Monday, October 31, 2011

My complete Seattle Ethnography


Pike Place
Picketer

This
picture represents poverty. This fella is one of the first people I noticed
when I walked into Pike Place Market. His behavior is ironic because he is
there to have people listen to his music and give him money, but his body
language shows him hiding from the world. His hat is tilted to cover his eyes
from us and he is leaning against the column as if to blend into the building.
The act of trying to hide actually got me to notice him. I chose to the word
picketer because he is playing the guitar with a pick.


Living between
the Walls

This picture was
taken near Pike and Second. It represents poverty. It is the alley where trash
from the stores is put but if you were to ask them what they were doing, they
might say digging for treasure. The two men have baskets in order to load up
anything they may find. I suppose the saying “One person’s trash is another’s
treasure” can be applied here. I wanted to show this picture because I almost
walked right by them on the street. I felt that they were living between the
walls because most trash alleys are narrow and inconspicuous.


Star-bucks
Star-looks

The reason I chose
this title is because this man was at the original Starbucks coffee shop singing
and playing his guitar. He is working for his own type of star-bucks. The woman
had just walked out of the coffee with her iPod on and with her Starbucks food.
I was lucky enough to catch her glare at the man singing. I’m not sure if the
note he was singing was clashing with the song she was listening to, but she
does not look pleased. It made me think about how much of a nuisance are people
singing on the sides of shops? Are they good or bad culture?


Smoking Hot

This man was nice
enough to let me take his picture. He represent poverty. He is standing down by
the peers on Elliot Street in Seattle. His sign says “Got change? Or a smoke?”
When I asked him if I could take his picture for a school project, he simply
shrugged his shoulders, as if he didn’t know what he wanted. I title this “Smoking
Hot” because this man was desperate for a cigarette. I later witnessed him
picking up buds of cigarettes on the ground in order to smoke what was left of
it. Contemplate wanting something so bad that you would take someone’s
leftovers to have it. How does that feel?


I got it at Macy’s

Macy’s on 3rd
Ave. This store represents luxury in Seattle. Macy’s tries to give the feeling
of competence when you shop at its stores and a person has to have money in
order to shop. This Macy’s building is grand and big. It stretched around a few
blocks and had its own parking garage with a sky bridge. Even the tree planted
in front of it is tall and grand. I can imagine during Christmas time this tree
is lit up with beautiful lights. The funny thing about that is there plenty of
people without electricity year round.



got it at Macy’s

Macy’s on 3rd
Ave. This store represents luxury in Seattle. Macy’s tries to give the feeling
of competence when you shop at its stores and a person has to have money in
order to shop. This Macy’s building is grand and big. It stretched around a few
blocks and had its own parking garage with a sky bridge. Even the tree planted
in front of it is tall and grand. I can imagine during Christmas time this tree
is lit up with beautiful lights. The funny thing about that is there plenty of
people without electricity year round. got it at Macy’s

Macy’s on 3rd
Ave. This store represents luxury in Seattle. Macy’s tries to give the feeling
of competence when you shop at its stores and a person has to have money in
order to shop. This Macy’s building is grand and big. It stretched around a few
blocks and had its own parking garage with a sky bridge. Even the tree planted
in front of it is tall and grand. I can imagine during Christmas time this tree
is lit up with beautiful lights. The funny thing about that is there plenty of
people without electricity year round.

Office

This picture was
taken on a bridge crossing over the train tracks and Elliot Street. The man in
the picture is talking on the phone and leaning back in his fancy office chair.
This picture represents luxury because the man is in a nice suit and in a nice
office building with large windows with pretty views. It is a comfortable environment for those who work there. There is a feeling of safety/ security when able to work from such
a nice place.

Set Sail

This Beautiful sail
boat was docked down by Elliot Street. It represents luxury because a boat can
cost up to what a house may cost. A person who can own a sail boat and dock it
in Seattle is living in luxury. They have the freedom to set sail on the open waters.
It is a way to get away from the everyday life of concrete Seattle and see the
world from another view. That is luxury


et Sail

This Beautiful sail
boat was docked down by Elliot Street. It represents luxury because a boat can
cost up to what a house may cost. A person who can own a sail boat and dock it
in Seattle is living in luxury. They have the freedom to set sail on the open waters.
It is a way to get away from the everyday life of concrete Seattle and see the
world from another view. That is luxury
High Rise

As I walked around the streets of
Seattle I began to notice that in order to find luxury I had to look up.
Everything representing luxury was above me. Tall buildings, airplanes flying
over Elliot Bay, and even art work. This picture captures the essence that
everything luxurious seems to be made high…high rise. The taller the building,
the nicer it looked. This made me feel that luxury is out of reach from street.

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