...The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts presents 11 photographers who have taken photographs since the 1970’s. Each photographer has his own space in the exhibition for approximately fifteen of his photographs, mainly in black and white framed with a light brown frame, realizing in a whole a retrospective of how society has changed in Quebec throughout the years. It conveys the photographers’ concerns and interests in the quality of urban lives. The photographers transmit a reflection of society, collectively, individually and creatively by the use of a keen critical sense, while respecting the subject in its environment. This exhibition will conduct the visitor to ask itself some questions, “Where are we going?” “What is reality?”. In fact, the role of the photographers in this exhibition is to present artistically, a documentary on the society with its diverse values and inhabitants. In this exhibition Benoit Aquin’s photographs portray the after hours bars, between three and five in the morning, in the streets and nightlife places of Montreal. It is a look at the people living during the night, always having fun, detached from the daytime life and somehow perverted by society. The ideas of shock and surprise are present. It is a contrast with the other photographers, who have depicted residential areas and working class everyday life. Instead, Benoit Aquin shows the hidden side of a city, what citizens cannot see if they do not wander into the night. We can observe in Benoit...
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...Journal 2 1. It has been said that forecasting using exponential smoothing is like driving a car by looking in the rear-view mirror. What are the conditions that would have to exist for driving a car that are analogous to the assumptions made when using exponential smoothing? When driving a car, everyone knows where one should be looking. Straight ahead most of the time and with some side glances from time to time. An occasional glance into the rear-view mirror is recommended. Any quantitative forecasting method always uses historical data to make forecasts. Exponential smoothing is a method used in forecasting to eliminate the effect of any random deviations in the data trend. Also, like any forecasting method, it assumes that the conditions in the future will be identical to those that were in the past time period from which the data is being used. It does not anticipate or attempt to discover what lies ahead and what pit falls or bumps could lay in the future. This is why this method of forecasting has been likened to driving a car by looking in the rear-view mirror. It shows one where one have been but does in no way equip one for the road ahead and how to navigate and maneuver that road. 2. What capability would an organization have to have to not need forecasts? An organization would essentially require business research and data collection as well as data interpretation capabilities in order to forecast accurately. The biggest complication relating to creating a forecast...
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...Marshall McLuhan “The Man behind the message” A professor from Winnipeg, Marshall was one of the world’s most innovative thinkers. His theories about mass media turned him into a media guru. Arguably most famous for his quote “The medium is the message” Many would consider Marshall to be a brilliant man; others would say they don’t understand a word he is saying. I wonder how much thought his skeptics have put into what he had to say. I will agree that some of his theories are not clear at first but once dissected you begin to understand the man behind the message. “The message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society, but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure. This happened whether the railway functioned in a tropical or northern environment, and is quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium. (Understanding Media, NY, 1964, p. 8) What McLuhan writes about the railroad applies with equal validity to the media of print, television, computers and now the internet. “The medium is the message” because it is the “medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.” (E. McLuhan) Now, some may be thinking that they don’t understand the message of the preceding paragraphs...
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...Rear Window Film Review Dawn B ARTS/100 Introduction to the Visual and Performing Arts June 24, 2013 Alfred Hitchcock was considered the master of suspense, and with very good reason. Hitchcock had a very productive film making career in which he made 53 major films. His production of Rear Window, a movie based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich titled, “It Had to be Murder” ("A Work In Progress,” 2013) is one of his most famous. I have seen Rear Window several times over the years, the first time in an art house theater in Lake Tahoe, California. It is my favorite Hitchcock film, and I looked forward to watching again. I relaxed in my recliner with a glass of wine to enjoy this Hitchcock masterpiece after everyone had gone to bed on Thursday evening, June the 20th. Rear Window opens on an apartment complex courtyard- peering into the windows of the people who live there. The camera tracks up and shows the audience a woman getting ready for the day. The camera tracks down and to the left to see the milkman walking away and into the street behind the building before tracking back around to the protagonist, L.B. Jeff Jefferies (James Stewart) in his apartment. A close up on Jefferies reveals the sweat on his forehead before cutting over to a wall thermometer showing how hot it is. Panning over, viewers get a closer look at the various people from the apartment across the street. The viewer sees a neighbor with shaving cream on...
