Student Work: Independent Project
EX LIBRIS, TWITTER
Twitter is the public’s preferred periodical of late. Yes, periodical—if Tom Wolfe championed a New Journalism of the ‘60s, then Twitter is our Newest Journalism.
PUBLIC DEFENSE AND REBELLIOUS LAWYERING
Can meaningful change be effected from inside the system? How can public defenders break free of becoming mindless cogs?
PAUL SCHRADER’S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC
How First Reformed fights climate change by paying homage to Andrei Tarkovsky and Hieronymus Bosch
JERRY GRAY’S STORY
"When my grandfather died in 2011, my mom printed out a copy of his unfinished autobiography and it sat next to our printer for months." A digital translation of my grandfather's autobiography and an exploration of how to connect with the past.
JERRY GRAY’S STORY, PART ONE
"Growing up in Newark in the thirties was a lot different than living in the city today."
JERRY GRAY’S STORY, PART TWO
"Everyone talks about the rain in the Puget Sound area in the Winter, but I don’t remember that many rainy days. Maybe when you are young and having a good time the weather doesn’t matter."
FASHION IS IN THE SKY
"The purpose of this timeline is to demonstrate this communication between fashion’s function and its aesthetic, and to allow visual interaction with how trends in the past century have developed and transcended societal boundaries."
IN FULLER COLOR AND MOVEMENT
"Watching the latest Beyonce music video, "Mine," directed by Pierre Debusscherre I thought, we do strange things to tell the story of our emotions with our bodies."
MAIL GAZE
Like an apartment, a box is private, personal, sensitive; it stores its content within walls, behind an address. As a package, it has only the functions of identity, security, and portability. As long as it arrives at the right place, without internal damage, it has completed its task. It will not be integrated into its recipient’s life.
HOWL
"Even though it is out of date, temperamental, and actively begging me to stop using it, I will continue to use Howl for my podcast listening until the day I die."
UNBOXING YOUTUBERS
"Thousands of brands look to sponsor those who can push their product onto the screens of millions of potential customers, and they continue to take advantage of this on the one platform that has continuously drawn any and all kinds of people to it for nearly fourteen years - YouTube."
THE DOWNTOWN SCENE
This is a history of music to be found in basements, backrooms, and sites no longer existent.
