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  1. rhino507

    Reflecting on Radio

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    March 20, 2013
    The Morning AfterMy first go at making radio, this piece is a parody of those obnoxious early morning shows like Dave and Chuck "the Freak" or Crazy Ira and "The Douche" (for you parks and rec fans). On the show (named the morning after) two "Broey" ho...
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    Re: Infant Mortality

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    March 18, 2013
    Jennifer Guerra's use of mothers in her piece on infant mortality in Michigan creates a more personal emotional connection to the families that deal such tragedy. After first introducing us to a young Highland Park family, Guerra hits us with the point...
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    Re: Sound Reporting and Transom.org

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    March 11, 2013
    Transorm.org and the excerpts from Sound Reporting that we read over break were super helpful. After reading the excerpts and poking around the site, I have a much better idea about how to do these audio projects. One thing that struck me (as both init...
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    Food For Thought – Weekly Summary

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    March 3, 2013
    CC Ketchup SoupLike many of my generation, I no longer learn new music from the radio, don't frequently tune in for particular talk radio shows, and almost never just sit and listen to it. But, I also have some memories of listening to "old time radio"...
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    Radio Project Concept

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    March 3, 2013
    CC EcospcSo our theme for the class radio project is dating, and this is a primarily web-based class, so I thought why not do some kind of spot on the emergence of online dating sites for twentysomethings.I know people (mostly recent college grads) who...
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    Re: Radiolab “Deception”

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    March 3, 2013
    CC mskoglyListening to Radiolab's episodes on deception was a very different experience than how I normally listen to radio. I am a fairly frequent listener to NPR, but whenever I am listening it's because I'm doing something else and radio is a supple...
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    Audio Creates

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    February 27, 2013
    Some of my first Audio creates....1. Record a sound that represents a meal you ate today 2. Record the most animated laugh 3. Record the sound of an instrument
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    Food For Thought – Weekly Summary

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    February 26, 2013
    CC Bonito ClubFull Disclosure: This summary is coming in late.In other news, it's also going to be quite short.This past week, I finished the video unit of umdst. After a plans with my roommate to record some on the street mock interviews on the diag, ...
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    Re: “Radio On” by Sarah Vowell

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    February 26, 2013
    Radio On By Sarah Vowell illustrates the impact that radio has on our personal lives. It analyzes the personal experience of a shared one. While you will never the only one listening to a particular radio broadcast, your experience with it is entirely ...
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    Video Wrap Up

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    February 21, 2013
    Here are my last two videos for UMDST. 1. " xxxXXXpuRpleDrAnkHyBriDTy$$XXXxxx "--Washington Crosses The Delaware to Dubstep2. "Famous"- Inside the Actor's StudioThis unit was a lot of fun, and forced me to learn a lot. I got to try new t...
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    Food For Thought – Weekly Summary

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    February 17, 2013
    CC Ketchup SoupIt's been a lighter week for UMDST. After completing my first video, I had a hard time coordinating with my roommate to film a second together. I did film my part of the webisode film "Beardfish," and am going to make one film a day for ...
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    Daily Creates

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    February 17, 2013
    I'm trying to get my UMDST hustle on at the cafe before I get on shift, but the internet here is too slow right now to handle it. So instead of loading my photos from my daily creates for this week, I'm just gonna throw them into this post instead.TDC ...
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    Food For Thought – Weekly Summary

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    February 10, 2013
    CC Ketchup SoupThis week I made my first polished video for our video unit. The link can be found below, but in summary it was a short-edit version of a "music video" my girlfriend and her elementary school friends recorded in 1999. I took the 30 minut...
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    Re: How To Read a Movie

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    February 10, 2013
    Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times article How To Read A Movie  talks about reading the frames of movies for their storytelling qualities. How do filmmakers create visual storytelling? Well, for starters, they position characters symbolical...
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    Video #1 “We Are Flower Power”

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    February 10, 2013
    Biggest lesson from this project: Video Editing takes a LONG time.The raw footage for this video is about half an hour of my girlfriend and two of her close elementary school friends trying to make a music video to Shaniah Twain's 1997 album Come on Ov...
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    Food for Thought – Weekly Summary

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    February 4, 2013
    I was looking back at my video goals post, and realized that my personal and technical goals got lost in my attempt to explain how I first came to understand how powerful the combination of video media and social media networking sites can be for the s...
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  22. rhino507

    Video Create – Capture Motion

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    February 4, 2013
    I am very new to video editing, and so I wanted to mess around with iMovie to see what effects I could use. I took advantage of the video create to capture motion to try this out. I took some footage of my bike tire spinning and played around with the ...
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    Re: The Syncher, Not The Song

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    February 3, 2013
    Most of you probably recognize the video above as the infamous "Numa Numa Dance." Far less of you likely know that the rather happy guy in the video is a 19-year old from New Jersey named Gary Brolsma. Douglas Wolk's article on The Believer &...
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    Video Create #1

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    January 30, 2013
    Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his t...
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    Video Goals

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    January 30, 2013
    UC Berkley Students Protest Fee Hikes Outside Wheeler HallCC jmhuttunIn my first week as a college freshman at UC Santa Cruz, my friends and I stumbled upon a renegade dance party at an academic building on campus.  We were stoked to have fou...
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  26. rhino507

    Yarn Bombing

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    January 28, 2013
    CC daintytimeIn class today our guest speaker made an off hand reference to yarn bombing.  I've never heard of it before, so I googled it immediately.  As Wikipedia explains, yarn bombing is a form of graffiti that uses knit or croq...
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  27. rhino507

    Weekly Review #2

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    January 28, 2013
    I've learned things this week about myself.By paying more attention to Michiganradio.org  in contrast with other sites I visit, I've learned more about my personal preferences in web design. If my attention is grabbed by a photo or graphic th...
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    MichiganRadio.org

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    January 27, 2013
    Michiganradio.org  is not your Ross Business School roommate's commercial news site. But it works just about as well.Screenshot (1/27/13 5:30PM)Michiganradio.org is easy to navigate, updated all the time, and features a lot of interactive med...
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  30. rhino507

    Weekly Summary #1

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    January 20, 2013
    It's been a big week for my personal web presence.I reactivated a long abandoned Twitter accounts, started a Blog, joined Flickr, SoundCloud, and Gravatar. I also learned the meaning of "Web 2.0" (something I wouldn't have had the slightest clue of how...
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