March 4 “Day of Action”
Yesterday was the statewide “Day of Action” march, protest and rally all through California, and I decided to check out the day portion of the event since I was on campus getting my laptop checked for some internet connection issues. There were hundreds of CSUN students, and they went everywhere around campus. They even entered classrooms in Manzanita Hall to tell the students to “walk out” their class and join the protest. They also went and blocked the Nordhoff/Reseda intersection, which is one of the busiest intersections in Northridge. Cops came to tell them to get off the streets. I left around 3 p.m., but I hear the march, protest and rally got even more crazy later at night. A professor and a couple of students even got arrested.
G’mo’s Night Out!
Last Thursday Kanie said that the Geronimo’s, which is the dorm’s cafeteria-style restaurant, was giving out free food. We weren’t sure why, but free food is always nice (just as long as they don’t poison us). We went there early like around 7:30 p.m. and they were just setting up. Then a lot of people started showing up after 8 p.m. when it began.
Survive the Night (Soundslides)
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You all probably forgot about MEND and Survive the Night already since it was about a month ago, but Bodhi and I finished our Soundslides presentation and turned it in last Monday to our JOUR450 Advanced Photojournalism class. I wrote all of my experiences on here, so this entry will be about the Soundslides instead.
First, I actually liked the length of this Soundslides more than I did on my CSUN Student one because it’s just longer, and it makes the watchers absorb more of the story instead of having it all rushed. Second, I liked the two songs we chose in the Soundslides as well. The only problem I have with them is that they seem to pop out too randomly, and I can’t believe neither Bodhi and I realized that until we saw it in class. I did thought that wavelengths that was on GarageBand were too sharp, but Bodhi and I thought it was fine when we listened to it. I guess we were just so tired since we were working on this until 4 a.m. that we didn’t really hear it carefully, and I normally have my headset on when I do my own work. Haha. Anyway, the song “Sunshine” by The All-American Rejects could also be louder in the end because it was indeed softer than any other audio. Last but not least, and I thought of this as well, people wanted to see and listen more about the former homeless people. The only problem was we didn’t have many photos of them. I wasn’t sure to just leave one photo and have it stand there for over a minute long with the audio. Would you listen if it were like that?
So, those were my self critiques on that. I think what I don’t like the most is just the audio popping in and popping out randomly because it’s just tough on the ears. When I listen to any audio, I love to have it flow in my ears. Ah well. Bodhi and I will just have to see what Todd grades us in the end. Professor Blumenkrantz gave me a 17/20 on my CSUN Student one, which I guess it makes sense because I do feel like I could’ve done so much more on it.