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...Rear Window tells the story of L.B. Jefferies, a photographer. His daring lifestyle is put on hold when he is bound to a wheelchair after an accident. He uses his free time to watch his nabours out his rear window and soon gets caught up in a murder conflict. With the help of his girlfriend, Lisa, he begins to try and solve the case. One major theme of Rear Window is the perception of understanding others and how we make large assumptions based off of a small bit of information about people. Sometimes those assumptions are correct, as it was with the murder case, but other they are wrong, as shown through the end of the film when we learn of small facts about the najbours that changes our perception of them. We see this throughout Jeff and Lisa’s relationship. Their main conflict is that they come from “two different worlds.” Jeff is a photographs extreme danger,...
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...Reverse round a corner step by step technique The reverse round a corner or left corner reverse as it is sometimes known is one of 4 manoeuvres you will need to learn before taking the driving test. The reverse round a corner manoeuvre is also one of the more common manoeuvres asked by the test examiner for you to perform. This tutorial will demonstrate an ideal technique that the examiner will be looking for in order to pass this part of the driving test. The test examiner will be looking for 3 key skills demonstrated by yourself in order to successfully complete the reverse round a corner manoeuvre. These skills are: • • • Accuracy - The test examiner will be assessing your ability to reverse round the corner, not touching the curb or straying too far onto the other side of the road. Control - The examiner will be judging your ability to keep the car at a slow and stable speed by use of clutch control. Observation. Effective and all round observation must be taken whilst performing the reverse round a corner manoeuvre. Reverse round a corner diagram A During the driving test, the examiner will ask you to park up on the left on many occasions. They are observing your accuracy and safety for parking. Another occasion may be the examiner is going to request you demonstrate the reverse round a corner. The examiner will ask you to park up on the left, just before the turn you are going to reverse into as in diagram A. When the examiner asks you to park ...
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...| | A. After stopping, you may turn left on any street unless prohibited by signs. | B. You may proceed straight ahead after stopping, and when it is safe. | C. After stopping, you may turn right unless prohibited by signs. | D. You must slow down before entering the intersection, but only if you can do so safely. | You should not use your horn: | | A. When you have lost control of your vehicle and risk hitting someone. | B. When passing a horse-drawn vehicle or horseback rider. | C. If someone moves into your lane and there is an immediate danger. | D. All of the above | A truck's blind spots: | | A. Are eliminated with an additional outside mirror on each side. | B. Can be checked by using rear view mirrors. | C. Are eliminated with bigger mirrors. | D. Are bigger than the blind spots of a passenger vehicle. | | If you are convicted of operating a vehicle after underage consumption, it will result in the following number of points on your driving record: | | A. No points. | B. Two points. | C. Six points. | D. Four points. | What is the basic speed limit on state routes within municipal corporations outside urban districts? | | A. 45 mph. | B. 50 mph. | C. 55 mph. | D. 60 mph | If a traffic signal light is not working, you should proceed as if the intersection is, in all directions, controlled by: | | A. A flashing yellow signal. | B. A stop sign. | C. A yield sign. | The...
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...pressure from stakeholders and the pressures involved in competing with the foreign vehicle market set out to manufacture a vehicle that was smaller, lighter and less expensive than the competition’s product. This vehicle was designed and moved into production within 2 years, much quicker than the 3 ½ year company norm and is still the shortest vehicle production planning schedule in history. The result: The Ford Pinto. While the Pinto was in the design phase it was decided that the fuel tank would be placed under the rear fender instead of over the rear axel to allow for more trunk room in the car. This design however, was quite flawed. The Pinto being smaller than the other American made cars was not built using the same frame design; a design that was manufactured to prevent the fuel tank from exploding upon a rear impact collision. Upon testing a serious defect was found with the placement of the fuel tank. It was determined that if the Pinto was involved in a rear end collision the fuel tank may rupture and burst into flames causing serious injury or death to the passengers. Team A will be examining the ethical dilemmas involved in the case and the solutions that we would recommend today and the solutions that would have been ethically appropriate in 1971. Lee Iacocca was the president of Ford Motor Company in 1971 and was the directive authority behind the creation of the Ford Pinto. He wanted a vehicle produced that cost no more than $2,000, and weighed no more than 2,000...
