I first heard of Brandon last year, through my good friend, Ashly. Actually, I first heard of Ashly’s “online friend” all the time last year…this online friend being Brandon. After the two set off on their epic roadtripping adventure a few months back, I actually started to talk to Brandon. I guess he’s now my online [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘storytelling’
October 4, 2009
Heart in Luckenbach, Texas
A few months ago I was asked “Where did you move to?” (…and yes, the q. did end in a preposition) My answer: “Oh, I moved to Texas!” I was quickly corrected by an Austinite: “No, you didn’t moved to Texas, you moved to Austin!” “Tomato, Tomawto” was what I thought in reply…and that was [...]
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 [...]
April 2, 2009
using jazz as a communication model
I talk a decent amount of my past (d)orchestra life, but I realized I don’t speak much about choir. Tonight I went to a Genesis concert – Genesis being an outstand jazz group from the Portland area. Back in the day (wow I feel old), I was pretty devoted to choir as well as orch [...]
January 26, 2009
honesty and transparency
We all have secrets. We all have insecurities. We all have similar situations, aspirations, quirks, fears, ideas and awkward moments. We often feel alone or perhaps on an entire different wavelength as the rest of the world. We feel this way, but I’m convinced we share similar sentiment and for this, I feel comfort and [...]
January 14, 2009
cultural anthropology: The United States of Mexico
To fulfill my final few credits, I was enrolled in an International Communications course. Exciting yes, because international communications is certainly an avenue of my career path I see myself exploring. However, the structure and focus of this course I knew did not align with my interests. So, I created my own class. I’m really [...]
October 20, 2008
7X52: week 1
Ashly had the wonderful idea of doing/collecting/creating/drawing/etc. something…ANYTHING, once a day for seven consecutive days and recording the findings for the span of a year. I love this idea, so I’m jumping on the bandwagon – here’s what I’ve got for week one: Storytelling and photography are two passions of mine and the two put [...]
July 2, 2008
love interactive love
She Loves The Moon is a form of installation art, an interactive love story found around the streets of San Francisco. In order to ‘read’ the book you choose the arrows based on the story line you would like to follow. There are two endings to the story being told on the streets; one happy [...]
