Chi-city, I'm coming home again.

DePaul University students just dance the night away in Union Station for their annual Homecoming on February 28, 2009.  The event was held in the historic Great Room of the station.

It's Raining, It's Pouring..

Well, it's once again pouring rain today and I find myself taking shelter once more in the Student Center, camera in hand.

Junior, Stacey Thompson and Grad Student, Mark Adler take shelter from the rain in the Student Center on Tuesday to catch up on some work before finals begin next Monday.

same message, but some assembly required.

Spotted: Student Center, Lincoln Park Campus

This was originally a flip book I found in the student center.  I attempted to film it with the intent to upload, but it did not even last thirty seconds and it was hard to view.  So, I took a picture of each page (without tearing it apart,) uploaded the photos, cropped and edited them, added them to iMovie, and eventually added audio.  Not exactly the simplicity of the artist's original work, but a sweet message overall.     

Yet another form of multimedia

I accidentally discovered another kind of multimedia this week, all thanks to my Dad.

I wasn’t sure anyone still used snail-mail until I moved into my own apartment at school and started receiving—literally—weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) letters from my dad. They rarely have any real message in them, but just one or two newspaper clippings that reminded him of me. (I’m not sure my dad knows how to go online yet actually, but hey, he’s supporting print newspapers!)

One of the articles he sends every week is a Sunday New York Times fashion column by Bill Cunningham. Cunningham is actually a photographer, but, as we know will be required of us when we find jobs, is multi-tasking by writing the column that is surrounded by his photos.

It was just this week that I realized there was a URL and keyword at the bottom. I checked it out, and every week, Cunningham produces a ‘narrated slideshow’ of his photos. So here, a fashion photographer is still doing what he loves, but also writing the column and narrating a compilation of his photos. So don’t give up hope!

The slideshows are pretty interesting, if you like fashion. If not, I’m sure the Times online uses this feature in other areas of interest. Here is a link to one I just watched: Cunningham talks about how fashions changes in direct relation to how the economy changes.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/10/fashion/20090110-street-feature/index.html

Here’s what it looks like in print, courtesy of my dad, possibly the only snail-mailing newspaper reader left: