The Delivery from cindy wong on Vimeo. What happens when you give 5 ITP students a camera to shoot in New York City? A complete mashup involving slasher horror, ninjas, film noir, and a giant Japanese TV mascot. Purely an exercise for our own enjoyment, I don’t expect Hollywood to come knocking anytime soon. Equipment:...

In a team of 5 people, create a 2-minute movie that is planned with a storyboard. Deciding we wanted a rich, narrative perspective sequence, my team divided the movie into 4 distinct chapters that delve into different movie genres. The movie, itself? Let’s say, it’s a tale of a serial killer and the hunt to...

Chinatown. Herald Square. George Washington Square Park. NYU. Here’s a compilation of different sounds of New York City melded together. Created in Audacity, recorded with M-Audio recorder. Comm Lab Beats

“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan,  Understanding Media: In reading recent news articles about artists, their appropriation of Internet photos, and lawsuits filed against them by their original owners, I find McLuhan’s words to ring true. What does it say about our culture when content is no longer considered valuable or attributed to...

Reading Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” was a murky affair for me. Filled with comparisons of different time periods and art mediums, Benjamin’s essay touched on changing perspectives of art as exposed to technology. What defines art? What is the value of art and how has that shifted...

While visiting the Bronx’s Tree Museum, I came across the conundrums that must plague an exhibit designer: how do you pay tribute to a local landscape and make it accessible to people? Artist Katie Holten makes a valiant attempt to document the memories of residents’ and their connections to the trees residing along the historical...

In E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” the author delivers a subversive vision of a mechanized utopia, where mankind has been provided a constant life of comfort and pleasure by machinery. It seems like a good bargain – until the reader discovers how these future citizens live and what they’ve been deprived of. Here, Forster makes...

In Orality & Literacy, Walter Ong examines the history of oral culture, the evolution of literate societies, and how understanding both cultural backgrounds shows the influence of how they shaped human consciousness and comprehension throughout time. As a reader, this was especially interesting in how previous age-old arguments – is one form of communication more...