week #14 excerpts

Becca

Alex

Seano

Harrison

Hugh

Monica

Puja

Courtney

Selina

Kelsey

Mike B

Roshni

Christian

Wes

Carolina

Allison

Gino

Brianne

Anne

Erin

Shannon

Animah

Alejandra

Metro

Molly

week #13 excerpts

 death by film

roshni

person who fuckin' makes shit.

Christian

other things like "democracy

Hugh

it is in an attic after all

shannon

he was being bombarded

brianne 

nice, his name was Ivan

anne

dance videos degrading women

erin

engage with a virtual experience

metro

compromise is a huge part

molly

by what her children are

bill  

the pop and hiss of a Pepsi 

allison 

mostly due to the location

carolina

have changed and  become more

wes  

with my Mom and Dad

mike b

they all died horrible deaths

alejandra
these women are FEARLESS

kelsey

called Costume Maker Magazine

selina

which is Thai kickboxing

courtney

untouchable woman can not

monica

trying to get to the North Pole

harrison

But they punch too hard

seano

that’s an ass quake

alex

a very attractive Mr. Sean Connery

becca

 

summaries: due Wednesday, May 1, at 12:00 noon.

What should your summary summarize? 

Your experience.

Is there a content thread that has surfaced throughout the semester?  Were all the lectures you selected about food (for example)?  Are there major and minor threads?  If there was no continuity to the selections made, what do you make of that?  Did you follow lectures that seemed logical or illogical given your work and current interests?  Observe, don't judge.

Was there a leitmotif for the entire class?

Has there been a lecture or event that turned out to be more important to you than you would have expected?  Has that content shown up in your work?

Did anything unexpected happen?  Were you blown away (positively) or angered by any event?

You have had the freedom to curate your own course content.  The quality, look, shape, feel of this course has been left to you to create.  Have you done anything different with this class than (perhaps) what you expect to find in a normal lecture class (say art history)?

Is there something about the creation of your individual course that might allow you to think differently about your entire educational experience?  Can you compare or contrast this class to your entire undergraduate degree?

How many of your own ‘excavations’ did you attend?  Is there a particular person who tended to ‘excavate’ events that you looked for?  If so, why?

We are (generally) visual artists. What is the purpose of documentation?  Have you thought about a variety of ways to document your experiences other than a single image? How important were the visuals that you created?  Were they used simply as proof of attendance, or did they evolve into art?  Was more thought put into documenting visually than writing?  What do you make of that?

How often did you look at other miner’s blogs?  Did you look at the excerpts?  If you did, did you then look at the author’s blog to follow up?  How aware were you of other ‘miners’ existence?

week #12 excerpts

week #11 excerpts

Wes: college graduation to an interview with the CIA

Alejandra: I’m an English major. It is a language of conquest.

Bill: the issue with the bag is that it only has limited pressure to 1 atmosphere, so porosity will show up.

Gino: you are documenting qualities and experiences to demonstrate your overall well-roundedness

Molly: I think we all know how religion and sexual orientation is thought about in the US

Erin: gun violence and degrading women is what sells but why?

Anne: a guy who had to crawl through the fence in order to get to the bar he wanted to go to.

Brianne: " I prefer to die my life then live my death"

Harrison: There were some very saddening things said

Shannon: There are no parallel surfaces in the hall

Alejandra: You wish you could be me, but you can't. You can't even touch me.

Metro: not only participating in, but also observing segregation will lead to the development of prejudice and biases

Christian:  stories of homesickness entail of leaving the space of one's home, but what happens when your home leaves you

Animah: falls in love with a left-leaning radical boyfriend and studies French

literature.

Seano: to the future SPOILER ALERT: we’re all fucked

Roshni: as a freshman I would have never known about one of these

Mike B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZvPqK6Sq88s#!

Kelsey: I wish she had spoken more for people who like to learn but aren't good at school

Courtney: a man named Hsiang Po stalled an assassination attempt on the Han dynasty king with his long, silk sleeve

Puja: I believe in something - that much is clear to me

Monica: it was the only one that I could attend :/

Hugh: Concepts like family or blood relations, ownership, the self and the other, or the concept of having authority–these are stolen from humans

Harrison: I wanted to throw all of my money at them, but I had a limited amount of singles, so I just had to settle for giving them a small tip.

