Over the next few weeks, I'll be finally getting around to editing the video we shoot last spring and over the summer. I'll be posting some of the video and audio samples to give people and idea of where we ...Read More
Day 15 is our last meeting as a group. Numbers had been waning over the last few weeks due to the students taking on new jobs and priorities. With a need to start organizing the exhibition, we decided to stop ...Read More
We are coming into the final week of our efforts with Powers that Be and I feel like we are just finding our groove. Having been away for two weeks, I've had to build involvement and trust with the students ...Read More
Day 12 and 13 focused primarily on reviewing the work we had been doing over the previous weeks. At this point I wanted us to think about what it was we had been documenting and how we might build on ...Read More
Our plans for today focused on reviewing the self portrait videos that the students are producing. Runda, Tellie, James, and Stephanie had worked on the project over the weekend and had some exciting results. Runda and Tellie shot a twenty questions ...Read More
Who Am I? For the last week, I have asked the students to think about how they could represent themselves on camera. The idea being that we need to think about how we represent ourselves. The conversation of developing this ...Read More
For Day 8 I wanted to take the students out of their natural context and place them into a space where they might feel out of place. Where they would have to negotiate a new terrain and different types of people. ...Read More
Day 7 Allie asked if we she could bring a conversation concerning Double Consciousness to Powers that Be. So, we being by drawing, writing or describing how we see ourselves and how we think others see us. To start Allie ...Read More
Day 5 was a bit of a wash as I was held up at work and couldn't make it into Nubian on time. Though, I did walk into a large group of students courteously waiting for me to show up. ...Read More
The day was both a disappointment and enthralling. The disappointing side of things focused on the dwindling numbers of students that have shown up over the last few days. Today it was only one. Definitely not enough to make the project ...Read More