Educational Nostalgia Reflection
Now Playing: "Gotta Get Thru This" Daniel Bedingfield
Finds 1: Educational Nostalgia
When reflecting on the experience of composing my first Finds entry, I am reminded of that song from the 60s "Time is on your Side." In reference to this assignment, I would revise the song to say time ISN't on my side. It seemed like the cards were stacked against me.

First, the weather wasn't working durring the times when I was off, and it was perfect when I was at work. Pittsburgh is a great city, but Pittsburgh grey doesn't always make for the best pictures. So, durring one rainy afternoon, I went online and began collecting images of Pittsburgh (one of which is included in my Finds entry).

I was surprised by the small number of images of Pittsburgh I found through a "Google.com" search, so I expanded my search to include Sharpsburg, the borough I grew up in. Although I didn't find any recent shots of Sharpsburg, I was did snag some great postcards of Sharpsburg in the 1920s that I am going to save for that assignment later in the semester when we are working with postcards.

The up side of the online search is that I found some images to include in this entry and lots to save for later, including an abundance of Ziggy cartoons! Which reminded me of my aunt's bird Cygnus, and that Rush song "Hemmispheres."

It is strange how not so much taking but looking at and selecting these finds takes my mind in different directions. Take the songs, for instance. Just compiling this first entry has given me two songs to think about for my Mix disk later in the semester (well, three if you include the Bedingfield song I am listening to right now).

I am still not sure what all of these images, songs, postcards, etc. are saying when put together. I don't really like my argument for this finds entry. It is too fake or something. But I am still not sure what these images are saying to me when I put them all together. I like the idea of a connection between the personal, the past/historical, and the academic selves that I see in my finds. Perhaps that is a connection to persue further.