Alex: Natalie was very young during the conflict

Becca: it is hard for me to hear people talking about my religion

week #10 excerpts

Shannon

Alejandra

Mike B

Selina

Carolina

Brianne

Anne

Allison

Courtney

Gino

Harrison

Kelsey

Seano

Monica

Wes

class stats

week #9 excerpts

Gaming is for Grown-Ups: A View of the Industry

Jack Buser, Sr Designer, PlayStation Digital Programs

HARRISON:  I felt like such a geek because I loved this lecture so much!  AND HE DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT ANYTHING GROUND BREAKING!  But it was so cool, because he put up pictures and played trailers for games and he made nerdy jokes that I understood.

Jack went over the different kinds of games which I will summarize because it is necessary to know when looking at the future.
CORE. People’s preconceived notion of ‘games.’ First-person shooters. Heavily graphic games that people get invested in.

CASUAL. “Time wasters” that people can just sit down and play for a bit. Like Rock Band or Guitar Hero.
ANCIENT. Mancala. Games have been and will be around forever.

SOLO. Pac-Man. Single-player games were a product of the 1970s. Before that single-player was basically limited to solitaire.

SOCIAL. Farmville and Facebook games. These games are redefining what it means to be ‘social.’
MASSIVE. World of Warcraft. MMORPG (Multi-Massive Online Role Playing Games). People do not consider these as “Social” games but they are. People meet people online, get into gaming guilds with them, and often consider them close friends or even get married to them.
MOBILE. Phone and handheld games that would be impossible to realize in the living room.

MOTION. Kinect, PlayStation Move (focus on getting the player active). He didn’t mention Wii even though Nintendo changed the industry by focusing on motion.

AR. Augmented Reality is the future. On the Nintendo 3DS, there are games that use the camera to capture the world in real time and then you fight things that are changing in this “world.” Down the road, this could be used for many things. For example, Jack showed a prototype photo of a street view and bubbles popped up displaying reviews for restaurants, common tips, tweets about a place, etc. Completely immersing the user in social media bullshit. Twitter is stupid… but it is still pretty cool.

There was also a Homestuck (Homestuck is a web comic that is vastly popular among geeks and nerds on web forums right now) sitting behind us. I didn’t get a picture, but here’s kind of what she looked like (sans horns). 

MWUAH <3

PANEL: Wildly Imaginative Voices & Visions

@ Harold Washington Library
Reading/Conversation/Signing
Led by Ann Hemenway

w/ Writers:
Susan Hahn, The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter (not present due to illness)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It 'Til It Hurts
Adam McOmber, The White Forest
Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

HUGH:  So I rushed over to this lecture not knowing any of the authors, and only knowing about this CPL/Columbia College Chicago fiction writing department led festival called Story Week Festival of Writers.  I missed out on an artist lecture (Jacob Hashimoto at SAIC) but this turned out to be a pretty neat event. It all started with the writers reading an excerpt from their books, and then Ann, the host, asking some great questions and overall being one better host speakers of a panel I've seen. The conversation traded among the writers well and each of them had very distinct things to say about the writing, writing process, and publishing process.

ANNE

Restless Heart: The Confessions of St. Augustine

Tivoli Theater in Downers Grove

Monday March 18th, 7:30pm

MIKE B:  At 7:30 on Monday the Tivoli showed, Restless Heart: The Confessions of St. Augustine, it was presented by some local church group, I forget the name. I got there at about 7:25, and it was pretty much what I expected, a relatively low attendance, around 200 people, average age hovering on the high side of 50, and the only people anywhere near my age looked like they were way to into Jesus. I felt like people could tell I didn't belong there, but maybe that was just me feeling like I didn't belong there.

METRO

Patrik 1.5-Sweden, 2008

GINO:  I went to an event at the Foreign Language Building on campus. It was Scandinavian night, and there was literally NOBODY there but myself and two other people. The plus side, they made us these cute Scandinavian sandwiches to snack on. As you can see, it was a small classroom with a small television. I'm guessing not a lot of people showed because many are already home for Spring Break. The crowd looked sad. Anyway, I chose this event because the movie sounded really interesting to me because it was about a gay couple who was trying to get a baby. I didn't know if it was a documentary or a fiction, but I was still interested nonetheless. It turns out it was a fictitious film, but it turned out really good! The only thing I didn't like about it was the small subtitles on the little television screen. My eyelashes were getting in the way of my reading.  

interviewing skills 

ERIN:  You would think by now one would know how to conduct themselves in a interview, but, Michele stated she has had many complaints from some of the businesses who have been at the current job fairs. For example, interviewees showing up with bad breath, sweaty arm pits, body odors and much more is unacceptable. SHANNON:  The main point that stuck out to me was to : always be courteous to everyone you meet.