Game Changer Episode 1: My Wife Maddie

Sorry this took me a couple days--I left right from our final to family Easter/sister-in-law mission homecoming festivities, but finally here's my video: http://youtu.be/qpEPi1jdWGA

Thanks for a great semester everybody!

Creative Project - Terror and Awe

Here is my creative project - Terror and Awe.

Stop Motion Videos: Jane Austen

Creative Project (Prototype) #2

Miracle of Memoirs: My Creative Project

Here is the video that I made for my creative project. I wrote the poem and edited the video, and the music is the song "The Letter that Never Came" by Thomas Newman. I've pasted the text of the poem below, if you want to read it separately. 

"This is the fear that chains us. The fear of forgetting what once was. The fear of memories slipping through the cracks.

Our world dances to the mantra “Make it new!” and time shakes the chain.

We sense the age of things the moment the new bursts onto the scene, and, like a strawberry that is barely too sweet or like an apple to oxygen, the newness fades with our attention. 

Yet we don’t want to forget these moments, however old and brown they may be. We are swept from them in the whirlwind of time. It frightens us to see them fly away so quickly, to leave us before they were ever really with us.

So we capture them, “For later,” we say. “When the time slows down.” And when that time comes we will hold the ghosts of these moments close and try to uncover their mysteries. We will force them to relive what they are a thousand times so we can pretend they never left us. 

With our cameras, and our pencils, and our keyboards, and our touch screens, we will make these moments our own.

So we can relive the past. On our own terms."

—Cara Gillespie 

Final Creative Project: Awe in Advertising

Here's the link to the playlist:

Awe in Advertising

Final Creative Project: Awe vs. Pragmatism