A Coffee Date With Adam Smith
The 301 prof was not a big fan of big writing assignments, but he liked to mix things up. For different classes he would identify different media for students to use, and for ours he decided on Adobe Slack. There was a practice assignment, then a presentation assignment. I...
Taking a Shallow Dip Through the Boob Tube
I don’t really watch the news, not least because I don’t have any kind of cable media coming into this place. The news is less important anyways than how it is incorporated. This has been true all along, but the last four years have made it painfully obvious. By...
Painting the Town Red
In theory I should have a Woodbury category, if I’m going to do PCC and CSUCI on their own. But that just complicates distinctions between writing and other work. Besides, I never finished that program anyway. Graphic Design at the time was as much Aldus as it was Adobe....
Abstractions
The assignment was to use black paper shapes on a white board to convey, for lack of a better term, art. Feeling, impression, narrative, conflict, something internal to us and conveyed by construction paper. I wanted no part of it. I wanted to overcome technical and creative...
Cat Scratch Fever
The last assignment of the previous module was an extra credit piece- use Excel to build a ‘binary calculator’ that would convert 8-char binary to numeric values. Mine could have been more polished if i’d had more time on it, but as it was it was still spectacular for...