The Weekly Frame: Bird’s Eye

Posted on February 3, 2024

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THE WEEKLY FRAME — WEEK 3

Bird’s Eye

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Photos by VICTORIA SINGH, ISABELLA VILLANUEVA & ZONGYI WANG

February 2, 2024

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Seen from above, the everyday moments of University life take on an entirely different look. Vast roads and winding paths compress into mere brushstrokes painted through landscapes. Shapes and patterns reveal themselves in ways we would never see from the ground. The whole world shifts as we go higher and higher; one wonders what the birds that fly overhead think as they look down on our busy lives, chaotic as they seem at our level but miniscule from meters above. Perhaps we may never know; but Isabella Villanueva, Zongyi Wang and Victoria Singh offer a glimpse of this vision in this week’s installment of The Weekly Frame.

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Round the table. (Zongyi Wang / Daily Trojan)

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Crossing Figueroa Street. (Zongyi Wang / Daily Trojan)

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Taking the plunge. (Isabella Villanueva / Daily Trojan)

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Cracking under pressure. (Isabella Villanueva / Daily Trojan)

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A stroll along green pasture. (Victoria Singh / Daily Trojan)

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A tranquil Thursday at Tutor Campus Center. (Victoria Singh / Daily Trojan)

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**The Daily Trojan‘s Spring 2024 staff photographers present: The Weekly Frame,** a photo series that hopes to highlight the unique experiences that come with being a Trojan. For the inaugural installment of this series, photo editor Jordan Renville set out to capture everyday life on USC’s campus through the lens of motion.

In a time where day-to-day life can feel like a non-stop blur, the idea of movement and specifically slowing down that movement to a single frame can seem daunting. This week’s prompt of “motion” challenged me to think about the often overlooked moments of traveling to class or waiting at a stop light where movement is all around us. When we slow down and take a second to realize that the people we see on our daily journey are also on the same path as we are, we can then be one step closer to coming together as one, as a community.

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Walking down University Avenue.

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