Hearing is Believing/ Photographic Icons

When I began to read Photographic Icons, I immediately realized how I overlooked the fact that pictures in the newspapers or magazines can be edited to completely altar the image. Especially with the technology used today, someone can take a picture and do absolutely anything they wanted with it. The part, "The impulse to define, perfect, or heighten reality is manifest in a roster of iconic photographs that have come to reside in the world as truth." really spoke to me in multiple ways. When the selection spoke of the fact that a man known for battlefield photographs never stepped foot on one blew my mind. After consideration I can see how this is completely true, I mean Facebook for example, you cannot tell me that the pictures of people on there haven't been altered in anyway. I think it is due in part that no one wants to look bad, or for their work to look bad. No one would be interested in a terrible photograph of a body on a battlefield, but by moving a few things around it paints a completely different picture in our minds.

In Hearing is Believing, I completely agree with the fact that the lyrics in the song are always going to be less important than the music itself. If the music sounds horrible who is going to want to stay for those lyrics. I never knew that the song mentioned that was banned, even existed. I find it amazing they judged the piece on the simple fact it sounded like it was bad or dangerous. I love the way the sounds that the comedian described perfectly painted the picture of the hot chocolate, whipped cream, and cherry. I think that sound effects paint an even better picture because everyone paints their own, your imagination allows you to see all the details you could ever well... imagine.