*Editors note: I don’t know what the heck is up with the formatting of this post. I’ve tried to fix it…even messed with the HTML. But the more I fix it, the worse it gets. Freaking lame. Anyway, enjoy the post, disregard the formatting fail: Fact: I love reading. Fact: I love owning books. I [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘society’
September 10, 2009
Well, this is embarassing. Keep failing, Firefox!
So my Firefox just shut down and this message appeared. Normally this would be extremely annoying, but honestly, this error message made me laugh. Conversational, spoke my language, yadda yadda. So, good job Firefox – you have owned failing well. Actually, wouldn’t it be great if there was a series of campaign fail messages. (does [...]
August 1, 2009
some musicy artsy Austin things
The wonderful thing about the Austin music scene is its…eclecticism I suppose you could say. I certainly enjoy the typical band consisting of a guitar, bass, percussionist and singer, but there is nothing like a good orchestra or musical. So…I’ve done a bit of exploring… Each summer there is a summer musical series in Zilker [...]
July 22, 2009
Orgullo Mexicano
He disfrutando tenieno un partner en crime para explorar una ciudad nueva. Cuando estabamos regresando anoche, encontremos un resaurante mexicano entonces claro que detenernos y comimos la comida rica! Me encanta la cultura Mexicana y es tan maravillosa para tener la oportunidad a conocerla y las personas que tengan tan muchano… pues, estan sagrando el [...]
July 5, 2009
believing in eugene
My friend Jack, a friend from the ad program, showed me this music video he made with a few friends. I think this is great…love the music video idea to show a pretty accurate representation of what it is like to live in Eugene and go to college at the U of O (Perhaps I [...]
July 2, 2009
¡Viva!
So, as I have spent the past week interning at a study abroad company, I’ve been nostalgically reliving my freaking awesome study abroad experience in Queretaro…already 2 years ago in a month of so. Crazy. I pulled out the 56 videos I took during my study abroad and watched a handful – this is one [...]
June 17, 2009
connecting the cultural anthropological dots
Awhile back I said I would be conducting an independent study through the j. school / Gabriela Martinez regarding cultural anthropology + intercultural communications. Nowhere near complete, as this is just the beginning of my studies, but here’s the progress thus far: In my four years in the School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC), I [...]
June 15, 2009
Confrontation. Are you ready?
During winter term, Deb put us in teams and said: make something in Flash. So, Evan, Kurt and I ran with an idea from Kurt – a game called “Confrontation.” Inspired by Crossfire, the sheer enthusiasm seen in 120% of 1990s extremism advertising + to provide a cultural insight into the early 90s, Confrontation was [...]
