The Civil Wars Video
This is the music video to a song that I really like. But much more than I enjoy the song I enjoy the way that the video was shot. The two singers do an excellent job of 'acting' out the song and the lighting is sublime. The subject matter of the song is pretty depressing if you listen to it many times (something I am prone to do if I really like a song) so I have to take it in small doses. But I really do love this piece.
Call Of Duty Gameplay Video
This is the video of a guy playing a game of Call Of Duty on line against other people in a free for all match. He manages to get 30 kills to win the game without getting killed himself at all. This is a pretty impressive feat but to other people that don't play video games this would probably be pretty uninteresting. I guess I picked to to post because this is something I like to do some some of my friends so it is very interesting to me to watch other people's strategies.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Digital Story Review 2
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This was a great piece. I think the ones that stand out to me as 'good' are the ones where you can tell people really want to tell their story. And it almost seems like an emotional release when they do. The story of this man turning his life around from almost certain death is to say the least, powerful.
This was a great piece. I think the ones that stand out to me as 'good' are the ones where you can tell people really want to tell their story. And it almost seems like an emotional release when they do. The story of this man turning his life around from almost certain death is to say the least, powerful.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Digital Story Review
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This was a particularly interesting reflection of the revisionist history that plagues the generation of southerners that lived before me. I am not sure why these people glorify what was clearly a broken and oppressive society that is now, in the unbiased eyes of those who were not immersed in it, utterly obsolete.
Whatever it is that makes people remember and obsess over a 'simpler time' I am glad that my generation (for the most part) does not have it. Nostalgia is fun, but at the end of the day it will get you nowhere.
As far as presentation goes, I have not seen much in my first series of viewings that really struck me as something I would want to incorporate into my own work.
This was a particularly interesting reflection of the revisionist history that plagues the generation of southerners that lived before me. I am not sure why these people glorify what was clearly a broken and oppressive society that is now, in the unbiased eyes of those who were not immersed in it, utterly obsolete.
Whatever it is that makes people remember and obsess over a 'simpler time' I am glad that my generation (for the most part) does not have it. Nostalgia is fun, but at the end of the day it will get you nowhere.
As far as presentation goes, I have not seen much in my first series of viewings that really struck me as something I would want to incorporate into my own work.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
This American Life Response
For my two audio pieces I listened to two separate episodes of chicago public radio's This American Life. Which I have listened to before and I usually really enjoy. I am going to focus my analysis on one story from each episode I found particularly interesting.
The first one I listened to was the one of the most current episodes called 'Contents Unknown.'
Contents Unknown was in general about different cases of unknown. The story that really caught my attention was the one about a man that woke up in an Indian train station with no memory of who he was and where he was at.
It was very sad to hear him dealing with the complete loss of not only his memory, but his identity. I was unusually emotionally affected by this type of first person journalism, and it is something that I want to strive to reproduce.
The second episode that I listened to was called 'Bait and Switch' from back in November. 'Bait and Switch' focused on cases where people set a trap and were duped. The stories take perspective of either the trapper or the trappee. The story that really caught my attention was the one where a young couple was worried about an abandoned car next to their house so they called the police. They were blown off and nothing was done about the car. They began to worry as time passed though, because not only was it abandoned, it was left with the window down and the key in the ignition.
After a little while longer of the car just sitting there in that vulnerable state, the couple went to examine the car for information about the owner. Not long after some police officers showed up and arrested the couple for breaking into the car.
After an arduous, and confusing legal process the couple found out that the car was called a bait car, set by the police to trap would be criminals. Now this kind of irresponsibility by their local government and police force is inexcusable. I believe that one of the key functions of the press is to expose behavior like this.
The first one I listened to was the one of the most current episodes called 'Contents Unknown.'
Contents Unknown was in general about different cases of unknown. The story that really caught my attention was the one about a man that woke up in an Indian train station with no memory of who he was and where he was at.
It was very sad to hear him dealing with the complete loss of not only his memory, but his identity. I was unusually emotionally affected by this type of first person journalism, and it is something that I want to strive to reproduce.
The second episode that I listened to was called 'Bait and Switch' from back in November. 'Bait and Switch' focused on cases where people set a trap and were duped. The stories take perspective of either the trapper or the trappee. The story that really caught my attention was the one where a young couple was worried about an abandoned car next to their house so they called the police. They were blown off and nothing was done about the car. They began to worry as time passed though, because not only was it abandoned, it was left with the window down and the key in the ignition.
After a little while longer of the car just sitting there in that vulnerable state, the couple went to examine the car for information about the owner. Not long after some police officers showed up and arrested the couple for breaking into the car.
After an arduous, and confusing legal process the couple found out that the car was called a bait car, set by the police to trap would be criminals. Now this kind of irresponsibility by their local government and police force is inexcusable. I believe that one of the key functions of the press is to expose behavior like this.
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