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...Between Edward and Peg, in the back seat, the top of Peg's blue Avon case can be seen, above that the beige leather back seats are visible. Above the back seats, reaching to the same level as the rear-view mirror, is the black back dash shelf of the car, while pieces of the view from the rear windshield are seen above it, interrupted by the rear-view mirror, Peg and Edward's heads, and the chassis outline of the car (window and door frames). To far left and right hand side the view of the town outside the car can also be seen, interrupted at points by the door and window frames. Most of the colors in the outside view are bright pastels, except for the grey asphalt and bright green grass in the lawns. Several people are shown walking, with dogs, or playing in the background as the car drives by. Parts of peoples' houses, cars, and nearly identical mailboxes are also visible, including a house that is covered in a blue and orange striped fumegation tarp. The rear windshield, windows, backseat top edges, and front seat top edges create several “frames within a frame” and emphasize the frame's depth of...
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...laser, radar, GPS and computer vision. An example of an approved case of self-driving cars can be Google’s. In 2011 the state of Nevada was the first jurisdiction in the United States to pass a law concerning the operation of driverless cars. This law was turned into effect by March 2012 and the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles gave the first license for a self-driven car in May 2012. This license was given to Google’s car which was in this case a Toyota Prius. Google got involved with this issue as it is trying to develop technology for driverless vehicles. In addition, the project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the co-inventor of Google Street View. To develop this system, Google also had to hire 15 engineers. This topic about self-driving cars involves also other issues such as hardware and software, social and ethical issues and the social impact. As regards hardware and software involved, it integrates Google Maps with various hardware sensors and artificial intelligence software so as to take its passengers where they want safely and comfortably. Google Maps provides the car with road information; the hardware sensors provide the vehicle with real time environment conditions and the artificial intelligence software provides the car with real time decisions. Google Maps interacts with the GPS and acts as a database. In addition, it is in...
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...Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is another great movie I watched during this class. In the movie, a photographer is stuck in his house because he has cast. He is bored and starts watching and observing his neighbors. I did not get why the neighbors do not mind exhibiting themselves all day long while doing even the most private staff. So he has an idea and attitude for each neighbor. He watches some neighbors having sex, some neighbors paying instrument, some neighbors dancing, some neighbors arguing, or doing art and so on. In the first five minutes of the movie a very nice looking women dances half naked while she is taking care of some errands at home and a women being portrayed in the beginning of the movie is just a great example to Mulvey’s idea of gender role which is a controlling force in movies and it is mostly created for the pleasure of the male viewers. “The cinema offers a number of possible pleasures. One is scopophilia. There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as, in the reverse formation, there is pleasure in being looked at” (Mulvey 4). Women in movies also like being looked at and we can see the examples of that in the Rear Window and as...
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...Analysis of the opening to Rear Window The opening scene starts by the camera looking out of a window whilst the credits are shown. Slowly, each blind is raised revealing a section of the courtyard at a time already linking to its title ‘Rear window’ indicating that this particular window will play a big part throughout the duration of the film. Much like the curtains in a theatre, the viewer feels as if they are watching a show or play when the blinds are lifted slowly creating an exciting opening and the sense that drama is to come. The symmetrical close up shot of the window provides the audience with ‘front row seats’ as the scene unfolds further. Outside, the neighbourhood seems peaceful and like any other normal community with people carrying out their everyday lives in their everyday houses. Despite its normality, the courtyard seems enclosed and claustrophobic representing restriction and tension which could possibly be mounting. Everything seems too peaceful to be true. After the opening credits, the camera zooms towards the bottom of the window until it is completely outside. It then cuts to show a cat in the courtyard walking up the stairs which could link to the normality and ‘city life’ feel which is being portrayed. The camera follows the cat’s steps from the bottom of the stairs to the top until it reaches a ladder and follows the ladder upwards as if we (the viewer) were voyeur and spying or following someone. As the camera approaches the top of the ladder...
