So yeah I haven't been bloggin as of late. Well at least for the last couple of months, but I hope to get in a routine this semester where I give myself an hour or so a day to read and write.
Anyway, I am in Youngstown right now, but I am leaving to go to Columbus for the weekend. I think I'll be sticking down there for New Years and for the OSU/ND game. Go Bucks!!!
I'll then be coming back here to Youngstown for a handful of days. On Saturday, I think I'll head back to Muncie to prepare for my second semester of grad school.
Next semester I'll be taking three classes and doing an independent creative project. My classes are:
ICom 602 - Foundations in Digital Storytelling 2
ICom 630 - Story Design and Development
Comm 614 - Contemporary Rhetoric and Public Issues
And my creative project is hopefully to finish a screenplay I started in undergrad.
But that's that and that is what I've been up to. Hopefully I'll start blogging again once I get back to school.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Friday, December 23, 2005
Good Stuff
We think it's time for Congress to heed the warning of George Orwell.
To that end, we're asking for your help: Mail us or drop off your tattered copies of "1984." When we get 537 of them, we'll send them to every member of the House of Representatives and Senate and to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
A great editorial by The Oakland Tribune.
To that end, we're asking for your help: Mail us or drop off your tattered copies of "1984." When we get 537 of them, we'll send them to every member of the House of Representatives and Senate and to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
A great editorial by The Oakland Tribune.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Going home...
So I am leaving tomorrow afternoon to head back to good ol' Youngstown. I have a lunch at noon and then I'll be heading out. I might swing by c-bus for a little while to see how its going there. Then eventually (somewhere between 7-9) I'll be back in the Mahoning Valley.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
BSU and Game Show Network Partnership
"GSN, the spunky game-oriented network jointly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Liberty Media Corp., Monday unveiled plans for an unusual collaboration between an ad-supported cable network and a major academic researcher, commissioning a study by Ball State University's Center for Media Design examining how people use interactive television in their daily lives." -Media Daily News article excerpt.
Ironically the pointer came from LostRemote.com. This is ironic because I work approx. 200 feet from the Center for Media Design.
Ironically the pointer came from LostRemote.com. This is ironic because I work approx. 200 feet from the Center for Media Design.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Full Interview
Ahhhh...this is exactly what the web was meant for...NBC has announced that the full edited exclusive interview Brian Williams had with President Bush will be streamed at MSNBC. That is great. It's not like I am going to watch it, but I like that I can.
It will be posted at nightly.msnbc.com
Pointer by LostRemote.com
It will be posted at nightly.msnbc.com
Pointer by LostRemote.com
My school is richer than your school...
So Ball State University got re-granted by the Lilly Foundation. Woohoo...20 million dollars here we come.
Check out the IndyStar article.
Check out the IndyStar article.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
End of the Semester Thoughts
So as everyone, or more precisely the two people whom regularly check this site, have noticed. I have not been updating the ol’ blog for a while. Unfortunately, I got busy with school and just with life and the blog got put on the back burner. I think I should be back to regularly posting at least for the next number of weeks.
I’m heading back to my Mom’s house in Youngstown on Friday and will be staying there for the next number of weeks. Then I’ll head back to Muncie for semester two of graduate school.
Here is a recap of semester one:
On school, I have had a great first semester, where I have been challenged to think and produce. I wrote what I think is a very good essay, entitled “Looking Toward 2008: New Media and Its Effects on the Political Process,” which takes a very small look at how new technologies might alter the face of the Presidential campaign in America. It is essentially a precursor to my thesis and has let me slightly arrange my thoughts for when I write my thesis next fall. I also produced a fifteen-minute documentary. “This Life.” is a slice-of-life style piece about a Christian skateshop and skatepark located in Muncie, Indiana. We will be sending it out over the next couple of months to a number of contests and festivals.
On life, I have made some great strides and some stupid decisions during the last three and a half months, but through it all I think I have made it through fine because of good friends and a great family. With friends who are willing to call you an asshole, when you’re being an asshole and a family who supports you no matter what you do, I wake up every morning asking myself how could I possibly fail. Along with those friends, I have met some amazing people over the last few months and I hope a number of these relationships last past the two years we’ll be here in Muncie. Don’t get me wrong some of these people and these relationships have driven me crazy at different points and drive me crazy now, but I wouldn’t trade any of it for anything in the world. My experiences here have taught me a lot about myself and have taught me a lot about what I value and what is important to me.
I have found that I value my family greatly and although I have had the sudden realization that my father is not superman during this semester, I have also found that he is a survivor and a hero. I have found my mother to be as supportive when I am away as when I was living at her house. I have found a countless number of things this semester and my family and my friends, new and old, have been with me through all of them.
That was my first semester. I have three left. As for next semester, I have two classes picked for sure and I am still deciding on a third. I’ll try keep everyone abreast of what is going on and I’ll try to start updating this again, well at least until it gets crazy again at the middle or end of next semester.
I’m heading back to my Mom’s house in Youngstown on Friday and will be staying there for the next number of weeks. Then I’ll head back to Muncie for semester two of graduate school.
Here is a recap of semester one:
On school, I have had a great first semester, where I have been challenged to think and produce. I wrote what I think is a very good essay, entitled “Looking Toward 2008: New Media and Its Effects on the Political Process,” which takes a very small look at how new technologies might alter the face of the Presidential campaign in America. It is essentially a precursor to my thesis and has let me slightly arrange my thoughts for when I write my thesis next fall. I also produced a fifteen-minute documentary. “This Life.” is a slice-of-life style piece about a Christian skateshop and skatepark located in Muncie, Indiana. We will be sending it out over the next couple of months to a number of contests and festivals.
On life, I have made some great strides and some stupid decisions during the last three and a half months, but through it all I think I have made it through fine because of good friends and a great family. With friends who are willing to call you an asshole, when you’re being an asshole and a family who supports you no matter what you do, I wake up every morning asking myself how could I possibly fail. Along with those friends, I have met some amazing people over the last few months and I hope a number of these relationships last past the two years we’ll be here in Muncie. Don’t get me wrong some of these people and these relationships have driven me crazy at different points and drive me crazy now, but I wouldn’t trade any of it for anything in the world. My experiences here have taught me a lot about myself and have taught me a lot about what I value and what is important to me.
I have found that I value my family greatly and although I have had the sudden realization that my father is not superman during this semester, I have also found that he is a survivor and a hero. I have found my mother to be as supportive when I am away as when I was living at her house. I have found a countless number of things this semester and my family and my friends, new and old, have been with me through all of them.
That was my first semester. I have three left. As for next semester, I have two classes picked for sure and I am still deciding on a third. I’ll try keep everyone abreast of what is going on and I’ll try to start updating this again, well at least until it gets crazy again at the middle or end of next semester.
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