I found
Carpet Culture on VII's multimedia page, while I was researching about Antonin Kratochvil for Photo In Society class. Probably the only reason why I picked this one to watch without knowing what is in there was typography usage on this bright red background color, which was unusual among all the other pictures as display images.
VII's multimedia page has thumbnails of different projects, where we can click on one, and it opens as a pop-up window. I am not sure how efficient this is and how visually appealing it looks. It is good that you don't really leave the actual multimedia pages, but this pop-up windows don't have the best look in the world. All I can do with this project is to start or stop it and moving back and forth in the control bar. There is no chapters or separate controls over the images. It is actually more like a video project than a multimedia project. We don't see any still photography until the very end of the piece. It is probably embedded as a movie file.
When I first started the project, I thought that the audio level was way too loud. I was shocked and panicked and tried to find a way to drop the audio for the first few seconds. Later in this video, there is a sharp cut to a few seconds of black space where we don't hear anything, too. As far as I know, two seconds of black space, which is ideally a full breathing time, is good in video editing to give a little break to the audience. But a balance should be caught that audience wouldn't question whether the movie ended or not. In this case, after all that chaotic interviews and B-rolls, the break is so sharp that I thought, it just ended like that or there was something wrong with the pop-up window. A little after this break there is a quick fade out and then fade in. If I were the editor of this project, I would definitely use a cross-fade instead of fading in and out. It would help the space and time transition occur smoother than this. Over-all this is not a very exciting multimedia project to watch but its content is interesting enough to keep the audience attention alive.
shot on 3/24/2010. I was wandering the streets of downtown. In that heavy rain, I looked in the sky, hoping to see some stars. Instead, what I saw told me that I was in Columbia, MO.
As Bianca Rubin holds a bottle absinthe, she stares at the embodiment of the nickname given to the spirit: the green fairy. Absinthe, a highly-alcoholic anise-flavored spirit that was popular within late 19th century bohemian culture, was at one point believed to have psychoactive properties and could potentially make the drinker hallucinate. Perhaps the wine, cigarettes, and prescription drugs sitting on her light stand also influenced her hallucinations and generally dazed state. Only she could really tell us what exactly she saw, but she was, unfortunately, not quite capable of speaking comprehensibly. The night’s partying had left her without energy or the desire to move from her chair. At this hour, the only comfort to be found was in that of the green fairy.
Jamie Miller, 17, a Bearfield High School student, will be going to Hickman High's prom, as she is invited by the girls she lives with. Jamie started to live at Boone Supported Living(BSL) a month ago with two other girls. Before that, she was living in Boys and Girls Town Missouri. On April 10, she came to Armory Community Center to get a prom dress, that is offered by the Cinderella Project. The Cinderella Project is a charity event, where college girls from sororities donate their prom dresses for high school girls, who can't afford them. It is organized by Association for Textile and Apparel Management. 
Last night, Grace Vega hosted a fun dinner party at her place. We have been doing these meeting since the beginning of this school year. The goal is to get to together and practice Spanish. Andrea Scharnau, is playing with one of the bunnies that Grace's daughters have, while Rebecca, Grace's younger daughter, was trying to find the second rabbit, which was hiding somewhere under the couch.
I found Carpet Culture on VII's multimedia page, while I was researching about Antonin Kratochvil for Photo In Society class. Probably the only reason why I picked this one to watch without knowing what is in there was typography usage on this bright red background color, which was unusual among all the other pictures as display images. 
This little girl was a good skater. Every once in a while she would go in the middle of the rink and stood or sat down in that white spot light. As you can tell from my captions, I didn't ask who she was. While I was trying to stand on my skates, I didn't really feel like approaching people.