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...The Aria is a familiar name to those who’ve been following what Tata Motors have been doing for over a decade now. The first automobile from the Tata stables to be called the Aria was a lovely two-seater convertible concept car which was displayed at the Geneva Motorshow ten years ago. The next year, in 2001 Tata Motors displayed the Aria Coupe concept and that was the last time we heard of a Tata product called the Aria – until now! Tata Motors have christened their new Crossover vehicle, the Aria which internally was referred to in hushed voices as the X2 platform (the X1 being the Vista platform). Some may be more familiar with names for the Aria such as the Xover (crossover) and the IndiCruz since the Xover concept made its debut at the Geneva Motorshow in 2005. In 2006, Tata Motors once again displayed a derivative of their Xover concept, albeit with a pick-up style cargo bed and called it a Cliffrider – which was clearly a lifestyle vehicle. And between then and now, what they’ve been working really hard at, in the last five years is some real mile-munching to create a vehicle that is today their flagship product and a technological tour-de-force for Tata branded passenger automobiles. The Tata Crossover Concept from the 2005 Geneva Motorshow is the root of the Aria project. The Aria is a very significant product for Tata Motors, not just for the Indian market, but for their key export markets in Europe as well. A closer look at the pictures of the Xover and the Cliffrider...
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...April 2014 passed a law that all cars built new after May 2016 must have backup cameras. Have backup cameras reduced accidental deaths? The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHITSA) reports that “58 to 69 lives are expected to be saved each year once the entire on-road vehicle fleet is equipped with rear visibility systems.” USA Today’s website listed an article written by Chris Woodyard (2015) who investigated that many automakers, responding to consumer demand, have gotten ahead of the regulation by putting standard or optional cameras on new models as they are redesigned, even on their smallest, most economical cars. Vehicles should not be required to have a backup camera because it is not always as clear of a picture as you may think, especially during weather and foggy days. (Woodyard, 2015 Administration, 2014). The backup cameras fog up in a little rain or any other precipitation, which causes the backup camera to be insufficient to use. Although having back up cameras has reduced the accidents by a large percentage; once it is completely abolished in 2018; will drivers attempt to only use the backup camera without the notion of looking behind them? In a 2010 report, the DOT's NHTSA said, “that each year 210 people die and 15,000 are injured in light-vehicle backup incidents, with about 31% of the deaths among kids under age 5 and 26% adults over 70. Mounting evidence shows that rearview cameras aid in avoiding accidents that involve backing into...
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...Changing Perspective PSY/220 Changing Perspective The way that we look at things and problems in life can be very important in the outcome of events and things we think, that maybe what we think we have seen or feel about something, may not be the true story. There is a problem-solving technique that we can learn and put into action that could make solving things much easier for us, and it is called “changing perspectives”. This technique, especially if more than one perspective is being given, can make a difference in the way things are seen and heard. In the following scenario, more than one perspective is being looked at, that can make a big different in the outcome of an event. This will give you, the readers the opportunity to also have a perspective on the event being described. It was a beautiful fall day when John was able to get a ride from some of his friends, to go to another small town, about 20 miles away, to get a part for his car that he was working on. As john, his 2 friends, and one of his friends children got into the car to make the journey, never did anyone dream that today would alter john’s life forever and have people wondering for years to come, exactly what happen. The trip to the junk yard where the car part waited John, was uneventful, just some friends out on one of the last nice fall days, but the trip back was anything but uneventful. Traveling down this two lane highway...
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