NEWS STORY: WHY DOESN'T UWM OFFER ORGANIC FOOD?
Insurance, other concerns are stumbling blocks



Universities across the nation, including several Wisconsin colleges, are noshing on organic potatoes, blue corn chips, and parsnips as part of an $18 billion dollar industry offering fresh alternatives to student appetites. But, where is University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in this organic movement? The school offers Burger King, Taco Bell, and a variety of other menu options, but organic food choices are absent. But this does not mean buying an organic salad in the Union will remain impossible.

(Photo by Vanessa Weber)

PR Project

Pictures taken for Front Page Milwaukee
organics story.

Pictures taken for The UWM Post, but
formating issues occured, and there
wasn't enough room for photograph.














Picture published in UWM Post.

Now how did we find ourselves here?





Oh she's gonna use it alright.


Ed...a.k.a. the guy who got his nipple pierced.


"Does anybody even know where we are?"


The time that contemplation would be taking place...



The Bed of Change.


The many intricate tattoo designs.


The design that was found on a bar coaster...


Scalpel...getting a tattoo, or going into surgery?


Where's a good friend when ya need one...
busy doing a photo essay.


Shouldn't you be more tense, oh yeah



NO TURNING BACK


Relax Megan, at least your face doesn't look like
this guys arm.





"Don't take a picture of my bad ear"


"Oh by the way, can you sign this contract that
you won't sue us."...after we've branded your body.

Are you better in front or behind the camera?
How does it feel to be photographed?
I think that I enjoy being behind the camera rather than being in front of it, but I like to think I'm pretty photogenic. I love looking through a frame and being given the canvas of a photograph; being able to make the choice of how to frame something beautiful or enticing. I also love to be photographed as well though. Being photographed makes me feel important, that someone wants to save my existence forever through a piece of art. I'm very comfortable in front of the camera, just as comfortable as I am behind it; both positions relax me and feel natural.

How do you tell a story with images?
To tell a story with images you must treat the camera exactly like your eye. It is important to see different angles and vantage points in order to understand the parameters of the story and the space that it is told in. The photographer must do their best to capture emotion and important moments of the event. To capture these moments and tell a story with them, the camera must be ready at all times. It helps to think of the photo shoot in terms of a song, movie, book, or anything that has a narrative of words. Although it is not totally necessary, placing the photos in a particular order also helps move the story fluidly.

Differences between a photograph and the thing itsef
Dorethea Lange said, "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." A photograph is a moment frozen in time forever. People are things and they are ever changing. If a portrait is really good, looking at it should give the viewer some insight to who the person is. Paul Strand said, "It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness." Even if it doesn't do this accurately the portrait seems to tell a story about the person in it. This makes a photograph (the portrait) very different from the thing itself (person). A person is ever chaning, while a photograph stays the same forever. The second the photograph is taken the person is duplicated in a sense, and is turned into a piece of art for many to view. One thing that photographs and people certainly have in common, is the way they are judged, picked apart, and analyzed by all who see. While a photograph and people have many layers, a person has the ability to speak for themselves, but in a portrait the photographer is given the ability to speak for the subject.

Earliest Memory
My earliest memory is of me driving. The car was purple, had four wheels, and was powered by my feet. The roof was round like a Volkswagen, but lacked windows. I know this memory has been mixed with a photograph that exists of me; I'm in the driver's seat. Therefore, the "memory" includes a big smile on my face, pigtails, a bright read shirt, and a Christmas tree in the background. What I know I remember for sure, is the opening and closing of the tiny plastic door that let me in and out. I remember that this is what aided me in learning how to open a car door. I remember this is what I would nag my big brother about helping me with. What's strange now is that I'm not a big fan of purple, I'm twenty-one and have no automobile, but I am dying to buy a Volkswagen.

When is my favorite time of day? What is the light like then?
My favorite time of day is dusk. Of course the time changes as the year changes. Needless to say, there is nothing like the viewing of the suns final rays, the last moments of color, in the sky before the black of night. Dusk occurs right before the sky goes black. It is said that this is the time that the human eye can see the least sharply and therefore dusk is the most dangerous time to drive. This is why I sit on my porch and watch the night fall. If I'm lucky the sky is a purple-pink-bluish and the light is very dim. It is the perfect time of day to look up at trees making silhouettes on the sky. It is the perfect time to be outside sitting with someone who know well. There is no need to see what they look like therefore you focus on their silhouette and tones of their voice. Your eyes adjust quickly and enjoy the humbleness of the light, but are quickly fooled as the darkness vastly sets in. For that thirty minutes, if you're lucky, there is a light that must be impossible to recreate artificially.

Men I May Know.
Men I May Wish I Knew.




Mando Man.


Man on the Mic.



Little Man.

.
Guitar Man.


Man on the Turn-Tables.


Man?



Man on a Mission.



Hey Man.

My roommate set out on a mission to make a change in her life. She decided to cut her bangs. Whether it be Anne Hathaway’s killer bangs in The Devil Wears Prada or just how she felt that morning, I’m not entirely sure, but the fact is that she returned home from a infamous haircut with bangs. She took a chance and made a bold statement through what I had thought was not only a dying fad, but a dead fad. She shocked us all with the best looking bangs ever!
Her bangs take many forms, all of which have been very entertaining. When she returned home from her haircut she had the sweetest 70s style looking bangs I had ever seen. They came flat down on her forehead and were just barely long enough to cover a bit of her eyes.  Her 80s rocker style bangs had appeared that morning standing straight up out of her head in answer to the head band she used to tame them down the night before. Accident? I think not, just her bangs expressing their ultimate ability of transformation.
The point is that this haircut will go down in history in my roommate’s life. She will go down in history as the only one of my friends who dared to cut there bangs in this decade. She could be the start of a serious fad that could wipe out “The Rachel” forever.
I will document this event for the next two weeks and see the many forms her bangs take and the many events that occur due to Katy Peter’s new haircut.

Bird's Eye View of THE BANGS.

Katie's pissed.

Ace Venture... Something About Katy...

Note the bangs, but not Katy are in motion.
They are transforming all on their own.

Oh yes, mistakes happen.
But atleast she's got some rocking 70s bangs.

It looks like the bangs are flying back,
but really they're staying in place.

Taurus' have the best bangs.

Silhouette


These ain't just any bangs.