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Someone needs to lock me in a room until I write this book chapter

audubon — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:29:57 +0000

The publisher has given us less than a week. I can’t think of anything that accurately describes my mental state, other than this exchange with A.:

Not to toot my own horn, but…

audubon — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:50:38 +0000

Just got my evaluation from the media lit conference I attended in Philly this summer. Attendees to my session and film screening rated my presentation. And I did not screw up! My favorite part is “Audubon is easy to listen to.” So much more polite than saying, “Audubon is overly enthusiastic and never shuts up.” Woo!

This is what I do

audubon — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:03:01 +0000

Was at school til after midnight last night, trying to finish a quick concept video for the mobile app a bunch of us are working on. Here’s the idea (pardon the imperfections):

What are we waiting for?

audubon — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:37:02 +0000

Tonight I attended a meeting of MIT Doc Makers, for documentary and other filmmakers at the Institute. We got to see a film made in five days last month by undergrads, largely freshmen, and most without any film experience. I thought they did a great job! And it does a good job of showing Boston, including many shots of my (former) street, Comm Ave. The admissions office even reposted it to show off life at MIT (as if undergrads actually cross the bridge into Boston, or have normal romantic relationships, or go to coffee shops). Still. Bask in the cuteness, my friends.

Invictus

audubon — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:17:32 +0000

In the science writing & new media class I’m presently TA’ing, the students just presented their first assignment: an edited audio essay on any topic/theme. One group of students decided to have people read the same poem in different languages, editing the layers on top of one another. A member of this group chose the following poem, because he loved its hopefulness and the history behind its conception. He’s a nice kid, a large and outgoing guy who, at a young age, has already traveled “to every continent except Antartica.” I wish I could post the audio piece here, but I don’t have permission and am too lazy to get it. But the way he read the poem was strong and honest and heartfelt; read this with a Greek accent and perhaps you’ll get a sense of what I heard today.

INVICTUS – by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

My presentation for Mobile HCI

audubon — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:07:34 +0000

In case you are dying to know what I talked about…

Live-streaming mobile video: Production as civic engagement

View more presentations from Audubon McKeown D.

Freestyling with Davide in an MIT piano room

audubon — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:59:10 +0000

second freestyle with Davide at MIT piano room E by pazonada

Zeega!

audubon — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:10:22 +0000

Here’s the (edited) interview I did with Jesse of metaLAB @ Harvard, talking about Zeega, his new platform for interactive documentary production.

Interview with Zeega co-founder J. Shapins by pazonada

This is kind of true

audubon — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:01:06 +0000

Courtesy BetaBeat, sent to me by Ytorf.

And just for the record, I got into ITP for grad school, but declined because I got fully funded at MIT and only half funded at NYU. However, I’m not fully versed in IP Law and I do prefer Hot Glue to Efficient Code, but that’s because I’m a CMS person, not a Media Lab person. I just work here. Still, it’s funny, if you get it.

We won a grand!

audubon — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:55:06 +0000

DSC_0049, originally uploaded by Andrew Whitacre.

Behold, the spontaneous and potentially fruitful collaboration between Harvard’s metaLAB (creators of Zeega, a new Knight Foundation grant winner) and MIT alums (well, me, representing the Center for Civic Media, and my friend Danielle, presently in DC).

We got the grant to kick off an idea to make a Vehicle of Many Uses, which will be a traveling story collector (via photo/video/audio/etc.) and mobile exhibition unit, projecting the collected stories to the communities who participated. That’s the idea, at least.

Action shot courtesy of A.W.