- briefly compares and contrasts the two bridges’ designs, environs, and how people choose to frame and depict the bridges in their photos
- a notable point in where the bridges differ is the cable structuring attached to the supports. the Brooklyn bridge extends in a spiderweb-esque design from the the tops of the bridges arches while the Golden Gate bridges cables laterally descend from the the top cable that runs the length of the structure.
- If we analyze the compositions of the photo’s depicting we can also see a difference in how they are viewed. It seems a favored method for photographers to shoot the internal structure of the bridge taking up the frame with its impressive web of wires. While the view for the Golden gate bridge tends towards the bridges profile, each taking the impressive attributes the structures hold. The Golden Gate Bridges awesome size and the Brooklyn bridges elegant complexity.
- It’s also interesting to note the environment of the bridges. The brooklyn bridge connects city to city, it symbolizes a modernity. The Golden gate bridges strong iron structures jut from the sprawling land into the ocean, the city a distant hint on the landscape, its becomes a things of nature.
- hypothesizes what the differences in the bridges reveal about the times in which they were built
- i think the Brooklyn bridge is largely influenced by functionality. built in the 1800’s , it says to me that the plethora of wire and stone structuring was used to create a lasting structure that would endure time and the growing population of the city.
- The golden gate bridge, built later, to me says an aesthetic view was used in its design. The structure is confident in its durability with reduced amounts of cables. It has an openness that allows it to both blend the land while remaining impressive. The 1930’s , the decade in which the bridge was built saw an influx of technology, cars where gaining popularity what with the second wave of immigration on the heels of world war ones end. I think it was built to illustrate the prosperity of California to arriving individuals as well as the rest of the country.
- hypothesizes what the persistence of these bridges (each has been renovated and reinforced, but not redesigned or replaced) suggests about the beliefs and/or values of New York City and San Francisco.
- I think the persistence of the bridges are reinforced by there presence. The largess of structures strike a visual symbolism in the minds of those who witness it. It no longer is just a bridge or way of transportation but a landmark of the very country it resides in. It is what tourist flock to snapping pictures of their vacations, It is what locals base directions from and what textbooks imprint on there pages. The bridges become an iconography that represents and identity for the places of there origin which is why i think they are protected from the constant evolution of societies.
Kaleob Busmann
Hello, my name is Kaleob Busmann and I am a sophomore at Boise State. I am currently majoring in biology with a minor in environmental science and geoscience. I was born and raised in Seattle, Washington and when I was ten years old my family moved to Boise, Idaho. Living in Seattle for ten years allowed me to have a taste for the city life, but not enough to truly impact who I am today.
Idaho has influenced me in a lot of ways. The family and friends I grew up with in Boise allowed me to find who I am as a person and what I wanted to aspire to be. While growing up in Boise I spent my whole childhood playing sports and developed a passion for them that influenced me greatly. It taught me much more than how to throw a ball or tackle someone, I learned the value of friendship, teamwork, and work ethic. This greatly influenced what I read and watched on TV. I constantly watched ESPN and read every sports magazine I could get my hand on when I was a kid.
I like to spend my free time in the outdoors. I love fly-fishing, hiking, sports, and any other outdoor activity I can find. Growing up in Idaho it is hard not to like the outdoors and it has greatly influenced how I view the world. It is also why I am a biology major; being outside and enjoying nature when I was young allowed me to find a passion for science and greatly influenced my views on the world.
I usually try and read the newspaper every once in a while to try and keep up with local and national news but most of the information I get is from friends and family or social media. My parents are always watching the news and reading the newspaper, and they always love to tell me what’s going on.
Lindsay Haskins Introductions
I was born and raised in Boise Idaho. Though most of my childhood was spent in Cascade Idaho. I think that I was raised in a small town friendly environment with people that would give a stranger the shirt off of their back. The family and the people they chose to have around me influence me as a person for the better. I was aloud to see the people I never wanted to become and those I aspired to be like.
I always really loved reading fictional mystery books. Or those books that depicted crazy hardships of teenagers, such as drug abuse. I read plenty of non fictional books school. As I got older I enjoyed reading autobiographies or biographies of people that had really hard or different lives then I did. Stories from other countries, the wars on human trafficking, drug king pins in the US.
I think friends and family is where I would get most of that information. Some times I will read news articles and websites that I know might be biased, like MSN news. As much as I should I don’t keep up with everything going on. If there is something I hear that I want to know more about or find out the unbiased facts, I will go looking for answers. I don’t take time every day to go over what is happening.
I spend all of my off time with family, riding dirt bikes, hunting, camping. I know that there are injustices happening all around the world everyday, but my priority is my family here and now, any free time I have is spent with family, I choose to focus on them rather than the other things happening around me. Obviously I know there is an importance in being aware, but I only have one life and have no idea how long it will be.
I don’t think I have a religious or spiritual journey. I do have the view that as long as what you are doing doesn’t harm me or another living creature it doesn’t hold any weight in my life.
Both my parents came from the same culture.
When I was little I can remember have night terrors about flying to see family after 9/11, I was an extreme worrywart. No doubt do live in a bubble in Idaho unaffected by the injustices happening around me, and I think there is a lot of bad in our world, but in mine, here in my bubble its good.
Growing up I was not aware of the animal abuse and injustices that occurred. I wasn’t aware of the amount of dogs euthanized because of overpopulation or how society chooses to ignore it because they don’t having voices to scream for help. Anywhere that I can give dogs a voice I will. If that means telling the people that are looking at the puppies in the Cabela’s parking lot about the genetic deformities that land these dogs that were bred by back yard breeders in our human societies I will. If it means calling some one out for abusing animals in public I will.
My parents were essential to shaping the person I am now. Giving me a chance to have a voice even on something we might disagree on. I was never silenced as a child for speaking on a topic I believed in or against. My parents allowed me and my sisters to experience things that some parents might have otherwise sheltered their children from. That alone helped shape who I am and what I stand for.