What I think of my power piece

To be honest when I started this project I did not think that it had much life in it at all and thought that it would really bore me and I would completely regret doing it. This said after doing it and editing the pictures down to my favourite ones I actually think they are o.k. The blurred ones work mixed in with the normal ones as it says that even though Sam may think that he is an individual and other people may think this as well it still doesn’t mean that he can’t get lost. In this day and age it is completely impossible to be a hundred percent individual. After doing the project I started thinking about it a little more and it may have worked a little bit better as a staged piece. Perhaps with Sam in a crowded place like a pub surrounded by drunken people his age with just him stood there in the middle completely sober or maybe a restaurant scene with people eating big chunks of meat while he sits there and eats his salad. I thought about this because looking at the pictures I don’t know whether they completely put across the idea of individuality or whether people may confuse it with loneliness. Thinking about it though can’t these things be seen as being the same thing at times?

Power of Individuality

After realising that I really do not have enough time to do one of the power projects that I would prefer to do I have decided to go with a new idea.  Given this is a new idea to me but I guarantee someone else in the class also does it as it is so obvious a thing to do.  It is the power of individuality.  I am going to do a set of pictures with a friend of mine named Sam.  Sam is twenty one years old and goes to university in Birmingham.  He studies mechanical engineering and I met him through a friend of mine.  Sam is straight edge. For those that don’t know this is a term coined by a hardcore band called Minor Threat in the eighties.  It means no alcohol, no drugs and no smoking.  Some also say no promiscuous sex and choose to be vegan.  I don’t know about the former but Sam is Vegan.  He says that it’s not something to do just to be different but that is a bi-product.  I wanted to look at Sam because I don’t really know many vegans my age.  I know no-one who is straight edge who is my age and I think it’s really cool that Sam has the self discipline to do this and stick to his guns especially while being at university where drugs and alcohol are rife and easy to get hold of. Not being easily influenced by his peers I think makes Sam a very powerful person.  This is simply due to the fact he has more power over his own life than most people do who just live their lives following the pack.