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“Hell No We Wont Go,” was the chant heard across the East River Waterfront where dozens of Williamsburg residents, community leaders, elected officials and city wide house activists rallied on May 22nd, on the 8th anniversary of Mayor Bloomberg’s 2005 rezoning. Angry residents feel like the Mayor has been incompetent …

If you’re an artsy New Yorker, then I’m pretty sure you heard of the LIC Arts Open that ran from May 15th to May 19th.  This Art festival features over 200-art galleries open to the public free of charge. Other exclusive galleries required a small donation or admission fee. One …

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids, Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and …

The May-Labour Day Rally held yesterday in lower Manhattan called all minority workers, immigrants, labor unions, students, worker centers, social justice groups, the unemployed, and the community organizations to vindicate their rights and raise their voices in unison to demand immigration reform.

This came after city the immigration reform …

To the world of film and documentaries, the month of April is known for the debute of submissions and screenings at the TriBeCa Film Festival, that runs from April 17th, to April 28th. According to its founders, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff, the mission of the festival …

York College held it’s Fourth annual Student Research Day last Thursday, where all the departments came together to display information about their field. Our online journalism class covered of these events, the choices were an English presentation hosted by Professor Michael Namphy, an African American presentation and a video game …

Stay tuned as I share my coverage of the York College Video Game presentation last thursday, featuring three of York’s own students sharing their depiction’s of gaming.…

 Boston Update

Friday evening, neighborhoods in Boston were locked down after the tedious “manhunt” for the remaining suspect of the Boston Bombing: Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Authorities say, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were behind this deadly act, leaving three people dead and …

After leading and transforming the City university of New York for 14 years, Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of the City University of New York, is stepping down. He helped the CUNY school system in its’ progression in establishing a dozen 4-year colleges, 6 community colleges, and over half a million students …

      Right in the midst of spring break, York students (online journalism students to be specific) got the chance to have a Q & A with one of the cities most influential photographers Todd Maisel. He has been covering news for almost three decades. Maisel majored in journalism at NYU and …

Spring is finally here which means we can ditch the Uggs and Snow boots and step into the season with style with the lastest trends

Platform Sneakers

We first saw Platform sneakers make a debut nearly a decade ago with Spice girls but they have recently made a comeback. Some …

We all hear about the modern day love stories and their fairy tale endings, but no one truly reveals what happens after “shit hits the fan”. The concept of heartbreak is an untold intricacy that is left in the dark, only to be discovered when it happens to you. They …

I’m a 21 Journalism major living in NYC. Welcome to my blog! Here, I will feature fashion, art and music. My first goal is to find the talent and fashion around York College, and feature them in mini documentaries where i would interview them about their work. To start off, …

I intend to base my blog about miscellaneous things that are important to me and what I believe college students would like. I already have a fashion blog and I have other social media websites like Facebook, and twitter. I also have a Tumblr, which allows me to express my …

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This was the most entertaining project for the semester. I enjoyed recording this and making it my own. Audio books are pretty cool when you’re the one who’s voice is on it. The best part was deciding what I wanted my audience to hear while I said certain things. I …

This is the a cool sound production project I did. It is basically a story made from sounds. It begins with me coming into work and proceeds into my morning procedure for opening my store. I walk in put in my alarm code, begin to count all the registers and …

This is a remake of the sounds from a scene of Jurassic Park. This was a fun project to do and it was a little bit challenging.

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This is my first sound project. It was supposed a story by sound of a day at the zoo. It came out pretty cool.

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I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with this project, so I basically just collected various sounds with my phone recorder for a few weeks.
I just recorded several sounds from my life for about a week and a half trying to figure out what to do.
I …

The semester is coming to a close, which means I’m no longer required to post on the DS106 site; but that wont stop me. Iv’e learned so much and grown so acustom to posting work I no longer need that feeling of “this is something I am required to do”, …

Soon I will be doing a final project and I have been thinking about my topic for some time now. With this project I am allowed to choose my own topic, this being the fact I don’t wanna take advantage of it and take the easy way out. After all …

After watching Jim Grooms lecture on ones digital self and what they need to do to archive it, I have learned it is very important to save anything you post in order to maintain your digital self; not only for personal reasons but others as well. Firstly I feel anything …

Assignment: Animated Music Video Remix                                                                                  Worth: 7 Stars

For this assignment I was required to use the Remix Card: “What’s the Prequel?” to remix an AMV assignment, done by norihide. The original video had a theme of love and I figured a good prequel would be about feelings one …

After watching “Everything is a Remix” by Kirby Ferguson, my whole outlook on the re-use of work has changed. No longer do I feel bad about taking another persons idea and twisting it making it my own, because admittedly it is something I do allot. I was glad …

I love Game of Thrones, it’s a great show with a great cast. It’s a television adaptation of A Song of Fire and Ice, George R.R. Martin’s medieval fantasy novel series.

I’ve used this fantastic map found on the ASOFI wiki to illustrate locations in the series.

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