It’s been a while since i wrote something good here. I have to confess that I just shut everything down for the last weeks of class around two weeks ago to focus in school during which time i wrote a 12 page paper analyzing a script from the hit series Spartacus: Blood and Sand for class. I am very happy with the outcome of it not only because of the paper but because it was also my last class as a graduate student. Yup it’s true I finished my Masters in Media Studies, time to update my resume. So to celebrate the occasion and have proof of all the hard work and long hours i decided to travel to NYC for graduation and at the same time score some points with my wife by bringing her along for a week vacation.

One of the highlights of it was the visit to the Natural Museum of History our first time visiting. I thought it was fascinating and very grabbing. I was familiar with the dioramas first by watching the photography work of Hiroshi Sugimoto. However i decided to dive a bit deeper into the action and perhaps put a vantage point favoring a specific character in the piece and all the sudden the “fake-ness” of the piece went away.

natural history dioramas – Images by Karlo X. Ramos