The gif is ubiquitous. And it’s a mess. A relic from the dial-up web, it was one of the first image formats on the web. It’s become an essential part of the language of online communication, and it’s become a form of art it own right, it’s even bleeding into other forms of media (see PBS Idea’s Read More
For this probe I chose to shift disciplines from my commitment to English literary studies to one – what I would call one of my primary musical passions – with which I have never engaged in any formal examination. The extent to which I chose to explore, categorize, and quantify my interest in Metallica is Read More
I have a complex and difficult relationship with Twitter. No other content strategy strategy or social media platform has done more for me. My feed has gotten me an agent and several jobs; it’s connected to to innumerable people who have become friends and colleagues, collaborators and co-conspirators. It’s gotten me in the newspaper for Read More
Probe * Nov 21st “Dominate the dream of freedom due to the translation, materialized, reduce A normative struggle, new analysis focuses on what we call the transfiguration seems Emerging. This could significantly change the way through the public decision-making Close to the regime of recognition. No one claimed that schools have been decisively This concept Read More
Bootcamp + Trees + Nov 7 “There is a constant branching-out, but the branches also grow together again, wholly or partially, all the time.” – Alfred Kroeber, Anthropology Experiencing our class thus far, I must say it’s been less painful then expected to get my mind inside the theory circle. Once I became familiar Read More
Perhaps one of the best ways to visualize the concepts of articulation and assemblage from for this week’s seminar, ‘Drawing Things Together,’ is the process of learning: by making associations and parallels between complex elements and familiar and/or simpler concepts, we are crafting and superimposing patterns that enable us to understand what appears to be Read More
Mess is inevitable: it is in our thought-process, our social interactions, our work, our mistakes and accomplishments, but most importantly it is also there in the creative process. When looking for supercuts on the internet, this website leads you to an archive of supercuts, which provides a definition for them: Supercut: noun \ˈsü-pər-kət\ — A fast-paced Read More