Trek Assesment #3

One. Something that mad me take in visuals somewhat slower was when we started to make our Silent videos. During this time we had the option of choosing a still image and creating video from that one piece. I then saw the vast amount of information that can be captured about the world inside the frame of one still photograph.

Two. One never really sits and just listens to his or her surroundings, something else is usually on the mind. While collecting ambient noises from different locations I was able to sit and just focus on the surrounding noises. In collecting these sounds I was forced to focus on the noises, because I had a goal, I wasn't just setting out for fun but fulfilling a requirement for a class which I paid for. Through this I found a peace in having an excuse to travel to a part of Milwaukee I hadn't been to and just sit and listen.

Three. While collecting images of train tracks, in a place I felt was peaceful and quiet, I was literally surprised when I looked up and saw a train was moving towards me about 20 feet away. I had become so immersed in my picture taking of the small leaves in-between the rocks in-between the tracks had had blocked out my sense of sound, or had simply become oblivious to my surroundings. It was then that I realized this place was not as peaceful and quiet as I had previously thought.