Interviewee: Dr. Paul Conti, MD Types of Trauma Acute Empathetic Cascading Trauma How are we taking care of ourselves How are we speaking to each other PRESCRIPTION for TRAUMA For Society – Take a step back and look at everything that is NOT about you. We tend to look at Society through the lens of […]

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Even Grass Grows in the Cracks of the Sidewalk Background I originally chose the windowfarms website as one of my second storification assignment http://cookiesuponwhichtomunch.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/week-2-storified-and-non-storified-content-part-deux/. Upon visiting the website, I was happy to see that the window farming project had grown and matured to the point where they had a wall of links to online reviews, […]

I’m not talking about the movie, but rather the merger of weeks 6 & 7 that seem to have gotten the best of me in a good and less-then-good way.  I didn’t underestimate the time it would take to edit a movie, I had done so years back with Windows Movie Maker (in the XP […]

For this Video Assignment, I decided to go with Why So Serious and bring back an old favorite of mine, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking barrels and dub over words from Ron Burgundy.  I chose this scene because its a pretty serious scene about bluffing a Desert Eagle with replica guns.  I chose Ron Burgundy […]

For one of this week’s Video Assignments, I chose to Tell a Story without Dialogue.  The title of the story is “It’s not you, it’s me” named after the dreaded line that any guy or gal loathes to hear on the other end of a phone line or an awkward coffee table.  A more recent […]

For this assignment, we went brought back the Foley assignment for a 2nd round, taking the clips that the class created and pulling it into the Chaplin video as an exercise of our video editing skills.  Additionally, we took time to create introduction, layer on a new soundtrack, and modify the middle of the story. […]

For this week’s exercise, “Look, Listen, Analyze” I looked at the the “Good Will Hunting (Bar Scene). Camera Work Analysis (no sound) The beginning of the scene has the Ben Afleck, Matt Damon and crew entering the bar in the background, with the bar and other people in the foreground.  Ebert’s acknowledgement that the background […]

For this week’s activity, Reading Movies, I looked at the Ebert’s perspecitve on on “How to Read a Movie.“. Ebert’s methods aligned with several concepts that I was aware of consciously and unconsciously. A few of them actually contradicted ideas that were presented in the other videos, not to mention insights recently shared with me […]

This week we dove in to the world of sound storytelling.  We explored different audio storytelling tools like SoundCloud.com, Audacity.com, and various sound banks and conversions tools to make different sound stories work and flow seamlessly together. I started off by connecting my love of Baseball by trying my hand at reenacting an entertaining and age-old Abbott and […]

I saw an article on NPR’s website that looked at the history of McDonald’s commercials targeting black American and the shift from “Makin’ it” to “Lovin’ it” over the past few decades.  Within the article, there are several video clips that encompass an entire narrative arc for a character named “Calvin.”  The ads span from 1990 […]

This Audio Assignment focuses on creating a mashup of two films.  I took the films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and mixed it up with clips from the Pokemon Movie.  I inserted replies from the Pokemon to Rory Breaker’s rant where he goes on a rant about various scenarios where he will kill Nick […]

Audio tracks starts at 2:31 in the YouTube clip For this exercise, we looked at the Foley technique and used what we learned in the previous assignment, building on our skill with audio editing to sync with video.  Based on our birth month, we divided up a Charlie Chaplin clip and generated our own sounds […]

This exercise focused on building my familiarity with the sound recording, audio editing/mixing using Audacity to pull together a story (using previous course concepts), and finally upload the story to my newly created SoundCloud account.  The goal of this exercise was to take a collection of my own clips, along with clips available online (I used Freesounds), and […]

This week’s activities kick off with (re)creating my presence in the SoundCloud. I had an account once-upon-a-time, but I was mostly a taker and not a giver. This week I will be trying my hand at using Audacity and some sound bits captured over Easter weekend to manipulate, cut, and piece together stories. I’ve always […]

This week we wrapped up our week on visual story telling by looking at visual design, paying close attention to various design elements, cataloging instances of these elements in our daily life, throughout the past week.  We looked to explore the meaning of designs through a design safari and design assignments from the Assignment Bank.  I […]

Back to the storyfying quest…As part of my morning get-ready-for-work schedule, I queue of recent audio posts on NPR to listen to and get caught up on the world, as NPR defines current events.   I recall listening to a piece about an “interesting” advertisement that Senator Mitch McConnell had recently released.  The article pointed out […]

For the Design Safari, carried my camera around with me this week, collecting images that aligned with the different the different themes we reviewed as part of this week’s topic material.  Below, I’ve embedded three images along with summary of the elements and what makes them effective.  I’ve also linked the titles to the actual Flickr […]

Adjusted April 13, 2014 Background A few weeks ago, I was browsing Amazon Prime On-Demand movie listing and came across the movie title graphic for Forrest Gump, an image of a man sitting alone on park bench looking up into space.  I remembered that this was one of my favorite movies for a lot of different […]

Adjusted April 13, 2014 Background For this week’s assignment, I chose to create a Children’s bookcover, I had a conversation with a friend the other day about the world of computing from our eyes and how it differs from what the current high school generation is going through.  One of the thing we noted was […]

This week we took our first step into the world of photo blogging.  We started with a few tips and tricks for composing a photograph, allowing us to appreciate the communication potential and dimensions of photography.  We started by reviewing different photography tips and including them in our own photography.  I took this as an opportunity to […]

Nike Run Write another blog post summarizing what you found that might or might not work for something that could use a story approach to make it more effective. Explain why you chose it. Even if you are not sure if it will work, keep the ideas going.   When I think about images that […]

I pulled this from my earlier Photoblitzing Safari exercise. It was the image that was “dominated by one color” and so I thought it would flip the original intent and mute that dominating color to see what was left behind. The effect was a blue emphasis on SunTrust shaded in the afternoon sun. Though the […]

I chose to use an image a friend sent me from the fresh fallen snow in the Alps and an image of my family in the sunny yet frigid winter in Durham, North Carolina. I combined them because the temperature was the same in both places, so the winter attire we were wearing in Durham […]

Five Card Story: Man ponders the fate of his pots a Five Card Flickr story created by Amos Cruz flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching Early in the morning, a flower shop owner rinses down his shop before tending to his […]

    For this activity, I chose DuPont Circle because there is always a lot of activity happening there.  The interaction of the circle with asymmetrical, yet perpendicular lines creates an interesting dynamic of lines and curves.  Additionally, it acts as centralized social hub, bringing with it a variety of people, animals, architecture, and “noise.”  […]

Rule of Thirds   This picture breaks the Rule of Thirds by placing my nephew in within the box formed by the four lines, as opposed to placing him at the intersections of the lines as dictated by the Rule of Thirds.  I think its interesting how all of his neighbors (the stuff animal gang) […]

(Posted well after the fact but better late than never…I hope)   In week 2, I continued to poke and prod my blog with content and layout.  I half thought of posting an “Under Construction” sign on the landing page, but thought that might be tacky.  I listened to some comments and made an attempt […]

For this week’s go at identifying storified and non storified content, I took a look at a site I’ve watched evolve over the past three years, Window Farming.  One upon a time the site, as I recall, was single page with embedded video clips and links to schematics on how to construct a window farm. […]

Title:  “Best Commercial EVER!” The commercial tracks closely to the viral experience architecture discussed in this week’s reading.  I starts off with a teenager entering a dark alley in the middle of the night layered with mysterious music accented by an repeating ominous tone, as if something no-good or bad is happening or about to happen.  The […]