tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47296587188747261202024-02-20T19:19:45.161-08:00A New Year for AmericaA weekly look back at my 2003 portrait of America, one state at a time.arrabbiatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11320373982505010164noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729658718874726120.post-31984667398381062542013-12-29T09:18:00.001-08:002023-02-09T11:53:40.003-08:00The Rest of the Country<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Over the past 51 weeks I have posted and explained the images and stories I had chosen for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for this portrait of America. Some were very specific events linked to their exact location. Others were an example of something that was happening in other places besides the attributed state. As I was organizing the composition I decided to add a few general stories not part of a specific state, but part of the whole nation. Since I have one more Sunday left in this year, I thought I'd talk a bit about them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I decided to fill a background space in the <i>upper right corner</i> with an urban city scape. I based it on a vintage photo of Newark, NJ, though the specific choice was not something I considered significant. At the time I was just thinking about representing another aspect of American life. Looking back at it now, I notice that this is the one area of the print with no specific news story, which sets up a situation where almost all the news is happening outside the big cities. Significant cultural differences between different regions of our nation have existed going back to the founding fathers, and right now we seem to be in a moment where that divide is deepening.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Immigration, especially the illegal kind, continues to generate all kinds of controversy. Everyone agrees the current situation is a problem, but there is a lot of conflict over what the solution should be. Dealing with border security issues, the economics of individuals and corporations, political balances in regions and the nation, these are all part of the equation. <i>(lower left corner</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Around the turn of the century American prime time television turned over a big part of its schedule to things lumped into the general group of reality tv. No need to pay professional writers or actors- just get a bunch of people seeking attention, film them for a while, and edit it into a show. Includes traditional game shows, but also the more modern model of setting up situations where personal conflicts will be created, then let nature take its course. In the race to get that bit of fleeting television fame, some people will do pretty much anything on camera. I went with two examples here. Above (<i>lower center</i>) I have someone being filmed doing something potentially dangerous (think the Jackass show and movies of this era, and YouTube videos these days). The idea below <i>(center right edge</i>) was based on a network show that had just started a brief run at the time I was working on this piece. Called "Are You Hot?", it was just men and women posing briefly in front of a panel of "experts", wearing minimal clothing. If the majority of the panel approved, they moved on to the next round. Mercifully, the show was cancelled after its introductory run.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The stories in this print were all about reported news events from a specific two month period in American history, but in many cases the story is far from over. Go back through all 50 states on the blog and see how much has changed, and how much is still the same.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State and region see a crime wave linked to the spread of meth labs. (<i>lower left center</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A record amount of people were killed in automobile accidents the previous year. (<i>upper left corner</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A contractor wins a $316 million lottery jackpot, the largest in history. (<i>right of center</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An atheist Eagle Scout is forced out of the Boy </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Forest Service approves request to build transmission lines through a forest. (<i>upper right corner</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Veterans home is quarantined for a stomach flu like ones that had infected cruise ships. (<i>left edge center)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some link UFO encounters to faiths in the region. (<i>upper left corner</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Investigations continue into the Enron collapse and executive criminal activities. (<i>bottom edge center</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 100 small farms closed the previous year due to drought and economic conditions. (<i>central left</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rainbow trout season opens across the state. (<i>left of center</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Towns empty as economic conditions cause the state to depopulate. (<i>central left side</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Developers must install 8 to 12 high efficiency toilets to get a single building permit. (<i>lower left corner</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A nuclear plant announces it is cutting its workforce by 25%. (<i>top, right of center</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starbucks will begin operation of a 360,000 square foot roasting plant near Tahoe. (<i>upper left center</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The state reports an increase in the local bald eagle population. (<i>top, left of center</i>)</span><br />
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