Thesis progress presentation, CMS Orientation, 26 August 2008
Fifteen minutes of me riffing on the main topics of my master’s thesis from the CMS orientation event. Two semesters to go, my dogs!
As always, you can grip the slides for more digital digging. (Hint: use the arrows to move forward and backward through them or press “a” […]
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Thesis progress presentation video
August 27th, 2008 academia, cms, hiphop, mit, presentation, scholarship, thesis, todomundo | No Comments »Halo Kid slides backwards down the uncanny valley
July 17th, 2008 cms, dance, fanart, fandom, gambit, gaming, halo, literacy, masterchief, meme, mit, movement, teenagers, video | 2 Comments »
Already hyped as “the new Star Wars kid” and “the next Tron Guy” by peeps in the know, Halo Kid mania is on the rise.
Using only cardboard and packing tape, the Halo Kid achieves an astonishing level of detail in his work. To date, he has crafted all of the weapons in Halo 3 and […]
Dancefloor studies, feminism, and booty bass.
May 2nd, 2008 academia, bitchassdarius, cms, dance, dj, feminism, gender, hiphop, race, sexuality, writing | 4 Comments »
DJ Nephets in Paris, 18 May 2007
My prof, Henry Jenkins, just posted the most recent draft of an essay I am writing about the liberating potential of booty bass lyrics to his blog. Here’s a preview:
By reading the lyrics literally, I was ignoring their role inside the logic of dance music. If the dancefloor is […]
