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Hero(ine)s

Notes on My Final Video

December 14, 2008

I just finished the final edit of my final project video.  Just having some thoughts on how it turned out…. I’m not entirely sure I “like” the final version as much as I did the draft I did for midterm, but this may be because I’m still entirely too close to it, and can’t see [...]

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My Personal Pantheon

November 26, 2008

A while back, Kathleen asked us to think about who was in our “personal pantheon” – who were our heroes?  We didn’t really ever get back to that question in class, I’ve actually spent a lot of time thinking about it esp as it relates to the video I’m working on for my final project.  [...]

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Journeys Within Journeys

November 21, 2008
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As I continue to ponder Campbell’s stages of the hero’s journey, it has occured to me that while our life is one great heroic adventure – there are many many littler journeys within it,  kind of like those crazy russian dolls that all live inside each other, and each mini-journey has all the same basic [...]

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Midterm Video

October 17, 2008

This is the video I made, and presented in class last night, as a draft of my final project:

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Icarus / Ikaros – My favorite myth

September 25, 2008

“Remember the story of Icarus, who wanted to fly to the sun, but lost his wings and fell into the sea…”
I remember when I heard that line, I was 20 years old and attending a rehearsal for a performance piece at La Mama that my acting teacher, Leo Shapiro, was in. I didn’t know who/what [...]

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