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At long last, I have finally had the time to export, compress and upload the film that Emily, Jeremy and I did for ANTH478- Ethnographic Film. Making this film has been an incredibly challenging learning experience from pre-production all the way through production and it did not end at post-production!! Who knew that something as [...]
the 8th 23rd
0 Comments Published by jamie February 23rd, 2010 in academia, activism, musings, vancouver.today is the 23rd of february. 2010. miss you, trish.
the past week an a half has blown by and i’m honoured to have spent all my time surrounded by such great people at such awesome events. i’m taking the next week off to write and prepare for the post production of our anth478 ethnographic film.
i’m taking an ethnomusicology course and the topic of orientalism/occidentalism was brought up. it’s difficult being a student of decolonization theory sitting in the class where the prof is just skimming over the basics of theory for the benefit of music students… i bite my tongue. a lot.
so… he brought this book Stuff White People [...]
today is my niece Rome’s birthday. and it is my sister’s birthing-day. she gave birth to little Rome-a-loo one year ago today. so, congrats to her and hooray, our clan gets larger.
i am working on a family oral history project where i interview mother-daughter pairs to get their reflections, ideas, ad memories on what it [...]
ack! long time, no blog.
school has been keeping me pretty busy, plus i got a new job at the Museum of Anthropology!!! I’ll be working as a technical writer for their Reciprocal Research Network which will open a lot of doors for me :)
beyond that, i’ve been having a blast in all my classes (most [...]
I read a quote today from J.P.Scott: “Facts are sacred, opinion is free.”
I have a strong philosophical problem with this statement, as context can change everything…. What are facts? Can they be trusted, much less called sacred? Whose point of view created or named something a FACT? How is it that the priviledge few who [...]
that is all that i have been up to for the past…. three months. oh, and i moved. but that doesn’t count because i have no pictures to prove it yet.
but here are some new pictures of my anthropology group doing a research/brainstorming session at noodle box last week.
funtimes.