Caleb G.

      " The mimetic form, a technique that exploited rhythm, meter, and music, achieved the desired psychological response in the listener. Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said" (McLuhan 113). For this assignment, I decided on the delirium I feel while I am working on closing shifts at Walgreens. There is such a repeated rhythm from the beeping of the register to the continuous customer service. This paired really well with the mimetic form with the intended purpose of making the listener feel uncomfortable, annoyed, and/or tired of hearing "Do you have a Walgreens rewards number". This is often how I feel when I am working. I kind of just played with reverb, loops, and effects and honestly, it was pretty interesting seeing what I could do with audio I recorded at work last week.  Walgreens Soundscape

PORT/raits Flickr For this project, I decided to take random photos of friends last week and then I did a studio shoot. I wanted to focus on how both have very different visual styles and effort placed into each of them. The photos I took of my friends out and about was on my small digital camera that I bought for $30 and use when I can't carry an actual camera around. It has a pretty aggressive flash which for a lot of people washes them out in the pictures. I felt like people naturally either smiled or made goofy faces when I used that camera walking around. I also just took some at random and you can tell because some folks look like I set off a stun grenade. The studio shots felt more serious than the random shots outside despite the fact I randomly did it and put little to no thought into the shots. The conditions were very similar but yet the studio shots felt plain and static which made me question the influence of space and how I took the photos. I also probably could'v...