour. When the prospectus came out it was a beautiful picture--of my friend Johan, who is Swedish but looks Indian. It had been cropped so that only about four students total showed, with everyone else blurred into near unrecognizability besides Johan. Yes, he's gorgeous (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/147/952/1024/HPIM1367.jpg), but the most important part to them was the color of his skin in that very-very-English-white environment, not how smart he is.Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00355645594071721349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121466868998628832005-07-15T17:34:00.000-05:002005-07-15T17:34:00.000-05:00Hey! knitted hats off to you, my brother! This is ...Hey! knitted hats off to you, my brother! This is definitely one of the more intelligent, well written blogs I've seen. Fabulous!<BR/><BR/>I am fortunate to live in an actual mixed, and I MEAN MIXED neighborhood–all racial groups represented, eight different<BR/>languages spoken, all religions, atheists, interracial couples of all groups, Gay, Lesbian and Trannsexual families, straight families, singles, seniors, every damn body. And guess what? We don't just tolerate each other. We actually get along. I'm scared to post this, 'cause folks might start messing with our peace. It ain't perfect, it's in the Bronx, New York (forget what you've heard. Ask me instead, I'm a native). <BR/><BR/>You can get people to mix, once you stop discrimination in urban planning. Ancestors, don't get me started.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121439905036282982005-07-15T10:05:00.000-05:002005-07-15T10:05:00.000-05:00I just love when the perception of an idea is more...I just love when the perception of an idea is more important than reality. This un-whitewashing of promotional pictures has become laughable, and I foresee in the future a day when these types of staged photos will be as laughable as the added pancake in the historical photograph.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17367675557386034708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121394984732858602005-07-14T21:36:00.000-05:002005-07-14T21:36:00.000-05:00Woah. The Glenn Feron site Mattie linked to is......Woah. The Glenn Feron site Mattie linked to is...difficult to adequately describe. I sat mezmerized, moving my mouse onto the pictures, off of the pictures, onto the pictures, off of the pictures. Hypnotic. Insane. Unfair! Try it if you haven't. It's crazy.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13245882165811719527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121390525697108362005-07-14T20:22:00.000-05:002005-07-14T20:22:00.000-05:00I work at a small community college and I immediat...I work at a small community college and I immediately identified with the new idea for a photoshop tool. I have been asked more than once to include more diversity in my photos. Not easy when each classroom I walk into shows no diversity at all.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10483640765158526073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121390204179236012005-07-14T20:16:00.000-05:002005-07-14T20:16:00.000-05:00Oh, oops, and I'm also too busy looking at this li...Oh, oops, and I'm also too busy looking at this link that Mattie provided for Glenn Feron. My god. Real women have cellulite. I should just have a permanent photoshop filter follow me around all day...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121389702187612242005-07-14T20:08:00.000-05:002005-07-14T20:08:00.000-05:00You went to Harvard? I worked at Harvard for five ...You went to Harvard? I worked at Harvard for five years, publishing all sorts of "diverse" stuff...<BR/><BR/>I would elaborate on my comment, but I am too busy trying to restore my nostrils.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121375407971931872005-07-14T16:10:00.000-05:002005-07-14T16:10:00.000-05:00The best use of photoshop I've seen is this Glenn ...The best use of photoshop I've seen is this Glenn Feron guy. The site is pretty slow, and I doubt the very first image, I think it went the other direction, from good to bad, but his work is scary. He doesn't spend much time on boys though, so I doubt I'd pay him for a touch up for my personal ad photos. :)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/index2.html" REL="nofollow"> Here's the link?</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121372941949739682005-07-14T15:29:00.000-05:002005-07-14T15:29:00.000-05:00Brilliant idea! Do tell Adobe.Brilliant idea! Do tell Adobe.goblinboxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13636167643991935136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121371850739022182005-07-14T15:10:00.000-05:002005-07-14T15:10:00.000-05:00Franklin - My two girls get published in a lot of ...Franklin - My two girls get published in a lot of the local park district stuff. Also library things and probably when they start school, the shcool newsletter as well.<BR/><BR/>I like to say it is because we are involed in a lot of different programs and my girls are breathtakingly gorgeous... which they are.<BR/><BR/>But I know the truth of the matter is that they are Asian and they 'fit the bill' on the diversity card.<BR/><BR/>Now if I could just find a way to collect money for this, I could get their college educations funded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1121370655250960772005-07-14T14:50:00.000-05:002005-07-14T14:50:00.000-05:00I know just what you mean. If you look at any ad...I know just what you mean. If you look at any advertising or media you will see one of each race....even on Barney.<BR/>I live in a town where there is probably one black guy and he is married to a white woman, so you can imagine the diversity here! (and they moved here from out of town!) LOL. Or maybe not so funny -- you can't make neighborhoods mixed, or races and religion be friends - anti-segregation in the 60's didn't work then and doesn't work now - is tolerance what we should be preaching? EEEEhhh...what do I know. After all I am a blonde, blue eyed white woman...what do I know?? We are an ethnic group all to our selves --blondes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com