A lot of people have been asking me what’s up at Gallaudet lately.
A lot, actually.
More than meets the eye, and believe me, there’s a lot to look at.
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New York City is a vibrant place. It is one of these living creatures that come up from the depths, stretch towards the sky and envelop you in such a massive outburst of energy that you’re literally knocked to your feet. New York is only New York. I’m addicted to the pulse and flow of the city, but it’s an addiction that perhaps only manifests itself when I’m actually in New York, and going through the streets, walking in the middle of a massive crowd of multiculturalism that is actually what America is supposed to be, not a segregated slice of racist dogma that exists in films like Crash.
Times Square, baby!
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Let me quote from fellow GBlogger Trevor:
“On April 7th, fellow Gblogger Robyn Girard and I will be squaring off in a courtroom.. Relax, I’m not suing her for all that torture she inflicted on me as a freshman.. [The guilt on Robyn’s soul is enough 
] Robyn and I were both involved in Mock Trial this semester, and as a member of the prosecution she will be trying to convince an all deaf jury that my poor client is guilty. I wish I could take pictures of the event, but sadly they have a strict ban on camera’s in the courtroom, however I will be sure to post what happens.”
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Some other bloggers have written about our lovely tradition with RITers, having a Rockfest party here every even year and a Brickfest thing over at RIT every odd year, and then you think.. what’s it all about? Is it all about partying your head off while being intoxicated and looking for the next person you can sneak up behind and “booyah!” their lights out?
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This weekend in Washington, there’s a great thing going on over at the Hirshhorn Museum. A collection of Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs has descended on the museum, gracing it with a mystical and elusive presence.
Sugimoto, born in 1948 Tokyo, has made a living out of making inanimate, ‘dead’ objects real. He brings to mind the visual innovators of bygone eras, with his evocative experimental photographs. In typical fashion, he fiddles with whatever variable he can get his hands on. Here, Sugimoto kept the camera aperture open for the entire length of a film, just to see what the results would bring.
Cabot Street Cinema, Massachusetts, 1978 (photograph from a private collection)
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the space goes down, down baby, down, down the roller coaster…
Published by 3 years, 9 months ago in blog. 15 Commentsthe space goes down, down baby, down, down the roller coaster. sweet, sweet baby, sweet, sweet, don’t let me go. shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop. shimmy, shimmy, rock. shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop. shimmy, shimmy, rock. I met a girlfriend - a triscuit. she said, a triscuit - a biscuit. ice cream, soda pop, vanilla on the top. ooh, Shelly’s out, walking down the street, ten times a week. I read it. I said it. I stole my momma’s credit. I’m cool. I’m hot. sock me in the stomach three more times.
-david moscow (josh) and jared rushton (billy) in Big, 1988
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
- albert camus, french philosopher & writer, nobel prize winner
Very true, very true. I realize now with my absence from blogging, and everyone pestering me to blog, that I only blog when I have some things to talk about, or some topics I want to run away with from the top of my head. All my previous blogs take up much more space than I actually realize, and I only notice when I’m not blogging how much I have to say about specific things that might not actually relate to my current and present life, or the Gallaudet mini-orb of society, so hey-ho, why not?
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So, I ranted and raved in my last entry about American holiday commercialism. Now let’s do a show-and-tell thing about Christmas in Washington!! I was recently out and about DC a couple of weeks ago, and took these pictures…
Charity, our fellow gBlogger, standing in front of the Norwegian Christmas tree at Union Station.
A lot of cities are famous for their holiday displays. Look at Chicago and their shockingly famous Marshall Field’s Christmas store window displays- they’re amazing, and they’ve been a tradition for Chicagoans for 150 years now. Unfortunately, this year is the last year flocks can gather around the thirteen window displays of Marshall Field’s, because of a recent acquistion by Federated Department Stores, Inc. The store will be re-christened Macy’s, instead of keeping its’ original name.
Marshall Field’s, on Chicago’s State Street
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two intertwined mediums do not a medium make…
Published by 3 years, 11 months ago in blog. 1 CommentFilm and video have, since the late 1920s, have been considered almost completely integrated with sound and music. But what happens when you explore the differences between Deaf, hard of hearing and hearing audiences in respect to their response to sound in film? You can sorta see two mediums that are generally considered convergent in today’s society, and how they become almost totally divergent with Deaf and hard of hearing film viewers.
Jaws and sound? Read on…
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