My recording would not load on WordPress, so it is only on GauchoSpace. For my project, I created a short melody on the piano and then improvised off of the melody for a little over three minutes. I then played the recording to three of my friends– all separately–and asked each of them what emotions […]

Catalogue 1 This is a LeBron James Lakers jersey from last season that is now owned by Dwyane Wade after they swapped jerseys. It was produced by Nike and made of a fabric blend that includes polyester and recycled plastic water bottles. It serves to mediate the relationship between these basketball players. Catalogue 2 These […]

From what I conceived of the reading, Freud describes a ‘trace’ as some way one remembers an event in the past. This understanding of a past event, however, is not nearly as strong as the understanding one had as the event was happening or right after it happened. One example of a trace comes from […]

Catalogues Telegraph, 1861, U.S. Military Telegraph Corps, about 1 ft. by 4 in. by 8 in., wood, metal, magnetic needles, U.S.A. The telegraph works by transmitting electrical signals over a wire. It was created to facilitate long-distance communication. The telegraph helped Civil War field commanders to direct war operations in real time and allowed senior […]

In his piece, Pomian intends to show that the range of activities to which the idea of “collecting” or the “collection” can be applied to is very wide. He discusses how collections form and have been formed over the years, the significance of collections, and his idea of the visible versus the invisible of a […]

Musser uses the phrase “screen practice” to enlarge the discussion from just cinema to a larger context. Musser gives several qualifications for a media to be part of this canvas of screen practice. One is the complex relationship between the screen and the spectator, which I find to be very interesting. Later on in his […]

The two optical devices that I studied the most through the reading and our class activity are the kaleidoscope and flipbooks. On one end of a kaleidoscope is a hole that you can look into and the other end allows light in. Inside the kaleidoscope, there are mirrors and colorful plastic objects that move around […]

Practicing an instrument–in my case the piano–tends to be a process that is constantly changing. But just like any type of learning, it is good to have some semblance of structure. This is why the California Music Teachers Association Certificate of Merit program was so valuable for me. As outlined in my first artifact, an […]

Practicing an instrument–in my case the piano–tends to be a process that is constantly changing. But just like any type of learning, it is good to have some semblance of structure. This is why the Certificate of Merit program was so valuable for me. As outlined in my artifact, an informational pamphlet about the program, […]

1. What do you think Mike Rose says that schooling should attend to? Mike Rose writes that schooling should provide people of all backgrounds with opportunities to advance themselves, to gain knowledge, to find hope, and to ultimately find success. Rose understands that the opportunity he references means something different for every person. People go […]