Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Topic Change
Once my Hiroshima Children's Drawings website goes live, this blog will morph from an experimental one to a live one. The goal of the blog will be to unite scholars, victims, journalists and the general public in discussion of the drawings, their history and their legacy.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Image Assignment Reflection
Last week's tutorial on image location was of tremendous benefit for the purposes of this assignment. I was able to locate four of these images on the website of the National Archives, and one on CNN. Unfortunately, I was unable to tell the exact story that I originally wanted to, Harry Truman's mad dash to the White House upon hearing the news of FDR's death, because I could not locate images of the inside of Samuel Rayburn's Capitol Hill office, or of a 1940s taxicab in front of the Capitol Building. So, since it was relatively easy to locate photographs of FDR's funeral and of Truman's swearing-in ceremony, I decided to shift my focus.
The vetting of the photos took longer than I thought it would, because I was looking for images that would evoke the emotion of the day. I settled upon the three-image CNN photograph because I wanted to show how different groups of people from across political, socio-economic and racial spectra were all equally moved by this monumental event.
Once I located the images, the blogger platform was extremely easy to use. Once I clicked on the "image" button, the program easily guided me to the "browse" box, from which I uploaded the images. The only frustration I had was trying to edit the posts once I published them. I was able to finally do so by clicking "back" a few times on my browser.
The vetting of the photos took longer than I thought it would, because I was looking for images that would evoke the emotion of the day. I settled upon the three-image CNN photograph because I wanted to show how different groups of people from across political, socio-economic and racial spectra were all equally moved by this monumental event.
Once I located the images, the blogger platform was extremely easy to use. Once I clicked on the "image" button, the program easily guided me to the "browse" box, from which I uploaded the images. The only frustration I had was trying to edit the posts once I published them. I was able to finally do so by clicking "back" a few times on my browser.
Harry S. Truman, FDR's Vice President for only 82 days, became the 33rd President of the United States on April 12, 1945. After taking the oath of office, Truman pleads with reporters:
"Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know if you fellas ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me what happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."
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