Archive for the 'the academy' Category

Division Street, U.S.A. (the conference)

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

I’ve been plugging away on my department’s upcoming graduate student conference with. The banner above is the one I designed for the web site, which is the first web site I have ever designed.
The graduate student conference put on by the Department of American Studies at UT is the first conference I ever presented […]

Back from the Video Game Capital of the World

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

International Video Game Hall of Fame and Museum kick-off in Ottumwa, IA. [source]
I’ve been rather absent from the web because I was preparing for and then executing a research trip — the first of what I suspect will be a fair number related to my dissertation work. This particular bunch of travels took me to […]

Goodbye to Flow

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Flow Conference 2008 sticker I designed.
For the past four years, I have been affiliated with Flow first as a student editor for two years, and more recently as a senior editor. In that time, I’ve served on the editorial board of the journal and also helped coordinate the first and second Flow Conferences, in addition […]

UT Students Underwhelmed (As Always) by “Finals Week,” a Spontaneous Musical

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

The above video was shot on University of Texas. One of the big problems with the University of Texas campus is that everyone is completely jaded about wacky things happening on campus. If you watch the video, you’ll notice that faced with a large, inexplicable song-and-dance number, the average UT student is completely underwhelmed and […]

Exciting Tools: KeepVid

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The video above is of, well, an exploding whale. The carcass washed up in Oregon, where the Highway Division decided to blow it up with a half-ton of dynamite. One of my undergraduate history instructors showed it in class to demonstrate misplaced faith in technology. I love the exploding whale video, and watching it in […]