Think of this class as a laboratory where we collect things we find interesting. This can mean thoughts, ideas, images, videos, sounds, and links to other sites. This Blog is to function as sort of a recepticle to archive and share some of these things and to create space for an informal dialog between the students and between students & instructors.
You can pretty much blog about anything, although we will probably give you some specific things to blog about too. Just use your head. Your under age, so no stuff that will get you or us in trouble. Respect each other, this is a safe space to share. You may respond to each other, but please do not alter someone else’s post (unless they instruct to do so).
I’d like to invite you to generate as much original content as possible. Take photos, make short videos, document something, interview a friend, make a piece of music, write a story or poem or essay, etc. Blogging is it’s own form of communication when you get into it.
You can also add images and videos you find on the web, but if you do this you need to credit where it came from, AND you should write a line or two about why you are adding it, what moves you about it, excites you, repulses you, what does it make you think about, how does it reflect how you feel, whatever…these are ideas, find your own blogging style.
I took this photo at Venice Beach last semester. I didn’t set this up. I loved the funny combination of real seaweed and plastic toy shell…and the possibility that it was a remnant of someone else’s art project.
Here is a video I made for my friend’s birthday a few years ago, I made it using toys i found in her bedroom.
You get the idea! Have fun! Be the highly intelligent amazing explorer you are.
-willia
