Before Google Reflection
I went to the Rose Archives and just searching by the category of photography and found the photographer & painter Alli Royce Soble from Atlanta. I requested for bunch of the albums of her work. Interestingly, digging through those, I found photographs about HALLOWEEN! Alli Royce Soble is multi-talented artist who focus on combining her paintings and photographs to come up with collage work. She also does 100% photography too. In my opinion, she often does photographs on portraits and keep them very personal and intimate. She attended a variety of events and parties, like Pride Weekend, Olympic Torch Relay, White Trash Party, Nexus Art Party, Foam Party, and etc. What I found interesting was her photography work from Halloween Party in 2000.
The experience of using non-Google and offline sources were kind of refreshing and new to me. I only have been to the Rose Archives maybe in my Freshman year for the PACE class--or something like that, I do not really remember at all. I have been always using Google and other similar search engines to find any kinds of images and photography for my whole life. Visiting the Rose Archives and being able to see and even touch something of images which are not on Google was in a sense, made me so little and realize that how much I am not even aware of images, and even texts or any kind of data which are hidden in the world out there. Although I am tied to digital gadgets, now I came to thoughts that I would have to explore even more offline, and of course, off-Google for sure.
