by Thesis Mentor | Apr 9, 2020 | Allora Lee, blogs
It’s day 13 of my technical two week quarantine, and I can’t say it’s been thrilling. Erie, Pennsylvania is a beautiful city when you want to be in it; otherwise, it’s the place where dreams go to die. I want to be in Philadelphia. I want to be finishing my final...
by Thesis Mentor | Apr 8, 2020 | blogs, Samantha Glass
Before school shut down for the semester, I was contacted by Teddy Pendergrass II. I hadpreviously met Teddy while interning at Fox 29 during the spring 2019 semester. He came toFox 29 to talk to Mike Jerrick and Alex Holley about his father, Teddy Pendergrass I....
by Thesis Mentor | Apr 8, 2020 | blogs, diaries, professor powell, video projects
The mundane and the healthy. I have been making Compost for over 45 years. When I was twenty years old i worked on Scott and Helen Nearings farm in Maine. Day after day i would build these 4ft by 4 ft X 4ft piles with logs, sheep manure and seaweed. A pile would...
by Thesis Mentor | Apr 5, 2020 | Allie Nye, blogs
Pictured is a still that I accidentally captured in Premiere from my thesis footage. For most of my ‘quarantine’ I’ve felt really creatively blocked. I’ve attempted and failed to complete more projects than I’d liked to admit. My thesis was a project that kept nagging...
by Thesis Mentor | Apr 5, 2020 | blogs, Caroline Jordan
It was really, really tough to find motivation this week. Here in Denver, the weather was very nice at the beginning of the week, making it really hard to convince myself to stay inside like I’m supposed to and continue to work. However, I finally got around to...