Week #1: excerpts

Possible External Triggers of Star Formation in the Orion -A Giant Molecular Cloud

Carolina Ibarra

Excerpt:

“As soon as the presentation started I found it hard to understand what was being talked about. There was really no context to the information being given to us and from the way the numbers and data were being shown I could tell this was meant for other astronomy scholars and other well versed in this subject. I tried taking notes but I stopped within the first 10 minutes because none of what I was writing meant anything to me. I wrote down some information that was on the slides like a chart on star formation modes, names of the telescopes used to record observations (Submillimeter telescope AzTEC and NRO 45M telescope BEARS), dust continuum, trigger star formation, and Orion, giant molecular cloud. I stopped taking notes and tried to just listen and absorb this as an experience. Being in a room where you might not understand the language being spoken (even if it was English) and only using visually cues and gestures to follow what is being said is a useful experience for everyone to have.”

Selina Zawacki

Excerpt:

“Some terms I found interesting:

• "3 color bolometer camera"
•  "1.1 mm dust continuum"
• "exiting/exciting star" (I saw both, but I'm guessing only one was meant to be used?)”

HUGH SATO
Excerpt:
“He mentioned that the Orion nebula was one of the best places to study this sort of cloud formation, and it makes sense, seeing as the Orion nebula is one of the most visible, and closest nebulas, and I'm always in awe of how much data there is in just the smallest section of the sky, between two stars in Orion's belt.”
Mike Bieronski 
Excerpt: 

“Battle Grounds of the Future: Revisiting the First Anglo-Afghan Campaigns, 1839-1919”

Roshni Doshi

Excerpt:

“This lecture was different than an artist’s talk because it was heavily focused on textual evidence and writing whereas in an artist’s lecture I have seen examples of work they have done and their own thinking behind the work. This lecture was highly informative whereas an artist’s lecture had a personable quality to it. This lecture was heavily done with research and narratives on the subject, which were beyond my understanding.”

"Dish It Up: Mama Monster: Lady Gaga and Gender Politics"

Puja Patel

Excerpt:

“Queer theory, bulimia/anorexia, and self-mutilation were also brought up. It seems so important to address these issues of body image and self identity that plague our society, but it's ironic that the discussion very rarely happens in our everyday lives. I thought it was noteworthy when Roig mentioned how no other female pop divas ever seem to appear "un-beautiful" - Gaga purposefully tries to look rough sometimes, and even embraces androgyny. “

Global Transfer Afterglow w/ the Cultural Arts Quartet

Sean O’Connor

Excerpt:

“High school loomed with new internal struggles and anxiety.”

http://soundcloud.com/seanokonr/global-transfer-afterglow-jeff

didgeridoo begins around mark 2:00

Yasemin Yildiz "Beyond the Mother Tongue"

Alejandra

This tall guy that was sitting in front of me.  

I'm sure he's some sort of distinguished professor or something.

Excerpt:

“Since attending school for so many years and my family mainly speaking to me in English.  I have forgotten most of the Spanish I once knew.  I can mostly understand the language, but to speak even a simple sentence is a struggle. To my frustration, my father refuses to translate a word that I don't understand because he is convinced that if he simply keeps repeating the word with no context, I will magically remember what it means.  He always says, "It's in there somewhere. You knew it before".  My family feels that my distance from Spanish is somehow a rejection of my heritage, but I think I just don't know how to bridge that gap.  I took years of Spanish in high school, but that just taught me technicalities of grammar.  If I ever tried to speak what I learned, I felt like I waspretending.  Spanish was my mother language, yet I wasn't learning it from my mother. I was learning it from teachers in a school like it was foreign tome.  
Like Kafka, when I hear my "mother tongue", I feel a deep cultural connection to it though I can't fully embrace it as familiar.  I have tried to incorporate my heritage into my work a few times since I do think it is an important part of myself, but I have never been satisfied with the result.  Probably because I was trying too hard.”

CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Battle Grounds of the Future: Revisiting the First Anglo-Afghan Campaigns, 1839-1919"
Bill Berger
Excerpt:
The main reason for the professor giving this talk was because it was an open lecture to be critiqued for a new book that is being written. (it felt like she was reading from a manuscript rather then diving a talk)  so i found this fascinating relating it to my experiences/ feelings for crit.  The reason being is that this was the most useful crit I have seen in a long time.  Ego was not completely checked at the door, but the discourse that was involved was a reflection other points of view (i.e. what were other empires like the french doing.  did they write about the british failures written into successes.) that extremely productive.”


Hypnotist Steve Marino
Gino Baileau
Excerpt:

Hi. This is me, Gino Baileau.