Here’s to New Territory!
Hello Cyber Space! My name is rcgerhard and this is my first blog—so be kind! –I don’t know what I’m doing yet! I guess a good place to start is to tell you about myself: I am an intensely shy, half...
View ArticleEverything Changes
For my Multimedia writing class this week our professor assigned us a reading excerpt from Dennis Baron’s “A Better Pencil”. It made me think of a quip I use on my friends all the time: the #1 rule of...
View ArticleResponse to Michiko Kakutani’s “Text without Context”
I read an article this week that yet again bemoans the current system of media consumption. Surprise! Suprise! — Criticism of the internet is at its epicenter. Forgive me if I’m somewhat cynical about...
View ArticleComments on “How to Steal like an Artist” … I hate Proverbs
Dashboard > settings > tagline box I feel like such a dummy for how long I searched for how to change the line under my blog name that read “Just another WordPress.com site”. Turns out the...
View ArticleLeave it to Facebook
When I think of the 1950s I see Leave it to Beaver. Mom in hoop skirt and heels doing housework. Dad; hat, briefcase, dress shoes. 2 kids, comfortable suburbs. A life where the biggest problem is a...
View ArticleThese Stories Are Weird
It seems to be that time in the semester. Papers. Spent several days last week crawling into bed at 6 or 4 am. Supposedly the week before that was spring break but I’m not sure because I spent it...
View ArticleThe Power of Introverts
This past week for homework, we watched a TED talks video by Susan Cain titled The Power of Introverts. This video is awesome. As an introvert myself, and I found a lot of what she said to be true....
View ArticleMultimedia Musings: end of the semester course reflection
Alright. Try as I may I can’t avoid this sentence, brace yourself here it comes: I learned a lot in this class. But at the same time nothing in the subject matter was all that alienatingly new. It was...
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