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Upcoming due dates

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Weds Dec 7: Blurb 4 due. Post to blog and to class Google map. ALSO, print out all four of your blurbs to turn in. Finally, bring your charged computer, camera (video or still), and a means to connect your camera to your laptop to class. We’ll be using them during class this week.

Weds Dec 14: No class meeting. Reporting work 4 due. Your choice to make a review, illustrated feature, or interview in written, podcast, or video format. Post to blog no later than 5pm on Weds Dec 14.

Weds Dec 21: Final exam period from 3:30-5:30PM in our usual classroom, VC4-214. Creative work 4 due. Post your work to the blog and come to class ready to present and participate. If your work is time-based, please keep it to 4 minutes or less. If you combine forces with a classmate, you can take longer–add your 4 minutes together to make 8!

Creative Work 3, to-do this week

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Now that you have a better sense of what you want to make, it’s time to get to work making it. Your final piece will be a 5 minute video or podcast that creatively presents a personal narrative and connects somehow to the work you chose from the Rubin Museum’s exhibit, Once Upon Many Times. Put time, thought, and effort into the project every day and you will have time to develop your vision and ideas. Have fun, take risks, try something new, surprise us. Final work due 11/30.

Interview due 11/23

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As you know, your Interview is due on 11/23. Your complete work should be a 5-7 minute video. Upload your video to Vimeo and post a link to the video to the blog. Kiersten’s instructions on video are posted here.

If you have not already you need to sign up for a Vimeo account and send me your username and the email address you associated with the account, so that I can add you to our class Vimeo group. Abishek, David, Jason, Jenny, Josh, Ivan, Mariama, Nikkel, Sean, Shannon, Ryan, and Zarif… that means YOU! Sign up for Vimeo and send me your info ASAP.

Creative Work 3, components due 11/16

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To continue building your work, begin making and/or collecting texts, images (still and/or moving), sounds, objects, etc. that you think are relevant to the narrative you are developing. Take inspiration also from the artwork you chose from the Rubin Museum. Are there images, colors, objects, sounds, texts, etc. that feature somehow in that artwork and that might be evocative or relevant for your narrative? Come prepared to share your findings from this week and last week with the class on 11/16. Continue reading →

Creative Work 3, overview and parts due 11/9

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Your third creative work focuses on narrative. Ultimately you will be creating a short (5 minute) video or podcast exploring a personal narrative and presenting your work to the class on November 30. You’ll build up to that piece in stages over the next few weeks. To get the project underway, you need to do the following this week: Continue reading →

Podcasts due 11/9

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Create a podcast of your feature story. Your final work should be 5-7 minutes long. You can and should revise the text of your feature to work with the podcast format. Include images. Feel free to add other sound (music, effects, location sound, etc.) as desired. Feel free to ask others to read/perform the text for you if you’d rather. Make sure your final podcast is a feature story! and make sure it is audible, clear, and engaging. Post your work to the blog when complete, and mark it with the categories ‘Feature Stories’ and ‘Podcasts’.

Daniel Hope, Thursday 10/27

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Daniel Hope, violin & “East Meets West”
Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 8 pm
Venue: 92 St. Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Duration: Approx. 1hr 45min

Musicians:
Daniel Hope, violin
Gaurav Mazumdar, sitar
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Vishal Nagar, tabla

Program:
DE FALLA: Suite populaire espagnole (arr. Paul Kochanski for Violin and Piano)
TAKEMITSU: Distance de fée for Violin and Piano
RAVEL: Tzigane for Violin and Piano
MAZUMDAR: Hommage to Ravi Shankar for Violin, Piano Sitar, Tabla, Tampura
ZWILICH: Romance for Violin and Piano
BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances (arr. Székely for Violin and Piano)
RAVEL: Kaddish from Deux mélodies hébraïques (arr. Hope for Solo Violin)
MAZUMDAR: Hommage to Yehudi Menuhin for Violin, Piano, Sitar, Tabla, Tampura

Jhumpa Lahiri on Tuesday October 18

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2011, 5:45 PM:
A reading and conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri in the Newman Vertical Campus at Baruch College, Room 14-220; co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

JHUMPA LAHIRI received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. Continue reading →

Liz Gerring Dance Co., “She Dreams in Code”

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Performance details:
Thursday, October 13
Arrive NO LATER THAN 7:15pm, find me in the lobby area & get your ticket.
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 W. 37th Street (between 9th and 10th Ave.), New York, NY 10018
Performance begins at 7:30pm and runs about 50 minutes.

More information:
Liz Gerring Dance Company website
Baryshnikov Arts Center website
Review of 2010 performance, Lichtung/Clearing by the Liz Gerring Dance Company

WASTE LAND

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During our trip to the high line galleries, I mentioned the documentary Waste Land in which artist Vik Muniz goes back to his native country Brazil to inspire its people through artistic means to change their perspective on the everyday.

I was only able to hyper link the documentary’s main website but I will continue to look for a link to the actual film which I highly recommend.

Daily Photos To-Do, 9/22-9/28 and looking to the future

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  • Compile all of your photos so far into a single post. Probably the easiest way to do that is to go back to your post from last week where you have your collection of the first week’s images, and add the latest images into that post. Make sure your post has the category “Daily Photos” (you’ll find categories to select on the right side of the post screen).
  • After you’ve done that, delete your single-image posts.
  • Then, look again at your collected images and ask yourself the same questions you considered last week–what do I see? what mood, personality, or ideas are coming through? what assignment do I give myself to move my work forward this week?
  • Finally, look again at the images posted by the classmate who you responded to last week. See what s/he has done since you last checked in. Give your feedback and share your insights. Do you see any affinities between your work and your classmate’s work? Suggest steps s/he might take to move the images forward.
  • Keep making pictures throughout the week. On Wednesday I will post instructions on what to prepare for the following week. You will be presenting your work to the class when we reconvene on October 5.

Chelsea Galleries

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Here are the names of the galleries we visited and the artists whose work we saw on Wednesday:

Steven Kasher Gallery, John Chamberlain
Pictures, photoworks on canvas, on display through October 29

Gagosian Gallery, Richard Serra
Junction/Cycle, steel sculptures, on display through November 26

Pace Gallery, Agnes Martin
The 80’s: Gray Paintings, minimalist painting on display through October 29

Pace Gallery (outdoor space), David Byrne
Tight Spot, sculpture and sound installationon display through October 1

Yossi Milo Gallery, Pieter Hugo
Permanent Error, photographs on display though October 29

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Do Ho Suh
Home Within Home, sculptures and drawings on display through October 22

We walked through the High Line Park, noted the home of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and of course made that unplanned stop at the Tesla Motors showroom. Vroom!

I’d be delighted to read any comments you’d care to post on anything you saw.

Register for the Macaulay Tech Fair

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You need to register for one session of this fall’s Macaulay Tech Fair. This event will help you learn more about your new Macbooks and Macaulay’s eportfolio system. Come learn how to build and customize your own site. We are offering a number of sessions during September, but space at each one is limited so sign up ASAP. More information and registration here.

On A Side Note,

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Today I watched a film called Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary about street art. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It will definitely get you thinking.

I also came across a fascinating guy a couple of months ago who I found really inspiring. He goes by “JR” and won the TED Prize last year. Here is his TED Talk where he describes his work and here is his project. I plan on doing it soon, anyone want to join?