I found Ron Burnett’s How Images Think a little hard to read. For me it was a bit dense and wordy and took me a while to dissect Burnett’s main points, especially through what I found to be somewhat flowery prose.
What caught my eye, however, was this question Burnett …
Rough draft of the first radio piece on dating.…
I really enjoyed Rebecca Williams’ piece on Living With Cancer, and found it to be a quite emotional and interesting story.
Throughout the three parts of the expose I found myself wondering a lot about how Williams was able to find these people that she interviewed. How do you search …
This week I chose to do an audio create for ambient noise, and recorded what it’s like going through the maze that is my house; and I interviewed my housemate Nina and her sister about one of their favorite childhood memories. Those, and my audio project interviews, are all …
I’m going to avoid the vowel u.
Today I went to a baby shower for a relative of mine. She is going to have a baby girl in a month and a half so I got to hang in a catering hall watching her open gifts of diapers and rattles …
Everybody was well dressed, and everybody was a mess
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Oh all the girls played mental games, and all the guys were dressed the same
(I’ll Try Anything Once, The Strokes)…
I found the stories in Radiolab’s “Deception” broadcast really interesting, especially the story of the con-woman Hope.
I spent a lot of time thinking about the style of broadcast that Radiolab used, especially the way they layered sounds and used sound effects in their stories.
For the most part, I …
I did a bunch of daily creates!
I wrote a response for The Zen of Listening here.
All of my audio clips can be found on my soundcloud. I interviewed people about Aja’s question: What’s the worst thing you ever did as a kid?…
In Shafir’s The Zen of Listening, one quote really stood out to me: “Listening.. is centripetal; it it pulls you into the world. Looking is centrifugal; it separates you from the world.”
When I first read this line I was quick to disagree. But as I thought about it more, …
I asked my roommate this (about myself) and she said, “Something with jelly. Something moist.”
I was also thinking of some jam-based pastry. Strawberry jam. As my roommate and I discussed, jam-based pastries (what do you call those? Are there names for them?) just seem more exciting and friendly than …
Daily Create: A photo of your fondest memory?…
Video #3: Life at a co-op. I live in Vail and I interviewed some of my housemates about their experiences in the co-ops so far. Check out my house, y’all.…
Two Daily Creates: First, something brand new: my shiny new computer charger that I bought when my old one kicked it.
Second: Something you’ve made. I got this sweater made!…
Daily Create: Upload a drawing of a place you’ve been, but NEVER want to go back to.
Ohio.…
Video Project #2: A re-creation of the museum scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
This is one of my favorite scenes of all time, from any movie. John Hughes offers a great perspective on the greater meaning of the scene in the context of the movie’s plot, especially the last …
“Writing Movies for Fun and Profit” offered an interesting take on how movies are written and produced, and the formulaic process behind their success, which I have never really thought about.
If I were ever crazy enough to write a screenplay, this seems like pretty straightforward, solid advice. …
Daily Create: Retitle a movie poster to make it more accurate.
This movie was so awful.…
Daily Create: Create some kind of pattern of things on your desk right now.…
Kelefa Sanneh’s “The Reality Principle” discusses the rise and evolution of the reality television genre. He draws from a few major publications that have attempted to dissect reality TV and make us “take it more seriously.” These statements, and his excerpts from Jennifer Pozner’s “Reality Bites Back: …
My first video for the video project. This is what dinner at my house looks like.…
I liked the readings for this week a lot – I never knew that Camp was an actual thing. I’m working on editing my first video and am hoping to have at least two up by Wednesday.
My reading response to Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” can be found here…
Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” was one of my favorite readings so far. I’m a huge, huge fan of campy stuff, but never realized that it had enough of a presence to warrant academic reflections on it.
I found Sontag’s essay interesting first because I never realized that …
Daily Create: Draw a picture of a new invention.…
Daily Create: Take a photo that represents math at work in the world.
The Dewey Decimal System! God knows I have no effing clue how this works despite being forced to watch Tomes and Talismans in middle school.. but it includes numbers, so that’s math, right? (Right?)…
… being attacked by a panda. I hate pandas so, so much. So I avoid zoos and the forests of China.…
DS Video Project: Goals
In 2009 I took a brief (and some may say ill-fated) foray into the world of video creation, iMovie, and YouTube. This is one of the results (and my biggest YouTube hit to date, with nearly 300 views. Don’t be too impressed). This whole phase came …
I just registered for this class so I had a lot of catching up to do, but I’m enjoying the daily creates as well as the opportunity to use tumblr outside of reblogging pictures of Naya Rivera and Cher Horowitz. Apologies to my (very few) followers whose dashboards have been …
