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April 30, 2022November 21, 2022

Faith in Wings of Desire

Following a pair of angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they observe a divided Berlin unseen, Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1988), is primarily concerned with the idea of faith. The idea of faith is illustrated best by the people who can see the angels: children, and a blind woman, as well as the character of Marion, whom Damiel falls in love with. In terms of philosophy, Damiel and Cassiel represent contrasting views of humanity. Damiel yearns to experience life as a human, and Cassiel sees humans as tragic and violent. Faith as it functions in the film, could apply to faith in a higher power, and faith in humanity.

February 10, 2022

Lucy’s home

This is a short video I made for my class, J331 Digital Video Production. I made a short static sequence of Lucy’s home.

January 23, 2022February 4, 2022

Around Urban Farm in winter

Photos I have taken around Urban Farm this winter.

December 6, 2021December 13, 2022

How we are depicted in media

Representation matters, your image reflected in media affects your idea of what you’re capable of and your own identity. Stereotypical portrayals of one-dimensional characters and caricatures are detrimental to self-image. Stuart Hall, speaking on the way society’s treatment of minorities, states that difference “can be threatening, a site of danger, of negative feelings, of splitting, hostility, and aggression toward the other” (2013, 288). This is demonstrated by the negative portrays of racial and ethnic minorities on film and television.

April 18, 2021November 28, 2022

A college experience like no other: what it’s like being a college student in a pandemic

Believing the pandemic would be short lived, University of Oregon student, Claire Petersen forgot all of her shirts in her dorm at school. Life changed for everyone in march 2020; it changed completely for college students who moved home at the start of the pandemic. Across the country students returned home for what they were told would be an extended spring break, but over the course of the first week more and more schools introduced distance learning plans for the rest of the semester, and in schools using the quarter system, plans for their third quarter.