lucyjanejones

 Hi everyone! Unfortunately, I am sick right now so I won't be in class to present my soundscape, but I can post and talk about it here. Here's the link Lucy Jones audio | Listen on audio.com    If it doesn't work let me know! Revised link: https://audio.com/lucy-jones-4/audio/voicemail-81b576d9-6f78-5fc1-8c40-e223a729203e-1  The McLuhan quote I thought of when creating this is on page 118 where he writes: ""Speak that I may see you" Electronically recorded voiceprints, like fingerprints, are now being accepted as evidence by some courts. Five people were asked to say "you". One was asked to repeat it. Which two voiceprints were made by the same speaker?"  In thinking of everyday and everything we do as music; I downloaded the last voicemail I got from my grandfather before he passed away. It'll be five years ago this Summer. Hearing his voice again is strange after helping my mom cancel his subscriptions and call everyone saved in his blac...

 Hi everyone! I set up my photobook simply, with just the images for now. I have yet to put in the titles of the photos or descriptions because I can't decide how much I want to leave up to interpretation by the viewer. I think it's more fun to not have all the info on a photo because you get to imagine the story behind it. However, without an interesting description or something eye catching, I worry that the viewers won't be drawn in at all. But who is my audience, really? Since I'm doing this for a class is it supposed to appeal to me, my professor, and/or my fellow students? I also hadn't considered that I would need a design for the front/back plus inside covers! So right now I just have my photos loosely paired and taking up the whole page with no titles/descriptions, but I'll make it more aesthetically pleasing in the next couple days.   

 Hi everyone! Honestly, I really procrastinated doing this project. Doing the readings was fun for me, but actually taking the photos felt daunting. I kept prioritizing other things, and it made me anxious about if I was going to finish the project on time. However inefficient, I found inspiration in that process of procrastination. What McLuhan was saying on page 92 about environment and separation, antisocial behavior, visual rhyming, and amateurism popped into my head while I was on a walk around midnight last night. I had spent an hour or two with people pre-gaming and going bar hopping, but I left early because I felt childish for being sober. Bless their hearts they were very kind and didn't pressure me at all! I just spent my time looking around and feeling like by not drinking I was engaged in some sort of antisocial behavior. Not that sobriety is anything special; I just felt like every place we went had a visual rhyme to them, and in those environments, I was out of place...