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The end of a paragraph
While the semester has ended, the project lives on. Finals week marks the beginning of a period of rest and research, a time to reflect on the lessons learned this semester and to cook up a strategy for taking the project to the next level. Technical and logistical issues aside, the most malleable thing I took away from the final production process was my responsibility to act as a converter between the... -
Static in the void
Carl Sagan must have been taking an undergraduate special problems class when he imagined his line “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”. While I didn’t begin my filmmaking process by re-imaging the fundamental models of eletromagnetism, the pathway I took in finding a story I could tell about something which I was purely and passionately interested in became a personal inventory in... -
Advent of Virtual Reality Technology: Reinvigorating the Hunt for the True Nature of Reality
Where to begin? I”ll start with where I’m at, because that’s what most excites me. I’m making a video which explores the age old question of “what is reality?” through the relatively fresh lens of Milgram’s Virtuality Continuum. I’m retooling the model a tad to include ideology, especially as it is created through media; Milgram really only intended it to serve as a way of conceptualizing the spectrum of virtual reality...