Category Archives: Comm Lab

If you are interested in seeing the film adaptation of the storyboard shown earlier, please contact me privately and I will do my best to accommodate you.

The story board shown below is the basis for my group’s short film. I drew many similarities between this reading and Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud in that the reader could come away with a general understanding of both texts … Continue reading →

The plot storyboard below is relatively self explanatory. Shooting it should be interesting. Stay tuned.

A nice little stop motion video by Alex Kowal and I can be viewed right here

A tale about what happens when soldiers with too much spare time get ahold of a little pig.

I read this a few weeks ago on a flight before I was able to pick up the Ong book. I’m glad I did, because it was a pleasure to read and made the flight much less uncomfortable. I haven’t … Continue reading →

The idea of aura in Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction could use a bit of refining to show the advantages of reproduction. People are nostalgic, and they appreciate authenticity. Cheap reproductions of Munch’s The … Continue reading →

A heady reading indeed, Walter Ong makes some good and some moot points about oral tradition in Orality and Literacy. The idea that sound as an art form is unique in the way that it surrounds the user was one … Continue reading →

She was angry. So was he. Why shouldn’t they be? They’d just spent hours fighting without resolution. He grabbed a backpack and rummaged for clothes, but the clamor clouded his memory. With haste he packed the first garments in sight. … Continue reading →