Returning now to my travelogue series on my trip to Gonzaga University, it is impossible to visit Gonzaga without running into the Bulldog. Ergo, my montage of the bulldog, including the video where I pose with the bulldog and find out how hot all that metal gets in the midday sun.
Today's travelogue is going to be the campus tour. You are shown around a whole bunch of building that look impressive, you remember a lot of things about them, not always what you were actually told, and you forget even more than you remember.
Part Three of my Travelogue to Gonzaga University is on bicycles. Spokane and Gonzaga both seem to be part of a very bicycle friendly zone. The riverfront part has trails with zones marked "wheels only", places where bicycles go, and places for pedestrians. If you look on the Gonzaga campus, there are bicycle racks everywhere. … Continue reading Gonzaga — Bicycle Haven
Today's episode of my Spokane/Gonzaga travelogue is about signs. I noticed a lot of signs around the Gonzaga campus, enough to make a video montage from the footage I shot. The wall you see scanned, that looks like it has graffiti over it, has an interesting history. Apparently it was originally put up to keep … Continue reading Gonzaga in Signs
I use a lot of photos, and find I can get most of the edits that I need with Picasa (TM) -- mostly thhrough the "I'm Feeling Lucky" edit option -- but I do adjust angles, rotate, crop, etc. But for class they are having us learn GIMP, because its freeware, and more powerful. Well … Continue reading GIMPing along with GIMP
Well, this one is an interesting twist: I have been instructed to play around with video editing for my master's class. We needed to take a 4 minute furnished video and cut it into a 30-60 second video that has titles, transitions, photos, etc. The key is to play with the functionality of the software … Continue reading Playing around — for Class
Okay -- don't fade out on me now. I know some of you (the few that follow me regularly) look at the day's post to see "is he writing about his class again" and ignore it if I am. Well, today I am, sort of, but you don't need to fade out. Because today's post … Continue reading The Strength (and Sensitivity) to do Good
In chapter 13 of Class Matters Hook discusses moving back and forth between classes. She started in a working class family, and moved through college into a middle-class educated environment. Her fear was losing who she was as a daughter of the working class. But she learned through practice that she could maintain who she … Continue reading Crossing Class Boundaries
Chapter 12 of Class Matters is about racism in real estate, and how class is used to reinforce race. She discusses her experiences trying to buy property in California, Florida and New York. NYC, one of the most ethnically diverse city in the world, and yet is still so ethnically and racially segregated. And class … Continue reading Class Claims: Real Estate Racism
In the opening of Chapter 11 of Class Matters, Hook makes one of those common, but also logically flawed uses of words. Poor and poverty are not the same thing. To go from “the poor will always be with us” as the words of Jesus, to talking about poverty is to cloud an issue that … Continue reading Solidarity with the poor
At The Rainbow 