Internship Interviews

I asked around the school to find out who has had internships and found three people, two of which got back with me and answered a few questions I had for them; they were Lexie Shaunak (Illustration major) and Angelique Gonzalez (Digital Media major). Lexie is currently interning at Baker & Hill, a graphic design firm, and Angelique interned at Varsity Brands. I didn't know what to expect from the interviews at first, meaning I didn't know what I would learn. After the interviews, though, I began to feel much better about possibly applying for an internship. Before interviewing these two people I was very scared of internships, because I didn't think I could do what would be asked of me. Both girls told me they really enjoyed, or in Lexie's current position, are enjoying their internship, and they believe that it is a great way to gain experience. I asked them how they obtained those internships, and Lexie said she had already known the owner of the company, while Angelique had help from the school's Career Services and the internship was recommended to her. Either way, both of these students found their internships through contacts. Lexie, through someone she already knew, and Angelique, through the school.

I actually have a possible internship lined up for this summer with an organization called Lil Blessings Consignment, and the position was offered to me by the web coordinator. I've known her for about four years now, and she knows that my main interest is web/graphic design, so she offered me the position for the summer. If approved by the school, I'll be redesigning their website, and helping them with advertising.

Visiting Artist: Invisible Children

I remember walking out of one of my classes at Memphis College of Art and seeing a poster titled "KONY 2012" telling me to come to the lecture on Tuesday March 6th. I've seen it around campus a couple times and every time I kept thinking "Kony. Kony... Where have I heard that before." This time around I decided to take a closer look at the poster and in smaller print I read "INVISIBLE CHILDREN" and thought "DUHHH!!"

I remember watching the first one-hour documentary of Invisible Children in 2007. I believe the video had been out five years prior to that. It was a friend of mine that referred me to IC, and eventually I browsed through their site and ran across the video, and I had become a supporter of Invisible Children.

Little did I know that they had been working on a new campaign, which was what this lecture was for. I was so impressed and captivated by their thirty-minute video. Even more, I was touched seeing how grown up Jacob was. I remember seeing him for the first time in their first documentary video. What was not mentioned in the thirty-minute video about Jacob, the part where he broke into tears about his brother, is that it was the first time Jacob cried since he could remember, because children in the LRA were not allowed to cry (many who did were severely beaten and even killed).

I am extremely interested in learning about digital film and editing specifically to create videos like these, where people can be informed on what is happening around the world. This is one organization working on one specific case at the moment, but there are other Joseph Konys out there involved in enslaving children to do other horrible things. There are people who are extremely oppressed in many different ways, and I'm still searching, as an individual, where my focus will be, and what I truly want to expose. But even more, I'm extremely impressed with the use of social networking that truly helped push the campaign. I believe that the video received more the 40,000,000 hits in a 48-hour period.

If you haven't seen it, here it is (Note that the war has been over for a few years now. This is no longer happening in Uganda):

More Scouting...

I also took photos of the interior of that house we're working on. Soon the carpet will be ripped and replaced with wood floor. I'm not sure if we could use this window in the wall as a bar or not if we were to place something larger to make more table space, and then set up small tables in the back to make it look more like a bar.

Scouting for Group JACCT

I thought of a neighborhood to use for the beginning and ending scenes of the short film my group is working on and decided to use the street our family is moving into pretty soon. The exterior hasn't been decorated at all, the lawn hasn't been mowed, and I thought it would be perfect to use as a "foreclosed" home. It's the house with the silver Kia Rio that I thought to use.