Home project presentations by: Eddie

Ling:
Ling’s website was absolutely amazing. His photographs were spectacular and they were very professionally done. He put a lot of detail on each page and he spoke a lot about his passions such as computers. What I found strange is that he is a really great photographer so why not speak of photography as one of his passions. As an audience member I notice how well these photographs are taken so I would assume that they are a big part of what defines Ling and also of what defines his home. There were some grammatical errors in his writing and I feel that he needs to speak about his pictures a little bit more, but besides that, everything is great. Another question that kept popping into my head is how does Ling define home, maybe he should elaborate on that.

John:
I noticed that in John’s home project he makes his family look like a sitcom to give it a more interesting feel. I am not so sure about his home page picture because while it did raise some questions, I was not completely intrigued by it. I did see how his family was very important to him and I saw his immediate family all together at once. It made me think that they were very close which often times big families aren’t. I do like how the people are positioned in the photograph, it’s as if were watching a television show. Another photograph which I thought was great was the picture of his television. We saw the Andy Griffith show which gave us a good concept of old and new. It is evident that John enjoys television and movies, he says so in his writing but why doesn’t he elaborate on his love of movies and television into something that he wants to do as a career. Overall I was not drawn into his project very much except for the photograph of him and his friend Tali. That photograph was interesting to me because it showed a relationship and the body language of them in the photograph speak to us, the audience. I for one, thought that the relationship was sensual and romantic but his writing showed otherwise.

Nicole DeLeo:
Nicole’s home project looks great. It resembles a webpage and I am imprest at how much graphic design she was able to do on Microsoft Word. Everything looks like a collage and you see that there are a lot of things happening everywhere on the page. I also enjoy how warm and welcoming the page is. I like the color scheme because it shows her personality in it (for example the pink). Nicole has a great introduction and I enjoyed how she spoke about sociology in the way that people put up a front and that she was letting us, the audience, in to her true self, into her “behind the scenes.” I enjoy how well the links flow and how good her writing is. I also like that in the picture of her Barbies she says “think of when you were young,” she is again bringing the audience in and getting us to think about our own past memories. I also enjoy very much how she links every photograph to memories and to her own concept of home. I think that it is one of the best home projects that I have seen so far and my only suggestion for improvement is to fix some aspects of her grammar.


Nicole Terrano:
Her home page has a very sincere picture of her mom and dad. We get the feeling of warmth and love so we see what it feels like to be part of her home. I also like the part where she wrote “home is about things that remind me of my family and all the good times we have had together.” She explains what home means to her and she describes how memories are important to her. It is also interesting to see how she is an only child and that her parents were the only ones she played with. Another very interesting photograph was of Nicole and her boyfriend. In the picture we see the body language of them suggesting intimacy and closeness. We also see that they are dress formally so I assumed that it may be a prom or a wedding. What I found really interesting is how she spoke about her boyfriend’s Greek heritage and how she was experiencing his heritage. It made me think of how they were mingling their cultures together. I also found it interesting when she said that she went with her boyfriend to Greece to meet his family there. I know that in my own culture I would only be allowed to do this if I was intending to marry the girl, so the subject of marriage arises in my mind. It was also interesting to hear Nicole speak about her experience in Greece so my suggestion is to write those things down. Maybe she should write about that experience in Greece and how difficult or how easy their cultures combine with each others. Overall it was a good project but once again I think that she should get “deeper” in her writing.

(Sorry I posted this so late)