This week has been crazy! I've been trying to put together segments and clips to bring our piece together and it's working...but very slowly. I listened to the Kalima, Troy, Sheila, and Khai interviews again to pull together more of our piece. I have a good dialogue going about arts districts being built up and in listening I've found important quotes for other sections.
Christina and I got together the other day to story board a little more, and by that we threw around a lot of ideas. We have the really cool idea of using Troy's quote about how the arts can save lives and he can prove it to introduce everyone speaking in our piece. So when he says "and I can prove it" it will go into "my name is Khai and I'm a poet" etc which seems cool because our piece focuses at part on art as an agent of change and how it impacts people.
Storyboarding is easier to do when you have listened to the pieces a lot, so that's what I've been doing. That and trying to create links and put together something in garage band. Our storyboard is pretty solid, it's just making the audio flow together but we are doing it! We have lots of questions for Andrea and plan on sending her our piece this week for some help and feedback.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Blog 10: Storyboarding and finding change
This week the arts group met up to story board some more, and we have a lot of great content! I specifically was pulling quotes regarding to neighborhoods and the idea of arts districts in Baltimore and information about specific artists and people.
While we were storyboarding, we kinda had this "oh crap" moment when we were like "how is all of this going to relate back to change?" But I think as our piece comes together we will be talking about change from a perspective of art always being in Baltimore, but emphasizing how it has changed and grown over the years.
It was really cool to be storyboarding because while all of the interviews we have involve people from different backgrounds and, they all are talking about the same sort of things just with different perspectives.
Also this week I transcribed the Kalima Young interview. I loved talking to her and hearing all of her ideas on creative place making, artistry in the city, and the future of Baltimore. I kind of geeked out during her interview because of how she talked about the buy-in of individuals in spaces of investment and development. Kalima's thoughts on displacement and opinions on complicating the narrative of gentrification are ones that I feel like are so important to address. I'm not sure how they could completely fit into our piece, but I hope we can at least begin to talk about these ideas. I would recommend everyone check out Kalima's interview, but I think it would be especially interesting for the Uprising group to listen, just for some background and context of her comments in class last week.
While we were storyboarding, we kinda had this "oh crap" moment when we were like "how is all of this going to relate back to change?" But I think as our piece comes together we will be talking about change from a perspective of art always being in Baltimore, but emphasizing how it has changed and grown over the years.
It was really cool to be storyboarding because while all of the interviews we have involve people from different backgrounds and, they all are talking about the same sort of things just with different perspectives.
Also this week I transcribed the Kalima Young interview. I loved talking to her and hearing all of her ideas on creative place making, artistry in the city, and the future of Baltimore. I kind of geeked out during her interview because of how she talked about the buy-in of individuals in spaces of investment and development. Kalima's thoughts on displacement and opinions on complicating the narrative of gentrification are ones that I feel like are so important to address. I'm not sure how they could completely fit into our piece, but I hope we can at least begin to talk about these ideas. I would recommend everyone check out Kalima's interview, but I think it would be especially interesting for the Uprising group to listen, just for some background and context of her comments in class last week.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Blog 9: A Labor of Love
This week has been a lot of listening and storyboarding. I've listened to just about all of the arts related interviews we have and I'm coming to find out something super great about these interviews: they almost all possess feelings of community and growth. What I didn't expect to hear is that in all of the interviews, there are people talking about how art has shaped their lives but also how art has been flexible in providing enrichment and reflection for the neighborhoods in which these people live and work in.
One of my favorite quotes I've heard came from Troy Burton, explaining that how Eubie Blake has come to be was "a labor of love of a lot of people" I think that idea kind of sums of the ideas of Troy, Khai, Sheila, and others. The arts community in Baltimore is about education and support. Teaching youth, spreading awareness, and making people think differently. It's a special way of changing culture. I also think it's kind of funny because at the end of the day, our entire project is kind of a labor of love of lots of people.
What is kind of difficult for me is the fact that I see arts more as an agent of change, not a result of change, in a lot of how people are talking about their involvement.
This week I listened and storyboarded, and I'm continuing to do that and pulling out timestamps and quotes. This weekend I should be going to an opening of an exhibit sponsored by the Contemporary which I'm really excited about! We are moving forward, I'm a little worried because we don't have as many interviews as other groups and I feel so often that art reflects other types of changes, we just need to ask the right questions to understand the changes of our topic.
One of my favorite quotes I've heard came from Troy Burton, explaining that how Eubie Blake has come to be was "a labor of love of a lot of people" I think that idea kind of sums of the ideas of Troy, Khai, Sheila, and others. The arts community in Baltimore is about education and support. Teaching youth, spreading awareness, and making people think differently. It's a special way of changing culture. I also think it's kind of funny because at the end of the day, our entire project is kind of a labor of love of lots of people.
What is kind of difficult for me is the fact that I see arts more as an agent of change, not a result of change, in a lot of how people are talking about their involvement.
This week I listened and storyboarded, and I'm continuing to do that and pulling out timestamps and quotes. This weekend I should be going to an opening of an exhibit sponsored by the Contemporary which I'm really excited about! We are moving forward, I'm a little worried because we don't have as many interviews as other groups and I feel so often that art reflects other types of changes, we just need to ask the right questions to understand the changes of our topic.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Blog 8: Transcribing and a Poem
I'm a few minutes late to posting this blog, but that's because I just finished up transcribing our first interview! I'm transcribing and it's the best!!!! I seriously love transcribing, I mean yeah it sucks sometimes because it takes forever, but I think it is so amazing to get to listen and take down the unique thoughts and perspectives of every individual we interview. Everyone has a different lens and ideas to bring forward, so I'm glad I can be a part of that. The other great thing about transcribing is that it gives me an excuse to listen to the clips and begin to pick out and connect themes of those we interview. While right now we only have one interview from DCAC, it still offers a lot of insight into how the space functions and why it is important in the community.
The interview I transcribed was with a man named Khai who is an executive at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center working specifically with events, planning, and donations. He was able to talk about his favorite memories of Baltimore, describe the uses of the spaces, and explain DCAC's role in the community, specifically following the uprisings. The amazing thing about this interview was that Ilesh and Christina got Khai to talk about his own involvement in the arts and actually recite an original poem! He also mentioned an artist that we could potentially reach out to, Paul Lane. Paul has a lot of works in the DCAC and is a local resident of the area.
My schedule doesn't really allow me to spend lots of time downtown going to these different spaces, so I'm glad that I can still contribute to my group by helping out with a task that others don't really like to do.
ps- for everyone else transcribing, a good program to use is otranscribe. You can pull it up just in your web browser but it will let you slow down, pause, and timestamp as you interview. When you're done you can automatically export the transcript to google drive!
The interview I transcribed was with a man named Khai who is an executive at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center working specifically with events, planning, and donations. He was able to talk about his favorite memories of Baltimore, describe the uses of the spaces, and explain DCAC's role in the community, specifically following the uprisings. The amazing thing about this interview was that Ilesh and Christina got Khai to talk about his own involvement in the arts and actually recite an original poem! He also mentioned an artist that we could potentially reach out to, Paul Lane. Paul has a lot of works in the DCAC and is a local resident of the area.
My schedule doesn't really allow me to spend lots of time downtown going to these different spaces, so I'm glad that I can still contribute to my group by helping out with a task that others don't really like to do.
ps- for everyone else transcribing, a good program to use is otranscribe. You can pull it up just in your web browser but it will let you slow down, pause, and timestamp as you interview. When you're done you can automatically export the transcript to google drive!
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