Aux Replays

Analysis of Technology This week's topic from ITEC was emerging technology and interestingly, a look at technology throughout history, some predictions that had weight and were fully realized after some time, and some predictions that completely missed the mark. One of my favorite examples from this week was the future of flying cars and how it was fantasized and predicted to overtake ground vehicles. Of course that was first predicted in the early 1900's by Henry Ford, it is now 2023 and to no one's surprise, flying cars are nowhere to be found amongst the common folk. Of course what seems like a utopic vision, and even a pipe-dream, now to me seems like a total over-complication.  It seems kind of crazy to me that there was an expectation for flying cars to be an everyday vehicle when a full automobile industry wasn't even fully realized. The first freeway was built in 1940, and in 1954, most cars didn't even have seatbelts. 1998 was the first year where all futur...

Reluctance to Social Media This blog posting is going to be a little different since it was late. This past weekend I had a grueling family event that required all of my focus, and I apologize for the inconvenience but I think I still have a lot to share on the this week's topic, the community of practice model. It's interesting to think about how the community of practice model has evolved over time, and how I hope it will continue to evolve in the future.  My profession has always been in audio since I was a pre-teen and so I try to access that community in many different ways, and it usually never requires me to be communicating with professionals in person - like ever. I will touch more on this later, but the point is that I always try to exercise this model without having to interact with platforms like Twitter or Instagram, just because I always thought they were never really effective in sharing how complex audio can be, and being limited to what I can provide to around...

  Prior Experiences/ Aha Moment So this week in ITEC was all about digital story telling and story boarding. I just wanted to talk about my thoughts about story telling in general and how this lead into my story boarding project for a short video. I've had some fun experiences with story telling, I was always enthralled with stories as a kid. There's so many ways I consume story telling whether it's through movies like Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe, video games like Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (super excited for this one!) and books. As a kid, I loved bed time stories, I was obsessed with super heroes, definitely with Spider-Man, and I loved comic books. It's amusing to me the idea that I am credited on a graphic novel that you could actually still buy on the kindle store, a comic issue I made in middle school with my art class and my instructor then published it. Such a cool experience.  I tried thinking of other ways I consume or create stories. Then I fina...