Botanicals

Brandon Carr

June 4th, 2021

Professor Rob

JN134

    Botanicals

                With Utah's snowy winters, it can be a little harder having pot plants outside. Botanicals is a 3rd generation passed down company that makes and sells special pots. These pots are made, flown, and shipped from Vietnam. Many people speculate that these pots come from Mexico, but since the kilns don't reach the 4,000 degrees fahrenheit needed to make these pots, they are made else where.

Dallas Warner, 3rd generation business employee and future owner. Dallas is standing by two pots both over 5 feet tall. These pots sell for over $1000 each. 

March 22, 2021

    

Blue fountain pot just finished. The fountain is priced at $1,200. It took the team a little over a month to complete. 

March 22, 2021

                Botanicals makes about $1,300 a week in sales. On a typical weekend, they make around $10,000 in sales. Botanicals also gets some metal decorations from Mexico and plants from different parts of the U.S.

        These pots are more modern, and made to be inside the house. They are extremely light weight and easy to move. They sell about 3 of these pots a week. They range from $80-$120. 

                           

     

   March 22, 2021

Employees Dallas Warner and Emily help move a new modern pot into the office to have it payed for. Emily enjoys the job, and has a big interest in pots. In the back ground, there are patio decorations from Mexico. 

March 29, 2021

The front of the store, Botanicals. The Botanicals building was once a home, and later after that a car shop before being purchased and turned into a pot shop. The building was purchased in 2005. 

March 29, 2021

     In the 1900's Baja was the original name of the store and it was located in Riverdale Utah. The original owner's of Baja used to make trips to Mexico, and just sell small plants and pots until later expanding. Baja later got relocated up north more to St. George Utah, because you got a head start at growing plants over there with shipments being sooner.  

J.C Corado is 21 and has been working here for a week now. He's moving pots out of the back and moving them to the front for more people to see. I asked J.C if he likes his job he said, " Yes, I have a big obsession with all sorts of plants, succulents, and pots." J.C says that they all do a fair share of the heavy lifting, but he does the majority of it. 

June 3, 2021

Book Report

 Brandon Carr

Professor Rob

May 26th, 2021

JN134

   It's What I Do

    Lynsey Addario in my mind isn't just a great photographer, but an amazing writer as well. She proves that point in her book she wrote, "It's What I Do." She traveled the world and documented a lot of the world's largest war-events. My personal favorite story inside the book would be when Lynsey reunites with her husband after being captured by the Libyan men and Qaddafi. On page 239 and page 240 it talks about how one of the Turkish diplomats handed Lynsey a phone with Paul on the other line. It was a short but sweet phone call due to the circumstances that Lynsey was in. Lynsey, Tyler, Anthony, and Steve all took a flight to Tunis, and that's where Lynsey's husband Paul was waiting for her. It was also nice to see Lynsey find a husband that respected and compliments her work, not take away from it like before when she had to fly back home right after the 9/11 attack because her boyfriend wanted more time with her just to find out he's been cheating on her and found emails.

    Addario's style from other photojournalists is very different from others before and after her. Lynsey's style is different because it's super dangerous, and not too many people have the guts to do what she's done. Some examples of what shes done is photograph the before and after of 9/11 of the Taliban and USA, burnt down villages in Darfur, showed a culture of violence against women in Congo, and of course the kidnapping by Qaddafi's forces in the Libyan war. To get the images that she has captured you have to go through a lot.

    When Lynsey was on these adventures she had a duty. I would say I don't think I can relate to her duty, because I do work hard on getting the best pictures I can get and turn in my best work. Lynsey had the duty of capturing the world's largest war events with her camera. She was also exposed to the war and could've very easily got hurt or killed on this journey. She is very bold though to go to these places during these events, not much protection and her camera. 

    The book has taught me a lot of new tips that I can acquire to improve my photojournalism skills. I learned to not be shy while taking a picture and going up to the subject and asking some questions. Lynsey was also really smart and I think that helped her with improving her photojournalism skills and learning a lot from others. I also learned to take advantage of a good picture and see the world in a different way not just in my eyes but through the subjects. Lynsey also never had it really easy throughout the book; she was struggling with money and moving from place to place. I learned from this to keep working hard when life isn't going your way. 

    My favorite example of her work would have to be from the Taliban series for the New York Times, in 2008. She has one picture with a bunch of kids with pots and pans gathered real tight trying to fill them up with water. I thought this picture was sending a strong message about how other countries we might not think about everyday have harder struggles and are not as fortunate. In the photo I enjoy all the facial expression and emotion throughout the photo when they're getting water. Some faces are happy, crying, focused, or excited. My second favorite of her photographs would be the one with the 2 ladies in Afghanistan and one of them is in labor. I like this picture because it's so clear and on top of a mountain side. You can see the blue sky and then the brown ground and mountain tops mixed with 2 women in bright dark blue clothing. Addario also captures a couple blankets folded on the ground for giving birth.

