6 October 2008 – UPDATE: After getting some feedback from my Comm Lab class, I have made some changes to the comic and replaced the version shown on this blog as well. I worked with Ruxy on this week’s Comm Lab assignment, which was to tell a story using 4-10 sequential images. We created our [...]

This is a response to Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for Comm Lab @ ITP. I had to brush up on my Marxist fundamentals, which I haven’t really engaged in depth since my undergrad political science classes, to understand some of the historical/political references that Benjamin was making.  This sent me [...]

I worked with Mustafa today for this in-class assignment for Communications Lab at ITP. In-class Exercise: The 30-Minute Film Festival. In teams of three you have 45 minutes to create a short video that contains a simple narrative arc. Create a blip account. Upload your video. Embed it into your blog. We’ll have a short [...]

Week 2 of Communications Lab @ ITP: In Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong draws from cultural anthropology, Greco-Roman classical antiquity, and modern (McCluhan and company) to illustrate the differences between primary oral cultures (societies that do not have written language) and “chirographic” or literate cultures.  Ong rejects the term “oral literature” as “preposterous.”  The term [...]

As part of Communications Lab at ITP, we were asked to visit and comment on the New York City Waterfalls.  I went with my classmate, Catherine to observe the Waterfalls from the South Street Seaport on September 7. Living in New York, one often forgets that Manhattan is an island.  Access to the waterfront areas [...]