{"id":14947,"date":"2026-09-08T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:16:51","slug":"week-2-class-zane-roggenbuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/week-2-class-zane-roggenbuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; class &#8211; Zane Roggenbuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artworksforchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/C_Jordan_RecyclingYard6Seattle-1.jpg\" alt=\"Blocks of compressed trash in a recycling yard in Seattle\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1194\" \/>To me, this photo achieves a paradoxical organic effect through the warm color grading, capture of fine texture, and smoothness with which the subject (the uneven pile of compacted trash) is portrayed in the composition. When I first scrolled down to this photo, my gut\/subconscious initially responded as though the subject was a pile of earth rather than manmade garbage!<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is a prime example of what Jordan described in terms of the bizarre beauty possessed by many of humanity&#8217;s awful impacts on the world. In particular, when it occurs in the context of organized waste disposal, I think it can be easy to be subconsciously tricked by this effect into thinking that how we deal with our impacts is tidy or pretty when it is often nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, this photo achieves a paradoxical organic effect through the warm color grading, capture of fine texture, and smoothness with which the subject (the uneven pile of compacted trash) is portrayed in the composition. When I first scrolled down to this photo, my gut\/subconscious initially responded as though the subject was a pile of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-253","category-task"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14983,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions\/14983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}