Ladies and Gentlemen, I have struggled with what to post here, searching for topics which are funny, profound, and culturally relevant. But now the wait is over! The topic which fulfills all the above and more is...grocery shopping. Never having been my forte at home (though I can buy a mean microwavable meal, let me …
A week of conferencing and work days
Our class all seemed to be disproportionately sick, overtired, or gloomy this morning, myself included. I think 3rd week monday of 8th block came a bit sooner than a lot of us were expecting. It's occasionally been challenging to be fully present in this class during such a transitional time on campus. Most of our …
Workshopping; The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Thursday and Friday of this week were consumed by workshopping all ten drafts of our final audio essays. Both days were long, rewarding and difficult. It was my first experience workshopping anything, or being workshopped, and I think most of the class was a little nervous. A writing workshop environment is so intense because you …
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Playing around with sounds (Audio Essay, Block 8)
Greetings from the Audio Essay! So, after reading an awesome article by Brendan Baker (here's the link: http://transom.org/2014/using-music-brendan-baker/ ) our class spent the day split between peer editing our personal essay and a very fun, creative sound compilation exercise. I think the bigger sound nerds in our class got more from the Brendan Baker article than I …
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Making the Pitch
The second week of The Audio Essay started out on a note of high anxiety for me; we all made a professional story pitch. Over the weekend, our assignment was to create a formal pitch for a personal essay to debut on a radio program. Theoretically, if our pitch did well in class, it was …
The Art of Insurgency Final Projects
Dobar dan! (Good afternoon!) Two days ago I experienced one of the most epic days I have yet to experience at CC. John Gould (one of our professors) even said that it was one of his favorite days at CC, and he’s been here a lot longer than I have! Our final performances took place …
Pictures From Serbia
A very, very select few:
Jet Lag as an Act of Insurgent Art
For the first time since starting to provide words for Colorado College's blog, I am going to relate the content of the post to the title: on Tuesday our class will be presenting our final performances for the block... jet lagged. We have safely arrived back in the United States of America as of about …
Stories from Serbia Pt. 2
Hello! I got back to CC about 24 hours ago and now that I've recovered a bit from the epic plane journey, I figure it’s time to share some more stories with you while they're fresh! 1. We did a workshop with Dah in which we envisioned the floor as a map of the world, …
Acting and its Effects on the Body, Mind
Zdravo! Belgrade is a picturesque city. Our hotel sits on a large traffic circle through which trolleys and busses and cars come careening with little regard for one another. A few blocks down the main shootoff of the roundabout you'll come to a large plaza with a statue of a man riding a horse. A …
