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Shown alone, this photo will illicit feelings of chaos.
Loud noises, feet moving across the hard floor, screaming babies, intercom announcements.
The long exposure in the bottom of the frame shows the movement of the people in the station. We can imagine them moving swiftly around each other, with a sort of organized chaos (hence the post title, “murmuration“.
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But play the audio along with the image, your sense get slowed and you can see that there is a grace and smoothness to this image that gets shown only when you play the audio.
It’s comparable to murmuration in the idea that when we are inside of something (i.e. a mass of moving bodies) it feel hectic and disorderly, but when we are able to step back and view something from the outside we can finally see the order and the structure to the movements.
Hi Elizabeth,
I like the way you have analyzed the photograph and visualization of people moving around. The soulful vocals in the audio are soothing and help me to imagine the stations of the cross and the confusion among the people in this picture. Your post reminds me that we are approaching the lenten season. Talking about the technical details, I like the usage of hyperlinks wherever necessary and not just for the creative commons audio and image. For my blog I used an image from Openverse but after viewing the image you have used from ‘Flickr’ I like it better. This is because in Flickr I can find images and also the settings used by the photographer to capture it. That’s amazing!
Hi Elizabeth! Before listening to the audio you selected with the picture, I definitely felt that sense of chaos coming from the amount of people in that space. However, paired with the audio I immediately felt the calmness, giving the picture a completely different meaning. I also love that you chose a black and white photograph because I think if it were in color it would have added more to that sense of chaos, even paired with the audio. I also like you chose an audio with a different language. It still creates a feeling of calmness even though I can’t understand the words which is really enjoyable. Great job!!
I just realized I posted on the wrong Elizabeth but great job still lol!
Elizabeth, Youre absolutely write in your description of this post. When you first view this image, you think chaos. As a matter of fact, it looks like people are trying to evacuate. Ofcourse, after hearing the music while viewing the image, it’s not chaos. It’s a calm gathering of many minds. Looking closely at the image, reminds me of an outdoor worship service. Great formatting, I like the way you broke up your thoughts and not jam them all into one block of text. Youre execution of in line links and CC usage was on pointe.