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Call for Help

You decide to go with the safer, smarter option, and use your phone’s remaining battery power to call your friend Honza for help. He’s a nerdy professional clarinetist who doesn’t have the best people skills, but you’ve known him for a long time and can count on him when you’re in a pinch. You explain to him that you wereContinue reading “Call for Help”

Into the Mine

Ignoring your instincts again, you creep closer to the mine and activate your phone’s flashlight. You walk up to the cart and look inside, finding a few unrefined gems—ruby, quartz, sapphire. After checking that no one is around, you tuck a few of them into your pocket. Another sign lays in the dirt, rusted and covered inContinue reading “Into the Mine”

Graded Blog Post #5

When I told my friends I needed to create a meme for homework, they immediately suggested this photo. It is from a live musical theatre production I was in a few years ago. I played the March Hare in a kids version of Alice in Wonderland, and this picture was among many taken of theContinue reading “Graded Blog Post #5”

Graded Blog Post #4

Brainstorm I have a few ideas rolling around in my head about this Collaborative Composition and Analysis Assignment. I am not one-hundred percent sure yet what I will do, but I am leaning towards working with option #3. I like the idea that we could create a new collaborative writing project through new media. I am thinking about writingContinue reading “Graded Blog Post #4”

Graded Blog Post #2

A Study of Sound When I spent ten minutes in silence, I noticed many things. I heard the constant buzzing outside Glass Hall through my open window. Voices carried through the air from the hall outside my apartment or from the stairs leading to the gate. I could hear the clang of the gate openingContinue reading “Graded Blog Post #2”

Disneyland Made Me Think

Undeniably, it had been a great day. I had not been to Disneyland in over a year, the ticket was only forty dollars, and even though I went alone I still enjoyed it a lot. I went on Hyperspace Mountain three times: I met Chewbacca and Darth Vader. And among so many others, I wentContinue reading “Disneyland Made Me Think”

Blog Post #1

New Media and Me What interests me most about new media is simply the fact that it is quickly becoming more pertinent and popular because of our increasingly technologically-oriented lives. I am a supporter of all the technological advances we have made, so I enjoy exploring all of them, whether they are video games, smartContinue reading “Blog Post #1”