Life has been a trip, the last several years... The things I've done, sights I've seen. Life changes.
Creative Communications student, you'll occasionally see assignment related posts.
As school is slowly winding down into summer vacation,
there are a lot of fun things coming up.
The magazine trade fair is this
week. The magazines showcase of all the first year student's skills in electronic layout, writing, photography, ad development and group work.
Two video montages: one for the Big Rock Eddies and one for our media production class.
Both montage assignments are wide open for our decisions on content, theme and style.
Here's Lindsey Dorie's video montage from last year.
Here's a submission from last year's Eddies contest.
February 14 was a special day—for some. It was the 10 year anniversary of YouTube.
TVs are a thing of the past and along with it TV advertising.
A borrowed subscription to Netflix, the occasional YouTube video, the annoying auto-playing Facebook videos and the even more annoying auto-playing videos, with sound, on some 'news' websites.
Once pseudo-addicted to television, aside from the news, I haven't really watched TV in about 5 years.
The rise of how we consume media has changed vastly over the last 10 years.
I feel as though we have a certain level of control of what we consume—as long we don't blindly follow suggested videos.
I scored some ridiculously high mark on my entrance general knowledge test to this program. In my interview the panel asked how I consumed my news. My answer: Facebook.
Its also seen the rise of clickbait and the eventual immunity of the victims.
It also has the ability to shoot users like PSY into internet superstardom and beyond with his Gangnam Style music video.
It's also saw the rise of OK GO. Billy Corgan's accused it of using its videos as a gimmick.
Just the other day, The Winnipeg Free Press, a still profitable daily print, announced they will be starting to charge for its online content, as it feels that subsidizing online content through subscribers is wrong.
Do you think OK Go's videos are gimmicky? What'd you think about paying for news?
Tell me what you think! Write a comment below.
Gimmick or not, I like the artsy videos.
End Love
The latest video I won't let you down.
And the giant Rube Goldberg machine, funded by State Farm, that is This Too Shall Pass.
Watching hockey, drinking tequila, the sugar shack and being semi-secluded, I was out of town for a couple days for a school travel assignment.
I managed to get a private tour of a teaching-convent-turned-museum in St Pierre-Jolys. The nuns originally taught Grade 1 to 10 to girls around St. Pierre. They were taught in this second floor classroom and some lived on the third floor in the dormitory.
On the same property is the Sugar Shack.
The 25 annual St. Malo Family Tournament also was held this weekend.
For another assignment, I wound up in a dairy barn shooting b-roll for our submission to the Big Rock Eddies due on May 4. This is just a sampling of what I shot. I threw in a reading by David Duchovny.
You always have to make time for yourself. That's probably the best thing I was reminded about this week. A time to turn off my phone, to turn off my brain, and to put the things weighing me down aside—for an hour a day.
What should you do when you have free time? I've actually given up most hobbies when I started school. After a pretty messed January, I lost the idea of taking this break even more.
It turns out my state of mind is the most powerful thing to help relaxation.
Thursday was the first time in over a month that I was conscious of this, and boy did it work. All it took was turning off the world, hanging out and watching a movie.
I was told this needs to be a daily thing.
Travel, photography, working on my car, having coffee/beer with a friend; totally escaping the weight of life for a moment—every day
What do you do to relax? Post your best tips below!
This is a pic with my buddy Everet last year on our trek to Churchill last September.