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    Addario said a lot of inspirational and mind sticking things throughout her story. One that is going to stick with me and that I found interesting was when she said, "I choose to live in peace and witness war—to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.” This quote stood out to me because it talks about 2 totally opposite behaviors, how fast people can change and the terrible choices people can make. But Addario chooses to live in peace.

    This is one of the better books I have read recently. This book teaches you a lot about a very talented photojournalist and her crazy story. She wrote the book, so you really understand all the little details. With all the pictures you hear about that she takes, you get to see them as well. The book always had some sort of mystery going on; where she was going to next, if she would stay safe, what would the pictures look like, and many more.  

 

Brandon Carr

Professor Rob

May 17th, 2021

JN134

     OSU Softball

    On May 13th the Oregon State Beavers coached by Laura Berg, took on the Utah Utes coached by Amy Hogue, for the first of four meetings. The Oregon State Beavers took the first lead of the game during the top of the 3rd when Gin hit one out to center field for a sacrifice hit, she got Messmer in to score. That didn't last long though while the Utes really put in on the Beavers bottom of the 4th. For the Utes Gasper hit a single to shortstop and Barrera scored to tie the game 1-1. A couple batter later and Quiles hits a single to right center that sent Gasper home, and take the lead 1-2. Finally the last bad thing in this inning was Militello hits a single to right center field and sent Gasper home again after to build onto the lead 1-3.

Utah player number 22 Halle Morris strikes out to OSU pitcher Marion Mazon, with Bailey Mclaughlin catching. 

Marion Mazon, OSU pitcher number 34 throws another strike on a Ute in the bottom of the 3rd.

OSU player gets ready to hit the ball in the top of the 4th inning trying to build on that 1-0 lead.

OSU 3rd baseman and shortstop Charity Sevaaetasi and Grace Messmer try to stop this Utah run while the bench and head coach for Utah are loving it.

Frankie Hammoude, Marion Mazon, Charity Sevaaetasi coming together to communicate with eachother.

The Oregon State Beavers lost this one 1-3 making them lose the first of 4. With this game happening last week, Oregon State and Utah split the softball series between the two of them going 2-2. The softball season for the Beavers wrapped up after that series going 20-26 for the season and 7-17 in conference play.

My Neighborhood

 Brandon Carr

Professor Rob

May 16th, 2021

JN134

My Neighborhood

Kladia (mom), Baldecer (dad), Michael (oldest son), Vanessa (daughter), Brandon (youngest son), all enjoing the nice day out at the park. The Cruz family tries to spend the nice days out together and spend more family time. Their at a local park called "Mountainview Park" 

Kaleb and Diego Call are giving their thirsty dog Chewy some water. Chewy is a 4 year old St. Bernard. Kaleb says that he tries to take Chewy to the dog park once or twice a week, depending on how his schedule for the week turns out.

Murray Parkway Golf Course has a very special land mark in their driving range. They have a huge golf ball sitting on a tee. This golf range has 18 holes, and close to 7,000 yards total in their golf course.

 

Brandon Carr

May 8th, 2021

Professor Rob

JN134

Home of the Utes

Father and son, Ben and Jamison Pyckles, are from Bountiful Utah. Their taking advantage of the nice day out while playing some disc golf on Saturday May 8th, 2021 on campus. Ben, the father, is originally from Texas while Jamison is from Utah. They love all the disc golf locations in Utah as well as all the other outdoor activites. During the winter Jamison likes to snowboard. 

May 8th, 2021, Abraham and George are getting some fresh air for a little. Abraham, the man sitting in the wheelchair says that his favorite thing about Utah is all the nature and hiking trails. They were sitting outside of a Utah Health building, while many other people were entering and leaving the building for the covid vaccine.

Dumke Family Softball Stadium was built in 2013 and cost around $4.3 million to build. It's home to the Utes softball team. Their next home game is May 13th against the Oregon State Beavers. 

Salt City Barber Carr

Brandon Carr

May 2nd, 2021

Professor Rob

JN134

         Hair Cuts

    Twenty-six year old Mallory Smith works at Salt City Barber, in Midvale Utah. Mallory has worked at Salt City Barber since it first opened up a little over three years ago. Mallory has also worked at another barber shop previous to this one for three years as well. Mallory works four days a week and about seven-eight clients each day. I was curious and asked her, "Do you cut your own hair or does someone else?" She chuckled and responded with, "No, I don't cut my own hair, I have one of my friends who I trust a lot cut it."

 

 

Brandon Carr

Professor Rob

April 24th, 2021

JN134

On The Job

Catie Smith is a employee at CVS for 3 months now. She works 5 days a week. Catie responds back with when asked if she likes her job so far, "Yes, I do enjoy working at my job."

Carlos Barrera is a tattoo artist at Koi Dragon Tattoo. Carlos does about 5 - 7 tattoos a week. Carlos has been doing professional tattooing for 8 years, and has worked at 3 other locations before this one.